Henry Miller
@henryjmiller.bsky.social
Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
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🌟 Exciting news! The deadline for the Olivette Otele Prize has been extended to Friday 12th December! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity for a fast-tracked publication, apply now! 📝
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🌟 Exciting news! The deadline for the Olivette Otele Prize has been extended to Friday 12th December! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity for a fast-tracked publication, apply now! 📝
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Applications are invited at any time. The next closing dates, for Fellowship and all other categories of membership, are 15 December and 9 March 2026.
We've recently published a new Guide for Fellows and Members of the Society listing the many benefits of belonging to the RHS bit.ly/485xFSn 2/2
We've recently published a new Guide for Fellows and Members of the Society listing the many benefits of belonging to the RHS bit.ly/485xFSn 2/2
Guide for Members - RHS
On 18 November 2025, the Society releases its new Guide for Members to highlight the benefits available to current Fellows and Members. The Guide provides information relating to the following areas o...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Applications are invited at any time. The next closing dates, for Fellowship and all other categories of membership, are 15 December and 9 March 2026.
We've recently published a new Guide for Fellows and Members of the Society listing the many benefits of belonging to the RHS bit.ly/485xFSn 2/2
We've recently published a new Guide for Fellows and Members of the Society listing the many benefits of belonging to the RHS bit.ly/485xFSn 2/2
#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026.
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Conference
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November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026.
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@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
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#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
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#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
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#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
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#history #envhistory #earlymodern
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Are you working on literature and culture in the First World War? have you considered submitting to First World War Studies? meet our Associate Editor @afrayn.bsky.social who is keen to receive more submissions in these fields!
👥 Associate Editors introductions: Andrew Frayn
Continuing our introductions of the FWWS associate editors, this week we’re pleased to highlight Dr. Andrew Frayn, Associate Editor of First World War Studies and a scholar working at the intersection of literature and history.
Continuing our introductions of the FWWS associate editors, this week we’re pleased to highlight Dr. Andrew Frayn, Associate Editor of First World War Studies and a scholar working at the intersection of literature and history.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Are you working on literature and culture in the First World War? have you considered submitting to First World War Studies? meet our Associate Editor @afrayn.bsky.social who is keen to receive more submissions in these fields!
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Another #JobAlert! 📯
The GHIL is seeking to employ at the earliest opportunity a full-time
Assistant to the Director/ Assistant Events Officer
As assistant to the director, you are the first point of contact for internal and external enquiries to the director.
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The GHIL is seeking to employ at the earliest opportunity a full-time
Assistant to the Director/ Assistant Events Officer
As assistant to the director, you are the first point of contact for internal and external enquiries to the director.
1/2
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Another #JobAlert! 📯
The GHIL is seeking to employ at the earliest opportunity a full-time
Assistant to the Director/ Assistant Events Officer
As assistant to the director, you are the first point of contact for internal and external enquiries to the director.
1/2
The GHIL is seeking to employ at the earliest opportunity a full-time
Assistant to the Director/ Assistant Events Officer
As assistant to the director, you are the first point of contact for internal and external enquiries to the director.
1/2
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New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850'
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November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850'
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History seminar series at @qubhistory.bsky.social
Yours truly will present this Friday on Opposition to Thatcher's Poll Tax. Sign up information 👇. Please share with anyone interested in attending.
Yours truly will present this Friday on Opposition to Thatcher's Poll Tax. Sign up information 👇. Please share with anyone interested in attending.
QUB History Seminar: Peter Farrelly
Peter Farrelly will present his paper: 'The Tory Titanic - Civic Society’s Opposition to the Poll Tax!'
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November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
History seminar series at @qubhistory.bsky.social
Yours truly will present this Friday on Opposition to Thatcher's Poll Tax. Sign up information 👇. Please share with anyone interested in attending.
Yours truly will present this Friday on Opposition to Thatcher's Poll Tax. Sign up information 👇. Please share with anyone interested in attending.
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Highly recommend this @britishacademy.bsky.social scheme: organizing a conference helped consolidate research ideas while making new and serendipitous connections. Would urge applicants to build in cross-disciplinary perspectives from the start, including with the creative arts.
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
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British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Highly recommend this @britishacademy.bsky.social scheme: organizing a conference helped consolidate research ideas while making new and serendipitous connections. Would urge applicants to build in cross-disciplinary perspectives from the start, including with the creative arts.
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The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.
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Congratulations to @maudannebracke.bsky.social on her new book "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950–1980"
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November 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Congratulations to @maudannebracke.bsky.social on her new book "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950–1980"
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Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!
DON'T FORGET to register for #BSECS2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026.
Early bird rates apply until tomorrow (Saturday 15 November 2025)
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
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Early bird rates apply until tomorrow (Saturday 15 November 2025)
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
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BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!
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Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
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#Chartism #C19th #History
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Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
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November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
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📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0
How to Get Published in Academic Journal
YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford!
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Junior Research Fellowship in the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Quill Project)
Pembroke College wishes to appoint a Junior Research Fellow in the History of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. The appointment will be from early 2026 until 31 July 2027. The post is full-time and ...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford!
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
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We're proud to be a member of the #GeneralStrike100 national partnership
Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...
Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!
Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...
Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We're proud to be a member of the #GeneralStrike100 national partnership
Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...
Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!
Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...
Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!
#SkyStorians Would strongly encourage anyone thinking of applying to be a Fellow to read this and go for it!
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
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 9:34 AM
#SkyStorians Would strongly encourage anyone thinking of applying to be a Fellow to read this and go for it!
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*PSA OPPORTUNITIES* Visit the PSA website to find out about jobs, fellowships and scholarship opportunities within #PoliticalStudies #Politics #PoliticalScience #InternationalRelations #PIR
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#MondayMotivation
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Opportunities | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
The PSA highlights opportunities such as funding or grant providers, job vacancies, PhD applications, events, calls for papers and more . . .
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November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
*PSA OPPORTUNITIES* Visit the PSA website to find out about jobs, fellowships and scholarship opportunities within #PoliticalStudies #Politics #PoliticalScience #InternationalRelations #PIR
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#MondayMotivation
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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!
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November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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...
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Bluestockings in the Shandean 😍
Most Read | The Shandean ⬇️
'Sarah Scott’s and Lady Barbara Montagu’s Letters to George Aust' by Philip Trotter
Read it in the new issue online: bit.ly/Trotter35
@shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social @drwilliams.bsky.social
'Sarah Scott’s and Lady Barbara Montagu’s Letters to George Aust' by Philip Trotter
Read it in the new issue online: bit.ly/Trotter35
@shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social @bairishstudies.bsky.social @drwilliams.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Bluestockings in the Shandean 😍
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Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Come along to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @nailyas.bsky.social talk about her 'Global Libraries' project!
Our final event of term is happening this Thursday (27 November) Dr Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social on 'English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700'. ✨📚 This talk will be in-person only at the IHR. You can sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700
This talk introduces the UKRI-funded Future Leaders project, The Global Library project.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Come along to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @nailyas.bsky.social talk about her 'Global Libraries' project!
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The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society: a brief guide if you’re considering an application | Historical Transactions
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November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians