Happening next week!
Don't miss chance to hear behind the scenes stories from the curators of our ground-breaking new exhibition.
Tickets available to attend online or in person: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/curato...
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Spend time with some of the nicest people in Cambridge (and their archives)👇
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Two of my favorite people :)
25.11.2025 09:13 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Front page of RHS blog post: 'Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. A brief guide if you're considering an application'. with abstract: 'Fellowship is one of several ways to join and belong to the Royal Historical Society. Fellows are elected to this position by the Society in recognition of their work for the historical discipline and profession. There are many different routes to Fellowship, just as there are different kinds of contributions and careers within the discipline of history.'
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
25.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 21 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 2
Front page of the RHS blog article with full abstract: "In this post Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung introduce their new volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series, ‘A Collector Collected: The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823’, published in November 2025. William Upcott (1779–1845) rose from humble origins to become a major collector of coins, prints, drawings, and, above all, autographs. His journals offer a detailed, non-elite account of a London life, interspersed with forays into the provinces to visit relatives in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, and to pursue his trade as a cataloguer and organiser of people’s collections. His later ‘Tour of the Peak’ in 1823, evidences his growing expertise and his open acceptance by his fellow enthusiasts. Upcott’s diaries are lively and engaging narratives of his life and activities in a world that he increasingly made his own, overcoming his deficiencies to become an accomplished bibliophile and collector."
To accompany publication of their new edition, the volume's editors - Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung - write for the RHS blog on the life and work of William Upcott (1779-1845) bit.ly/3LXaIYR.
'A Collector Collected' is now available online / in print from @universitypress.cambridge.org
25.11.2025 09:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of 'A Collector Collected: the Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823', edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Cuertis Leung
New publication: 'A Collector Collected: The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1829' bit.ly/4rpwoNE
The latest volume in the RHS Camden Series of primary sources charts the life of a self-made collector and cataloguer, and offers a detailed, non-elite account of a London life
1/2 #Skystorians
25.11.2025 09:20 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
19.11.2025 11:01 — 👍 15 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 2
It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
21.11.2025 08:34 — 👍 51 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0
The limits of strong government: attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England*
Abstract. This article examines how far centrally-directed structures of peacekeeping influenced communal reactions to criminality in thirteenth-century En
Want to learn about medieval coroners, tithings & the frankpledge system, crime & punishment, peacekeeping, the hue & cry, amercements, etc? Then check out my article “The limits of strong government: attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England”.
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
24.11.2025 15:40 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Come along to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @nailyas.bsky.social talk about her 'Global Libraries' project!
24.11.2025 09:48 — 👍 11 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Historians of South Africa, is there an accessible electronic database of legislation passed during Union of South Africa period? Trying to get exact wording of some Acts from 1910s to 1930s.
24.11.2025 05:17 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
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Great to see this out in the world
24.11.2025 11:30 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Come along and let me try my ideas out on you?
24.11.2025 11:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society: a brief guide if you’re considering an application | Historical Transactions
The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
24.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 32 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 1
With match funding from Queen’s, we are offering six funded studentships beginning in 2026.
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
AHRC 'Doctoral Landscape' - 6 awards for candidates proposing their own research topics - closing 13 January 2026
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...
21.11.2025 14:04 — 👍 3 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
REF: CSHIS03 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Our Place: Our Stories: History and Placemaking among Belfast's Underserved Communities'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
21.11.2025 13:41 — 👍 3 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
This would be such a phenomenal PhD project
21.11.2025 14:03 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
21.11.2025 13:42 — 👍 16 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
Another update from us to round off the week!
We were absolutely delighted by the overwhelming response to our conference, and have now been in contact with all of our speakers.
We are aiming to share our official programme in the first week of December so watch this space!
21.11.2025 11:00 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
When and where:
University of Warwick, Coventry, on Thursday 18 June 2026.
Conference summary:
This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry.
Held jointly by the University of Warwick's Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, and Modern Records Centre, the event will run alongside an exhibition which will explore some of the themes covered by the speakers through the National Union of Mineworkers' archives.
We welcome contributions from new and established researchers, working inside and outside higher education.
Confirmed participants include:
- Jörg Arnold (University of Augsburg / Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin), author of The British Miner in the Age of DeIndustrialization
- Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Principal Investigator on research project On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 and former miner
- Quentin Outram (University of Leeds), Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History and co-editor of Coal in Victorian Britain
Conference themes:
Subjects that could be addressed include but are not limited to:
The human cost of coal, including:
- Mining disasters, their contemporary impacts and later memorialisation.
- Industrial accidents, industrial diseases and workers’ compensation.
- Mine safety and the improvement of conditions.
- Mining and mental health.
Industrial health and welfare, including:
- Pre-nationalisation provision in and beyond the colliery.
- National Coal Board provision, including the NCB Medical Service, housing and the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation.
- Trade union campaigns and benefit schemes.
- Sport and social provision as mining welfare.
Coal and community, including:
- Environmental impact.
- Mining families and the intergenerational effects of the mining industry.
- Impacts of the industry with particular reference to gender, race and ethnicity.
- Coalfield communities after coal: the effects of deindustrialisation.
Submission guidelines
We wish to make space for dialogue between academic and community-based researchers, and welcome involvement from mining heritage and local history groups / researchers from former coalfield communities. We welcome and encourage alternative presentational styles. Possible formats for contributions could include:
- 15-20 minute papers.
- 5 minute lightning papers (for example showcasing a particular object or archival source, or highlighting a particular place, event, individual or experience).
- Round table discussions.
- Posters or displays.
Submission deadline: 25 January 2026.
Limited funding for travel support will be available, with priority given to early career researchers or participants who cannot draw upon institutional funding.
For additional enquiries, please contact the conference organisers at archives@warwick.ac.uk
Call for papers #CFP
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
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Title and abstract for the linked article
📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView
👻 @charlotte-millar.bsky.social, 'Ghosts and hidden geographies: the affective resonances of space in early modern London'
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
20.11.2025 10:14 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
I'm loathed to do PR for the competition (😘), but if anyone is interested in this (excellent-looking!) post and wants to talk to someone about what it's like as a foreigner to work in the Danish system, I'm happy to chat.
20.11.2025 09:56 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Applications invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS
Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered f...
Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
20.11.2025 08:13 — 👍 34 🔁 49 💬 0 📌 0
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
19.11.2025 11:36 — 👍 15 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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Ancient historian. Greek and Hellenistic world, religion, Macedonia, Aegean sea, islands, and coasts, cultural interaction. Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Co-director of the Antigonid Network. Based in Newbury, UK.
Professor of British History at the University of Leeds. Historian of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British history, especially Napoleonic Wars. Love archives. Into photography in a part-time, amateur way.
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, social harms, sustainability, co-production. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social
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_The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish_ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Professor Emeritus, Indiana State University. Former co-editor, Coastal Studies & Society journal.
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Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on #rivers & growth in the Po Valley of Italy. All things #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
