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Curie, a whiteish mixed dog with one brown ear, trapped inside a child sized playhouse with her two human cousins

Curie wants you all to know that @thenacbs.bsky.social is hosting my virtual book launch event, free & open to all. Hope to see you there! www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Montreal: Imperial City "This year’s annual meeting in November will be held around the north side of the Golden Square Mile. "

Want to learn more about the British aspects of Montreal's history before #nacbs2025 meets there this November? Check out this Broadsides piece by Jean-Philip Mathieu that explores some of the local connections to British history.

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New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

How did people experience #Development at the end of #Colonialism? DREAMS FOR LESOTHO approaches development as an African-driven process in #Lesotho. #Africa #ForeignAid #Basotho

Order your copy today! https://bit.ly/2w17YTE

Scholarly Programs | National Humanities Center The National Humanities Center provides scholars with an environment and resources conducive to generating new knowledge and furthering understanding of the human experience.

@asanewsonline.bsky.social The National Humanities Center welcomes applications from scholars engaged in advanced humanities research for the 2026–27 academic year. The deadline to apply is October 2, 2025. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity.

Excited to see draft programme for @thenacbs.bsky.social #nacbs2025 conference is available 📢. So many fascinating papers & grateful to #LSBU for funding my panel participation alongside stellar line-up 🤩 incl: @ruthdav.bsky.social @teadevotee.bsky.social @fieryparticle.bsky.social. #womensactivism.

Female Servants in Early Modern England by Charmian Mansell book cover with additional text reading "Thirsk Prize Winner: Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History 2025"

Charmian Mansell's Female Servants in Early Modern England has been awarded the Thirsk Prize for Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History by the British Agricultural History Society.
📖 bit.ly/9780197267585
@charmianmansell.bsky.social
@britishacademy.bsky.social
@braghs.bsky.social

Waterstones' promotional flyer for Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. The flyer includes an image of the book and the discount code you can use to preorder it on the Waterstones website: SUMMER25

Come for the new history of 1920s and 1930s London, stay for the discount...

Waterstones are offering 25% off pre-orders Songs of Seven Dials this week: just enter SUMMER25 at checkout.

Book is out on 21 Oct – in time for autumnal nights & Christmas gifts.

www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o...

Conference | NACBS The North American Conference on British Studies annual conference homepage

Registration for NACBS 2025 is open now! Check out the draft program and join us in Montreal!

www.nacbs.org/conference

WHN Annual Book Prize We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…

There is just under a month to enter for the women’s history network’s best first book prize, for a first academic monograph, in women’s or gender history

@womenshistnet.bsky.social

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Here’s my recently published article centered on the ExtraORDINARY Women’s Collection at Belfasts Linen Hall Library

@thenacbs.bsky.social

📢New in JBS!

📗“A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration”: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50 by Arnaud Page

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📢New in JBS!

📗In Search of Ned: A Zulu Man in Mid-Victorian Britain by R.J. Knight and Esme Cleall

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📢New in JBS One British Archive Series!

📗The Medieval Londoners Database by Maryanne Kowaleski

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📢New in JBS One British Archive Series!

📗ExtraORDINARY Women at Belfast’s Linen Hall Library by Bruce Wade Hodell

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📢New in JBS!

Two new additions to our One British Archive series, exploring little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. We hope that this series will expand what counts as “British” and what counts as an “archive” at a moment when the field should be adapting and expanding.

📢New in JBS!

In our new Unfinished Business series, JBS editors invite scholars to revisit their earlier work in light of new scholarship and from a fresh perspective.

📗Carolyn Steedman kicks of the series with "Buying People Is Wrong"

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Logo of the British Records Association featuring stylized purple archival symbols on a deep blue background.

The British Records Association is inviting submissions for the 2025 Janette Harley prize, which recognises outstanding work promoting the preservation, understanding, accessibility or study of archives.

Find out more: ow.ly/M8EB50Wqona

#WeAreLocalHistory

The purposeful workhouse of England’s Old Poor Law* Abstract. It has long been recognized that the English workhouses of the Old Poor Law era (1601-1834) were important precursors to institutions of the mode

New on advance access: "The purposeful workhouse of England's Old Poor Law"

by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)

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July 9, 2025 Advocacy Update ACLS Director of Member Society Relations Camilo Villalpando shares an advocacy update from learned societies.

ACLS Director of Member Society Relations Camilo Villalpando shares critical advocacy efforts by academic societies including @asanewsonline.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social @theenwsa.bsky.social & @thenacbs.bsky.social: bit.ly/44msOtZ

🚀 We’re #hiring a PhD student to join our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)” 🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation!
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📅 4 Sep 2025

🚨Happening today🚨

Still time to join us at noon ET to hear more about navigating the current job market!

www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Perfect timing - this post is based on bits and pieces from the conclusion of my book, Love in the Lav, out now with @templeunivpress.bsky.social

Keep writing, keep marching, keep creating, keep being YOU, keep protesting.

Happy Pride, friends! #LGBTQ+ #skystorians #AcademicSky #History

Banning Books is Stupid, So Keep Writing "Knowing that he would likely be silenced, he wrote anyway."

“Knowing that he would likely be silenced, he wrote anyway.”

In the last installment of our #pride month blog series, @aearls.bsky.social traces parallels between today’s book bans in the US and earlier moral policing in Ireland.

Read the full piece at Broadsides 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #skystorians #lgbtq+

And see also Adrian’s amazing and important essay in Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain (open access so dig in everyone):

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Graduating soon? Stressing about what comes next?

Come hear from experienced folks about applying for positions at grants in this moment.

📌Getting and Keeping a Job in the Current Climate
📅June 27 - Online
⏰9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 5pm BST

Info and RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Huge day for the UK trans history academic community: new Adrian Kane-Galbraith content just dropped!!

“A Special Law Just for Us:” Negotiating Gender Recognition in Postwar Britain "Harford’s call for a “special law”—a neat statutory solution to the problem of his dual identities—highlights the fact that bureaucratic gender recognition in 1950s Britain was far from straightforward."

“Harford’s call for a ‘special law’—a neat statutory solution to the problem of his dual identities—highlights the fact that bureaucratic gender recognition in 1950s Britain was far from straightforward.”

Read Adrian Kane-Galbraith's contribution to our #pride series at Broadsides. #skystorians 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Broadsides has been PROUD this month with essays on #LGBTQ+ History! @thenacbs.bsky.social.

“Not totally gay, I suppose”: Bisexuality and Multiple-Gender-Attraction in the Archives “The instability and fragility of bisexuality as an identity category in this period means that limiting my analysis only to people who used the term for themselves would be unhelpfully restrictive.”

“The instability and fragility of bisexuality as an identity category in this period means that limiting my analysis only to people who used the term for themselves would be unhelpfully restrictive.”

Martha Robinson Rhodes discusses “multiple-gender-attraction” in the latest for Broadsides #pride