'change rarely came from above. The support services, legal protections and opportunities available today were not simply gifts from an increasingly enlightened society. They were won through campaigns, protests and persistent challenges to exclusion.'

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · yesterday

From Tudor welfare claims to modern PIP assessments, disabled people have long faced suspicion and bureaucracy.

@indyhistnetwork.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association is seeking a representative for independent scholars on our Steering Committee - please do consider joining us. Further details via this link: modbritstud.org.uk/join/

Lucy Delap@lucydelap.bsky.social · yesterday

Great discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org

UK history is at a crisis point in academia. More & more people are going freelance on a part time basis, or as a whole new form of employment. IHN is creating support network for all historians who work independently. We aim to bring people together, promote your work, and be a hub of information.

Lucy Delap@lucydelap.bsky.social · yesterday

Great discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on recording community histories through the Bengali Photo Archive and the extraordinary work of Lloyd Gee.

Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.

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I also think the collective tenor of narratives of navigating deindustrialisation at a family level which was palpable from these narratives is strongly demonstrative of why the household economy should be central to contemporary economic history.

🥳 Happy to report our co-ed collection, me + @ruthdav.bsky.social & @evecolpus.bsky.social, now has 40k+ hits & is being cited a lot 🥳. Fully #OA & incl: @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social @chrismillard83.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social @jennycrane.bsky.social ++. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Kiss is out today! And here I discuss it with the New Books Network! @reaktionbooks.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-kiss-a-h...

Two historians move house… @alfiesteer.bsky.social pictured putting up his Tony Benn biographies pride of place

Looking forward to reading your new publications and to seeing all your great new work going forward.

Caitríona Beaumont@caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 6d ago

6/6. Despite this early 'retirement', I am in lucky to be able to keep on doing history & to continue working with amazing colleagues such as @ruthdav.bsky.social & @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & many more. Will be an Emerita Prof & can be found here: researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/persons/c...

6/6. Despite this early 'retirement', I am in lucky to be able to keep on doing history & to continue working with amazing colleagues such as @ruthdav.bsky.social & @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & many more. Will be an Emerita Prof & can be found here: researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/persons/c...

Caitriona Beaumont

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Congratulations Sarah

Sarah Crook@sarahcrook.bsky.social · 3w ago

So pleased to say that Higher Education Research and Development has chosen my article, 'Using historical approaches to understand contemporary student loneliness' for the Article of the Year Award 2025. Thank you to SMaRteN & the ESRC for funding it! The piece is here doi.org/10.1080/0729...

IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks. Please post! @dralanagharris.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

IHR Women@ihrwomen.bsky.social · last wk.

Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026.

“Nan Sloane’s biography should rekindle a torch that deserves to burn more brightly in labour history.” Read the full review about the book by @nansloane.bsky.social @historytoday.com below👇 📕Find out more about ‘Margaret Bondfield’ bit.ly/4yCKbUp

History Today@historytoday.com · 2w ago

Margaret Bondfield: The Life and Times of Britain’s First Female Cabinet Minister by Nan Sloane illuminates an overlooked trailblazer of the Labour movement. ✍️ Lyndsey Jenkins reviews the recent #history book www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Congratulations Elizabeth!

Elizabeth Crawford@womanssphere.bsky.social · 2w ago

Publication day today. And here are 2 more lovely comments from early readers. I’m so grateful to them for their interest. Btw this seems a rather good deal on the p/b from you-know-who amzn.eu/d/0do1hf11

John Hills Good Times Bad Times is such a great book on the lack of conception on how welfare works or benefits them. Frustrating how this lack of understanding frames debates and impacts policy

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fascinating and worrying in equal measure. Apparently, according to the ONS, some 53% of us currently receive more in benefits (including pensions) than we contribute in taxes (up from 37% in 1977). But polling shows that only 12% of us think this applies to them.

I’m not surprised that older people do not feel ‘grateful’ for their pensions. They believe that they have paid in all their lives for it, an actuarial fiction but one that has been key to the legitimacy of the social insurance principle in Britain’s liberal welfare tradition for over a century.

We're delighted to announce that Somak Biswas has won the MBSA Early Career Prize for best presentation at #MBS2026, for a paper entitled ‘AIDS & the Racialisation of Mobility: Britain, 1985-1995’. The judges also highly commended Rebecca Orr & Naomi Samake-Bäckert modbritstud.org.uk/events-awards/

I hope not

Sam Rutherford (he/him)@echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 2w ago

My dream is that my special subject (final year undergrad) students will read enough of Well of Loneliness to be able to discuss it in class in the second half of the first semester; is this doomed to failure (y/n)

Excited to share the conference webpage (plus provisional programme) for "Belonging to the Victorians? — Community, Collections, and Care" on 4 September 2026 at Wilton's Music Hall: belongingtothevictorians.uk Its free to attend and there are some spaces available to delegates not presenting!

Lovely lecture by my fab colleague Adam Chapman on the VCH: ‘Part of the project’s role should be to advocate for archives that speak to their places and communities.’

Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 2w ago

Archives | Most Read 'The Maurice Bond Lecture 2024. Placing Archives: The Victoria County History and Archival Landscapes' by @adamchapman.bsky.social ➡️ Read it online: bit.ly/Archives-Chapman @internetarchiveca.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social @humanitiesall.bsky.social @britrecs.bsky.social

MENTALITY HOW CAN YOU ASK ABOUT MENTALITY THIS IS PURE MENTALITY

We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing dates: 27 July and 5 October. Fellowship is open to those who have made a scholarly research contribution to #history in all sectors (within & beyond higher education) in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

Apply for Fellowship - RHS

Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 27 July and 5 October 2026   Fellowships are awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship, typically through the autho...

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Very happy to be co-organizing the SHCY conference in Montreal. Please send us your proposals by Sept 15! @shcy.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social @histchildoxford.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social #coenars

SHCY@shcy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

NEW from me... On 25 Sept I'll be giving a @royalhistsoc.org public lecture at the Institute of Historical Research in London. It'll be about rights of way and access to the countryside since the 1940s - all welcome, do come and have a listen! Booking below. 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Submitted the index and the last corrections for my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. It's out in October!

Thank you to the @royalhistsoc.org for sharing @mbhjournal.bsky.social's forthcoming Pimlott memorial lecture, given this year by Prof. William Whyte on 6 October at KCL - join us! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the...

The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography - LECTURE - RHS

The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography Tuesday 6 October 2026, 6pm The Ben Pimlott Lecture is hosted by the journal Modern British History, Oxford Univ...

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TNA is my favourite place

'This book will change the way we think about the history of modern Britain' @emilybaughan.bsky.social #Liverpool by @samwetherell.bsky.social a story of rise and decline Pre-order now: https://geni.us/LiverPBorgsoc

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · 4w ago

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

In Parliament this week (6-10 July)? Stop by the Upper Waiting Hall and find out about 1960s-70s feminist MPJoyce Butler in this mini-exhibition by @teadevotee.bsky.social www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

History Fellow Dr Lyndsey Jenkins showcases the life of Joyce Butler, MP for Wood Green, in Parliament - Mansfield College

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