Our first seminar of the new term is this evening from 17:30 to 19:00 BST. Join us online or in person at the IHR to hear @historymatt.bsky.social talk about Georgian children's clothes. To attend, please register through the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Children’s shoes, material culture and the Georgian body

Life-Cycles Seminar

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Tomorrow evening, at 17:30 BST, join us for the first of this year's seminars. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @historymatt.bsky.social will be our speaker, talking about objections to children's shoes in eighteenth century Britain. Register through the link.

Life-Cycles

This thematic seminar series addresses issues relating to the life-cycle

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Dr Pam Mansell will be giving a talk on 30th September for the Surrey History Centre, via Zoom. The Woking County Secondary Schools: opening up a grammar school education for the children of Woking, 1868-1939 - Surrey County Council. To book: customer.surreycc.gov.uk/article/2368...

It is nearly time for the first seminar of the new term! Join us on Tuesday 29th September at 17:30BST to hear @historymatt.bsky.social present 'Children’s shoes, material culture and the Georgian body'. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... We'll be at the IHR and online.

Children’s shoes, material culture and the Georgian body

Life-Cycles Seminar

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Please share: I am working on the History Lab + & History UK ECR Survey with @kerrymlove.bsky.social . We collating contacts to disseminate the survey to later this year. The survey examines support received by ECRs post-PhD in history or related subjects (such as archaeology and art history). (1/3)

Our sister group, @histchild.bsky.social, had their fifth biannual conference last week. Huge thanks to @yinkaolusoga.bsky.social and @drjuliabish.bsky.social for planning a wonderful conference and providing a space for people at different career stages to share their work for us all to enjoy.

This evening's seminar is cancelled. Apologies. Hopefully it can be rescheduled for the new academic year.

Re. 'Girls at the Margins in Renaissance Florence', 23rd June, 17:30 BST. It is far too hot to go into London so tomorrow's seminar with @drgillhistory.bsky.social will be Zoom only. You will need to register through the below link for the Zoom link. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Girls at the Margins in Renaissance Florence

Life-Cycles

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Once again we are at the last seminar of the year. @drgillhistory.bsky.social is the last speaker this year, with 'Girls at the Margins in Renaissance Florence'. Come along, on Zoom or to the IHR, to join us from 17:30 BST on 23rd. June. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Girls at the Margins in Renaissance Florence

Life-Cycles

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I'm talking at the IHR Life-Cycles seminar later this month (23 June) about girls at the margins of Florentine society c.1350-1550. Online and in person (London): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Girls at the Margins in Renaissance Florence

Life-Cycles

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The Royal Historical Society is now on Instagram! Follow us at instagram.com/royalhistsoc @royalhistsoc as another site for updates on our events, funding opportunities, prizes and more.

Join us at 1pm this Friday for 'Historical Context: Labour in Crisis': bit.ly/4ns6yGZ Specialist historians set the UK's changing political landscape in historical context. With expert insight from @emilyrobinson.bsky.social, @lisebutler.bsky.social and Rohan McWilliam 1/2

Today at 17:30 BST, Oliver Mumford will present work from his doctoral research. Join us at the IHR or through Zoom to hear 'Intergenerational links between Catholic university students in the twentieth century'. Every one is welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Intergenerational links between Catholic university students in the twentieth century”

Life-Cycles Seminar

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Tuesday 9th. June at 17:30. We'll be joined by Oliver Mumford to hear an aspect of his doctoral research: "Intergenerational links between Catholic university students in the twentieth century”, focusing on the Catholic Mount Pleasant Training College in Liverpool. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Tuesday 9th. June: the penultimate seminar of the academic year. Join us from 17:30, online or at the IHR to hear Oliver Mumford's paper, 'Intergenerational links between Catholic students in Liverpool in the twentieth century'. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Another interesting and rather fun sounding opportunity for a PhD student. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/r...

Doctoral fellowships at the National Trust

Find out more about the doctoral fellowships available through the partnership between the National Trust and the British Library.

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Tomorrow evening (26/5/26) from 17:30, join us at the IHR or online to hear @catgqf.bsky.social present "The managers have sanctioned swimming lessons": Girls' swimming lessons in England, c.1890-1914'. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Tuesday 26th. May, 17:30-19:00. @catgqf.bsky.social will present her work on girls' swimming lessons from c.1890 to 1914. The research was inspired by comments in a National School logbook about the girls starting swimming lessons, and flowed from there. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Could this opportunity be useful to any #histchild PhD students? Access to the V&A children's book collection would be wonderful. You would need to be a funded student, able to get to East London and it isn't paid. vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

If you work in #histed, the deadline for submitting abstracts for this year's History of Education Society conference is 25th. May. The conference will be at Maynooth University, near Dublin on 13th-15th. November. There will be some PGR bursaries. hes2026.wixsite.com/hes2026mayno...

Our next seminar is on Tuesday, 26th. May at 17:30. @catgqf.bsky.social will present work on swimming lessons for girls from different class backgrounds in England between 1890 and 1914. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Next Tuesday, 26th. May, we are going swimming. This doesn't necessarily involve getting wet as dry swimming lessons will be included. @catgqf.bsky.social will present her findings from school records and newspapers detailing girls' swimming lessons, 1890-1914. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

"The managers have sanctioned swimming lessons": Girls' swimming lessons in England, c.1890-1914 | Institute of Historical Research

Life-Cycles

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This evening at 17:30 BST, come to the IHR for a peek inside @lauratisdall.bsky.social's new book. Laura will be with us to present 'Adulthood, Maturity and Chronological Age in Cold War Britain (c.1956 to c.1989)' & we have a discount code for the book. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Tomorrow, 12th. May, from 17:30 BST at the IHR! @lauratisdall.bsky.social will present 'Adulthood, Maturity and Chronological Age in Cold War Britain (c.1956 to c.1989)'. This work is taken from her new book, for which we have discount codes to share with attendees. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our next seminar is on 12th. May from 17:30 BST. We are looking forward to welcoming back @lauratisdall.bsky.social to hear about her new book, We Have Come to Be Destroyed. @yalepress.bsky.social have given me a discount code for the book to share with attendees! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Are you a History GCSE teacher keen to engage students with the deeper past? A reminder that this and other articles in @royalhistsoc.org 's Transactions are now published open access, so they're free for you (and your students) to read and download. @histassoc.bsky.social #Skystorians

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians

Applications now invited for the Society's 2026 'Funded Book Workshops' for mid-career historians - RHS

The Society’s Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...

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#History #Skystorians New article klaxon! Ed Green's 'School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870-1902: An Electoral Experiment?', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468... Enjoy!

Next Tuesday, 12th. May, we will hear from @lauratisdall.bsky.social. Laura will speak about their new book, We Have Come to Be Destroyed. Same time as usual - 17:30 to 19:00, at the IHR or online. Details on registration are in the link. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A reminder that our new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland closes a week on Friday bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK/Irish archives for international historians. Deadline 8 May to allow research from summer 2026 #Skystorians

Society launches new funding programme for International Fellows and Associate Fellows - RHS

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to launch a new programme, from today, to support the work of International Fellows and Associate Fellows. Recipients will be members of the Society, resident o...

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