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Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
“After all, if the AI boom has taught us anything it is this: Data is the new oil, and the most pressing questions are, who owns it, who has access to it, and what should it be used for?”
Check out the next piece by @ktl10.bsky.social in our blog series on AI.
www.nacbs.org/post/data-is...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Crossing Intellectual Boundaries in English Legal History (Oxford: Christ Church, 10-11 SEP 2026) [DEADLINE 26 MAR 2026]
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“After all, if the AI boom has taught us anything it is this: Data is the new oil, and the most pressing questions are, who owns it, who has access to it, and what should it be used for?”
Check out the next piece by @ktl10.bsky.social in our blog series on AI.
www.nacbs.org/post/data-is...
📢New article in JBS!
📗"Rethinking the Legitimacy of British Botanizing in Late Qing China (1840–1912)" by Di Lu
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Norman L. Jones, an accomplished historian of Tudor history, has passed away. In this remembrance, Robert Tittler and @susancogan.bsky.social reflect on his scholarship, life, and legacy.
www.nacbs.org/post/norman-...
Happening at noon today! You can RSVP to receive the zoom link.
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Join us Thursday to hear more about how the global histories of oil and empire are inextricably interlinked.
📕Fueling Empire with Karl Ittmann
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Free and open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
We invite 20-minute papers for our 2026 Summer Conference 'The Church and Race' #CfP #history
Keynote speakers:
▪️Prof Miri Rubin, EHS President @qmul.bsky.social
▪️Prof Herman Bennett, @cuny.edu
▪️The Right Reverend Rowan Williams
Deadline: 15 April
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/
“The current anxiety around AI in English studies, however, cannot be understood in isolation from the longer institutional and colonial histories of the discipline, which parallel the institutional and colonial histories of AI itself.”
Read the next piece in our AI series by Anushmita Mohanty.
A week full of One British Archive! Check out these two new additions to the series!
📗“Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives by Tara Inniss
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Also new in the One British Archive Series!
📗Stocked Stacks in the Great Plains: British and Irish Collections at the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library by Elspeth Healey
OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢Another new piece out in the One British Archive Series!
📗"A Monumental Task: The Archival Potential of Graveyards" by James Johnson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Important reading. Looking forward to the rest of the series
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📗“Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21” by John C. Mitcham
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Next up in the series!
📗"One British Archive: The Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age Database" by Madeline Bassnett
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New JBS article alert! 🚨 #slaveryarchive
““Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain” by Hannah Young.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more!
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
📢Upcoming Book Event!
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
I wrote a thing
05.02.2026 21:21 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).
CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
“Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable.”
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
📢Upcoming Book Event!
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Great job opportunity, 18 month research fellowship in British Studies, linked to @thenacbs.bsky.social 2027
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Job opportunity: 18 month fellowship in British Studies working @ihr.bsky.social to undertake own research and prep for NACBS2027 @thenacbs.bsky.social
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
📢New in JBS!
📗"Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s" by Kate Tilson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢New in JBS!
📗"'Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System'? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain" by Hannah Young
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Yessssssss @thenacbs.bsky.social 's BROADSIDES blog & contributors doing a fabulous job getting politically-relevant info out there, as always
28.01.2026 18:46 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
March 5th at 12pm EST!
Join @thenacbs.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of Matthew Mason’s recent book "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World."
Eliga Gould will join Dr. Mason in discussion.
RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Did an MA student write a fantastic paper on British Studies this year? Consider nominating them for the NACBS MA Essay Prize!
📅Nominations due February 15
More info: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...
