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IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social · 1d

This evening at 17:30 BST! We are looking forward to hearing @amywilsonstorey.bsky.social's paper and escaping current concerns to think about pastoral dress' correlation with femininity at the end of the C18.

Have you registered to attend yet?

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Life-Cycles

This thematic seminar series addresses issues relating to the life-cycle

www.history.ac.uk

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 1d

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New PhD Student Session

For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.

www.history.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

We've updated our new books displays on the 1st and 2nd floors. There's a wide range of subjects spanning from the medieval to the 21st century.

If this interests you and you're not a member, membership to the library is open and free to everyone - www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Image showing some new acquisitions to the Institute of Historical Research Library - October 2025

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

If you would like to become a Fellow or Member of the Society, we have several membership categories for historians of different backgrounds and career stages: bit.ly/4gXhsBw

Applications are welcome at any time, with the next closing dates on Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025 2/2

Image of urban map with text: 'Join the Royal Historical Society. 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 · 6d

We are very pleased to announce the election of 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV

We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org from today #Skystorians 1/2

Society elects 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS

At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 62 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 248 people newly associated with the Society, f...

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 2d

On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar

Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"

In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning

This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England

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Making Gay History @makinggayhistory.bsky.social · 5d

Kick off #LGBTQHistoryMonth by going back to the very beginning, where #MakingGayHistory began nearly eight years ago. And stay tuned all month long for clips from our archive of interviews with LGBTQ trailblazers!

🔉 makinggayhistory.org/season-one/

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George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight celebrate Black History Month 2025 at 6pm in North London! Talks, music and poetry.

Hear about the Black Parents Movement from our Chair Roxy Harris. Grassroots Black activism that started local and went national, through resilience, resistance and alliance.

Free. Booking details below 💃

George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Free event tomorrow, 7 October at 6pm.

Hear the Chair of the George Padmore Institute reflect on the achievements of the Black Parents Movement. An activist organisation which ran in the 70s and 80s.

Book here bit.ly/4nK9bmu

Graphic showing imaged of four panellists: Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp, Nels Abbey, Paulette Henry and Roxy Harris. The text reads: Black History Haringey 365 launch event. Join us for speeches, a panel discussion, live music and poetry. Tuesday 7 October, 6–9pm, Wolves Lane Centre N22 5JD. Book your free ticket via Ticket Tailor or scan the QR code.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

Join us on 8 Oct for Collecting Ireland’s History, a lecture for the Dublin Festival of History in collaboration with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

Explore 700 years of Irish manuscript collecting.

Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 4d

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw

#Skystorians

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 4d

This is a very clear account of how government policy has already reduced access to degrees in History & other SHAPE subjects for members of marginalised communities and how new moves risk making matters worse still.

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 4d

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw

#Skystorians

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 4d

#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 protestors arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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A woman is being frogmarched along cobbles by two policemen, with another apparently gesturing to her to calm down.

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 5d

What does it say about a society that valued poets so highly? Find out in The Medieval Irish History Podcast — back for a 3rd series! We are kicking off again with the inimitable @thecelticist.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1DTU... 1/2

Poets and Poetry with Dr Elizabeth Boyle

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 4d

Black History Month is an opportunity to remind people that history is broad and diverse. It is not about singling out groups its just about making sure more of the voices of the past are included, creating a fuller picture of history. www.history.org.uk/ha-news/cate...

Black History Month 2025

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a reminder of what we do and how we do it.

Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · Oct 12

Hello!

Every day women have, and are, making history. We tell their stories a day at a time. Follow us for posts about the history women made and are making.

Here's a few notes on what we do.

a woman in a dark room with the word women written on the bottom

Alt: Saoirse Ronan as Jo in Little Women. She's exclaiming "women!!!"

media.tenor.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Above image : US, c.1888, Kittie Knox was among a small group of Black women cyclists in Boston. She was the 1st African American to be accepted into the League of American Wheelmen & broke standard female dress codes by wearing knickerbockers she designed herself. #WomensArt

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Dorrit Black,
The Acrobats, c.1928-29
Australian printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three stylised figures depicted wearing different coloured leotards in a circus ring lifting and swinging each other

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 20d

The British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation are inviting applications from early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to attend a research collaboration symposium on the broad theme of Truth, Justice and Peace in Germany. https://bit.ly/4nyWsmv

Graphic that reads ‘The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium, with the date 10-12 June’

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5d

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 5d

Born #Onthisday 1885 nurse Aoife de Búrca who treated the injured (including James Connolly) during the #EasterRising at the Hibernian Hotel & the GPO & carried messages through the chaos. She returned to nursing for #Dublin Corporation, dedicating her life to care.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 6d

New Absolute Units is live!

Join us and @katrinanavickas.bsky.social as we explore resistance to enclosure in the modern era: from riots, to raves, to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

Listen below, or search 'Absolute Units' wherever you get your podcasts!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Absolute Units - a podcast from The Museum of English Rural Life.

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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · 6d

Podcasts from this year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference @ucddublin.bsky.social are now available. Thanks to Mike Liffey @historyhub.bsky.social for making us all sounds so crisp historyhub.ie/tudor-and-st...

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts

Since 2011, more than 200 speakers from a range of disciplines including History, English, Archaeology and Art History, have presented papers at Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences. Download podcasts...

historyhub.ie

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 6d

As we begin a new academic year important reflections here by @lucynoakes1.bsky.social on consequences of on-going cuts to humanities and social science programmes in UK HE, a trend which impacts most negatively on the most disadvantaged students. #historymatters & humanities & social sciences.

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

This week the Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, announced the return of maintenance grants for students in greatest need.

In a new blog post, RHS President Lucy Noakes considers the state of access to history and the humanities in UK HE bit.ly/3KP5WMe #Skystorians

@artsandhums.bsky.social

Opening section and abstract of RHS blog post: 'The value and provision of history and the humanities: it’s time for a political response': "This week the government’s Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, announced the return of maintenance grants for students in greatest need. While we welcome recognition of the financial pressures and impediments many student face, it’s clear that this is a policy with nothing for the arts and humanities, including history. However, as Lucy Noakes, President of the Royal Historical Society, explains here, these pressures are equally acute for students in the arts and humanities. Moreover, as a new British Academy report on ‘Cold Spots’ shows, choice—in subjects including history—is being further eroded for many as the provision of higher education contorts to the financial crisis facing UK higher education. If the government is serious about choice, social mobility and access to education it needs to appreciate that provision of many degree subjects is now at considerable risk in a growing number of regions across the UK. For students to have greater choice and access we need the environments in which choices are made to be fair, balanced and accurate. For this we require political leadership to help us address structural failings and false narratives."

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 6d

'Born in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty region in 1873, Papakura grew up during a time of significant change for Māori, including the rapid loss of land, language and Indigenous knowledge as the grip of colonisation tightened.'

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

www.theguardian.com

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things
‘Blankets’
Artist: Gerald Witcomb
(Sounds and Pictures, 1976)

A photo realistic illustration of three traditional wool blankets neatly folded one on top of the other

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