Sarah Betts

Cover of Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 by Morgan Golf-French

My last couple posts have gotten way more traction than usual, so I guess now's the time to say my first book is coming out with OUP in April (ebook) and May (hardback)!

You can pre-order (or ask your library to pre-order) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally"

A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical.

You know feminism /s 🙄

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#ICYMI!

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Registration open for Radical Statistics annual conference "Using Data to Promote Progressive Change", London, 14.03.26
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Programme here www.radstats.org.uk/conference

I'm doing a workshop on ECR wellbeing - with a critical use of underpinning data

Please come!

Screen grab of a call for papers at Leeds IMC. The text reads: TIME FOR CHANGE: TEMPORALITIES & CASTLES Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026 - 'Temporalities' What is a castle in time? Is there a time of castles, for castles? Can castles be atemporal? What does a castle studies engaging with questions of temporality look like? Whose castle temporalities matter? Can we call time on the castle studies of yesterday, yesteryear? Can the lens of temporality challenge castle knowledges and interpretations? This panel welcomes proposals which examine temporalities and temporalities in castle studies as a field of inquiry at the intersection of (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism. Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome: • Temporality in castle studies; • Remembering and memorializing in castle Obscured history, identities and heritages in spaces, communities, themes: past and castles past and present present; • Medieval temporalities and the heritage • Temporally situated antiquity, novelty and innovation in castles; • Planning, timing, scheduling, recording in • castle communities, lives, societies; • Ruined, lost and fictional castles in time Parallel and contradictory times; • Time and temporality in the reception of castles; Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to Dr William Wyeth (william.wyeth@english-heritage.org.uk) by 15 September 2025. This session is organised by Emma Fearon (Nottingham Trent University) and William Wyeth (English Heritage)

Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.

If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social

Original CfP below ⬇️

Did I mention this is a continuing post?

Link to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee report on 'AI, copyright and the creative industries': publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

I spoke at the Ceræ conference last year! Lovely group of people to present to

(Am I about to talk myself into putting in an abstract, even though it would involve writing something from scratch? Very possible)

Call for papers for the Centre for Port and Maritime History's 30th Anniversary Conference, Liverpool, 10-11 September 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: Share your research at the Centre for Port and Maritime History's 30th Anniversary Conference, Liverpool, 10-11 September 2026. CPMH includes @ljmuofficial.bsky.social , @liverpooluni.bsky.social & Liverpool's Maritime Museum. Submit abstract to n.j.white@ljmu.ac.uk by 15 May.

Postgraduate Funding Find out about postgraduate funding opportunities within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Birkbeck, University of London, is looking for a talented researcher to join a project focused on expanding our understanding of non elite writers and writing in seventeenth century England. As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will join 'Written Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England', an exciting Leverhulme Trust–funded project. The role is offered on a 13 month, part time (17.5 hours a week) contract with a salary of £22,124 rising to £25,189 per annum (pro-rated £44,247 to £50,379 per annum). In this role, you will carry out dedicated research on non elite textual production, working closely with the Principal Investigator, Professor Sue Wiseman, and the Co Investigator, Dr Brodie Waddell. You will have the opportunity to work extensively with manuscripts and printed sources, visit archives, investigate datasets, develop the project database, and contribute to shaping the project’s scholarly outputs - and you may also be involved in textual editing. As Research Associate, you will focus on one of two thematic strands: 1. Non elite writing produced in the provinces, or 2. Writing produced by non elite women. Further details via link

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I.

0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️
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Though note - actually MONDAY 16th March for your diaries.

JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Discover Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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💯🎯 As someone else put it recently, using genAI in many contexts is like taking a forklift to move weights around at the gym. The weights don’t need to be moved, & literature doesn’t need to be written or read for its own sake: the effort is the whole point.

I had so much fun recording this episode! But also it’s never a bad day to remind the world that Samuel Huntington and the people who use his theories do indeed suck.

Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) at University of Birmingham Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job: The University of Birmingham is seeking to appoint someone to a 21-month post associated with a research project called "French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

If you're in York on Sunday 21 March about would like to hear a talk about the trouble 18th-century writers had trying to describe York as they found it, rather than as a relic of what it once was, then I have the perfect talk for you...

#18C #YorkLitFest #18thC @yorkstjohn.bsky.social

Editorial Opportunity at Royal Studies Journal for Layout Editor responsible for creating page proofs—plenty of time to shadow current editor before taking over next cycle. Voluntary role but great for CV, deadline for EoI is 15 March, DM questions or email editor.rsj@winchester.ac.uk

Now available from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Here I've tried to give an account in English of the Ming ruling house as a family enterprise (and not forgetting imperial aunties)

Adapting Agatha Christie Podcast Episode · Period Drama Debrief · February 27 · 58m

Nobody Does Crime Better than #AgathaChristie. Check out our latest episode on TV/film adaptations of this not so "cosy" #mystery writer!
@umdhistory.bsky.social @umd-arhu.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social
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Our second seminar of the semester is coming up!

The Politics of the ‘Essential Work’ under Charles I's Personal Rule, 1629-1641

Speaker: Koji Yamamoto, University of Tokyo
📅 Wednesday 4 March
🕛 5:00-7:00pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 & Zoom
🌐 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

New curated collection of @sfhs.bsky.social French Historical Studies, by Avner Ben-Amos, on articles showing the influence of Pierre Nora on French history, commissioned by @jenniferheuer.bsky.social & Christine Haynes. 🗃️ All in open access!

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Only 3% back government's AI copyright proposal in major setback for ministers | LBC The majority of over 10,000 respondents to a UK consultation on AI and copyright have overwhelmingly shown their disapproval of the government proposal

97% of respondents to the government consultation rejected this www.lbc.co.uk/article/gove...

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Just putting it out there, while I still have the privilege of a Fellowship for next 6 months, that if early modern ECRs need me to read cover letters, funding apps, article drafts, book proposals, etc, I am happy to take some of these on (with the proviso that I will reach capacity at some point!)

BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize now open for submissions!

'This collection is a highly valuable contribution...It strikes an excellent balance between diving into detail and tracing developments in broader strokes...It is written in lively, accessible prose, with little in the way of jargon'. Slavic Review
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Poster for a talk that includes the following text: University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies and the Centre for the History of Ibero-America (CHIA) present: Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado, Boulder): ‘When the Political is Personal: Gendering Mourning in the Royal Courts of Castile and Portugal’ Wednesday 4 March, 4 pm GMT (online only via zoom). Please register at https://forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d The image background is of an elaborate monastic cloister - specifically the one at Batalha in Portugal dating to the 15th century (author Raph)

If you are interested in queenship, gender studies, or the history of death and grief, please join us on 4 March for an online only talk at 4 pm GMT. Please register at forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d #medievalsky #earlymodern #historyofemotions #historyofdeath #queenship #kingship