Shahmima Akhtar

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Studying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH

Screen shot of word document detailing information about the “power couples” conference. Please email z.thomas@bham.ac.uk for more info.

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

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Get 50% off EVERYTHING until the 7th July. Yep, we said everything.

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Had your eye on any of our newest hardbacks, or Academic New in Paperbacks? Now's your chance 👇

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#booksky #academicsky

A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain Focusing on the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT) and the National Association of Women Civil Servants (NAWCS), this article looks at activism and campaigning for married women workers after ...

Pleased to see that my article 'A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain' is now in the current issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social.

Open access so free for all to read.

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

Book cover for Vanished. Features a nineteenth-century print with a fossilised mastodon skeleton, Asian elephant being ridden by a turbaned man, Native and colonial figures looking on. In the background is a mountainous landscape and there is also a single passenger pigeon in the sky. The whole scene is framed by an ornate frame and foliage. Below the book is the following text: A love letter to the astonishing ways of being that have survived past extinctions, and an exhortation to create a worthwhile world.

Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅

Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️

If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events:

18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis...

26 June, Linnean Society, London
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu...

9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’ This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘vir...

My latest article with Jinal Parekh: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... In this we look at how the British state shifted its focus from worrying about young South Asian men as a source of immigration fraud to South Asian women, and the consequences of this.

Image of an open book with the text: Funded Book Workshops. For historians writing a second or third monograph, 2025-26. Closing date 11 July

Support for historians at mid-career: the Society invites applications for its 'Funded Book Workshop' programme bit.ly/4fYQcRC

Workshops enable authors of a 2nd or 3rd monograph to hold a day-long discussion of a book MS with 6 readers of their choosing.

Closing date: Friday 11 July #Skystorians

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Thank you ACIS for awarding me the Michael J Durkan Prize for Books on Language & Culture and an Honourable Mention for the Donald Murphy Prize for Best First Book for Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c.1850-1970

🚨Applications for our Dissertation Fellowship are due this week on May 1!

The NACBS Dissertation Fellowship supports dissertation research in the British Isles on any topic of British (including Scottish, Irish and Imperial) Studies.

Get those applications in soon!

www.nacbs.org/grants-datab...

If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

Sadiah Qureshi in conversation with David Olusoga about extinction Manchester Histories presents an 'In Conversation' event marking the launch of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' (Penguin 2025)

Book launch tickets on sale today at 10! Absolutely delighted to be in conversation with David Olusoga at Manchester Museum on 6 June, 6-8:30pm. Join us for a launch celebration among amazing ways of being!

Free, but limited places so register here. Pls share.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...

Call for Expressions of Interest, Editorial Committee, UCD Press

Looking for Board Members in History; Literature; Social Sciences; Music; Science, Technology & Society; Environmental Humanities

Statement of interest & CV to ucdpress@ucd.ie by 15 May '25

Read more here

mailchi.mp/82e866560efc...

Artist Call-Out: Neel Akash - Sampad Neel Akash is an upcoming two-phase R&D project exploring the impact of the climate emergency on communities in Bangladesh and the Bangladeshi diaspora in Birmingham, UK. This project is an […]

Artist Call-Out: Neel Akash @sampadarts.bsky.social R&D project exploring the impact of the climate emergency on communities in Bangladesh and the Bangladeshi diaspora in Birmingham, UK. Apply via sampad.org.uk/news/call-ou...

HISTORIC YARDLEY is looking for someone with relevant research experience to help us unlock our history, which goes back over a thousand years. Contact Louise Edwards, louisemedwards@outlook.com if interested (agreed day rate, plus reasonable expenses).

Research Fellow in Historical Criminology Ref: 40549 (Fixed term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...

Join the Black PhD Collective! Launch event on Friday 25 April 2025!

Two three year postdocs advertised at @camhistory.bsky.social, to work with the brilliant Niamh Gallagher on her UKRI project, Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire. Not just looking for historians btw...
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

📣 Exciting MA and PhD funding opportunities at King's

BRIDGE Master's Scholarships - 3x for Black, Asian & Minority Home Students www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

Harold Moody PhD Studentships 2025/26 - 9x for Black British Students eligible for home fees www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

Apply, apply!

Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...

New project funded with £1 million by Lloyd's Register Foundation at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy explores the history of transatlantic slavery. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/m... 1/3

Helen Glew Historical Research and Writing

Planning my work schedule for the next couple of months. I have some spare capacity still for commissioned research, indexing, copy-editing or photograph-taking in archives. Let me know if I can help!

helenglew.com

Bodies and Material Culture Research Group Find the right official research group you’re interested in.

CFP Histories of Disability and Living Spaces - Bodies and Material Culture workshop at @rhulhistory.bsky.social - we are looking for papers on any aspect of this topic - see events section on our website: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

Black British History in 2025: A Roundtable Conversation

Come to learn more about research today and how this connects to the determination of those who have long studied this topic. Stay to immerse yourself in a performance by artist Anni Domingo about Mary Prince.
Free but registration required.
www.history.ac.uk/events/black...

Thank you Kevin - that’s very kind of you to say!

🗃️ Congratulations @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social‬ -- well deserved accolades for an important book #ACIS2025 @manchesterup.bsky.social

Share Your Sari Story - Sampad Every sari has a story and we’re looking to share yours. Presented by Midlands Arts Centre and Sampad South Asian Arts and Heritage, Sari Stories is a new exhibition opening in […]

📣 Share your Sari Story with @sampadarts.bsky.social !
Sari Stories is a new exhibition opening at Midlands Arts Centre in May 2025, showcasing diverse Sari stories and memories. Callout open to anyone in the Midlands. Learn more and share your story via sampad.org.uk/news/share-your-sari-story/.

From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory

Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025
🗓️ 6th March
⏰ 17:30
📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01

www.history.ac.uk/events/black...

Thanks Sophie! GIF made me chuckle!