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A company logo for a firm reading (in swirly, ye olde script) ‘Charles Dickens / Estate Agents – Valuers – Auctioneers’, with an inkpot and quill image; white on maroon.

I don't love that my first association here is #BleakHouse. But is literary namesaking more of a thing that I realised?🤞
#CharlesDickens
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Doing History with Poetry: A Conversation with Catherine Clarke and Hannah Lowe (The 2025 Creighton Lecture)

Please join us on 9 September for this exciting #event, and to celebrate the #launch of my new #book, A #History of England in 25 Poems. A conversation with award-winning poet Hannah Lowe, chaired by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, then wine reception. All welcome! Book:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Curious Cures completed - really excellent work by a brilliant team @theul.bsky.social led by Dr James Freeman: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

#skystorians #18thC 🗃️

Job spotlight of the week: Lecturer in Historic Environment at the IHR, Senate House, London. Fixed-term for 12 months, 17.5 hours per week, £45K pro-rata.

Vacancies - BSECS Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...

***Engagement Officer Vacancy***
We're looking for an engagement officer to act as primary point of contact for #18thC centres across the UK, and to oversee our outreach and engagement. It's a voluntary role, but associated travel & accommodation expenses are paid...
www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'.

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✨️Job Alert✨️ Research Associate, 21st Century Oxford Authors Edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Fixed-term, University of Sheffield, closing date 18 August.

Please share with ECRs!

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More than 50 people have signed up for this now! Should be a super fun session. We'll have interaction via a shared doc that folks can type info anonymously.

Don't forget to get your entries in for the Janette Harley prize!

Research Fellow - School of History and Cultures - 105992 - Grade 7 To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within the Leverhulme Trust funded research project "The Ascent Of Paper Currency In Britain, 1690s...

Job spotlight of the week:
Research Fellow in Economic History at the University of Birmingham, working on the Leverhulme Trust funded project "The Ascent Of Paper Currency In Britain, 1690s–1920s".
Full time, £37k, fixed term to September 2027.

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Photograph of Sarah Wride: short blonde hair, big glasses, smiling at the camera!

That’s right #Skystorians & #AcademicSky!
It’s time to introduce you to another @historylabplus.bsky.social committee member
...historian of modern British & Irish culture @srwride.bsky.social 👇&🧵

Still 3 weeks to apply to be the new IJHS Europe regional editor! ⬇️ 🗃️ #sporthistory #skystorians

Calling all scholars & enthusiasts of the #Wordsworths! Please rally to @saverydalmount.bsky.social's important campaign to save the final home of writers William & Dorothy (& others!): beautiful Rydal Mount! 👉 saverydalmount.org.uk

#Romanticism
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#BookSky
#Skystorians

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.

Manchester Histories Logo. Text: 'We are Hiring - This Is Us Project Manager'

📢Manchester Histories is seeking an organised Project Manager to lead This is Us: Tracing Manchester’s Histories Project.

Deadline: July 14, 5pm.

Apply here: bit.ly/MHJobs3

Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Manchester City Council.

If you are interested in ensuring the (mental) welfare of researchers and practitioners while working with #difficultdata, we'd love you to join our #PeTRA community interest group. Currently finding a date for our next meeting so put in your preference! digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/community-in...

Senior Teaching Associate in European Social and Economic History, post-1800 [Temporary Cover], 4 years, full time, linked to @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social and @camhistory.bsky.social
Job description and how to apply here: www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/se...

I want to briefly talk about one thing people don't really talk about too much with precarity and one thing that most senior staff gloss over, offering a platitude instead of engaging with what is fundamentally wrong with the precarity situation in the UK. 1/

History Lab Plus A network for Early Career Historians, in partnership with the IHR

Thanks for this Andre! Don't worry at all, we'll be circulating recordings from this event via the @historylabplus.bsky.social website & member newsletter in the coming month ...with a fair wind! Our website (with the form to join the network) is 👇

Our online 'Historical Research & Policy Making' event is TOMORROW!

But there are still some spots available! Get thee to shorturl.at/HZd5z #skystorians for details & to sign up NOW...

Or even #Skystorians! Oh dear.

📢 @historylabplus.bsky.social's 'Historical Research & Policy Making' event is BUT DAYS AWAY!

yes I said yes I will Yes will you be there? (also: a v. merry #Bloomsday 2025!)

@ihrlibrary.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
@historyandpolicy.bsky.social

#Twitterstorians
#AcademicSky
#PhDSky

New hero just dropped.

From Quack Doctors to French Academic Medicine: Anne Lister’s Explorations of Illness and Anatomy, 1819-1839

Friday at the Institute of Historical Research in London, or online if you book in advance. Just part of @ihr.bsky.social 's fab line-up of 50-ish fortnightly seminars on a wide and diverse range of historical topics and time periods. Free and open to the public (and usually also available online).

This sounds brilliant- signed up

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WHN Annual Book Prize We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

📢 Explore how to make your research findings more visible to UK policy makers w/ us & the AMAZING @drhmccabe.bsky.social, Drs Sarah Foxen, Abigail Fletcher & Henry Irving, Prof. Philip Murphy, @amsichani.bsky.social & @tomkelsey.bsky.social!
🗓️ Online, 19 June @ 12:30
Details? 👉 shorturl.at/HZd5z