🚀We’re #hiring a postdoc (3-years) for our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)”🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation!

👉 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📅4 Sep 2025

Job researching plants and enslavement
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples?

Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories.

www.historyworkshop....

Submitting this for publication shortly, and we're now at 2920 signatures. It would be amazing to get it over three thousand before I turn it in...

Excited to share the cover for my debut non-fiction book WE WERE THERE, which is out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head + is a cultural history of Black Britain in the Thatcher era.

Please pre-order it via the link if you feel inclined!

www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...

'Understanding the specific history of South Asian Black politics highlights both tensions and possibilities for antiracist solidarity today.'

Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) on lessons learned from the history of the feminist collective Southall Black Sisters 🗃️

History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement".

Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨

In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community.

Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective that arose in its aftermath.

We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for our upcoming workshop for graduate students and early career researchers. Transforming Nations and Identities in a Global World after 1945 will take place Oct 2-3, 2025 at the University of Glasgow. www.queensu.ca/ghi/events/u...

If anyone is about 18th March I'll be giving a public seminar for the Manchester Uni history department. The talk will be exploring photographs of industrial struggle, race and resistance and discussing 'Bolton's Grunwick', a mill strike in 1978. All welcome! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

Two UK (home status) bursaries available for V&A's fab MA in the History of Design for 2025-26. Bursaries cover the full £17,000 fee. Under-represented groups supported by the scheme include for example African, Caribbean, Asian backgrounds, refugee status, care-leavers, disability, & low-income.

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

📌Exploring carceral intersections of race, class & disability - Margarita Aragon
📆12pm 20 March 2025 (hybrid)

@uomsoss.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @racerootsresist.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

📣We are delighted to announce the 2025 recipients of the Joint BME Small Grants!

This scheme is supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social, EHS; History UK; @historywo.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social; @sslh.bsky.social and @womenshistnet.bsky.social!✨

socialhistory.org.uk/2025/02/10/b...

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday!

www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...

'We look forward to welcoming two fellows in the academic year 2025- 2026: both in the first semester (Sept 2025 - Jan 2026)'. Two 5-month fellowships available. Deadline 17 March 2025, 12:00 noon CET.

We are deeply concerned to hear about proposed cuts and programme closures at the University of Northampton and the University of Sheffield.

In solidarity with our colleagues, please join us and sign and share the two petitions below requesting URGENT action. 🚨 1/3

📢VACANCY: Research Associate - ELSA longitudinal study. Post focuses on the social science elements of the study espec ethnic inequalities in later life. Full time, 10.5 months. Closing date 31/01/25
@uomsociology.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Another reminder that the deadline for panel and paper proposals for our conference, British History Today, 1-2 May 2025 is 24 Jan. Send to [email protected]

**Black UK PhD students**

Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend

-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

**Tell everyone**

www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Are you a young Black British woman who is keen to develop skills in recording and creating the stories and histories of your community? Apply for this ground-breaking programme of training and support. speaking-volumes.org.uk/apply-women-...