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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 6h

Did you notice our new look? Thank you to our fantastic Comms Officer (web-focussed), Dr Dave Steele, for working on our website over the summer.

Visit us at historylab.plus

@drdavesteele.bsky.social

History Lab Plus

A network for Early Career Historians, in partnership with the IHR

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 16d

Check out this new podcast for ECRs - I’m proud to have been one of the guests on episode 3, where we talk about the importance of networks and mentors, and where to find them!

Episode 3 - Two heads are better than one: Networking and mentors in academia. Screenshot of podcast page banner with photo of three women (including me) in green tops smiling and talking in a relaxed podcast studio.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so disappointed that I can't attend this!
For any other #skystorians or #academicsky researchers interested in better connecting with the TV industry, catch #AHTV2025 @conwayhall.bsky.social on 5 November 👉 www.thetvfestival.com/tv-foundation/career-development/ahtv/
Funding available!

AHTV - The TV Festival

Engaging Academia in TV Are you an academic interested in how you could work with or in the TV industry? Or are you looking for access to the latest academic research for your TV production? This is t...

www.thetvfestival.com

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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Read the blog post below to find out more about our joint conference with @historylabplus.bsky.social and History UK that took place earlier this year.

It was a very interesting and timely conference which showed the significant work behind addressing the challenges faced by academia.

History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 3d

HL+ committee members Dr Alex Rigg & Dr Michael Reeve have written a blogpost about the Teaching in a Time of Crisis Conference 2025 at University of Warwick. Have a read! historylab.plus/blog/

@historyuk.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @alexriggsby.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social

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About | Events | Meet us | Contact | Join BLOG: Teaching in a Time of Crisis conference, 29 May 2025 – reasons to be cheerful? Alex Riggs Regional Ambassador, Midlands and Michael Reeve Co-Ch…

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 1d

I've just been interviewed on Radio 5 Live about Britishness and the right to protest.
Interview started at 9.38 or 38 mins into the programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Radio 5 Live - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio 5 Live on BBC Sounds

www.bbc.co.uk

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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 3d

HL+ committee members Dr Alex Rigg & Dr Michael Reeve have written a blogpost about the Teaching in a Time of Crisis Conference 2025 at University of Warwick. Have a read! historylab.plus/blog/

@historyuk.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @alexriggsby.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social

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About | Events | Meet us | Contact | Join BLOG: Teaching in a Time of Crisis conference, 29 May 2025 – reasons to be cheerful? Alex Riggs Regional Ambassador, Midlands and Michael Reeve Co-Ch…

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Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social · 9d

Chuffed to have received my copy of this book edited by @siobhanhyland.bsky.social & colleagues at @uninorthampton.bsky.social. I have a chapter in it about the health discourses surrounding smoking & alcohol during the First World War. A great variety of other interdisciplinary work in there too.

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Jan 22

Now Costa Coffee needs to do State Papers Online

Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · Jan 15

This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 8d

Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)

IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 8d

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 12d

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open!

Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'.

Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 5d

Check out this podcast ‘Confessions of an ECR’: “candid, honest, and inspiring", by & for #ECRs, w/ support from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk 👉
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/confessions-of-an-early-career-researcher/
#AcademicSky #Skystorians

Red background, with light wooden Scrabble pieces spelling out "LISTEN TO A PODCAST"

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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 6d

It was such a fantastic tour. Thank you to @ulstermuseum.org and to you @sophiecooper.bsky.social for helping with your great connections. Your talk earlier in the was fantastic. So helpful and such important messages for the HL+ community <3

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Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social · 9d

Very glad to have (finally) bought the catalogue book for the @ulstermuseum.org Akihiko Okamura exhibition, The Memories of Others, especially after we got a tour of the exhibition last week @historylabplus.bsky.social. Gorgeously produced and the photos are wonderful!

A green hardback book with a photograph of milk bottles on the front

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INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 9d

Manchester historians!

@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!

www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

FastHistory — The Portico Library

Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!

www.theportico.org.uk

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 9d

Looking forward to giving my talk this Saturday at Warwick Words History Festival on 'Rev Arthur Wade: Radical Vicar of Warwick' Sat. 4 October 4pm, Unitarian Chapel, Warwick.

I will discuss Wades advocacy of workers’ rights.

A few tickets left: www.warwickwords.co.uk/index.php/al...

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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 13d

As we enjoy lunch w/ @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social before heading off on a curator tour of @ulstermuseum.org... a small reminder to all Belfast #skystorians to join the HL+ team & the excellent @mauricejcasey.com at the Pavilion on Ormeau Rd from 7pm TONIGHT for our History Open Mic! 👇 #HL+DocsCom

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Peter Farrelly @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks so much @historylabplus.bsky.social and @sophcocooper.bsky.social for the amazing presentation today. It was fantastic.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 13d

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane?

Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of …

Flight attendant: The pilots are debating whether the Roman Empire fell in 476.

Me: Okay. I’m here.

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Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social · 14d

Finally launched 'Remembering to Help, Helping to Remember' at the weekend - a new exhibition about #FWW civilian experience in Hartlepool following the Dec 1914 naval bombardment of the town (with a generous grant from @sslh.bsky.social). It covers the emergency response to the attack, including...

A view of the gallery space at the Heugh Battery Museum

Historian Michael Reeve stood in the gallery space at the Heugh Battery Museum

The tie-in booklet that accompanies the exhibition

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Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social · 13d

The McMordie Room is in the Music Building, just at the bottom of University Square, if you're not sure!

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 13d

History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 13d

Our next FREE #HL+DocsCom event is TODAY! Join Co-Chairs @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social & @northumbriauni.bsky.social's Kathy Davies in the McMordie Room @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social from 11:30 for tea & inspiration: the amazing @sophcocooper.bsky.social will be talking 'From ECR to Senior Lecturer'!

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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 13d

Our next FREE #HL+DocsCom event is TODAY! Join Co-Chairs @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social & @northumbriauni.bsky.social's Kathy Davies in the McMordie Room @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social from 11:30 for tea & inspiration: the amazing @sophcocooper.bsky.social will be talking 'From ECR to Senior Lecturer'!

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 23d

📣CFP: 'Byron and Identity', 2026 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, deadline 1 January 2026
👉 www.thebyronsociety.com/call-for-pap...

#AcademicSky #Romanticism #LordByron

@bars.bsky.social
@byronsociety.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social

Portrait of Lord Byron in a heavy gilded frame; it hangs from chains on a wall in Newstead Abbey, covered in cream and red, strapwork wallpaper

A view of Newstead Abbey from the far side of Eagle Pond

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Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social · 14d

Looking forward to heading over to Belfast for this @historylabplus.bsky.social event! Great opportunity to meet other early-career historians, chat about research and do some fun stuff too (like a museum tour and our 'History Open Mic'). There's still time to sign up, if you can make it.

Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · Aug 5

Calling all #Skystorians in/near Belfast on 25 September! 👇This @historylabplus.bsky.social event w/ @qubhistory.bsky.social's AMAZING @mauricejcasey.com
& @sophcocooper.bsky.social is not to be missed!

#AcademicSky
#PhDSky
#ECRs
#Archives
(For any & all help w/ spreading the word...thank you!)

History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · Aug 5

Event announcement! 📣

HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025 🤝

Join HL+ and friends for a day of social opportunities and academic and public history sessions that will bring the ECR community together in Belfast.

Thursday 25th September - 11:15am to 9pm.

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

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