Thank you to all who attended today's meeting on the 'Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History'. Very valuable proposals in difficult times for history in HE / UK HE more widely. We've also a new guide bit.ly/4z1fAjO listing 100+ UK #history societies & networks supporting historians #Skystorians

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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

🌟 Exciting news! Recruitment for the next History Lab committee is open 📚 We have a range of roles available for the 2026/27 academic year. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to join the UK's national network for history PGRs! Email us if you have any questions! Please share widely!

New article by @hngreen.bsky.social, Adam Domby, Katherine Burns, and me in @anchistjournal.bsky.social on writing Black biography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography: a roundtable discussion

This roundtable is an outgrowth of a panel held at the BrANCH annual conference in Cardiff in September 2025. While the BrANCH panel focused on the particulars of the research findings of the panel...

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On First View from our special issue on the U.S. 250th! "Thinning the Nation? The 1976 Bicentennial and the Politics of Revolutionary Memory in a Neoliberal Age" by @thomascryer.bsky.social, which considers commemorative occasions not as political sideshows but as key formative moments.

🗣️ CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS! 🇮🇪 The History of Education Conference is back for 2026, and will be held at Maynooth University, Ireland. 📆 Now, you can submit your 250-word abstracts - you have until 25 May 2026! 👇 More here: hes2026.wixsite.com/hes2026mayno...

📢2 more days until the application deadline! You have until Friday 15th to send us your application to join our committee for the next academic year! Roles we are highlighting are: 💻Social Media & Outreach Coordinators 🏆Awards Officer 💰Treasurer DM us if you have any questions!

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📢 CALL FOR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS! 📢 History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK. Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!

Today on the blog, scholars Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne discuss the theoretical intricacies and historical perplexities behind neoconservatism.

Neoconservatism: A Roundtable

Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne

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🏆 Huge congratulations to the 2025 winners of the Arthur Miller Institute prizes for First Book & Article. Read more: buff.ly/LtVaFhq

📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America. The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025. Proposals are invited before 22 August.

Call for Papers: BAAS Postgraduate Symposium - Teesside University, 29th November 2025 - British Association for American Studies

BAAS Postgraduate Symposium – Teesside University, 29th November 2025 ‘The people favored and the people oppressed’: The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America The original copies of the…

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📢 CALL FOR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS! 📢 History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK. Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!

The SHA's Annual Membership Drive begins this month, so take advantage of this deal!

HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025 We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for our Annual Conference, taking place at the Winchester Hotel and Spa on the 16th - 18th November 2025. Information: historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/ #cfp #histed #conference #edusky

ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806

And in this interview I recently gave for the Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social blog: www.jhiblog.org/2025/04/23/f...

Friendship and the Politics of Difference: An Interview with David Weinfeld

by Thomas Cryer

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We have teamed up with @historylabplus.bsky.social and History UK on a collaborative upcoming conference "Teaching in a Time of Crisis" which will be held at University of Warwick on Thursday 29th May. You can now book your place by using the following link: www.history.ac.uk/events/teach... 1/4

Teaching in A Time of Crisis: A History Lab, History Lab + and History UK Collaborative Conference

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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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🎓New free online PGR Session! Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’. Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/ #histed #edusky

📢Conference update! You can now book your place for our annual conference! "Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception Through Time" will take place on 24th July 2025. It is free to attend but booking is essential, so secure your place now using the link below! See you there! #skystorians

History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement". Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach

26th February 2025

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

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🚨DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK! #cfp #skystorians The deadline for our annual conference is next Friday! Have you sent in your abstract yet? This year's conference is titled Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time. Keep on reading to find out about the themes we are looking for...

@branchuk.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social As part of an all too pertinent special edition of American Nineteenth Century History, see: The price of Knowledge: Universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective: "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2025.2455208?src=exp-la

The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective

This article centers on the different ways that English and American universities have uncovered, publicized, and responded to their historical connections to transatlantic slavery. It argues that ...

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It's a sign of the times that, pre-publication, this HE redundancies article started out as a story about UEA with Durham added. Then Kent was added...then Cardiff. A microcosm of UK HE right now, and a typical day in the life at the moment. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Four UK universities announce plans to cut over 750 jobs - Research Professional News

Cardiff, Durham, Kent and UEA the latest institutions to join wave of sector redundancies

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Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting! tinyurl.com/SoEx2025

The Edinburgh Southern History Workshop brings together PhDs and ECRs in the UK who study the history of the American South. Join us on 6 June 2025 to present your work, receive feedback, and connect with likeminded scholars. CFP due 28 Feb 2025 edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk

Excited to be speaking at the IHR's North American History Seminar from 17:30 this Thursday, Jan 16th! Looking forward to talking about my thesis on education, memory, race, and John Hope Franklin. www.history.ac.uk/seminars/nor... 📖

Truly delighted to launch our brand new 2025 research training programme in history and the humanities at SAS today. Research training lies at the very heart of our mission to support the next generation of arts and humanities researchers. www.sas.ac.uk/support-rese... @ihr.bsky.social

Research Training

Browse our full programme of research training sessions and book your place.

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We are so excited to have Neil as our keynote speaker, and if you want to find out more about Neil's research and our ongoing #cfp then please use the link below! 📢Deadline for submissions is 28th February 2025! (4/4) www.history.ac.uk/events/cfp-h...

Call for Papers | HistoryLab Annual Conference 2025- Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time

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Submissions are now open for the fantastic Olivette Otele Paper Prize Black UK-based PhD students working in history/related disciplines can win an opportunity to present at the History Lab 2025 Conference + a cash prize of £500 Deadline: 29th November 2024