History Lab Plus

Sessions:

- ECR coffee morning with HL+
- Lunchtime seminar with Dr Sophie Cooper (QUB)
- Curator tours of Ulster Museum
- History open mic night with Dr Maurice Casey (QUB) and special guests @ The Pavillion Pub.

All welcome, all free, but booking is required. See the link above for more details.

HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025

Event announcement! 📣

HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025 🤝

Join HL+ and friends for a day of social opportunities and academic and public history sessions that will bring the ECR community together in Belfast.

Thursday 25th September - 11:15am to 9pm.

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Job spotlight of the week: Lecturer in Historic Environment at the IHR, Senate House, London. Fixed-term for 12 months, 17.5 hours per week, £45K pro-rata.

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Sarah is our Treasurer, she holds the network’s purse strings! 👛
Do you have an idea for an event & need @historylabplus.bsky.social backing? Get in touch today! 👉 treasurer.historylabplus@gmail.com

Historian for hire Sarah can offer the following services to individuals and to companies, charities, or public institutions, large or small, in the UK and elsewhere: 1. Co-production of exhibitions, events, or publi…

Sarah runs a consultancy & research support business (👇), is a @cecs-york.bsky.social researcher, an Associate Editor of @englishassociation.bsky.social journal #YWES, & has held research fellowships at @ox.ac.uk & UCLA & teaching roles at @york.ac.uk & BGU.

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She is currently adapting her doctoral thesis for academic & trade book publication & producing a podcast series about the history & ethics of the true crime genre.

Sarah is particularly interested in
⚖️ the relationship between national reform debates 1776-1948 & changing conceptions of what culture is & does
🔎 how, why, & with what effects homicide cases 1827-1953 have been culturally represented.

Photograph of Sarah Wride: short blonde hair, big glasses, smiling at the camera!

That’s right #Skystorians & #AcademicSky!
It’s time to introduce you to another @historylabplus.bsky.social committee member
...historian of modern British & Irish culture @srwride.bsky.social 👇&🧵

Research Fellow - School of History and Cultures - 105992 - Grade 7 To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within the Leverhulme Trust funded research project "The Ascent Of Paper Currency In Britain, 1690s...

Job spotlight of the week:
Research Fellow in Economic History at the University of Birmingham, working on the Leverhulme Trust funded project "The Ascent Of Paper Currency In Britain, 1690s–1920s".
Full time, £37k, fixed term to September 2027.

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Did you know? HL+ has a monthly membership newsletter that details all our upcoming events and latest updates, as well as external training, fellowships, and funding opportunites. Sign-up to become a member of our growing ECR community and receive our newsletter here: historylab.plus/about/

💼 Job spotlight of the week:
Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict at the Imperial War Museum, London (FT, £31-34k, Permanent)

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Michael has been a member of the HL+ committee since 2020 – starting out as web editor – and became Co-Chair earlier this year. Follow him bsky.app/profile/drmi... and read more about his work here: profiles.open.ac.uk/m-j-reeve.

Having mostly published on First World War topics, he is now broadening out his focus to look at a series of wars from the mid-nineteenth century to the Second World War. His current project looks at tobacco consumption for stress relief in wartime during this timespan.

A social and cultural historian, he researches wartime stress and endurance in nineteenth and twentieth century conflicts. His work can be broadly categorised as military (and civilian) welfare history, as his concern is with how people coped with war, sought to endure it and recover from it.

This week, it’s our new Co-Chair’s turn to introduce himself! Dr Michael Reeve is a Lecturer in Modern British History at The Open University, where he teaches multidisciplinary humanities modules alongside British and European history.

‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’: the 2025 Prothero Lecture, with Peter Gatrell On 2 July 2025, the Royal Historical Society hosted its annual Prothero Lecture, given this year by Professor Peter Gatrell FBA on the subject of ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’. Peter’s lecture drew on his recent research in the archives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. The archive contains the letters and petitions that refugees sent to the UNHCR in the post-1945 era, and provides the historian with rare insights of how refugees presented their situation and the responses they received. The numerous case files preserved by the UNHCR disclose the hopes, aspirations and rights claims of displaced people from many different parts of the world, whether or not they were recognised under international refugee law. As Peter argued in this lecture, to consider refugees’ encounters with refugee-creating, refugee-hosting, and refugee-deterring states – and with the organisations charged with their protection and assistance – offers new approaches to refugee history and the writing of refugees into modern global history. Peter Gatrell FBA is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include: 'The Unsettling of Europe: the Great Migration, 1945 to the Present' (2019) and the co-authored 'Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom' (2025), which draws on the rich resources of the UNHCR archives to present the personal experiences of mass displacement. Established in 1969, Royal Historical Society’s Prothero Lecture – which is named for the historian and former RHS President, George W. Prothero (1848-1924) – has been given annually since that date. Those invited to give the lecture are leading historians whose research has shaped how we think about the past.

Recordings of this year's RHS Prothero Lecture, with Professor Peter Gatrell are now available bit.ly/4kw8GKU

Peter's lecture - ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’ - took place on 2 July. Further details and an audio version are also available here bit.ly/4eHl4X6 #Skystorians

Kathy has published in international journals and is currently working on three book projects. In September she will be joining Northumbria University Newcastle as Research Fellow in History. Kathy has been co-Chair of HL+ since 2023.

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SMOG STORIES centres on newspaper collections and oral history archives, seeking to understand lived experiences of air pollution since the 1920s. Before this, Kathy was the Archives By-Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge (Lent 2025) working on histories of home energy change. 2/3

July already! As things (hopefully) quieten down over the coming weeks, we'd like to re-introduce our HL+ committee, starting with co-Chair Dr Kathy Davies. Kathy is the (first!) Visiting Fellow in Environment and Sustainability at The British Library leading the SMOG STORIES project...

Did you know? HL+ has a monthly membership newsletter that details all our upcoming events and latest updates, as well as external training, fellowships, and funding opportunites. Sign-up to become a member of our growing ECR community and receive our newsletter here: historylab.plus/about/

History Lab Plus (the official network for early-career historians in the UK; operated by the Institute of Historical Research, aimed at postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers in history or related disciplines) leaves X (8.103 followers)

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Our online 'Historical Research & Policy Making' event is TOMORROW!

But there are still some spots available! Get thee to shorturl.at/HZd5z #skystorians for details & to sign up NOW...

📢 Explore how to make your research findings more visible to UK policy makers w/ us & the AMAZING @drhmccabe.bsky.social, Drs Sarah Foxen, Abigail Fletcher & Henry Irving, Prof. Philip Murphy, @amsichani.bsky.social & @tomkelsey.bsky.social!
🗓️ Online, 19 June @ 12:30
Details? 👉 shorturl.at/HZd5z

📢 Calling all #Humanities historical researchers of #AcademicSky, #PhDSky, & more!

Discover how you can make your findings more visible to UK policy makers w/ @historylabplus.bsky.social NEXT WEEK!

🗓️ 19 June @ 12:30
Details? 👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 👇

📢 Explore how to make your research findings more visible to UK policy makers w/ us & the AMAZING @drhmccabe.bsky.social, Drs Sarah Foxen, Abigail Fletcher & Henry Irving, Prof. Philip Murphy, @amsichani.bsky.social & @tomkelsey.bsky.social!
🗓️ Online, 19 June @ 12:30
Details? 👉 shorturl.at/HZd5z

Correction! - After an introduction by History Lab Plus at 4pm, the closing interdisciplinary panel on 'Canadian Perspectives: Teaching through Media, Poetry, and Truth' will take place 4:15 - 5:45. The conference will then close with the ECR keynote starting at 6pm. See you there!

The closing interdisciplinary panel on 'Canadian Perspectives: Teaching through Media, Poetry, and Truth' (5-6pm) will be followed by the ECR keynote presentation 'Why Teach Public History? Obstacles and Opportunities' by Dr Jack Hepworth, Newcastle University (6-7pm).

The conference is a unique collaboration between History Lab Plus (national network for early career historians), History Lab (our PGR cousins), and History UK, and supported by the Institute of Historical Research, and the Warwick International Higher Education Academy.

TEACHING IN A TIME OF CRISIS – Zoom Session
Wednesday 4th June 4-7pm

Following last Friday’s successful in-person event at Warwick we now offer a second chance to engage with this pertinent subject in a follow-up online session.

More details and sign-up: www.history.ac.uk/events/teach...

Last week, we hosted a joint conference with @historylabplus.bsky.social and History UK titled "Teaching in a Time of Crisis" and had some fantastic papers presented (1/4).