The SpoOoky History Conference
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The annual SpooOooky history conference, dedicated to all things devilish, witchy, paranormal and preternatural. Organised by Elizabeth Wilkinson, and Holly Bamford
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🗃️Spooky season is coming and we’re excited to open our call for papers for this year’s Spooky History Conference! 👻

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween! 🎃

#skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads:
The Spooky History Conference
2025
Call for Papers
We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky!
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Ghosts
The Supernatural
Witches 
Death
Gothic Literature
The History of Halloween
We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025
The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.
spookyhist.bsky.social
There's still time to get an abstract in!

If you are unsure if your paper fits, or have an idea send us an email and we'll talk it through with you!
spookyhist.bsky.social
🗃️Spooky season is coming and we’re excited to open our call for papers for this year’s Spooky History Conference! 👻

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween! 🎃

#skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads:
The Spooky History Conference
2025
Call for Papers
We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky!
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Ghosts
The Supernatural
Witches 
Death
Gothic Literature
The History of Halloween
We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025
The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.
spookyhist.bsky.social
Our Call for Papers is open!
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃

🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads:
The Spooky History Conference
2025
Call for Papers
We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky!
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Ghosts
The Supernatural
Witches 
Death
Gothic Literature
The History of Halloween
We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025
The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.
spookyhist.bsky.social
There's still time to get your abstracts in!
spookyhist.bsky.social
🗃️Spooky season is coming and we’re excited to open our call for papers for this year’s Spooky History Conference! 👻

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween! 🎃

#skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads:
The Spooky History Conference
2025
Call for Papers
We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky!
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Ghosts
The Supernatural
Witches 
Death
Gothic Literature
The History of Halloween
We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025
The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.
spookyhist.bsky.social
🗃️Spooky season is coming and we’re excited to open our call for papers for this year’s Spooky History Conference! 👻

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween! 🎃

#skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads:
The Spooky History Conference
2025
Call for Papers
We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky!
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Ghosts
The Supernatural
Witches 
Death
Gothic Literature
The History of Halloween
We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025
The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.
spookyhist.bsky.social
Spooky season is coming and we’re excited to open our call for papers for this year’s Spooky History Conference!

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween! 🎃👻
Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads:
The Spooky History Conference
2025
Call for Papers
We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky!
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Ghosts
The Supernatural
Witches 
Death
Gothic Literature
The History of Halloween
We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025
The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.