D-Day
On 6 June 1944, it was from the BBC that the world learned that D-Day was finally happening.
Hear the official announcement on the BBC that D-Day had begun, the first dispatches from the Normandy beaches, and insider accounts of what was happening behind the scenes on 6th June 1944.
How the BBC reported D-Day:
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I have the Churchill in honey noire. Itβs gorgeous, but also a big old pen. Easily the largest in my collection and can be tiring to write with for long periods
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Different fountain pen ink colours collated in an ink library
Updating the fountain pen ink library. What a pleasure
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Will funding cuts devalue arts and humanities PhDs in the UK?
From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD supervis...
From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD supervision and limit opportunities to exercise intellectual autonomy. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #PhDs
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Image of a mortar board with the text: 'Masters' Scholarships 2025-26: supporting students from groups under-represented in history'
Applications now invited for the Society's Masters' Scholarships 2025-26 bit.ly/4bJs8je
Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians
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π£ Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich:
βDe-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.β
Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants!
#PhD #postgraduate
www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...
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MA Funding
The Warburg Institute has a range of full fee MA bursaries available to both home/EU and international students.
Thinking about applying for one of our MA courses?
Don't miss out on funding β the Peltz and American Friends of the Warburg fellowships close on 25 April!
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying/fun...
#ArtHistory #CulturalHistory
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'Plate, porcelain, of octagonal shape, painted with blue floral motifs edging with gold rim, and central image of a figure in a red kimono sitting in a garden, Jingdezhen, China, decorated in Guangzhou (Canton), ca. 1750.' National Trust, Osterley NT 771529.
Lecturer/Associate Professor in Art and Material Cultures of Britain, c.1650-1900: a permanent post in UCL's History of Art Department. Includes British art and material culture in its global and colonial contexts. Standard teaching & research contract. 22 April.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Graphic of the word 'History' composed of people with the additional text: Applications invited for RHS Scouloudi Public History Grants, 2025. New funding programme, closes 23 May'.
Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK
Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups.
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Arts and Humanities Research Fellow at House of Commons
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
'The role of the Arts and Humanities Research Fellow will be to conduct primary and secondary research on the impact of arts and humanities research on parliamentary scrutiny, culminating in the production of a report for policy audiences, & an academic journal article for the research community.'
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V&A Foundation Awards - MA History of Design Programme at Victoria and Albert Museum
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
Two UK (home status) bursaries available for V&A's fab MA in the History of Design for 2025-26. Bursaries cover the full Β£17,000 fee. Under-represented groups supported by the scheme include for example African, Caribbean, Asian backgrounds, refugee status, care-leavers, disability, & low-income.
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PhD student in the history of science - Uppsala University
PhD student in the history of science, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
These are four-year, paid positions and in a great department. PhD students have access to benefits like paid vacation & parental leave. International applicants are very welcome! Please share widely and Tell your best students and recent graduates to apply! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Research Fellow at University of Sussex
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Fellow at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
We're recruiting a Research Fellow to work on our Leverhulme Trust funded project using materials in the Mass Observation Archive to study how political understandings develop over the life course.
With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...
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History PhD scholarship
Find out about a PhD scholarship in History with Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent.
I know how tough it is out there, but we do have a fully funded PhD scholarship available here at CCCU, with a UKRI-linked stipend and great staff to support you. If you want to pursue a PhD in History, Archaeology, or Heritage; consider applying. We're a friendly bunch and Canterbury is lovely. ποΈ
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For those who like to chat about fountain pens, fountain pen ink, and stationery, I have a Fountain Pen People Starter Pack in my profile. If you wish to be added to that list, let me know! go.bsky.app/8xxD8zY
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Poster containing training session name, date, location & blurb. All the info available in link included in post.
NEW TRAINING SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us in March to learn more about how to research place-based religious histories beyond the parish church. Everyone is welcome for this free training. www.history.ac.uk/events/resea...
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Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
Manchester Uni are hiring 3-year postdoc bicentennary fellows in Arts and Humanities - details here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Are you passionate about libraries and looking to gain hands-on experience?
We are hiring two Graduate Library Trainees to start in September 2025.
Find out more and apply: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/job-opp...
#LibraryJob #LibraryJobs
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Lecturer in Cultural History
Are you a historian, preferably with an interest in the cultural history of Russia and the United States? We are looking for a temporary lecturer!
Cultural History @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a vacancy for a temporary lecturer in Cultural History (for 1 year; 0,7fte; starting 1 Feb. 2025; deadline 17 Jan.). We will consider all specializations, but hope to hire someone with expertise in Russian or US history.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
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Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; Past Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Author. Humanist woman in tech. Dune fan and guinea pig owner. AuDHD. Was an academic.
Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.
πLecturer @BristolUni @BILT (curriculum, pedagogy, SFHEA, sustainability, AI, qual research) UCU WIASN Higher Education
πΊ Archaeologist @archsengage.bsky.social Archaeology
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Proud to be the MP for Westmorland & Lonsdale. Former leader of the Lib Dems.
Promoted by P Trollope on behalf of T Farron both at Acland House Yard 2 Stricklandgate Kendal LA9 4ND
Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when Iβm in Montreal
PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law/Deputy HoD at @sdu.dk. EU & #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Crim Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings @locastproject.bsky.social. Head of Psychology, Swansea University π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ. Charity trustee x2. My views
Guinness World Record for the fastest bicycle ride across Europe drianwalker.com
Member of Parliament for Spen Valley
Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
librarian, archivist, historian, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
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Labour client journalist and member of the right-wing MSM, apparently. Also political editor of HuffPost UK.
Lecturer in Early Modern History | βdazzlingβ - BBC History | 'miasma enthusiast' - The Critic | 'belligerent academic' - The Daily Mail | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academiaβs longest commute | writing my third book
Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
Teacher, reader, observer of people and the natural world, wife, cat mom, unapologetic liberal, feminist, queerdo, antiracist, neurodivergent who masquerades as a normie. Obsessed with the analog, particularly film cameras, typewriters & fountain pens.
