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Double success: Liverpool academics awarded ERC Consolidator Grants - University of Liverpool News Double success: Liverpool academics awarded ERC Consolidator Grants

A celebratory #AcademicAdvent today, as we share the great news of Dr Ceren Kabukcu, an archaeobotanical expert from @livancworlds.bsky.social, and her recent win of a £1.4m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. Read about her exciting project here ➡️

Inside the Regency ballroom: what you’d experience on a night out with Jane Austen Ball-goers needed months to prepare for these events.

It’s Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary and @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellow @hillaryburlock.bsky.social helps us understand what going to the ball was all about, including the months of preparation required
theconversation.com/inside-the-r...

Looking forward to reading this

Photo of historian David Olusoga dressed in black with an out of focus red building behind. The words Empire with David Olusoga are superimposed.

The history and legacy of the British Empire with @davidolusoga.bsky.social
Coming in November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🗃️📚📺 #history

‘Collecting Stories’: new book brings University of Liverpool collections alive - University of Liverpool News ‘Collecting Stories’: new book brings University of Liverpool collections alive

A new book from the Liverpool University Press (@livunipress.bsky.social) brings to life the story of research and collecting at the University from the 1880s to the present day. Discover ‘Collecting Stories: The cultural collections of the University of Liverpool’ here ⤵️ #BookSky

From October 2025 until June 2026, the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ieper / Ypres will be hosting the exhibition "Ontheemd" (Displaced) telling the story of First World War Refugees in the museum and around the city. More here: www.inflandersfields.be/nl/programma...

We at The WFA have launched our PhD Grant Scheme for 2025.

The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War.

Where will our grant take you?

See website for full details 👇🏻

www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...

#Fwwhist #phdchat

Job advertisement

The Hamburg team (Professor Alan Kramer) of our @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant BLOCKADE is looking for a FOUR YEAR PostDoc to work on blockade as 'slow violence' in the Great War-era Middle East. Please share! www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

SHAPE Involve and Engage A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

Happiness in a photo 😁

#WEURO2025

Obituary: Dr Ray Costello | Stories | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool

Everyone at LUP is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr Ray Costello, Liverpool-born historian, author, and educator. He has left a lasting impact with his important work on Liverpool's Black History, and also with the kind, friendly reputation he was well known for.

British Science Festival graphic slide, dark bluey purple background, turquoise and pink text. It reads: Get ready, Liverpool! Save the date 10-14 September 2025. Two people at a previous festival have fun with a driving simulator.

Save the date! 🤩

The British Science Festival is coming to Liverpool in partnership with @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social.

This 10–14 September, join us for FREE events at iconic cultural venues across the city centre, the docks and uni campuses: ow.ly/vE9n50W0TTa

#BSF25

Supported by the Research England Culture Fund, these workshops combine academic expertise with industry knowledge grounded in real-world experience and will be designed specifically for you. Details here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/uol-hss-pgr/...

Dr Sophie Jones

Apropros of nothing, here's a blog and podcast from the archives featuring Dr Sophie Jones and her research on political identities during the American Revolution www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #NoKings

Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by @erc.europa.eu You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely

Check out the call for papers for this exciting conference in beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer in March next year on 'Women in War in France, Britain and Ireland'. It should be a fascinating event. femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/call-for-...

Don't forget the arts when it comes to R&D spending The UK's creative economy is worth more than our life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined

‘R&D is a long-term source of prosperity, and an area of UK competitive advantage… but to maximise the impact on UK productivity, innovation policy needs to link more strongly with industrial strategy for a services based economy.’ Me in CityAM ahead of the SR
www.cityam.com/dont-forget-...

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

In memoriam

www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories

Our Prof @downham.bsky.social will be part of the closing roundtable discussing "Challenges with Community and Public Engagement" at @ihr.bsky.social's "Difficult Histories" workshop
🗓️9:30am - 5:30pm, Tuesday 6 June
🧭@sotauol.bsky.social
FREE Registration required: www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

A map of the UK, overlaid with a heat map that displays 'cold spots' where there is a lack of provision of social sciences and humanities higher education courses.

A map of the UK overlaid with colour coded circles that show the concentration of student numbers across different regions.

A line chart showing changes in student numbers over time.

Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K

Report Launch: The State of Intergovernmental Relations in England The state of Intergovernmental Relations in England: towards a new era of partnership?

🚨 Report Launch: The State of Intergovernmental Relations in England - Towards a New Era of Partnership?
🗓️ Thurs 19 June 2025
🕝 1:30–3:00pm | Online
📍 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-lau...

The UK might have accepted the idea of youth mobility with the EU, but it’s not happening any time soon There’s still a very long way to go before anyone gets to use the scheme in practice.

The road to a EU-UK youth mobility scheme is going to be a long one

Me, for @theconversation.com

theconversation.com/the-uk-might...

A B&W photo (1950s?) of students, some in cap and gown, riding an Indian elephant.

Colleagues are invited to meet the Special Collections & Archives team (@livunisca.bsky.social) on 27 May to see how Heritage staff and collections can be a key part of grant development & research projects. Elephants not included www.ticketsource.co.uk/heritage-ins... @heritageinstitute.bsky.social

Britain, Conflict, and the Sea conference This conference seeks to explore the ways in which modern Britain has been shaped by ideas and practices of maritime war.

Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

Image of University of London with the text: RHS Centenary Fellowships, for PhD completion, 2025-26. Closing date for applications: 31 May 2025

Applications now invited for the Society's two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26 to support PhD students complete a doctorate in #history.

The Fellowships are held in conjunction with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

"Pivotal" Horizon Europe Pump Priming grants forging successful futures for UK researchers As the next round of Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration grants prepares to open this month, UK researchers continue to form impactful partnerships with their EU counterparts, with international...

'The funding from the British Academy was pivotal in unifying our cross-border consortium'

We are offering £10k grants to pump prime applications to Horizon Europe. They've been hugely successful so far and we'll be opening the next call later this month
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/pivotal...

🚨Job klaxon🚨 Opportunity for an oral historian interested in the history of swimming, water access and ‘blue spaces’ to work at Newcastle with the wonderful Elizabeth Turk on an interdisciplinary Wellcome project. Full details here jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

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Image of Ethel Smyth's Mass in D manuscript

Major news from our Special Collections and Archives! 📢

Our Head of Music, Prof Lisa Colton @lisacolton.bsky.social, identified that we hold the manuscript of Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D, which scholars thought was lost. It is now fully available on the Digital Heritage Lab: tinyurl.com/47ce8hkd

Image of three badge designs: with wording 'Trust Me, I'm a Historian', ' This is what a Historian looks like', and 'I know the value of history'.

We're very pleased to be attending the 2025 @histassoc.bsky.social conference in Liverpool today.

If you're there too, please visit our stand in the exhibition area to pick up one of our new badges: designed for historians of all kinds who understand the value of the past.

#HAconf25 #Skystorians