A former children's hospital which has become a casino.
The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.
07.11.2025 08:08 β π 439 π 106 π¬ 6 π 4
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food? From rationing and humanitarian relief to scientific innovation, state control, and the weaponisation of hunger, food has long been central to the conduct and experience of war.
The organisers invite proposals for a two-day conference at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (16β17 April 2026), exploring the political, social, legal, scientific, and logistical dimensions of food and nutrition in wartime.
β
Papers may address themes such as:
β’ Technological and scientific innovations
β’ Bureaucratic and legal developments
β’ Feeding of civilian, combatant, and incarcerated populations
β’ Humanitarian logistics
β’ Civilian responses and survival strategies
β’ Food as a tool of coercion, control, or violence
β’ Colonial, civil, and asymmetric warfare
π¨ Submit a title + abstract (β€300 words) to foodandwarconf@gmail.com
by 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).
Hosted by St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Supported by the International Society for First World War Studies and History & Policy.
Call for Papers for Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World
π’ CFP | Food and Nutrition in Wartime, 19th - 21st Centuries | St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (16β17 April 2026)
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
π¨ Submit a title + abstract (β€300 words) to foodandwarconf@gmail.com 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).
11.11.2025 11:18 β π 10 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
Image of a person buried under a pile of marking, grant deadlines and meeting requests. Logos of University of Liverpool and Independent Social Research Foundation. Text reads: Creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions. Webinar and guidance for academics with ELC, line managers & HR professionals, EDI & union representatives, funders, publishers & conference organisers. Monday 24th November 2-3pm.
Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
23.10.2025 15:24 β π 19 π 15 π¬ 0 π 7
The Foxite Whigs and Visual Culture, 1780-1810
This book examines how sociability was strategically employed by the Foxite-Whigs and argues for the existence of two primary forms of sociability
π£ Callum Smith is launching The Foxite Whigs & Visual Culture, 1780-1810: Radical Sociability at @aberuni.bsky.social on 19 November from 17:10. Online (tinyurl.com/yvnukza8) & in person.
#histparl
#skystorians
@bsecs.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social
29.10.2025 18:10 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
30.10.2025 08:21 β π 10768 π 1512 π¬ 137 π 120
New Job Posts Like:
Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and
04.11.2025 00:15 β π 110 π 21 π¬ 4 π 1
BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
10.10.2025 15:59 β π 16 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0
History Day at senate house organised by the @ihr.bsky.social So nice to meet fellow historians on their career journey and encourage them to join @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social and @historylabplus.bsky.social
04.11.2025 15:34 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com
In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
09.10.2025 15:08 β π 30 π 19 π¬ 0 π 3
Ep 6 - Yorkshire Coastal Bombardment in the First World War with Dr Michael Reeve | ROYSCast
Researcher and lecturer in Modern British History, Dr Michael Reeve talks about his career in the subject as well as past and future research topics
On this week's #ROYSCast #ThrowbackThursday, we've got an episode from the estimable @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social back in 2023 - on Yorkshire Coastal Bombardment in the First World War.
Listen below: shows.acast.com/royscast/epi...
#Yorkshire #FirstWorldWar #Skystorians #GreatWar #Culture #History
23.10.2025 09:15 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
βThe Evidence of Things Not Seenβ: Ethics and the True Crime Industry
Recorded 22nd September 2025.
Why are we so drawn to true crime? And what are the ethical stakes behind the stories? Join popular literature experts Clare Clarke, Bernice Murphy, writer Una Mannion (
πBrilliant discussion w/ @evepatt.bsky.social, @clareclarke.bsky.social, @murphgothic.bsky.social, @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social, & Una Mannion on the moral complexities of creating & consuming #truecrime for the 2025 Arts & Humanities Research Festival @tlrhub.bsky.social
#skystorians #academicsky ποΈ
25.10.2025 05:40 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
(Talk) Scotland's Opium Secrets histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/09/les-... #histSTM
23.09.2025 11:45 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
In this lecture, Catherine Clarke will re-visit the question of what makes history radical, asking what kind of radical history we need in our public life and contemporary context today. In particular, sheβll explore ways in which popular history β trade publishing for a wide public audience β has the capacity to be radical, drawing on experiences and examples from her own new book A History of England in 25 Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, September 2025). Catherineβs lecture will move towards a manifesto for how research-led, scholarship-driven popular history can and does make necessary, vital public interventions β from opening inclusive conversations and confronting the rise of AI, to modelling radical empathy and imagination.
I'm hugely honoured and very excited to be giving this year's Historical Research #Lecture at @ihr.bsky.social, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the #public'. Tuesday 4 November, all welcome. More info in AltText. Book here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
01.10.2025 09:14 β π 110 π 45 π¬ 6 π 1
Who knew that the British JAIL for History of Science was in the Leeds School of Philosophy? We'll keep you on the historiographical straight and narrow!
18.10.2025 12:36 β π 24 π 7 π¬ 0 π 2
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotlandβs oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
Historian, eighteenth-century Ireland. Cycles around Philadelphia and New Jersey.
EA | Management & HR | Organized, Efficient, Trusted πMBA HR @nuc.university πB.Sc.BA Mgmt @uopx | Exploring history, art, theater & journals across UK, France, Italy, Rome, Greece & Egyptβcenturies of culture, beauty & depth.
Philosopher of education | Thinking and writing about decoloniality, reparation, and justice in relation to education | London, Edinburgh & Manila | εδΈζ£οΌεθ¨δΈι
Material & participatory approaches to everyday histories of faith | Lecturer in Historic Environment at @ihr.bsky.social | Member of @chppc.bsky.social | Co-General Editor @vch-home.bsky.social | https://www.history.ac.uk/people/ruth-slatter
Writer, academic. Professor & Director @chppc.bsky.social & @vch-home.bsky.social. Beach hut days. New book: #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems, Penguin Allen Lane, 04.09.25.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/ / https://www.history.ac.uk/people/catherine-clarke
First World War Historian | research focuses on Women, Conflict and Class in First World War Leeds | Regional Ambassador HL+
History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
Creative Cultural Historian, Academic, Artist, videographer https://maxinebeuret.com and Oral Historian https://www.ohs.org.uk/creative/
Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
University of Manchester PGR researching the literature of the Chartist Thomas Cooper | Elizabeth Gaskell's House volunteer | IHR History Lab+ ambassador (North West England)
History in the School of HAPP and adjacent historians at Queen's University Belfast. Find the QUB Historians and projects under βListsβ. We are at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/
Society for the Study of Labour History: the UKβs principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX β about a hotel in 1920s Moscow β and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Chancellorβs Fellow & Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde | Councillor of the Royal Historical Society | Author of inthebloodofourbrothers.com | LG(B)TQ+ | he/him | Spanish & Brit(ish)
Independent Historians Working Group
. . . a collaboration between independent historians for mutual support.
www.bit.ly/INDY_HIST
Early Modern Scottish historian with a focus on womenβs sexuality - all the juicy stuff
