Glad to be lending support to Exeter colleagues

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Today, Filippo de Vivo, Martin Conway, @faridahzaman.bsky.social and I, along with 30 other members of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford have written to the leadership of the University of Exeter to express our deep concern about the proposed cuts to Humanities and Social Sciences

We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August 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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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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📣 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.

historyworkshop.org.uk

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What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect

How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

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As we go into the 250th weekend, if you are wondering why the colonies felt they had no other choice but to leave the British Empire, might I suggest _Tyrants and Rogues_ as a great guide to the imperial crisis and the Declaration. Short chapters! Human stories! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Tyrants and Rogues

'A timely and highly useful book in this semiquincentennial year&#8212;and far beyond.' &#8212;<em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, starred review<br /><br />From an acclaimed historian, a revelatory account of t...

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Women's, gender and queer historian researchers outside the UK: do be in touch if you're going to be in Oxford or vicinity next academic year! sarah.knott@history.ox.ac.uk

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

'The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules.' Good news. 86% of 38,000 respondents in favour of retaining trans-inclusive policies.

Hampstead Heath ponds to remain trans-inclusive after public back existing rules

Policy agreement means trans people will continue to have access to Kenwood Ladies’ and Highgate Men’s ponds in north-west London

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New Associate Professor role in modern British History, just advertised here at Oxford. @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @kelloggoxford.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

My furry editor and I are excited to announce the publication of my book, Bisexuality and Beyond: A History of Multiple-Gender-Attraction in Modern Britain!

On April 20th at 6.30pm ET you are invited to an online conversation between Kathi Weeks and Sophie Lewis regarding Weeks's 2026 book 'Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures.' RSVP here: bit.ly/3O0NIcX

That feeling when a seminar paper by a sterling student is about to be published. Proud. Congratulations, Johnny Fulfer! Won a JAH prize, too. academic.oup.com/jah/article-...

Sharing on behalf of @newcastleuni the Call for Papers for their upcoming conference “Caring Communities: Rethinking Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-Present”, taking place at Newcastle University on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 of September 2026.

What recognition for the remarkable Lyndal Roper, the first woman and first Australian to serve as Oxford's Regius Professor of History. Very proud to be her colleague www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/oxfo...

Professor Lyndal Roper named 2026 Holberg Prize Laureate

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I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

JOB. Dix-huitiemiste, assoc. prof, Oxford. Do join us. My colleagues in English are the business. www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature (full-time)

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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why. Joan Wallach Scott in The Guardian archive.is/Htsxj

GRADUATE ARCHIVE FELLOWSHIP FOR HISTORY OF SEXUALITY. Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections, 4-8 week visit, $5000: kinseyinstitute.org/collections/...

What can happen when there is a women's movement: 'Bogotá is pioneering “care blocks,” neighborhood hubs where women can access free laundry, legal aid, job training, mental health services, and more while their children or elderly relatives receive care on site www.vox.com/policy/46963...

What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously?

Bogotá’s radical experiment in caregiving is going global.

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If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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JOB, statutory professor: Post-1970s European History, University of Oxford. Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History, a storied post one held by Timothy Garton Ash, details at the link my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

ONE YR SENIOR FELLOWSHIP: 'Scarcity and Abundance', here at Oxford's Koch History Centre: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/k.... Wonderful opportunity to have Oxford be your research sanctuary and your scholarly community, 2026-7. SHORT DEADLINE

My latest piece for @theguardian.com on the sandwich generation, of which I am one, and how we became the triple sandwich generation in Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social link in comments

I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well

You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. Alissa Quart has experienced this first-hand

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Meet Professor @sarahknott.bsky.social, Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at @stjohnsox.bsky.social and @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social. We spoke to Professor Knott after her inaugural lecture this week about what the Chair means to her, and why it's so important.

POSTDOC at Edinburgh on digital slavery project. www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.

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Grateful to share insights from our archives w/ @stjohnsox.bsky.social + @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social this week. As Prof. Sarah Knott shared, historians rely on archives to do what they do, & safe repositories like ours are essential for contextual understanding & research

Full details including how to join remotely via Teams here ⬇️ talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...