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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

The RHS is a membership organisation of 6500+ historians. We welcome applications to join us at any time. Our next closing dates are 13 October and 15 December.

We offer categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research, from Postgraduate to Fellow: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians

Closing dates for next application rounds:
Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025

The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

Booking is now open for this year's Royal Historical Society Public History Lecture, with @greshamcollege.bsky.social:

'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd

6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians 1/2

Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother

This is the annual Royal Historical Society Lecture.

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lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Liesbeth.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 16

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 13d

'History and Archives in Practice, 2026': call for participation now open bit.ly/4pITZrs

HAP26 takes place @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social
on the theme of 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives & Historical Research'. With @ihr.bsky.social & @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Image of historical map with text: Call for papers: History and Archives in Practice, 16 April 2026, University of Sheffield. In partnership with the University of Sheffield Library.

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 12d

📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories.

💸 Grants up to £1000.
⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025.

#history #apply #funding #opportunity

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Joint BME Small Grants

The Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched …

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 12d

Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
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Conference Funding

The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine. Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 12d

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 12d

The Leo Baeck Institute London offers internships of varying length to students specialising in German-Jewish studies or a related field.

www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 12d

Applications for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium 2026 are now open. The application deadline is 29 October. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4nyWsmv

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 13d

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18d

If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck

Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

Image of 'Trust me, I'm a Historian' badges and text: 'Postgraduate Membership of the Royal Historical Society. Applications invited for next closing dates of 13 October and 15 December 2025'.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18d

On Weds 22 October, we visit historians at the University of Suffolk and Suffolk Archives, to discuss partnership working.

Our Ipswich visit includes a guest public lecture by Tim Grady (Chester) and a reception to meet fellow historians and RHS members bit.ly/4medzcd All are welcome #Skystorians

Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars

A public lecture as part of the Royal Historical Society's visit to historians at the University of Suffolk, with Professor Tim Grady

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18d

Fellows of the Society are recognised for their contribution to historical understanding and knowledge.

We welcome invitations to join the Fellowship at any time from historians working in Higher Education and other sectors, as well as independent researchers bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

Image of badges with caption: 'I know the value of history', plus text: We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship. Fellowship recognises the scholarly contribution of historians working in all sectors of professional history or as independent scholars. Next closing dates: 13 October and 15 December 2025

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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · 18d

Excited to give the @royalhistsoc.org's public lecture this December: 'Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain' @sheffielduni.bsky.social @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social #histed

📅 Tuesday 10 December, 6pm
🎟️ Free, all welcome. Register here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hunger-hea...

Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain, IN-PERSON

Royal Historical Society public lecture at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Institute of Education, UCL

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 18d

We’re delighted to publish a new Policy Paper today by Jonathan Moss & @emilyrobinson.bsky.social. They suggest that Mass Observation @massobsarchive.bsky.social - founded in the 1930s - can help us understand the reasons behind contemporary voter apathy. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Mass Observation and Political Engagement in Britain - History & Policy

Low turnout in the 2024 General Election and other signs of voter disengagement from politics pose serious challenges for the UK’s democratic system. To meet these, this policy paper argues, we need a...

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 26d

This next week! Join Professor Lucy Noakes for her talk 'War and Peace: Mass Observers and the end of the war in Europe, May 1945' & Yves Fradier, Director of Survey and Methods (@veriangroup.com) for his talk 'Living through war: Insights from displaced Ukrainians'.

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · Sep 8

Event Announcement!

'Documenting disruption: Everyday life during times of war'

We're collaborating with Verian to bring you an online webinar to look at the ways that everyday experiences of war are recorded.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1602048774...

Documenting disruption: Everyday life during times of war

Join us for a collaboration between the Mass Observation Archive and Verian looking at the ways that everyday life during war is recorded.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24d

VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC

The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata.

Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer - RHS

The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and dev...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Sep 12

Next week, the Society is in Aberdeen to meet with historians and RHS members for the next in its visits programme for 2025.

The visit includes a public lecture, on Weds 17 Sept, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social given by our guest speaker, Prof Matthew J. Smith: bit.ly/3IjbMVj. All welcome to attend 1/2

Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories

Royal Historical Society public lecture at the University of Aberdeen

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Sep 11

The Royal Historical Society welcomes Fellowship applications from historians working in higher education and other sectors, as well as independent researchers.

Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding via research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians 1/2

Image of badges 'Trust Me I'm a Historian' with the caption: Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society

We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship.

Fellowship recognizes the scholarly contribution of historians
working in all sectors of professional history or as independent scholars.

Next closing dates: 13 October and 15 December 2025

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Sep 10

Greenwich and Kent to form ‘super university’.

Institutions reveal plans to merge and form London and South East University Group.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Greenwich and Kent to form ‘super university’ - Research Professional News

Institutions reveal plans to merge and form London and South East University Group

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · Sep 10

An incredible night: the @ihr.bsky.social Creighton Lecture - me in conversation with poet Hannah Lowe on 'Doing #History with #Poetry', chaired by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social - then the launch for #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems. Bowled over by how many managed to come. A few posts coming up...

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lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · Sep 10

Congratulations Catherine the book looks great.

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · Sep 1

The 1789 French Revolution – more than a moment in France.
Explore ideas, conflicts & global impact in our HA short course (Oct–Dec 2025).
What sparked it?
Did it succeed?
Why does it still matter?

Register your interest now!
shorturl.at/jBcae

#FrenchRevolution #HAshortcourse

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Aug 28

Published today: 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales', by Andrew McTominey bit.ly/4n4LkxB

'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2

Cover for: Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, by Andrew McTominey

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