So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

Absence in the Archives

Cambridge Core - Global History - Absence in the Archives

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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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We’re halfway through the #MBS2026 (3-5 June, University of Birmingham) and celebrating with 30% off a curated reading list of key titles in the field. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/05...

My article has been published! And it's open access so you can all enjoy reading about Protestant church orders 🤣 #earlymodern #churchhistory #skystorians #history #reformazing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Consolation in Sixteenth Century Protestant Church Orders

This article presents four ways that demonstrate how Protestant church orders provided comfort and consolation to the laity in sixteenth century Germany, with specific focus on the sacraments of ba...

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What an academic treat this was! Thank you @zoethomas.bsky.social @svenjaros.bsky.social and the team for making "Power Couples" happen!

So exciting to have over a 100 public attendees here tonight for the public workshop @ Mortizburg Museum in Halle, Germany as part of our Power Couples workshop!

So great to celebrate with History Dept colleagues @unibirmingham.bsky.social @tomcutterham.bsky.social forthcoming book with @versobooks.bsky.social - Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution & the Atlantic Working Class - pre order it here for £13 (£6 as an ebook!) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Empire Ablaze

As revolution raged in North America, James Aitken – house painter, highwayman, and escaped indentured servant – wandered the colonies formulating a dramatic plan to cripple the British navy by destro...

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Tom Cutterham@tomcutterham.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thanks @zoethomas.bsky.social and @johnmunro.bsky.social for organising today's sneak-preview event for Empire Ablaze, out July 21st. I'm really appreciating right now how much colleagues have been rooting for the project from the start. 😄

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

Dracula 1933 Irish translation cover

Manchester University Press is proud to launch Radical Histories, a new series dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged political, social and cultural authority. Call for proposals now open. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

They do look pretty nice on paper as well!

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

Exciting news! I've signed a contract to write my first solo book - on women, politics and the battle for equal franchise between 1918 and 1928. It will be published for the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act in 2028 by @yalebooks.bsky.social Suffraduck is on my desk waiting for me to start! 🗃️

In a month we are going to present the Invention of the scientific power couple in 18th century France with @meghankroberts.bsky.social in this exciting workshop! Glad to get to travel after this long writing period and listen to those great papers! couples.hypotheses.org @zoethomas.bsky.social

Our colleague @martinspychal.bsky.social will be speaking about Harriet & George Grote. Some of his work on Harriet can be found on the #HistParl website: historyofparliament.com?s=Harriet+Gr...

Zoe Thomas@zoethomas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Grateful to Marta Bartkowska for making a beautiful postcard & flyer for mine & @svenjaros.bsky.social workshop & public event in Germany this May! "Power Couples: Collaborations at work and at home, c. 1750-1920s" funded by the DFG & others. Do get in touch if you want more info about the project!

So looking forward to participating in this workshop! I’ll be presenting on Una & Richard Pope-Hennessy’s intellectual partnership, exploring their collaborative endeavours before and during #WW1. Huge thanks to Zoe, Sven, and the team for their work putting together this wonderful programme 🙌🏻

Zoe Thomas@zoethomas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Grateful to Marta Bartkowska for making a beautiful postcard & flyer for mine & @svenjaros.bsky.social workshop & public event in Germany this May! "Power Couples: Collaborations at work and at home, c. 1750-1920s" funded by the DFG & others. Do get in touch if you want more info about the project!

Grateful to Marta Bartkowska for making a beautiful postcard & flyer for mine & @svenjaros.bsky.social workshop & public event in Germany this May! "Power Couples: Collaborations at work and at home, c. 1750-1920s" funded by the DFG & others. Do get in touch if you want more info about the project!

Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.

Publishing today! A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life. 'A queer scrapbook' is a rich archive of histories from across Britain & Ireland. Featuring interviews, photographs & flyers, it captures the diversity of queer & trans lives since WW2. Out now. #booksky

Another day, another “uncovered” archive. The materials “have been stored in Cambridge University’s herbarium for nearly 200 years.” The course sounds great, but this Indiana Jones framing and erasure of archivists’ work is getting really tired.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7mo ago

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered

I'm looking forward to speaking to French history students in Birmingham later this week (guest video appearance on Simon Jackson's 'Equality, Environment and Empire in Modern France' course) If anyone would like me to speak about the book, then drop me a line, I'm happy to help! 🗃️ #skystorians

Andrew WM Smith@smidbob.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here's the clip of me speaking about my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book 'Make cheese not war' on @en.france24.com this morning: www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

Our CfP for the 2027 Big Berks is now OPEN! The 2027 theme is “Beyond Boundaries: Gender, History and the Futures We Imagine". You can find out more and submit your proposal here: berksconference.org/big-ber...

So great to see amazing @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social PhD researcher Kelly Bosomworth‘s work in “The Women’s Library at 100“ exhibition @lselibrary.bsky.social as part of her wider PhD project all about the Six Point Group 😍

Kelly Bosomworth@kellybosomworth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I had such a wonderful time on Thursday celebrating the centenary of The Women’s Library and the launch of the exhibition. It was a privilege to contribute a plinth on the Six Point Group. Grateful to @gillianmurphy.bsky.social and @lselibrary.bsky.social for this brilliant opportunity and event! 🎉

Next Weds 25th at IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social we welcome Leila Sellers @leilarsellers.bsky.social for a paper on the Beaumont Society and online trans communities in the 90s-00s. Register here! Hybrid option available too (if the tech works). www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

'The Future is Bright. The Future is Beaumont': Transvestite Lives in a Digital Age

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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...

Nineteenth-Century Afterlives: Creative and Critical Approaches

An exploration of the many ways in which the 19th century is revisited, reimagined, and critically reinterpreted

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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

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨ The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections. Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

Current exhibition | LSE Library

Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

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Thank you to @kellybosomworth.bsky.social for highlighting the campaigning work of the feminist organisation, the Six Point Group. This image shows the first six points of action in the early 1920s.