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The 2026 special issue, edited by Naomi Lloyd-Jones is now live! The issue is the product of a 2023 conference at @durhamhistory.bsky.social discussing collective action and the politics of organisation in Britain and Ireland in the long nineteenth-century:
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📣 CFP for a workshop I’m co-convening with UGM as part of the DEVHIST project in Yogya on 8-10 September 2026. Travel support is available for Indonesian and intl speakers. Please share!!

‘Watched with considerable curiosity’: The first secret ballot in Britain, 15 August 1872 - The History of Parliament Dr Kathryn Rix, of the Victorian Commons, tells us about the very first election by secret ballot in Britain…Today marks the anniversary of the first occasion

Our #1832AtoZ has reached X. We don’t have any x-ray or xylophone-related posts to draw on, so X is for the mark on a ballot paper. Here’s our post on the first use of the secret ballot at a parliamentary election: historyofparliament.com/2013/08/15/f...

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

Now open!

#Skystorians #History Great event klaxon! For all those interested in developing a post-PhD second project, this is the event for you! Highly recommended!

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

The 'Bifrons Purse': Elizabeth, Marchioness Conyngham and aristocratic women's participation in nineteenth-century elections - The History of Parliament our research fellow Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones explores the political life of Elizabeth, Marchioness Conyngham (1769-1861). Best known as George IV’s final mistress...

Elizabeth, Marchioness Conyngham, is best known as the final mistress of George IV.

However, as Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones explores below, her electioneering activity offers an important example of the behind-the-scenes roles wealthy women could play in politics during the 19th century.

The Face What’s in a face? The face is the only part of the body where all the senses come together and, over the course of human history, has come to represent who we are as individuals. We unlock our phones...

Congratulations to @fayboundalberti.bsky.social for the publication of “The Face: A cultural history” today!

You can now get it from your preferred bookshop in the UK!
tinyurl.com/the-face-fba

@kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @ctb-kcl.bsky.social

#histmed #histtech #body

The cover of THE FACE featuring a sculpture of a face on its side against a blue background.

Happy #PubDay to @fayboundalberti.bsky.social! THE FACE is a brilliant, wide-ranging look at how we interpret faces—and what those interpretations say about us. I didn’t even know about face blindness until reading this. You’ll never look at first impressions the same way. shorturl.at/3AbAG

This was such an exciting article to edit - a history of the Highland Clearances and the sustainable customs it left behind, written (literally) from the ground up.

Time to bring back double-member seats?!

Also, please welcome @fayboundalberti.bsky.social to Bluesky! She's a brilliant culture historian specializing in the history of emotions and medicine. If you like my stuff, you're gonna love her stuff. Highly recommend you hit that follow button and make your timeline infinitely more interesting!

📢The information pages for NACBS prizes, grants, and fellowships are now updated for the 2026 application season.

Find more information at the link below!
www.nacbs.org/news/prize%2...

Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries

I’m chairing an online seminar by Sue Bishop (University of Leicester) tonight at 5.30pm. ‘Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries’. All welcome. Please book in advance. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Less than a week left to apply for this 🗃️

[spoiler alert] I think in Christie's The Murder of Roger Akroyd, the murderer at the end is left in an room to do the gentlemanly thing having been rumbled by Poirot.

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Global (Dis)Order Evidence Hub In this hub you will find collections of discussion papers commissioned by the British Academy and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on topics and themes relevant to the programme’s workstrea...

How did we get here and where are we going?

International analysts and policymakers are likely to be pre-occupied by these deceptively simple questions as they attempt to understand and navigate the shifts in our current global order.

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️

sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

#History #Skystorians New article drop and a very timely one it is: Christopher Gerteis's 'Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood Monday 22nd June 2026 One day colloquium: Centre for the History of Childhood, University of Oxford Magdalen College Oxford, UK, and online Call for Papers We welcome papers that consider the theme of ‘Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood’ from a wide variety of perspectives. Areas that papers might explore include: • Children’s experiences as recipients of charity and humanitarianism, including in the context of conflict and displacement • Children’s experiences as charitable and humanitarian actors and providers • Representations of childhood within charitable and humanitarian discourses • Institutions and communities that mobilise around charitable and humanitarian relief for children • Memories, intergenerational transmission, and legacies of charity and humanitarianism • Failures, limitations, and tensions resulting from charitable and humanitarian actions • Archives for, approaches to, and public engagement with the study of charity, humanitarianism, and childhood in the past • Conceptual connections between care, vulnerability, and age We welcome papers from any disciplinary or professional background and career stage, including advanced undergraduate and graduate students. We encourage papers that engage with the diversity of children’s and young people’s experiences in any historical period and place. Please send abstracts of c. 250 words for a fifteen-minute paper and a brief bio to sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk by midday on Friday 13th March 2026. We plan to offer in- person and online participation, so please indicate your preference when submitting. Organising Committee: Charlotte Canizo, Joseph Leidy, Siân Pooley, Susannah Wright

Excellent talk yesterday at our seminar by Ian Archer 16thC children's work - some of it under the aegis of charity - beginning a conversation tbc in our colloquium this year - Monday 22nd June, 'Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood' get your abstracts in! deadline 13th March 2026

Tutorial Fellowship in History, and Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Medieval British and European History at University of Oxford Recruiting now: Tutorial Fellowship in History, and Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Medieval British and European History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job o...

Early medievalists! Come join us at Magdalen College, Oxford: apply for this permanent job by 27 March. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...

Trouble on the Line: The Materiality and Fragility of Global Communication Networks, 1851-1949 - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS The Materiality and Fragility of Global Communication Networks, 1851-1949. Conference:15-16 October, Utrecht. Call for Papers deadline: 16 February Lines of communication are fragile things. Global te...

This CfP for a conference at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social organised by Erik de Lange looks great: "Trouble on the Line: The Materiality and Fragility of Global Communication Networks, 1851-1949" #HistIR royalhistsoc.org/calendar/tro...

Job in early modern history at Warwick 👇 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Our AHRC group is celebrating research on histories of internationalism with 3 events.

1. Our conference on ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ will take place 19-20 March at Birkbeck. We’re thrilled to be joined by an amazing line-up of speakers. Reserve your space via www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Great new book klaxon!

The call for papers for the European Social Science History Conference is out!

It will take place in Lyon on 21-24 April 2027. It is organised by @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social, with thousands of colleagues and lively exchange in many small groups.

More info here: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

Six month book-versary!

This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!