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Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads: The Spooky History Conference 2025 Call for Papers We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky! Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Ghosts The Supernatural Witches Death Gothic Literature The History of Halloween We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025 The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.

Our Call for Papers is open!
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃

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It's spooky time!
Elizabeth and I cannot wait to read all the fantastic abstracts!

I enjoy living in a village. I do not enjoy walking 45 mins for a doctors appointment when the farmers have just manured the fields

On which ... what are you favourite online collections of early modern letters, diaries/life-writing, and other 'personal documents'?

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Had a lovely chat with my supervisor, it's finally hitting me just how much work I have done! The end is in sight!

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#EarlyModern 🗃️

Listening to research proposal presentations today and feeing inspired by all the new research going on!

Let’s gooooooo!

Hey England can we stop going down to the wire my heart can’t deal with extra time

Congrats Aaron!

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Still looking for submissions for the @rsaorg.bsky.social panel "Living with Demons: Emotions, Encounters, Experiences".

Any #earlymodern #hextag peeps please do get in touch? Fwiw, Stuart Clark personally endorsed the abstract. 😅

www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Brilliant round table to end the magic and witchcraft conference!

Thanks Josh!

Day 2! 🧙‍♀️

1 month into The Thing About Salem podcast, & we're thrilled with the opportunity to tell this rich, complex story week by week.
From Salem's "witch cake", to judges experimenting with poppets in court proceedings. Read about it: aboutsalem.com/we-are-just-...

Ready and raring for the York Magic and Witchcraft Conference! 3 days talking about all things witchcraft!

A great Friday read. 🗃️

#Pride #TransHistory

I've had my first meetings with my new Master's students this week, and it's so nice to hear their motivations for their research projects!
It's really helping me get through the last stretch of my PhD

A photo of a grey cat sleeping on a pink duvet, with a rainbow prism hitting him right on the cheek, looking like rainbow face paint. Behind him there are some rainbows on the wall as well.

He's ready for pride month :')

#cats

Travelling to Liverpool for my final ever PGR conference! Theses conferences are always a great opportunity to see the variety of research done in the history department (and an opportunity to socialise!)

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

Trans rights protest

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Can’t wait to ramble about cute (read demonic) animals like this guy!

Got a nasty dark scan too? You could try ...

Trans rights are human rights

I do love an excuse to waffle about witchcraft! Join me next friday with Historical Perspectives!

Join us this Friday, April 18 at 3pm for our next seminar!

Chandini Jaswal talks through their research on Panāh-i Din Daran: The Story of the Forgotten Mughal Capital Dīnpanāh.

Don’t miss out, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/works-in-p...

It’s 7 pages adobe, I don’t think I need an ai summary

Title: Modern Folk horrors of the British Isles Five images of various characters: A coven of murderous witches... Who play loud youtube videos on public transport. An ancient malevolent demon... With a three-hour podcast interviewing entrepreneurs. A flock of bloodthirsty ravens... Who think absolutely everything is "Woke". A primordial shambling beast... Wearing a "Make albion great again" baseball cap. A mob of satanic villagers... Who give bad reviews to books they haven't read.

my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Image of the Salem Wotch museum at night

Back home after the #rsa2025 and a wonderful week in Boston! It wouldn’t have been complete with out a visit to Salem too!
Thanks @toujoursbizarre.bsky.social for being the best travel buddy!