Lisa Smith
@historybeagle.bsky.social
Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. Faculty Dean PG, Arts & Humanities, Uni of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
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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 12:55 PM
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 👇
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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
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Join us for the @cemslimerick.bsky.social 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History on 2-3 December in the University of Limerick. Programme and registration here: emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4...
4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2-3 December 2025
Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2–3 December 2025 Special Collections & Archives Training Room, Glucksman Library (GL…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Join us for the @cemslimerick.bsky.social 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History on 2-3 December in the University of Limerick. Programme and registration here: emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4...
Excellent sheep and alt text.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Excellent sheep and alt text.
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CfP "Doing #MigrationHistory with Digital Methods", #DigHum #MigHist, am @dhi-paris.fr: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve....
Doing Migration History with Digital Methods
Call for papers for the summer school 2026 at the German Historical Institute in Paris: How does the history of migration change when it relies on digital sources and methods? What new knowledge and w...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
CfP "Doing #MigrationHistory with Digital Methods", #DigHum #MigHist, am @dhi-paris.fr: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve....
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Gorgeous photo on the cover taken by the brilliant photographer @gaypanek.bsky.social ! It was fantastic collaborating with her on the design, food styling, and photos.
It’s all happening: Shakespeare in the Kitchen is slated for publication in April 2026 🍽️📗🎉 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...
Shakespeare in the Kitchen
Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us ab...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Gorgeous photo on the cover taken by the brilliant photographer @gaypanek.bsky.social ! It was fantastic collaborating with her on the design, food styling, and photos.
Excited to see that our book page (The King's Dinner) is now live. It is all feeling a bit real now! It has been such a pleasure to work with Rachel Rich @adamcrymble.bsky.social @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social -- and the lovely editorial team @uclpress.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
The King’s Dinner
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a large, open dataset of two royal household kitchen ledgers, the authors study the role and inf...
uclpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Excited to see that our book page (The King's Dinner) is now live. It is all feeling a bit real now! It has been such a pleasure to work with Rachel Rich @adamcrymble.bsky.social @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social -- and the lovely editorial team @uclpress.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
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Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
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Has anyone come across sellers’ marks like this before?
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Has anyone come across sellers’ marks like this before?
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The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025.
www.rsa.org/general/cust...
www.rsa.org/general/cust...
www.rsa.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025.
www.rsa.org/general/cust...
www.rsa.org/general/cust...
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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library
(edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November)
Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November)
Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library
(edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November)
Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November)
Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The 9th Notes and Records Essay Award is open for entry! Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the history of science, technology and medicine. This is open to researchers who have completed a postgrad degree within the last five years.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The 9th Notes and Records Essay Award is open for entry! Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the history of science, technology and medicine. This is open to researchers who have completed a postgrad degree within the last five years.
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Read a good food book lately? Seen a food-art show or design expo? Marathoned a food doc? CFS is always looking for media and event reviews! Email (reviews [aht] canadian food studies [dawt] ca) or click on the “Submit a request” button at canadianfoodstudies.ca.
image: David Szanto
image: David Szanto
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Read a good food book lately? Seen a food-art show or design expo? Marathoned a food doc? CFS is always looking for media and event reviews! Email (reviews [aht] canadian food studies [dawt] ca) or click on the “Submit a request” button at canadianfoodstudies.ca.
image: David Szanto
image: David Szanto
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Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Taster Session: Introduction to Responsible AI
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November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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Eager to add more women’s history, science, medicine and religion to your reading list? Explore acclaimed historian and #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 judge Helen King’s #BookloverSpotlight shortlist with @Bookshop_org_UK below.
bit.ly/3WDpJRJ
bit.ly/3WDpJRJ
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Eager to add more women’s history, science, medicine and religion to your reading list? Explore acclaimed historian and #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 judge Helen King’s #BookloverSpotlight shortlist with @Bookshop_org_UK below.
bit.ly/3WDpJRJ
bit.ly/3WDpJRJ
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If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
Charles Parker Prize | Showcase Your Audio Talent — Charles Parker Archive Trust
Discover top student audio features and enter the Charles Parker Prize for a chance to broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
www.cpatrust.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
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BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
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A friendly reminder that our cfp for "Naming & Classifying in the Eighteenth Century" has an extended deadline to Nov. 30. Send us your brilliant ideas! Please share, too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A friendly reminder that our cfp for "Naming & Classifying in the Eighteenth Century" has an extended deadline to Nov. 30. Send us your brilliant ideas! Please share, too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A medieval/early-modern postdoc opportunity here -- please distribute across your networks.
JOIN US: apply for a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship, researching the history of the fiefs of Jersey and the island’s seigneurial institutions and culture, from the Norman ducal period to the English Civil War.
Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI170/p...
Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI170/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History at Swansea University
An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A medieval/early-modern postdoc opportunity here -- please distribute across your networks.
Such wonderful news for @melkatrey.bsky.social, an excellent co-editor at The Recipes Project!
This year, the John Ben Snow Prize is awarded to Melissa Reynolds for her book Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print. Congrats @melkatrey.bsky.social !! 👏 @uchicagopress.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Such wonderful news for @melkatrey.bsky.social, an excellent co-editor at The Recipes Project!
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Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
Romance and/or Erotica
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: Romance and/or Erotica
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November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
Conclusion: no. But we must reframe our thinking about them-- it is about the thinking process, not the output of an essay.
#SkyStorians Interesting article on 'Is the Essay History?' given the development of AI, in @historyaustralia.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Is the essay history? Rethinking effective assessment in the age of generative AI
Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Conclusion: no. But we must reframe our thinking about them-- it is about the thinking process, not the output of an essay.
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CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
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Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
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“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire
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October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...