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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 6d

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

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Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · 17h

#OpenAcess so spread the word! The article 'Harriet Martineau and her Wars of Opinion' by Petros Spanou doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 7d

'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city’s ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.'

Thanks @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social for this review of 'Songs of Seven Dials', publishing next month: www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...

Songs of Seven Dials by Matt Houlbrook | The Crack Magazine

I’m always amazed by the stories that are forgotten when writing history, which is why I loved reading Matt Houlbrook’s latest ‘Songs of Seven Dials’. It’s a brilliant re-telling of the Seven Dials ne...

www.thecrackmagazine.com

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 8d

I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way

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www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

2025 Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced

The Wolfson History Prize has revealed its 2025 shortlist, with six books in contention for the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 12d

Yesssss will message you 🤓

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 13d

This year’s programme for our IHR seminar in Contemporary British History is coming together

This side of Xmas we’re excited to welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @garylove.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social

If you’d like to present next spring/summer, drop me a line!

Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · 13d

A new academic year is here, and so is our autumn term programme! A thread of our speakers follows.

Sign-up links available soon but note dates in diaries now! 📆

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 12d

Any chance you could be tempted to come to Birmingham Laura next year to talk about your incredible research? 👀

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 13d

I’ve just bought a copy of Floating Coast too! Looks wonderful. Maybe time for a BlueSky book club reading it?!

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Peter Farrelly @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 Academic Conference Alert! 🚨

Keynote title for our Opposition to Thatcher conference by the amazing Dr Amy Edwards: 'Begrudging bedfellows and oppositional allies: Thatcherism and the limits of Popular Capitalism'

It will be great. See all speakers & sign up 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WFugaYiSyh

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 13d

New release: https://bit.ly/4oJCR4i

Coal in Modern Britain is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in Britain. Charles-François Mathis explores the coal industry from the early 19th century through to the ‘coal-minded’ society of the 1940s.

Branner featuring the book cover of 'Coal in Modern Britain: A Social and Cultural History from 1830 to the Second World War' by Charles-François Mathis.

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 13d

Cannot wait to read this Rachel!

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Rachel Collett @racheljcollett.bsky.social · 15d

Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

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Kirsten the Librarian @librarykirsten.bsky.social · 21d

This is incredibly bleak, and incredibly sad. How is it possible to do responsible research assessment when research is produced and assessed in inherently exploitative and inequitable contexts? Is it possible?

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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Roz @rozsro.bsky.social · 20d

“it seems probable that the few historians who will still be able to have meaningful academic careers in, say, ten years’ time will all be able-bodied, childless British citizens from upper-class families.”

This is so real. The situation really is this bleak.

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16d

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine.

And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.

Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 19d

I think this has just happened in Lancaster.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 19d

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 19d

Oh Laura this looks so wonderful! Huge congratulations !

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 21d

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 19d

I can’t believe I haven’t read it yet. 😳 Better late than never though and perfect timing for the modernity and antimodernity chapter!

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 19d

It’s here! @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social so excited to get reading on my commute, thank you so much!

A picture of Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson’s Green Victorians.

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 27d

Can't resist the temptation to offer some historical context on this, also! (Rutherford, Teaching Gender, p. 84)

'In the late nineteenth century, of the thousands of students enrolled at universities in cities like Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool, and London, half lived at home; of the rest, although women were more likely to live in halls of residence, most men lived in private lodgings. Typical experiences of student life involved a lengthy public transit commute to campus and continuing ties to one’s home community and childhood friends, but also new kinds of independent access to urban leisure spaces.'

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 21d

28 September. More reason than ever to join this ride.

Big Ride for Palestine poster. Leaving 10:15 from Centenary Square, Birmingham, 28 September

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was an intellectual icon of the Victorian era ✍️
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 21d

😍😍

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