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History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab @ihr.bsky.social
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🚨⏰DEADLINE IS TOMORROW!⏰🚨 Have you sent in your abstract yet? We can't wait to read them all! #cfp #skystorians #history

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Join us on Thursday 27th for a seminar with Ting Ruan who will be discussing the construction of lighthouses along China's coast in the 19th and early 20th centuries! For more information and to book your place, please use the link below: www.history.ac.uk/events/work-...

#History #SkyStorians New CFP! Workshop on Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1600-present. Now taking place in *London in September 2025*. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/oat...

We are delighted to offer 12 PGR and ECR bursaries for people presenting at our 2025 conference! ⏰Deadline to apply: 31 March 2025 🌟Bursary: Free registration and £220 towards costs of accommodation & travel For more information and to apply: socialhistory.org.uk/events/bursa... 🗃️

Call for papers! "Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700," to be held in Canberra, Australia on 7 and 8 August 2025. Abstracts due 31 March 2025. #cfp #EarlyModern #nuntastic #16thC #17thC #skystorians #AcademicSky #BookHistory

CONFERENCE Wearing Antiquity: modern fashion and the past 2000 BCE-1000 AD 9th International Conference IMAGINES 19-21 March, Senate House HIGHLIGHT: Workshop by Harriet Vine of Tatty Devine @tattydevine.bsky.social Full programme and registration (free and open to all): bit.ly/436L7TR

🚨DEADLINE IS THIS FRIDAY! Make sure your abstracts are in to take part in what will be a fantastic conference! Will we see you there?🤩

Thanks to those who have followed us this week. Our channel will provide you with updates on the Society's work to support and advocate for history and historians, as well as the activity of other Uk / RoW organisations who do likewise. They include 120+ networks in our Starter Pack bit.ly/4gLVuj7

The call for applications for Being Human 2025 is now open!💥 We've got funding grants of up to £8,000 available for researchers to hold events as part of this year's national festival of the humanities. Find out more: www.beinghumanfestival.org/get-involved

🚨DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK! #cfp #skystorians The deadline for our annual conference is next Friday! Have you sent in your abstract yet? This year's conference is titled Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time. Keep on reading to find out about the themes we are looking for...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Journal for the History of Knowledge is now receiving proposals for the Special Issue 2027. The proposal deadline is 1 May 2025. All information is available on our website: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...

Hello to all our new followers! ✨ We are thrilled to have you on board! Make sure to check out our ongoing #cfp for our annual conference taking place in July on 'Shaping Histories'. We're excited to hear from you! #history #skystorians #postgrad

Take a look at this starter pack by @royalhistsoc.bsky.social for more history societies here on BlueSky!

If you're looking for news from fellow historians, try our Starter Pack of #History societies and networks go.bsky.app/68FsvjY. With 100+ organisations working for history, it offers information on events, funding and campaigning for our discipline and profession: UK, Europe & RoW #skystorians

CFP Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event May 14 2025. Please see the poster for further information, and please spread the word! @ihr.bsky.social

A reminder that this Thursday Ciara will be presenting her research on the Indian diaspora in Britain during the Second World War! Booking is essential so for more information and to book you place, please use the link below: www.history.ac.uk/events/india... #skystorians #seminar #history

A reminder that this Thursday Ciara will be presenting her research on the Indian diaspora in Britain during the Second World War! Booking is essential so for more information and to book you place, please use the link below: www.history.ac.uk/events/india... #skystorians #seminar #history

🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌 Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has been updated with 3,736 new records. About the BBIH: https://buff.ly/3L7a33B

We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to [email protected] by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

We are excited to announce our online seminar series for this term! 🤩 Our online seminars are for PG history students at any stage in their studies to present their research and take place every other Thursday from 5.30pm onwards. Pre-booking is essential to attend!

*Another* great @historylabplus.bsky.social event, you say? Yes. Join us online for 'Academic Book Publishing 101 with Palgrave Macmillan' on 28 January at 10am, followed by 121 chats w/commissioning editors for History, Emily Russell & Lucy Kidwell. For details👉 tinyurl.com/yvdyyfxv

📢DEADLINE IS MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! Get your abstracts in for this insightful conference on 'Teaching in a Time of Crisis'! We look forward to reading your abstracts and to hosting the event with @historylabplus.bsky.social and History UK

📢CFP Deadline! The deadline for our conference with #HistoryLab+ and History UK, 'Teaching in a Time of Crisis', is next week! Abstracts of 200 words are due on Friday 17th January. For more information on the conference, please see the link below... ihrhistorylab.wordpress.com/teaching-in-...

CfP Deadline TOMORROW! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social and the social history society Teaching in a Time of Crisis: exploring how history education can navigate and respond to contemporary crises. Click the link for details and to submit a paper: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/te...

*Deadline looming!* Teaching in a Time of Crisis CFP: exploring how history education can navigate & respond to contemporary crises. Come & join @historylabplus.bsky.social, @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, & HistoryUK at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social in May! Bursaries available!

📢A reminder about our annual conference #CFP! There is over a month left until the deadline for our annual conference "Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception Through Time"! PGR students are particularly welcome to submit an abstract on the various themes...

📢CFP Deadline! The deadline for our conference with #HistoryLab+ and History UK, 'Teaching in a Time of Crisis', is next week! Abstracts of 200 words are due on Friday 17th January. For more information on the conference, please see the link below... ihrhistorylab.wordpress.com/teaching-in-...

#HistoryLab+ is now recruiting! Are you an #ECR in the humanities who wants to join a committee dedicated supporting other academics and want to help plan events? Read below to find out more about the roles! This is perfect if you are just wrapping up your PhD, or have recently completed!

#HistoryLab+, @ihr.bsky.social's network for #ECRs, is recruiting! Calling #Skystorians from any Humanities discipline keen to support their peers & develop their own skills & professional connections ...&, of course, to join a committee of AMAZING people! 👉🧵& tinyurl.com/53twjemw for details!

ICYMI 👎 There’s just over a week left to submit an abstract proposal for our upcoming 1 day conference “Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History” being held on Friday 14 March (deadline Friday January 13th) warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... @histparl.bsky.social

As we enter a New YEAR now is the time to think about the WHAI annual Conference. The deadline for the CFP is 30th of January.

Happy New Year everyone! ✨🤩 New year, new opportunities! Kickstart 2025 by sharing you research at our annual conference! We can't wait to hear all of the amazing papers...deadline is 28th February 2025 so there is still plenty of time to apply! Read below to find out more... #cfp #skystorians