Chris Moores
@mooresci.bsky.social
Contemporary History Person - Histories of activism and suchlike. Malvern dweller, Bham worker. Trier. Proper info here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/moores-chris.aspx
This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open! If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article on modern British history do consider entering! Deadline Sept 1st. #skystorians 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
The Duncan Tanner Prize
The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.
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I enjoyed this by my brother, @spinal-bap.bsky.social who must be a contender for the title of the UK/world's leading Linda McCartney apologist.
JR Moores@spinal-bap.bsky.social · last mo.Was it on after your bedtime, Paul? Plenty of time to listen again! ✌️ ❤️ 👍 🎶 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
My new article in @modamhist.bsky.social is out now in first view and open access and is a preview of chapter 6 of the 'The World Awheel' (@columbiaup.bsky.social). It's a story of American mobility, femininity, and power in the spaces of European empires. doi.org/10.1017/mah....
Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
Stealing Cars: Property, Automobility, and the Colonial Crisis of Car Culture
Long Ride | Historian John Munro delves into the past in order to understand how the primacy of private property shapes mobility hierarchies in the present
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Great to hear my Birmingham colleague Dr Simon Yarrow talking about saints with @gregjenner.bsky.social : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - You're Dead to Me, Medieval saints: miracles, relics and pilgrimage
Join Greg and his guests to learn about the medieval cult of saints and their relics.
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📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026
History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians
Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road
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One week from today, join me & @yosra999.bsky.social for a conversation with @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social about Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. With Azbah Ansari, Sadok Damak, @reenamahajan.bsky.social, & Gabriela García Portuondo.
Life After Cars
Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
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Hello London! This Thursday (4 June, 5.30pm) I'll be talking at the @ihr.bsky.social North American History Seminar about "Liberty, Dissent, and the Internal Enemy in Britain's American Revolution" www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Liberty, Dissent, and the Internal Enemy in Britain's American Revolution
North American History Seminar
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Periodic reminder from ex-journal editor that if we all turn down peer review requests, nothing will be reviewed and things grind to a halt. Clear that job losses, workload in the sector are having a pinching effect. Any room for (£££) publishers to hire human reviewers to help?
Is the UK's science base being eroded by policy, or by sleepwalking? As Britons head to the polls, it's timely to recall the hustings at the Royal Society before the last GE. All 3 parties there pledged to support science, & confirmed that included SHAPE disciplines. 1/9
A century and a half of history encased in more than 1,500 archive boxes After three years, conservation and cataloguing of the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has been completed...
Two big events are happening in the School of History & Cultures at Birmingham next week (plus some lovely smaller ones). Links, dates, times, and registration below. 1. Tara Hamling's inaugural lecture: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/re-vi.... Expect lots of lovely visuals there!
Re-viewing the ‘bad’ arts of Tudor and Stuart England - University of Birmingham
Professor Tara Hamling's Inaugural Lecture
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Reposting - registration details for the return to Birmingham of big Modern British Studies conversations.
Chris Moores@mooresci.bsky.social · 5mo agoRegistration details for this summer's Modern British Studies Conference. Looking forward to seeing people on Birmingham's green and pleasant campus! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Registration details for this summer's Modern British Studies Conference. Looking forward to seeing people on Birmingham's green and pleasant campus! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
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My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gendering of Undercover Police Surveillance in 1970s Britain: the Public Inquiry as (Un)Ethical archive
Abstract. In the 1970s a female police officer went undercover in the feminist movement in Britain. Across two years, she shared plans, conversations, and
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Registration details for this summer's Modern British Studies Conference. Looking forward to seeing people on Birmingham's green and pleasant campus! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
birmingham.ac.uk
It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...
Sagas! The 2026 Midland Viking Symposium
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A good day for people to (re)read my brilliant colleague @momoulton.bsky.social's HWJ article: academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
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Reviewed Tehila Sasson's book and solipsistically my own hopeless approach to personal financing in the AHR. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
Register for the Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures Big Annual Event here - should be a good one: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/every...
Every monument will fall: in conversation with Dan Hicks - University of Birmingham
Hear Professor Dan Hicks speak on his recent work on conflict, memory, heritage, and colonialism.
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Lovely evening spent at @lselibrary.bsky.social #womenslibrary in great company with @gillianmurphy.bsky.social to celebrate 💯 years of this fantastic archival resource + a great exhibition curated by fantastic historians of women. @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Just me that thinks the permission structure test allowing the non-consensual imposition of AI on all our lives was U2 installing Songs of Innocence on everyone's ITunes in 2014? Team, I've found a way to blame it all Bono. @spinal-bap.bsky.social - grounds for your Bononaissance critique?
Wonder if anyone is having a little think about the need for historians to credentialize themselves via the crown today?
The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939
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Today is the publication date for Matthew Hilton's Charity After Empire: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
How charity helped shape Britain after empire
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Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
My brilliant friend and colleague @kateesthersmith.bsky.social s book is out on Thursday. Read and become wiser! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Keeping Hold | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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