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People of the Institute of Historical Research This short video features a selection of portraits taken at the Institute of Historical Research. They are inspired by the characters of the subjects and accompanied…

Join us at our 2-day oral history & digital storytelling course @ihr.bsky.social Explore the benefits of creative expression in the digital storytelling process, culminating in the opportunity to create your very own short video! shorturl.at/VHj0G
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@maxinebeuret.bsky.social

Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Call for papers | Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation

* Call for papers * PhD Workshop at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation👇

We welcome PhDs working on early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate.

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Call for research papers | Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions

* Call for research papers * Conference at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions.

Why were so many of the leaders and participants in so-called slave revolts were not enslaved themselves?

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my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr... New job in Irish Studies

Can the hive mind suggest anyone in Amsterdam willing to go to the IISH and scan some microfilmed price currents for me? They haven't replied and the website says reproductions are paused... Happy to pay, of course!
@ramonanegron.bsky.social @voetnoot.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

Call for Volunteers: Join the Team - Marsh's Library We are looking for outgoing, confident people to join our team of volunteers.

We are looking for outgoing people to join our team of volunteers. We'd like to hear from you if you can spare one morning or one afternoon per week to welcome visitors to our historic library. Find out more here: marshlibrary.ie/call-for-vol...

Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February.

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Looking forward to this semester‘s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series which starts this Friday! Drinks and snacks provided as usual. All welcome!

Killing Women: Femicide in Northern Ireland, 1922-2000 Killing Women: Femicide in Northern Ireland, 1922-2000

Killing Women: Femicide in Northern Ireland, 1922-2000 Funded #Phd with Prof Leanne McCormick @qubhistory.bsky.social What a fantastic project! #JobFairy #ECR #AcademicChatter tinyurl.com/2zpejwmf

PhD scholarship in History or Geography at Dublin City University - applicants with an interest in medieval Ireland are particularly encouraged to apply.

#MedievalSky

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Coming soon from @livunipress.bsky.social A wild ride from Cuba to the Cape Colony and Civil War Kentucky. The moral of the story? Although C19 Britons thought their model of emancipation was exceptional, it was anything but #Cuba #AmericanCivilWar #slavery #emancipation #SouthAfrica

Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber

Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/

Pirate Imperialism - Yale University Press London This first truly global history of the suppression of piracy links maritime raiding to empire building in the nineteenth century   In the middle decades...

Pirate Imperialism is now officially published. Probably of interest to anyone who wants to understand, well, everything that is going on today. #bskyhistorians #skyhistorians
Here:

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Job alert: 18th century historians!
historyofparliament.com/2026/01/12/v... #skystorians #c18th 🗃️

Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).

Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians

Steps towards identifying new Black voters in 18th-century Westminster and Hertfordshire - The History of Parliament A few months ago, the History welcomed a guest post by Dr Gillian Williamson with her groundbreaking research into John London, to date the earliest known

The Georgian Lords welcomes in the new year with a post by Robin Eagles on the likely identification of new Black voters in 18th-century London and Hertfordshire:
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#HistParl #skystorians

YouTube video by Royal Historical Society Royal Historical Society lecture: Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World

And if you're teaching medieval history & would like to include the other half of the population, Dr Natasha Hodgson of Nottingham Trent's Royal Historical Society lecture, 'Royal Historical Society lecture: Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World' is free to view. 2/2

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Slavery experienced explosive growth in Britain’s Atlantic empire. In 1650, small numbers of captive Africans toiled on tiny pockets of land, principally in Barbados and Virginia. When emancipation ca...

Anyone with access to Labor able to send me a copy of this review? read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

🗃️ Thank you for the shoutout @timothybrown.bsky.social and for putting "The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic" in such good company! 🧵 1/3 @academic.oup.com global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Our final newsletter of the year! 🎄

Catch up with our news and see all of our latest #OpenAccess titles, plus details of our next training session. Includes a pic from #HistoryDay at Senate House and some brilliant author blogs, including from @nicholasmaple.bsky.social.

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Postgraduate Conference - Challenging Literary and Cultural Practices, Now: Contemporary Approaches to the Humanities - British Association for American Studies We are pleased to announce the first edition of the Postgraduate Symposium “Challenging Literary and Cultural Practices, Now: Contemporary Approaches to the Humanities” , to be held on 26-27 March…

#CFP - Postgraduate Conference - Challenging Literary and Cultural Practices, Now: Contemporary Approaches to the Humanities.

The symposium will take place on 15th January 2026.

Abstracts must be submitted by 31st December.

Amid the miasma of institutional and Edtech-commercial hectoring on the imperative rapidly to embrace GenAI tools for research and writing, a simple pearl of wisdom to share with students and colleagues in 2026 (or even 2025).

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...

The Society offers following 3 funding calls with closing dates in January: bit.ly/4p6jcea

> Workshop Grants, supporting project work by historians
> PhD Fellowships, to support completion of a doctorate
> Applied History Fellowships, for post-doc historians with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson

"The golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates."

Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @lhistorienne.bsky.social!

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Research Training and Short Courses The IHR offers a wide range of training courses for historians at all career stages, from digital research and oral history to archives and publishing.

Are you a PG research student based outside of London? Did you know that you may be eligible for a bursary of up to £500 to take one of our short courses in 2026? Find out more on our IHR Research Training and Short Courses page: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini... Applications open until 31 Jan 2026!

Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920* Abstract. A new survey of ‘Liberated Africans’ exposes how global calculations of involuntary African indentured labour after 1800 have been significantly

From the current issue: “Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920”

by Henry B. Lovejoy (@colorado.edu)

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CFP: Violence: Legacies of Conflict in Ireland
Comhfhios Boston Irish Studies at Boston College
Feb 7, 2026, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

All proposals should be 200 - 300 words, for papers 15-20 minutes long. Please submit all proposals by January 5th, 2026. Contact ComhfhiosBC@gmail.com

Fascinating paper Patrick, looking forward to the book.