📣We're delighted to hear that Emily Chung's (@emvchung.bsky.social) HJ article 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester' has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2026! 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So pleased/grateful that my HJ article has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Early Career Article Prize alongside such fantastic pieces from last year!

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3mo ago

The Society is pleased to publish today the Shortlist of its 2026 Early Career Article Prize: bit.ly/4wEuVoW This year's list includes eight articles published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two winners for this prize will be announced in July #Skystorians 1/2

Excited to be organizing and moderating this discussion on urban history as an interdisciplinary research practice in a few weeks — if you're in Cambridge, come join us! Registration at the link below 👇

CRASSH@crasshlive.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Interested in the history of cities and how people shape urban space? 🏙️ Join us at the Urban History Evening: Keynote + Social for an interdisciplinary roundtable, followed by drinks and a networking opportunity 20 January at 5pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4j0zl3i

For anyone interested in geocoding historical census records, my new article in @socscihistory.bsky.social's journal explains how I've used ordnance surveys and trade directories to link British Victorian records! doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

If anyone remembers that list which said historians were second in line to be replaced by AI, I've had some thoughts about it... and how it relates to some aspects of public history and the current climate facing historians. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thrilled to be holding my copy of @holsmith.bsky.social’s new book - run don’t walk to get yours too!

📣Out now on #firstview! Emily Chung (@emvchung.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) (@camunicampop.bsky.social) on 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester' #Industrialisation #Class #Social #Wealth 19thc 🗃️🏠 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you're looking for the short on my new article, Dr Tom Almeroth-Williams has made it easy for you! 👇👇

University of Cambridge@cam.ac.uk · 10mo ago

The 'slums' of Victorian Manchester actually housed wealthy doctors and engineers, mixed in with poor weavers, a @camhistory.bsky.social study shows. @stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history

Was Manchester really as segregated as Engels said? What kept the rich and poor apart.... if anything? My first article is out today in @historicaljnl.bsky.social and I'm so pleased to share it with you all! doi:10.1017/S0018246X25101246 @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social

Had such a blast in Leicester with the Urban History Group this week! So many great papers from Early Career and Senior researchers alike :) Hoping to see everyone in Barcelona at #EAUH2026 and then back together for #UHG2027!

The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Well that was good! Thank you so much to all the speakers and delegates for making our first joint conference with the Pre-Modern Towns Group so enlivening and stimulating. It's #EAUH2026 in Barcelona next year but watch this space for news of #UHG2027!

My first working paper is out! If you're at all interested in using I-CeM for spatial investigation, check out my method for residential georeferencing.

Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History@cwpeconhist.bsky.social · last yr.

❕New WP from Emily Chung❕ 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝟏𝟖𝟓𝟏-𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟏 ⬇️

📣New blog post alert...📣 And it's number 30! We're halfway through our series of 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work & death since the middle ages. We'd love to know what you think about the blogs. Let us know if you are enjoying them. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/ #skystorians

CFP: Urban History Group Conference 2025 The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c... We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.