Historians of British Art – Summer 2025 Newsletter
Our Summer Newsletter is out! In this edition: HBA's book awards long list📖; an inside view of The Clark's exhibition "A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945" from curator Alexis Goodin 👩🎨; as well as exhibition, events, CFPs, and grant listings. mailchi.mp/bc3b126e4fb3...
29.08.2025 03:30 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Tomorrow (August 29) is the last day to submit your proposal for our 2026 CAA panel, "Let's Get Metaphysical: Rethinking the Empiricism of British Art," chaired by Douglas Fordham (University of Virginia). Submit through the CAA conference portal. We can't wait to read your proposals!
29.08.2025 03:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Reminder: The deadline to submit a panel proposal for our 2026 CAA HBA session is this Friday!
16.04.2025 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks again to our speakers @miraelston.bsky.social , Roberto Ferrari, Sophie Lynford, and Sarah Kleinman; and to chairs Monica Anke Hahn and Laurel Peterson
15.02.2025 18:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We heard fascinating research on picturing early modern transatlantic maritime networks; Simeon Solomon’s later work, produced while the queer artist was enduring social outcast & poverty; and the Trinidadian-born curator Kynaston McShine’s landmark 1966 sculpture exhibition Primary Structures.
15.02.2025 18:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A group photo of the HBA panel chairs and speakers standing behind a table in the conference meeting room
Many thanks to the four fantastic presenters, the organizing chairs, and to all who attended our 2025 CAA panel “New Directions in British Art History”! If you missed it, it’s now available to registered attendees on the conference website.
15.02.2025 17:57 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
The Programme for #BSECS2025 is out! So many fabulous papers including online & hybrid options. If it's your first time joining us, check out our mentorship scheme for conference support.
Pembroke College, Oxford, 8-10 January 2025 #18thC #skystorians 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
09.12.2024 06:30 — 👍 36 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 3
⚫ SSAH 40 ⚫
✨ Delighted to announce the launch of the 40th anniversary edition of the SSAH journal.
📅 16 December 8-9pm, online
Free to book:
www.eventbrite.com/.../ssah-jou....
Image: Calm Water by Bet Low. The Pier Arts Centre © the artist's estate.
09.12.2024 09:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Bookings are open for my new online art theory course at ICE, University of Cambridge, which starts in January 2025. The course is suitable for those who are new to art history, as well as students who have studied it before. More info here: www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/appro...
09.12.2024 10:13 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3
Beat Kümin and I are accepting applications for our 4yr M4C fully-funded PhD Studentship for 2025/26
at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office
"Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives"
Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
09.12.2024 10:51 — 👍 40 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 0
This will be our final reminder about our bursary scheme - the deadline for applications is 15 December. So there's still plenty of time to write that bid! Please share with anyone working on women and gender in our period; this scheme is open to #ECR #PhD and #indie scholars. #Funding
05.12.2024 11:11 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A bronze statuette of a nude young man stretching as if just waking up
We're here! (And still hanging on over at The Bad Place: @HBA_CAA). Looking forward to sharing updates from our members and news about upcoming events, awards, etc.! (Image: Frederic, Lord Leighton, The Sluggard, bronze, modeled 1886. Met Museum Collection)
10.12.2024 02:34 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Incoming Director at Texas State Galleries @txst.edu
Art Historian • Modern and Contemporary Art • Museum Studies • Fulbright Alumna to Trinidad and Tobago
The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
https://ssns.org.uk
// Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
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\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
The LGBTQ+ History Association (formally the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History) founded in 1979, is an affiliate of the American Historical Association. Learn more at clgbthistory.org
Founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
Presenting the most innovative research in the field of history and social sciences.
👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales
👉 https://shs.cairn.info/revue-annales
Official account of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) - a research institution with over 200 years experience in publishing Medieval source material in text-critical editions. Posts by Clemens Radl, Annette Marquard-Mois, Dominik Trump.
The Business History Conference is a scholarly organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history and about the environment in which businesses operate. https://thebhc.org/
Mae'r Ganolfan yn sefydliad ymchwil wedi’i leoli gerllaw Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru yn Aberystwyth.
The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies is a dedicated research institute of the University of Wales, located alongside the National Library.
Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
The Irish Committee of Historical Sciences is the national committee for history in Ireland.
Further details: http://www.historians.ie/
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures supports and promotes research into the cultures and intellectual life of the Middle Ages.
Represents university and college English depts in the UK
For more information visit our website www.basees.org
Promoting the study of the history of philosophy since 1984
History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
We are a UK-wide educational charity that helps champion and promote participation in archaeology. We run the Young Archaeologists’ Clubs and the annual Festival of Archaeology. Join us to help shape the future of archaeology.
https://www.archaeologyuk.org
The University Council For Languages: the national voice of research & teaching in languages, cultures, societies, and related disciplines in UK HE.
https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland.
Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on deborah.mason@archives.org.uk (quicker than a DM).
Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
Representing UK HE departments that teach classics, ancient history and related subjects. Pedagogy, EDI, consultation, supporting departments in difficulties, Bulletin. Follow for info and discussion on Arts and Humanities.
