@thenacbs.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
📢New in JBS!
📗"Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England" by Grace Owen, A.T. Brown and Tudor Skinner
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢Upcoming Book Event!
📗Kirk Discipline with Ryan Burns
📅Oct 29
⏰12pm ET
Join NACBS to celebrate Ryan Burns’ recent publication Kirk Discipline and Roman Catholicism in Early Modern Scotland. @mikkibrock.bsky.social will join Ryan Burns in discussion.
RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
📢 Call for Contributions 📢
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
Applied History Fellowship launch Event- 19 November 2025: 2.30pm - 4.00pm. Register to join us online: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/applied-history-fellowships
🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Thank you to everyone who donated during matching week! We were able to meet our $2,500 matching goal thanks to your generosity!!!
28.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations @charmianmansell.bsky.social ! 👏👏👏
Check out this recording of our book event last May to hear more about this fantastic work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXfV...
We have now raised $1,950 towards our goal! Help us make it to $2,500 and double your impact by donating before tomorrow!!
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📢Upcoming Book Event!
📗Kirk Discipline with Ryan Burns
📅Oct 29
⏰12pm ET
Join NACBS to celebrate Ryan Burns’ recent publication Kirk Discipline and Roman Catholicism in Early Modern Scotland. @mikkibrock.bsky.social will join Ryan Burns in discussion.
RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships. Supporting doctoral students as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. $52,000 award including funds for project-related research, training, development, travel, and external mentorship. Deadline October 29, 2025, 9:00 PM EDT.
Calling PhD students in the humanities or interpretive social sciences! The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support projects that push the traditional approaches and forms of dissertation research in new directions. Apply by Oct. 29 9PM ET: www.acls.org/DIF
23.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Join us tomorrow to hear more about Congregationalism and early Puritan outreach to Indigenous people in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
22.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We've raised $900 so far this week! Help us reach our matching goal and double your impact by donating before October 25!!
22.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Applications due November 15! This fellowship is a great way to fund a research trip to use the Huntington collections!
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📢Upcoming Book Event!
📗Gathered Into a Church with Amy Watson
📅Oct 23
⏰12pm ET
Join NACBS to celebrate Lori Rogers-Stokes’ recent publication Gathered into a Church: Indigenous-English Congregationalism in Woodland New England.
Free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Our giving campaign will end with the conclusion of our conference in Montreal. That means there are only 3 weeks left to give. Help us finish strong by doubling your impact during this matching gift week!
You can read more about this year-long giving campaign here: www.nacbs.org/75th-capital...
📢75th Anniversary Giving Campaign Matching Week!
We are excited to announce a matching donation challenge. Until Oct 25, a generous donor will match every dollar donated, up to $2,500.
If you have been waiting to give, now is the perfect time to make your gift count!
www.nacbs.org/75th-capital...
New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about.
doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
📢Upcoming Book Event!
📗Gathered Into a Church with Amy Watson
📅Oct 23
⏰12pm ET
Join NACBS to celebrate Lori Rogers-Stokes’ recent publication Gathered into a Church: Indigenous-English Congregationalism in Woodland New England.
Free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Happening today! Join us at noon to hear more about the rise of party politics in the British Atlantic!
16.10.2025 14:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In the latest for Broadsides, read more about Charles Upchurch's unexpected research journey as he set out to write a short history of the Southern Conference on British Studies.
www.nacbs.org/post/researc...
📢Upcoming Book Event!
📗Patriots Before Revolution with Amy Watson
📅Oct 16
⏰12pm ET
Join NACBS to celebrate Amy Watson’s recent publication Patriots Before Revolution: The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1714-1763.
Free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
📢NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship
📌Applications due Nov 15
The NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship aids dissertation research in British Studies using the collection of the library.
More info here: www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...
We call for the immediate rejection of the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”...No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it. -ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig
06.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 70 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 6📢New in JBS!
📗"What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England" by Christian D. Liddy
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person
Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
Early bird rates end today! Register today to take advantage of the early bird discount! #nacbs2025
30.09.2025 16:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Early bird registration for our annual meeting ends September 30. Register before Tuesday to take advantage of the discount! #nacbs2025
Registration info: www.nacbs.org/conference
🎥ICYMI
A full recording of our "How I Wrote This," event with Matthew Worley is now available on our Youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntne...
Join us today at noon to hear more about Kiran Mehta's To Detain or Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840!
24.09.2025 14:19 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Happening tomorrow! Join me and Simon Devereaux. We’ll be chatting about my new book on London prisons and more generally about the history of imprisonment.
23.09.2025 18:35 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0My latest article has just been published in the Journal of British Studies! It's open access and you can read it here. Huge thanks to the archivists and librarians across Birmingham for their help with this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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