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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 14d

Please spread this far and wide! I’m on the convening team of this exciting new IHR seminar series and we are looking forward to hearing about all the cutting-edge research being done by ECRs across the country!

HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 14d

📢 New Seminar Series!

We are thrilled to be working alongside @ihr.bsky.social on a brand new seminar series titled Migration and Mobility. We are coming together for a special edition of the seminar to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs on migration and mobility history (1/3)

Migration and Mobility History

Call for Papers: IHR History Lab and Migration and Mobility Seminar

Taking place at the IHR Senate House and online, 10th February 2026, 5.30pm-7.30pm. The IHR History Lab and Migration and Mobility are coming together for a special edition of our seminar series to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs working on migration and mobility history.

We invite submissions of 20 minute papers from PGRs and ECRs on the topic of migration and mobility (broadly defined), focusing on any period or place.

This is an opportunity to share your research with, and recieve feedback from, established and emerging scholars working on migration and mobility studies. To apply, send abstracts of under 250 words, with a short bio, to Kathleen Commons at kabcommons@gmail.com by 5pm on 15th November.

Migration and Mobility History

About the Seminars

History Lab is the national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. Based at the Institute of Historical Research, it serves as an intellectual and social forum that connects, empowers, and supports the postgraduate community.

The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history. The seminar seeks to attract papers on a diverse range of themes and periods in migration and mobility history, including the emerging field of pre-modern migration histories, and histories of migration within the Global South. We will take an interdisciplinary approach, working with sociologists, legal scholars, and geographers with an interest in historical migration and mobility.

if you have any queries about this seminar, contact Kathleen at kabcommons@gmail.com

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19d

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Aug 18

I can't overstate how crucial these casual vacancy elections are. HEC is pretty much deadlocked atm, so please vote for @matthewbarnard.phd for UK wide rep and, if in the North East region (comprised of Northern and Yorkshire and Humberside) then vote for Adam Hansen too. #ucu

UCU Commons @ucucommons.bsky.social · Aug 18

New on our Substack: two crucial casual vacancy elections for NEC/HEC open TODAY. Ballots will arrive by post. If you are in any HE institution, please vote for @matthewbarnard.phd; if in the North East region please also vote for Adam Hansen. #ucu

ucucommons.substack.com/p/vote-in-uc...

Vote in UCU NEC's Casual Vacancy Elections!

Dear subscribers,

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Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social · Aug 14

Registration is open for the fantastic Women's History Scotland conference in September. I'll be delivering a paper on my new research, “‘May WE Have
Huts, Too?’: Understanding
Emotion, Space, and Leisure
of Women at War Through
the Common Cause Huts”. Sign up below!

Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢 Women’s History Scotland Conference Registration open!

Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social

🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex

Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

Buy tickets – Women’s History Scotland Conference: New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland – Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow

Women’s History Scotland are delighted to announce their one-day conference is taking place on Saturday 13 September 2025 at th...

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Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy Yorkshire Day! #yorkshireday

All images from my own adventures!

Sea tractor and cliffs at North Landing, East Yorkshire.

Wolds Way wooden signal post with carved acorn, marked 'Yorkshire Wolds Way' and 'Filey 33 miles' inside a snow covered Brubber Dale.

View of Castle Howard from the Atlas Fountain.

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Neil Redfern @neilredfern.bsky.social · Jul 29

Great to see this news and I cant wait to see it go on permanent display. We are long overdue a blockbuster exhibition on the Iron Age in Yorkshire @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Iron Age hoard moves permanently to Yorkshire Museum

The Melsonby Hoard contains 800 artefacts, believed to be one of the UK's largest Iron Age finds.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social · Jul 27

Congratulations to the phenomenal Lionesses! What a hard-fought win and an absolutely sensational tournament.

And now my 20 month old can say goal and football!

Simon @hantsravens.bsky.social · Jul 27

#England are the champions of Euro2025 👏 👏 👏

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Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social · Jul 27

Bums.

Doom-filled departure board at Kings Cross station, London.

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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · Jul 25

If you enjoyed our conference why not help shape our next one!? We are currently recruiting for our new committee and are looking for...

✨ Secretary
✨ Treasurer
✨ Seminar & Conference Convenors
✨ Social Media Officers
✨ Awards officer

See our pinned post for more information about the vacancies!

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Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social · Jul 25

This was such a fantastic conference! Thank you to all the speakers, organisers, delegates, and to @ihr.bsky.social and @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social for being such brilliant hosts.

HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you to everyone who attended and presented at our conference yesterday in London @ihr.bsky.social in person and online! Each paper was truly fascinating, and we hope you all enjoyed it!

Thank you @maxinebeuret.bsky.social for these pictures!

History Lab committee, past and present!

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · Jul 25

Universal basic income works; giving homeless people a place to live works; treating the sick works; paying decent wages works; welcoming refugees works; decriminalisation of drugs and sex-work works.

All these things work in the real world. Just not in conservative imaginations.

Jon Munitz @jonmunitz.bsky.social · Jul 24

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

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Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social · Jul 24

Unashamed fangirl.

Me outside Millicent Garrett Fawcett's house; a tall, cream coloured, London townhouse.

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Women's Institute @womensinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 17

*New talk klaxon*

Where: The WI Learning Hub
What:
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social's talk on The WI at 110 Years – The Story of a Movement for Women
Paid Member: £0.00
Tuesday, 16 Sept 2025 at 7:30PM (1 hour).
Link for more: learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour...

Talks : Caitríona's Talk on The WI at 110 Years - The Story of a Movement for Women - WI Learning Hub

learninghub.thewi.org.uk

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · Jul 21

JSTOR’s shared collections make room for surprise. Scholars and the archive-curious can explore them through stories from @jstordaily.bsky.social!

🕳️ 🐇 Fall down a collection rabbit hole: bit.ly/4nWOkgy

Image: Harlem World flyer, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social.

Flyer for a hip hop event titled A Super-Natural Electric Gigolo Boogie Jam, held on Friday, December 18, 1981, at Harlem World Entertainment Complex in New York City. The flyer is mint green with black text and features stylized typography, hand-drawn embellishments, and cut-out photographic images of performers. It advertises performances by DJ Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Jazzy Jay, DJ Red Alert, Cosmic Force, and special guests Funky 4. Additional highlighted artists include Keith Keith, Sha-Rock, and Jazzy Jeff, with a note about “The Two Queen of Rap,” Sha-Rock and Lisa Lee, issuing a call to “any female MC.” Designed by Eddie Ed, the flyer captures the early visual language of Bronx-based hip hop culture. Decorative corner elements and playful language reinforce the grassroots, DIY energy of the era.

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · Jul 21

For any PhD Students or ECRs in search of support in preparing their first journal article for publication, do check out this exciting workshop, run by @hisjournalha.bsky.social!

www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs

www.history.org.uk

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · Jun 29

Listen! @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social spoke to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fascinating “Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain” newbooksnetwork.com/growing-up-a...

Sarah Kenny, "Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social · Jul 18

I'm delighted to announce I have been elected as a Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society. I'm very much looking forward to being an active member of such a brilliant community of scholars.

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jul 18

We are very pleased to welcome today 233 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members who join the Society after their election at the latest meeting of the Society's Council bit.ly/3GQAQSW

They join the Society's 6500 members who practice and promote history in 72 countries 1/2

HEADER IMAGE: Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg, German, Nuremberg, late 16th–mid-17th century, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York, public domain. and top of article announcing new elections to the Royal Historical Society on 18 July 2025.

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Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social · Jul 17

Songwriters in Conversation returns on AUGUST 17th at Baba Yaga's Loft, North Shields, with sets from The Young Property Developers and Nicky Bray discussing 'Comedy and Music.' I'm delighted to share we've received £3000 in funding from North Tyneside Council to put on 4 more events in the series.

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Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social · Jul 17

Each session features two artists playing for thirty minutes each, followed by an onstage Q&A about their songwriting practice. The events will be filmed for YouTube, Tiny Desk Sessions-style, by Kyle Heslop, whose great images from our first event starring Nev Clay NOVYI LEF feature in this post.

Euan Lynn of NOVYI LEF singing and having a drink

Richard O'Brien/Groundbird singing and playing guitar

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Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social · Jul 17

You can buy tickets for a mere £5 on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/songwriter.... See you at the 'Comedy and Music' event, with bells on!

Songwriters in Conversation #3 (The Young Property Developers, Nicky Bray)

Performances by the Young Property Developers and Nicky Bray, followed by a Q&A with the songwriters discussing community and collaboration

www.eventbrite.com

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Jul 14

'Afterlives of war' by Michael Roper has won the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Book Prize 2025! 🎉

This pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War - available Open Access on manchesterhive.com!

Read it for free now 🔓 #OA #OpenAccess

The cover for 'Afterlives of war: A descendants' history' shows on a blue background with 'Winner of the SHS Book Prize 2025!' underneath in white text.

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · Jul 9

If you're in the Todmorden area on July 19, I'm doing a talk at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on Northern Spiritualism: Talking to the Dead in Manchester and Newcastle! It would be lovely to see you there. More details 👉🏻 www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

People in evening wear sit in a circle around a man in a suit.

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Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social · Jul 10

"A surprising development from the most benevolent subsidiary of the Sheinhardt Wig Company."

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · Jul 9

New digitised resource!

Yorkshire Miners, 1811-1945: 98 documents online in full at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Includes leaflets, pamphlets, photographs and our earliest surviving branch membership records.

More to be added in the next 12 months!

Photograph of a group of Yorkshire miner trade unionists sitting and standing in front of Strafford colliery buildings in 1899.

Page from a registration (membership) book, listing members of Silkstone Fall Lodge of the South Yorkshire Miners' Association, together with names and dates of birth of their wives and children.

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Becca @beccameriel.bsky.social · Jul 9

I’m in awe of my colleague, Izzy, who created this podcast series doing all the planning, researching, writing and interviewing herself. She’s going to do (even more) great things! . open.spotify.com/show/2k1Xn50...

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