daviddoddington.bsky.social
@daviddoddington.bsky.social
Historian of slavery, age, and gender in the US. Co-editor of American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Most recent book, Old Age and American Slavery (CUP, 2024).
Thrilled to have this roundtable on @profmsinha.bsky.social's (most recent!) hugely significant book. As ever, if you're interested in submitting to @anchistjournal.bsky.social - whether a research essay, historiographical or methodological piece, or perhaps a review roundtable - drop us a line!
Very grateful to American Nineteenth Century History’s David Cox for putting together this wonderful symposium on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic which grew out of the panel on the book at the United States Intellectual History conference organized by Benjamin Park.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
On this important anniversary, see also Adam Smith's powerful article on Gettysburg and American history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History has just dropped online - the perfect thing to fill that awkward gap between Halloween and Thanksgiving! 🎃 🦃 🇺🇸 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...
American Nineteenth Century History
Volume 26, Issue 2 of American Nineteenth Century History
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November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
PhD funding at Cardiff (yes, there are all sorts of caveats about HE crises/funding and job issues/the world falling apart), but for those interested, please see: www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Happy to take queries if anyone would like to follow up via institutional email.
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA) scheme PhD Studentships
Cardiff University welcomes applications for 3 fully funded PhD studentships, funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA) scheme.
www.cardiff.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Important workshop being run by Myya Helm on 28.11.25 at Tramshed Tech, Cardiff. Sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-s...
Workshop. Seeing Yourself In History
Come join our Workshop: Seeing Yourself In History to explore how individuals like you have shaped the course of history!
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November 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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The Frank and Harriet Owsley Award for the best book in Southern history published last year is awarded to David Doddington for Old Age and Americam Slavery #2025SHA
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Congratulations! #2025SHA

David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#2025SHA didn't realise we were allowed to hold conferences in such nice weather. @branchuk.bsky.social just like Cardiff, right...?
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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It's been almost ten months to the day that my School has been 'in scope' for redundancy.

Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Nearly 10 months of this now. Yay
October 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The #AHR September 2025 issue is now online. Featuring articles on Korean atomic bomb survivors, socialist internationalism, and naturalized 19th-century naturalized Chinese citizens, the issue also includes a special edition of History Unclassified. 🗃️
AHR Current Issue - AHA
Current Issue September 2025Vol 130 | Issue 3 The September 2025 issue of the American Historical Review features articles on Korean diasporic atomic bomb survivors, Jamaican activists and socialist i...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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More well-deserved accolades for @daviddoddington.bsky.social whose book is a finalist for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social book prize--"is an extraordinary study shedding new light on old age and aging in the antebellum US South." @universitypress.cambridge.org offers our big congratulations!
September 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Delighted to see this important special edition of @anchistjournal.bsky.social "Universities and Slavery" out now, edited by Benedict Carton & Natalie Zacek, and featuring contributions from Chana Kai Lee, George D. Oberle III, Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
September 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Incredibly honored to see Old Age and American Slavery listed as a finalist alongside such important scholarship in the Slaveryarchive book prize. Very grateful indeed. www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
#Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 – #Slaveryarchive
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September 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
@branchuk.bsky.social @anchistjournal.bsky.social BrANCH/BGEAH conference looking real now. Who doesn't love putting name tags into plastic wallets and lanyards. Rock n roll...
September 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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This summer, why not try out our most-read papers? Our second most-read paper of 2025 so far is OPEN ACCESS: The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective by Natalie Zacek

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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August 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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'It is simply not possible to lose the number of academic staff that the sector has lost over the past two years and for providers to not be in breach of contract – promises have either been broken, or the contract itself gives a university too wide a discretion to vary....' 1/5
Beware the sharing issue in the depths of the higher education iceberg
Jim Dickinson explores the hidden depths of the higher education iceberg - from misconceptions about value to the quiet crisis of overstretched resources and shrinking provision Jim Dickinson explores...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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New on advance access: "The purposeful workhouse of England's Old Poor Law"

by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)

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The purposeful workhouse of England’s Old Poor Law*
Abstract. It has long been recognized that the English workhouses of the Old Poor Law era (1601-1834) were important precursors to institutions of the mode
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July 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Applications still open for this exciting opportunity. Happy to take questions via DM or email.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Exciting news - the journal is looking for a new book review editor or editors! For details of the role and how to apply, visit the journal website at: www.branch.org.uk/anch Deadline: 28 July 2025 📚✒️
ANCH — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
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July 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Congrats to @daviddoddington.bsky.social for being awarded the 2025 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association. The award committee says the books is "a brilliant and gripping achievement." @universitypress.cambridge.org is honored to be his publisher.
July 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM