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🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
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For anyone who wants to have a listen to my RTE History Show chat last night about the 250,000 Irish Americans who served in the U.S. military during the Civil War, you can now listen to that section of the show here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865
Damian Shiels joins Myles to discuss the Irishmen who fought for the Union in the American Civil War; and whose stories are revealed in forgotten U.S. pension files.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
For anyone who wants to have a listen to my RTE History Show chat last night about the 250,000 Irish Americans who served in the U.S. military during the Civil War, you can now listen to that section of the show here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
The former Guardian journalist Richard Gott died over the weekend. One of our past PhD students, Dr Sophie Roberts, is the author an article on his anti-Vietnam War independent candidacy in the 1966 Hull North by-election in Contemporary British History. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1361...
The campaign of the ‘red-bearded radical’: Richard Gott and the Hull North by-election, 1966
This article explores Richard Gott’s candidacy in the 1966 by-election at Hull North. Gott stood on a platform emphasising anti-nuclear and anti-militarist concerns, and crucially, vehement opposit...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The former Guardian journalist Richard Gott died over the weekend. One of our past PhD students, Dr Sophie Roberts, is the author an article on his anti-Vietnam War independent candidacy in the 1966 Hull North by-election in Contemporary British History. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1361...
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JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
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November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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Delighted to see my open access article on Modjeska Simkins and Black Female Leadership appear in a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice honouring Richard H. King - a fine historian and wonderful man. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Modjeska Monteith Simkins and black female leadership: propriety, politics, place and periodization in the African American freedom struggle
Modjeska Monteith Simkins was one of the most significant voices in the struggle for African American rights in South Carolina during the twentieth century. For a decade, starting in the mid-1960s,...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Delighted to see my open access article on Modjeska Simkins and Black Female Leadership appear in a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice honouring Richard H. King - a fine historian and wonderful man. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📣The Call for Papers for our 2026 Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250, is now open
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📣The Call for Papers for our 2026 Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250, is now open
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026
📖 It's publication day for our colleague Gareth Roddy's (@grod.bsky.social) new book, 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940.' You can buy your copy from @uolpress.bsky.social via the link below! Congratulations, Gareth!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press
The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...
uolpress.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📖 It's publication day for our colleague Gareth Roddy's (@grod.bsky.social) new book, 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940.' You can buy your copy from @uolpress.bsky.social via the link below! Congratulations, Gareth!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
Congratulations to new Dr Nick Pepper (@thenickpepper.bsky.social) who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Preserving Thirlwall Castle: Policy, Practice, and the History of Northumberland National Park, 1956-2002" on Friday!
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Congratulations to new Dr Nick Pepper (@thenickpepper.bsky.social) who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Preserving Thirlwall Castle: Policy, Practice, and the History of Northumberland National Park, 1956-2002" on Friday!
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Congratulations to our colleague @elsadevienne.bsky.social on winning this year's W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association! 🍾🏆⛱️
I think I can now start calling myself a historian of the American West without feeling like an impostor 😅🥳
October 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Congratulations to our colleague @elsadevienne.bsky.social on winning this year's W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association! 🍾🏆⛱️
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We too are very excited for the publication of the latest #OpenAccess book in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, Atlantic Isles by @grod.bsky.social!
Published with the @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org with funding from @jisc.bsky.social.
Read more:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
Published with the @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org with funding from @jisc.bsky.social.
Read more:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We too are very excited for the publication of the latest #OpenAccess book in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, Atlantic Isles by @grod.bsky.social!
Published with the @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org with funding from @jisc.bsky.social.
Read more:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
Published with the @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org with funding from @jisc.bsky.social.
Read more:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press
The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...
uolpress.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
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#History #SkyStorians New article klaxon! Elizabeth Goodwin's ' "That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm": The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture, & Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#History #SkyStorians New article klaxon! Elizabeth Goodwin's ' "That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm": The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture, & Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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#History #SkyStorians #History&IR Still time to register for this great event at @northumbriahistory.bsky.social on global issues and local action, past & present
Interested in relationship between global issues & local action? Come to *Change-making between the local & the global: a conversation* @northumbriauni.bsky.social Weds 8 Oct.
Full programme and registration details here
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Full programme and registration details here
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Change-making between the Local and the Global: A Conversation
This event will bring together researchers and practitioners to understand the relationship between local action and global issues.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
#History #SkyStorians #History&IR Still time to register for this great event at @northumbriahistory.bsky.social on global issues and local action, past & present
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📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!
💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history
🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!
💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history
🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!
Small Grants
The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities by members of the Society. We give priority to activities and research that would otherwise remai…
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September 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!
💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history
🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!
💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history
🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!
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AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.
Run, don’t walk.
Run, don’t walk.
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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September 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.
Run, don’t walk.
Run, don’t walk.
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A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
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September 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).