Liz Barnes

Gladstone's Library’s scholarship programme submission deadline is tomorrow!

If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until 11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025.

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Teaching Fellowship in Queer and Gender History with a Specific Focus on the 20th Century United States at University of Oxford Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellowship in Queer and Gender History with a Specific Focus on the 20th Century United States on jobs.ac.uk!

Teaching Fellowship in Queer and Gender History with a Specific Focus on the 20th Century United States www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC500/t...

So, fellow history professor kids, what kind of writing assignments are we thinking about that are AI-resistant? Beyond some in-class reading responses and close primary source readings, what things have been moderately successful for an in-person class? 🗃️

Call for Papers: BAAS Postgraduate Symposium - Teesside University, 29th November 2025 - British Association for American Studies BAAS Postgraduate Symposium – Teesside University, 29th November 2025 ‘The people favored and the people oppressed’: The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America The original copies of the…

📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads

Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.

The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.

Proposals are invited before 22 August.

Check out Uncensored, the archive created by ex-NPS historians that documentes which stories have been censored by the administration www.resistancerangers.org/rangers-unce...

2025 PGR/ECR Workshop — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

Calling all PGRs/ECRs 📣

In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November!

Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚

Opening page of “Aisha Djelid, “The master whished to reproduce”: Slavery, Forced Intimacy, and Enslavers’ Interference in Sexual Relationships in the Antebellum South, 1808–1861′, American Nineteenth Century History.

Today's highlighted title from the 2025 shortlisted RHS Early Career Article & First Book Prizes is:

Aisha Djelid's 'Slavery, Forced Intimacy, and Enslavers’ Interference in Sexual Relationships in the Antebellum South, 1808–1861′, in American Nineteenth Century History bit.ly/4n3ArwF 1/2

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

2025 Conference — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

Registration is now open for our 2025 conference in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Hosted in collaboration with BGEAH, this year's conference has an excellent programme of speakers, including keynotes from @timlockley.bsky.social (Warwick) and Catherine Kelly (William & Mary/OIEAHC)!

Check it out 👇

Closes today!!

Set of logos of selected UK history societies taking part in the Royal Historical Society's annual meeting UK history societies and networks.

Next Tuesday we host our annual meeting with heads of UK history societies.

This year our focus is advocacy: to learn from one another how to advocate and campaign for history as it's practiced by members of UK history societies.

We'll be joined by representatives of 30 societies #skystorians

Harriet Tubman Essay Prize — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

The @royalhistsoc.org sponsored @branchuk.bsky.social Harriet Tubman Essay closes soon on the 13th June! Please do get students to submit - details here: www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...

Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries

For those who could not hear this address in person, here is the published version. Thank you for the amazing editors and team at American Nineteenth Century History and BrANCH!

We're deep in marking season so this feels like a remnant of another life, but my article, 'Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South' is now available in the June issue of Civil War History: muse.jhu.edu/pub/14/artic...

“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861 This article examines the extent to which enslavers across the antebellum South forced enslaved men and women to reproduce. Using a spectrum of violence as a tool of coercion, enslavers coerced, ca...

Many congratulations to @aishadjelid.bsky.social – whose recent article for ANCH has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2025 🥳. Fingers crossed for July! 🤞 Read it now for free on our website – OPEN ACCESS.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Are you a scholar who is working on issues related to politics, the state, or capitalism during the Civil War era? If so, please consider submitting a proposal for this JCWE special issue. The deadline for submission is April 25, 2025. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/03/call...

The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating The Office for Students' so-called investigation into the University I represent was flawed and politically motivated. The implications for the hig...

This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something.

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Jobs and Vacancies

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We’re excited to announce that applications are open for the RAI/St Edmund Hall Broadbent Career Development Fellow in US History since 1600, a three-year postdoc starting September 2025! Closing date 22 April. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.

After 2.5 years of work, the 4 volumes of our collection "American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775–1919" has been sent to the publishers. Hopefully out soon-ish! Thanks to my co-editors Adam Burns, @alysbeverton.bsky.social & @alex-bryne.bsky.social.

The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective This article centers on the different ways that English and American universities have uncovered, publicized, and responded to their historical connections to transatlantic slavery. It argues that ...

@branchuk.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social As part of an all too pertinent special edition of American Nineteenth Century History, see: The price of Knowledge: Universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective: "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2025.2455208?src=exp-la

Cardiff 2025 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇