Those looking for fellow historians may also be interested in @royalhistsoc.org's new listing of 100+ UK history societies and membership organisations: bit.ly/4b3af0I We are stronger and better historians together #Skystorians

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The new Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social offers connections and companionship for the many historians who research and promote #history in arenas other than higher education. They're holding a first meeting on 1 July. Website: bit.ly/4uPzB9u #Skystorians

The 1926 Irish National Census has been digitised and is being made available online from today - a treasure trove for researchers and for families! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

‘Such a mix of people’: Ireland of 1926 was not monocultural, release of census shows

Archive is freely available online from 18 April, revealing the lives, occupations and secrets of 2.9m people

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Research funding for historians: the Society currently invites applications for 5 grant programmes: to support individual and project-based research by historians across a range of career stages bit.ly/4vzzNeB. Closing dates for eligible applicants fall between 8 May and 5 June 2026 #Skystorians

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: May to June 2026 - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following five schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates between 8 May and 5 June 2026. For further information o...

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Applications now open for a fully-funded PhD studentship exploring Yugoslavia’s multifaceted role during the Cold War, co-supervised with @exeter.ac.uk . This is one of a number of studentships available as part of AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. Find out more: link.bl.uk/q95

Today we also open the call for applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians

Master's Scholarships programme 2026-27: supporting groups underrepresented in academic history - RHS

Each year the Society awards Scholarships to support students who will study for a Master's degree in history at a UK university. Master's Scholarships, each of £5000, seek to support students from gr...

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On 16th April, join me and @peterjcherry.bsky.social for a webinar on the travel grants and research support available for UK university students via the @thebiaankara.bsky.social - biaa.ac.uk/events/webin...

We also have a new funding programme for RHS Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

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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Retired or soon to be retired UK HE or IRO researcher, or 'retired' but still holding PT position up to 0.5FTE? Awards of £k-£24 k available from @leverhulme.ac.uk to support your research. The deadline is 4pm 29 January 2026.

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

Important point: university isn't just for posh kids; Erasmus+ gives non-posh kids same chance as posh kids to study abroad, which they otherwise wdn't have; & covers vocational & other non-university training & education exchanges. And if more students come to the UK, that increases UK soft power.

Mark English@markemuk.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I wish the Brexit dinosaurs would stop this "Erasmus is for posh kids" crap. Half the young population goes to university, these days, in UK and most of EU. And most of the half that doesn't is also eligible for Erasmus+, which covers schools, further education, adult learners and in-work training.

New Episode! "Recovering Black Mariners in the Atlantic World with Mary Hicks" Check out my conversation with Dr. Hicks about the stories she tells in Captive Cosmopolitans Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery @uncpress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different! Free webinar with author Colin Fox. bit.ly/StH0312

Tonight! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT.

UK-St Helena Heritage Trust@ukshheritage.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different! Free webinar with author Colin Fox. bit.ly/StH0312

Just under two weeks left to apply for this three-year post-doc to work on the AHRC-funded project, "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," based at the University of Edinburgh.

Randy Browne@randybrowne.bsky.social · 9mo ago

And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different! Free webinar with author Colin Fox. bit.ly/StH0312

Massive thanks to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for his generous pledge of £2,000 to our campaign to send a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the island's vulnerable historic fortifications. donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...

A Conservation Engineer For St Helena | UK-St Helena Heritage Trust (Powered by Donorbox)

Help us get a conservation engineer to St HelenaStop press! 5 November 2025. We are enormously grateful to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for pledging a magnificent £2,000 to this campaig...

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Massive thanks to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for his generous pledge of £2,000 to our campaign to send a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the island's vulnerable historic fortifications. donorbox.org/ukshht-engin...

A Conservation Engineer For St Helena | UK-St Helena Heritage Trust (Powered by Donorbox)

Help us get a conservation engineer to St HelenaStop press! 5 November 2025. We are enormously grateful to Vince Thompson of the St Helena Independent for pledging a magnificent £2,000 to this campaig...

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How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a profit-driven trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different! Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT. #StHelena #Slavery

UK-St Helena Heritage Trust@ukshheritage.bsky.social · 10mo ago

How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312

How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a profit-driven trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different! Free history webinar, Wed 3 Dec, 6pm GMT. #StHelena #Slavery

UK-St Helena Heritage Trust@ukshheritage.bsky.social · 10mo ago

How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312

More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.” www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...

Xavier professor receives $2M for research into Caribbean slavery

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How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

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Tonight! Wed, 12 Nov, 6pm UK time. A British military architect in the time of Napoleon. On a remote island in the South Atlantic. We love history! #StHelena

UK-St Helena Heritage Trust@ukshheritage.bsky.social · 9mo ago

British military architects in the time of #Napoleon. Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile. When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT. Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211 £: FREE

British military architects in the time of #Napoleon. Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile. When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT. Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211 £: FREE

British military architects in the time of #Napoleon. Historian Peter Hicks explores the career of Royal Engineer Anthony Emmett on #StHelena during Napoleon's exile. When: Tomorrow, Wed 12 Nov, 6pm GMT. Where: online at bit.ly/StH1211 £: FREE

How did #StHelena shift from a reliance on enslaved to free labour? Author Colin Fox explores St Helena's journey from slavery to freedom, 1792-1840, in our free online history talk, Wed, 3 December, 6pm GMT. bit.ly/StH0312

What do pirates in Madagascar, a red knitted jumper, the sunken warship Vasa, captivity and colonialism, and the Prize Papers have in common? They're all part of our new online lecture series "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800". Join us weekly on Mondays, 1pm CET, on Zoom #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

The Prize Papers Project@prizepapers.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are thrilled to announce this year's rendition of the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition - an online lecture series organised by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project! The first talk will be on November 10th, with Jane Ohlmeyer, Tom Truxes, and John Shovlin on the Amity Papers!

@davidandress.bsky.social is the academic expert in the chair this evening talking about the French Revolution, the people, the events and the legacy. Its not too late to join the course. www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...

The 1789 French Revolution – not just a revolution in France

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Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight shines on the Starling! Forget fireworks...Autumn’s skies come alive with magnificent murmurations: vast, swirling clouds of Starlings dancing at dusk. One of nature's greatest spectacles. 😍

Yay! We're nearing our fundraising target to get a conservation engineer to St Helena to devise stabilisation repairs for the magnificent High Knoll Fort. Please donate if you can. This is British heritage and world heritage. We need to save it! www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/post/a-conse...

A Conservation Engineer for St Helena's High Knoll Fort

Help us get a conservation engineer to St Helena. Some of St Helena's most important historic monuments need urgent repair and protection. We are fundraising to send a conservation-accredited structur...

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