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Christian Damm Pedersen
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Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
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Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.

We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Gårsdagens arbejdsplads. Carlsberg Akademi var en glimrende ramme om afslutningen på spændende kursusforløb om forskningsledelse. Stor tak til Carlsbergfondet for muligheden!
#carlsbergfondet #forskning #dkforsk #forskningsledelse #SemperArdensAccelerate #CarlsbergAkademi @carlsbergfondet.dk
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Gårsdagens arbejdsplads. Carlsberg Akademi var en glimrende ramme om afslutningen på spændende kursusforløb om forskningsledelse. Stor tak til Carlsbergfondet for muligheden!
#carlsbergfondet #forskning #dkforsk #forskningsledelse #SemperArdensAccelerate #CarlsbergAkademi @carlsbergfondet.dk
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72

Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Applications invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS
Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered f...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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2 months out & the UK edition of THE CROWN'S SILENCE is off to the printers! Special thanks to @sathnam.bsky.social @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social @marcusrediker.bsky.social @corinnefowler.bsky.social @lauratrevelyan.bsky.social @joycechaplin.bsky.social Amanda Foreman & Kate Winkler Dawson #booksky 📚
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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'The Caricom Reparations Commission (CRC) will be meeting with UK parliamentarians, Caribbean diplomats, academics and civil society groups from 17 to 20 November.' 1/2
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Så er det i dag, Rasmus Glenthøj holder sin tiltrædelsesforelæsning. Det bliver uden tvivl interessant 👇
#1800-tallet #nationalisme #historie #internationalpolitik #forelæsning #historiesdu #politiskhistoriesdu #empiressdu #sdu #sdudk @empiressdu.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Still a few weeks left to submit panel, paper and poster proposal for our next conference!
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!

The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.

For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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JOB
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge

[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]

www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics
Applications are invited for appointment to a College Lectureship in Modern History and Politics, together with a Fellowship, tenable for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of…
www.trin.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026!

Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.

For any questions please contact [email protected]
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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The Government have published the Curriculum and Assessment Review report and their own response. We have a short statement expressing our views.

www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...
Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report – response
www.history.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.
jacobin.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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This examination of Nigel Biggar's historical and moral arguments against reparations might be of interest, given the case recently made by @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social and an upcoming Al Jazeera debate between Biggar and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/04/t...
The Empire is Alive and Kicking and its Legacy Still With Us
The Empire is Alive and Kicking and its Legacy Still With Us Nigel Biggar, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt, Forum, £20. Review by Alan Lester Nigel Biggar is the right-wing’…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I'd somehow missed this fascinating study. Anyway, here it is:
Research Study: Decoding Populism - Who Are Reform UK's Voters?
Who are Reform UK's Voters? A new study has identified 5 distinct groups among those thinking about voting for Reform at the next GE. Research shows these voters share feelings of frustration but hav...
www.bestforbritain.org
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A warm congratulations to Professor Jesper Majbom Madsen, who has been awarded Queen Margrethe’s Roman Prize 2025 for his remarkable ability to “connect the study of ancient Rome with contemporary issues.” 

The prize was presented by Queen Margrethe herself at the Danish Institute in Rome.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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🍾Congratulations to Professor Aglae Pizzone (PI) and Reka Forrai (Co‑PI), who have received a major grant from the VELUX FOUNDATION for their project “METHOD – A Digital Entangled Approach to European Intellectual History”

👉Read more: www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/fa...
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New Grant for Digital Humanities Project on European Intellectual History
Professor Aglae Pizzone from the Department of Culture and Language at SDU has received a grant of DKK 6 million from the VELUX FOUNDATION
www.sdu.dk
October 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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1/7 Some important books have been published recently, by leading experts on the history of slavery. What they say is critical when weighing up Commonwealth reparations claims.
October 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM