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History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu

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Join us, at 6.30pm on Weds 2 July, for the Society's 2025 Prothero Lecture, with Professor Peter Gatrell. Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on an academic career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All welcome. #Skystorians

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Did you miss our recent event, in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust, about Bradford in the 19th century? Don't worry, Trustee Lisbet Sherlock has shared an overview of the talk in our blog! Read it here: ow.ly/trUm50VwgXb #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

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The Society also welcomes applications for Associate Fellowship from historians across a range of professions. Associate Fellows are academic historians beginning their careers, or those working in teaching, museums, publishing, teaching or community history bit.ly/3XXlXn7, 1/2 #Skystorians

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If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

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Two permanent lectureships going in UCC History Department, one in International Economic History post-WWI and one in Irish Seventeenth Century History. You'd get to work with wonderful colleagues there. Share widely.

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It's been so much fun doing 'Made of Stone' with Matt - would be sad about the last Parliament Sq statue airing today except we've carried on to record plenty more! Enjoyed writing this post too (and it gave me the chance to properly credit wonderful people's work like @kathrynrix.bsky.social)

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Of interest, we hope, to @royalhistsoc.org, @balhnews.bsky.social, @historyworkshop.org.uk, @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social and many, many more!

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Looking forward to reading this new book by Thomas Gidney #HistIR www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

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#History #SkyStorians Giving this another plug, CFP deadline 1 May.

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#History #SkyHistorians New article klaxon! Great new article by Miranda Johnson, 'Subjects of Difference: Māori Petitions and the late 19th c. Colonial State', out in OA in @jich.bsky.social. Part of special issue edited by Miranda and me on petitions in the British empire. doi.org/10.1080/0308...

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First annual conference at the British Academy today (Wednesday), exploring the state of play in research, culture and higher education across the 4 nations. Live posting throughout the day from the BA's Bluesky account.

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#History #SkyStorians Great new article by Darren Reid in @jich.bsky.social about the 1882 Māori Ngāpuhi petition to the British govt. First article in a forthcoming special issue on petitioning in the British Empire edited by myself and Miranda Johnson. doi.org/10.1080/0308...

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The Pickwick Papers feature the corrupt borough of Eatanswill, for which Dickens drew on his own experiences of 19thC elections. Find out more here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/f...

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I will be there, talking about @englishassociation.bsky.social. Humanities peeps, come to say hello if you are also attending.

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Never more appropriate, and important, than now

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In a new thematic collection published in the Journal of the British Academy, Fellows reflect on recent course closures and threats of further cuts across the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Doing cool research on elections, public opinion and/or parties? Don't forget to submit your abstract for EPOP 2025 before the end of April. Link to the form here: forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi Come share your work with an awesome group of scholars! Any questions, contact [email protected] 😊

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After last week’s Newcastle extravaganza we’re keen to think about how to write about internationalism(s) (& how not to), about the forgotten voices & sources & archives & readers. If you have been thinking about these questions do send us a short abstract by 5 May @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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For more details on how to access Hansard, we also have this short research guide: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2022/02/09/a...

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📢 Job Opportunity: Zoom Tech Support Specialist for WHN 2025 Online Conference (Paid Role). Information attached and detailed in thread.

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Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups. #Skystorians 1/2 👇

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'UK research council leaders are bracing for cuts to quality-related (QR) research funding of up to £100 million a year ahead of next week’s Spring Statement – a move likely to lead to a fresh round of redundancies at UK universities.' 1/3

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Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others. Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

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Happy #StPatricksDay #OnThisDay 1835 there was ‘a very large attendance’ of MPs in the Commons, including the leading Irish MP Daniel O’Connell ‘wearing a large bunch of shamrock’. For more on some of the Irish MPs we've researched for our project, see victoriancommons.wordpress.com/category/ire...

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#Skystorians #AcademicSky #History We’re delighted to be supporting the AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms: Perspectives from the Past’, which is taking place at @northumbriauni.bsky.social this week. Programme here research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo/?p=1341

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T-80 days, but roaring and ready to land! A huge thanks to some truly roarsome peeps for reading and sharing their kind words: @davidolusoga.bsky.social @hjm.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @alanlester.bsky.social Please do share. Info & preorder links @ www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254...

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My piece for History Workshop looks back at what feels, I'm sure to me and so many other academics in the UK, like a decade-long crisis in universities. A crisis of politics, of a particularly venomous form of "education as market" ideology, and now a crisis of desperate, annihilating job cuts. 1/2

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Things are dire. But the Royal Historical Society is still funding postgraduate research. Next deadline is 6 June 2025. Grants of £500 or £1,000 available. Details: royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...

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What does the new German government, the rise of the AfD & the resurgence of Die Linke mean for relations with the UK & Europe's ability to defend itself? Join Annette Dittert, Dan Hough, Canan Atilgan & Sofia Collignon at the MEI on 20 March to find out. All welcome! www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/events/m...

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At Women Also Know History, we know that women make history every day of the year. This Women's History Month, we want to take the opportunity to celebrate the women whose scholarship enriches the historical profession and expands our knowledge of the past. womenalsoknowhistory.com

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A reminder that the application deadline for a fully-funded PhD studentship on Irish MPs in the 19th century - working with the University of Sheffield and the History of Parliament - is 12 noon on 5 March. Full details in the links here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/n...

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