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BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · Jun 26

#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes

www.history.org.uk

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Cheryl Fury @tudorwench.bsky.social · 1d

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

10 October 1903: Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union. #History #Suffragette

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, world’s most recent child queen, & Queen Victoria look as though they are enjoying each other’s company immensely. Luckily, they had both brought a book to read. Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy in which they both feature #womenwhoruledtheworld

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Cheshire Local History Association @clha.bsky.social · 1d

History Day, 2025 - tomorrow, 11th October!
We're looking forward to seeing our local historians for a great day of seminars, questions, local stalls and inspiration.
Our final two speakers are Mike Blackburn and Colin Schroeder (see below).
Pay on the door, £16 each, details of venue in picture. 😀

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 1d

We're hosting a great free talk about Victorian Crime and Punishment! This talk takes place online and is a great chance to learn about the 19th century criminal justice system.

Book your space by emailing us at [email protected]

For more events, head to histfestbucks.co.uk

A 19th century illustration of the Court House in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, next to the History Festival branding. Below it is the following text:

'Victorian Crime and Punishment

Online

12/11/25, 15:00-16:00'.

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Mental Health Day. Through the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), you can research the history of mental health. BBIH’s free reading list on the history of emotions highlights some recent scholarship on the history of mental health in the UK and Ireland buff.ly/OK5HSbu

Engraving of an 18th century building in a pastoral landscape

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 1d

Glamorgan History Society Autumn Day

The Glamorgan History Society will be holding it’s annual Autumn Day in Bridgend on Saturday 8 November. This year, in celebration of the Society’s 75th anniversary, the theme is ‘Writing the History of Glamorgan’.

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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · 2d

Our 2nd talk of the fall term will take place on Oct. 24. We very much look forward to welcoming @andreloez.bsky.social for his talk, "Unsettled voters. Invalid ballots in the first elections by universal male suffrage in France"

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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 2d

Hello! Looking forward to an exciting term of the Oxford Long 19thC Seminar, on the theme of Arts, Crafts & the People: the Social and the Aesthetic in the Long Nineteenth Century. We meet on Wednesdays 11.10-12.30 at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St, all welcome.

Image of the seminar programme for the term:
Week 1, 15 Oct Octavia Young (University of Cambridge)
Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co
Week 3, 29 Oct Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter)
The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts
Week 4, 5 Nov David Hopkin (Hertford)
Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
Week 5, 12 Nov Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Week 6, 19 Nov Eric Storm (University of Leiden)
Discussants: Faisal Devji (Balliol) and Abigail Green (Brasenose).
Book Talk: Nationalism: A World History
Week 7, 26 Nov Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall)
Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
Week 8, 3 Dec Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

For a taster of this pathbreaking new research, one of the authors (@markhailwood.bsky.social) has written a series of short blog posts on the experience of work in #EarlyModern England.

Today's post:

manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/09/t...

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England II: Family Fortunes

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 2d

You can read about David Killingray's approach and methods to identifying black Britons in rural settings (from 1600 onwards) in @balhnews.bsky.social's journal, 'The Local Historian'. Recommended.

The Local Historian Volume 51 Number 4 October 2021 | | Local History News | British Association For Local History

www.balh.org.uk

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 2d

Last few tickets for this, next Friday!

Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 11d

This should be a great lecture @phm.org.uk to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan African Congress with the wonderful Gary Younge. Tickets going fast here phm.org.uk/events_new/w...

What Peace? Whose Freedom? with Gary Younge - People's History Museum

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Fabio Simonetti @efghilmno.bsky.social · 2d

The day has come!

*Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation and Occupation*, published by Oxford University Press, is finally out in ebook!

One month to go until the print edition.

View contents, abstracts and the full ebook here:
👉 academic.oup.com/book/61479

Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation, and Occupation

Abstract. Traditionally, war has been studied by focusing on extraordinary events, individuals, and deeds. However, wartime encompasses far more than the e

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 3d

‘Freedom and Whatever that Means: a roundtable discussion on the politics of overseas labour migrations from India c1833 to 1967’ takes place on 23 October 2025 at the LSE. The event is supported by a grant from the Society for the Study of Labour History. Register…
sslh.org.uk/2025/10/08/r...

Roundtable: the politics of overseas labour migrations from India c1833 to 1967

‘Freedom and Whatever that Means: a roundtable discussion on the politics of overseas labour migrations from India between c1833 and 1967’ takes place on 23 October 2025 from 3pm to 6pm…

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · 2d

And Paula Gonzalez Fons on Nazanin Hedayat Munroe (eds), Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries: Stories from a Globe-spinning History (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · 2d

#History #SkyStorians Double review drop! Lucy Bland on David Redvaldsen's A History of British Eugenics since 1865: From Francis Galton to Designer Babies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social · 2d

My review of @historianzhang.bsky.social's excellent Power for a Price is officially out in @hisjournalha.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China. By Lawrence Zhang. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 328 pp. $59.95.

Click on the article title to read more.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 5d

On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar

Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"

In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning

This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 7d

★ This sparkling history from Trent Preszler explores America’s relationship with evergreen trees. History and nature buffs alike will find much to enjoy. buff.ly/VwMZYUD

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 4d

Incidently if there were anyone interested/knows someone interested in supporting/mentoring I've got a great project perfect for Leverhulme Postdoc using Romani history pre-1850 to address present day racism

I know its not the done thing to ask but its hard to judge who/where would be a good fit

Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 4d

Yet another report confirming discrimination of Romani people is systematic.

Despite this historical and current discrimination we're not considered important enough to have positions dedicated to our history, we don't even figure on the RHS minority stats.

romea.cz/en/opinion/t...

"The Unheard 12 Million": New Council of Europe report confirms discrimination of Romani people is systematic - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place

Exactly what we, as Awen Amenca, and other Romani and pro-Roma organizations across Europe have been drawing attention to for many years has recently received a strong, official voice. The Council of ...

romea.cz

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 4d

Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University:
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Assistant Professorship in Early Medieval Literatures and Cultures, Fordham University | MEMOs

Early Modern Literatures and Culture, Fordham University (NYC)

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 4d

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New PhD Student Session

For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.

www.history.ac.uk

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe check James Taylor's work on advertising/financial press reporting in 19th c?

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 4d

En route to London to deliver a paper at the Warburg: ‘Libraries & Delinquency: The Case of Charles Burney.’ Looking forward to learning from some of the world’s most knowledgeable experts in the history of libraries. Hope some friends & mutuals can join us!

History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social · 16d

All welcome (online & in person) to our seminar on Tuesday 7 October, 5.30pm. Sophie Coulombeau will be discussing classicist, author, critic, educator, clergyman & thief Charles Burney (1757-1817). More info here: bit.ly/LibrariesAnd... @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social

Book cover: Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance, by Sophie Coulombeau.

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