History Lab Plus

Check out this new podcast for ECRs - I’m proud to have been one of the guests on episode 3, where we talk about the importance of networks and mentors, and where to find them!

AHTV - The TV Festival Engaging Academia in TV Are you an academic interested in how you could work with or in the TV industry? Or are you looking for access to the latest academic research for your TV production? This is t...

I'm so disappointed that I can't attend this!
For any other #skystorians or #academicsky researchers interested in better connecting with the TV industry, catch #AHTV2025 @conwayhall.bsky.social on 5 November 👉 www.thetvfestival.com/tv-foundation/career-development/ahtv/
Funding available!

📢 Read the blog post below to find out more about our joint conference with @historylabplus.bsky.social and History UK that took place earlier this year.

It was a very interesting and timely conference which showed the significant work behind addressing the challenges faced by academia.

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I've just been interviewed on Radio 5 Live about Britishness and the right to protest.
Interview started at 9.38 or 38 mins into the programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

blog About | Events | Meet us | Contact | Join BLOG: Teaching in a Time of Crisis conference, 29 May 2025 – reasons to be cheerful? Alex Riggs Regional Ambassador, Midlands and Michael Reeve Co-Ch…

HL+ committee members Dr Alex Rigg & Dr Michael Reeve have written a blogpost about the Teaching in a Time of Crisis Conference 2025 at University of Warwick. Have a read! historylab.plus/blog/

@historyuk.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @alexriggsby.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social

Chuffed to have received my copy of this book edited by @siobhanhyland.bsky.social & colleagues at @uninorthampton.bsky.social. I have a chapter in it about the health discourses surrounding smoking & alcohol during the First World War. A great variety of other interdisciplinary work in there too.

Now Costa Coffee needs to do State Papers Online

Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open!

Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'.

Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

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Check out this podcast ‘Confessions of an ECR’: “candid, honest, and inspiring", by & for #ECRs, w/ support from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk 👉
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/confessions-of-an-early-career-researcher/
#AcademicSky #Skystorians

It was such a fantastic tour. Thank you to @ulstermuseum.org and to you @sophiecooper.bsky.social for helping with your great connections. Your talk earlier in the was fantastic. So helpful and such important messages for the HL+ community <3

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Very glad to have (finally) bought the catalogue book for the @ulstermuseum.org Akihiko Okamura exhibition, The Memories of Others, especially after we got a tour of the exhibition last week @historylabplus.bsky.social. Gorgeously produced and the photos are wonderful!

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

FastHistory — The Portico Library Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!

Manchester historians!

@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!

www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

Dr Dave Steele

Warwick Words History Festival

Looking forward to giving my talk this Saturday at Warwick Words History Festival on 'Rev Arthur Wade: Radical Vicar of Warwick' Sat. 4 October 4pm, Unitarian Chapel, Warwick.

I will discuss Wades advocacy of workers’ rights.

A few tickets left: www.warwickwords.co.uk/index.php/al...

As we enjoy lunch w/ @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social before heading off on a curator tour of @ulstermuseum.org... a small reminder to all Belfast #skystorians to join the HL+ team & the excellent @mauricejcasey.com at the Pavilion on Ormeau Rd from 7pm TONIGHT for our History Open Mic! 👇 #HL+DocsCom

Thanks so much @historylabplus.bsky.social and @sophcocooper.bsky.social for the amazing presentation today. It was fantastic.

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane?

Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of …

Flight attendant: The pilots are debating whether the Roman Empire fell in 476.

Me: Okay. I’m here.

A view of the gallery space at the Heugh Battery Museum

Historian Michael Reeve stood in the gallery space at the Heugh Battery Museum

The tie-in booklet that accompanies the exhibition

Finally launched 'Remembering to Help, Helping to Remember' at the weekend - a new exhibition about #FWW civilian experience in Hartlepool following the Dec 1914 naval bombardment of the town (with a generous grant from @sslh.bsky.social). It covers the emergency response to the attack, including...

The McMordie Room is in the Music Building, just at the bottom of University Square, if you're not sure!

Our next FREE #HL+DocsCom event is TODAY! Join Co-Chairs @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social & @northumbriauni.bsky.social's Kathy Davies in the McMordie Room @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social from 11:30 for tea & inspiration: the amazing @sophcocooper.bsky.social will be talking 'From ECR to Senior Lecturer'!

Portrait of Lord Byron in a heavy gilded frame; it hangs from chains on a wall in Newstead Abbey, covered in cream and red, strapwork wallpaper

A view of Newstead Abbey from the far side of Eagle Pond

📣CFP: 'Byron and Identity', 2026 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, deadline 1 January 2026
👉 www.thebyronsociety.com/call-for-pap...

#AcademicSky #Romanticism #LordByron

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@byronsociety.bsky.social
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Looking forward to heading over to Belfast for this @historylabplus.bsky.social event! Great opportunity to meet other early-career historians, chat about research and do some fun stuff too (like a museum tour and our 'History Open Mic'). There's still time to sign up, if you can make it.

This is sure to be a great evening!

Looking forward to this . . .

For all #Skystorians in/who can be tempted to Belfast in a fortnight, it’s not too late to sign up for lunch & a chat w/other #ECRs, discover @sophcocooper.bsky.social's career story, & share your own research at another #HL+OpenMic w/guest speaker @mauricejcasey.com👇

#AcademicSky
@ihr.bsky.social

Belfast! Come join me as we collaboratively imagine the concept of a History Open Mic night.

I'll be sharing some of my "Too-Spicy for Social Media" Historical Hot Takes and outlining the MCCU (the Maurice Casey Cinematic Universe - which is not just a conceited term for early C20th Europe!)

HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025

Still time to sign up for the daytime programme: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

As part of our Network Northern Ireland 2025 event @mauricejcasey.com will be hosting our latest History Open Mic Night w/ special guests at The Pavillion pub in Belfast. Open to all.