Dr Anna McKay

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

34 degrees at the Huntington Library today..! Great day scoping the collections ☀️☀️☀️

The afterlives of the prison: a painted button emblazoned with the Paris coat of arms and the words "stone from the Bastille" (with a spelling mistake) made out of stone taken from the demolished Bastille prison, c.1790 (Musée Carnavalet) 🗃️

Letterhead from All the Year Round, Charles Dickens's weekly journal, 1859. So exciting! #HuntingtonLibrary

Home for the next 6 weeks - my first day at the #HuntingtonLibrary as an #AHRC International Fellow. Enjoying #Pasadena palm trees, and the incredible San Gabriel Mountains. Foodie and sightseeing recommendations welcome..!

Want academic seminars about India and imperial defence? And a tour of Knebworth House, ancestral home of viceroy Lord Lytton? All in one day with lunch thrown in?
Then look no further:

knebworthhouse.com/Event/public...

IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Calling all Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers - Join us for IHR@Liverpool on 9 June 2025. A one-day workshop on the subject of Difficult Histories. Travel bursaries available. www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

Checking out some cheery library books @liverpooluni.bsky.social this morning..

A Dartmoor village is paying Prince William £1.5m-a-year for an abandoned prison - and former inmates say it gave them cancer As ex-prisoners sue over claims that high levels of radon gas have led to serious illnesses, taxpayers continue to foot the rental bill

Dartmoor prison is a granite fortress built 1806-9 to house French prisoners of the Napleonic wars. MPs first began discussing high radon levels there in 1987.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

'Doing history for climate action'. Text and images of magazine. Images include people viewing exhibition and a 17th century drawing of Hull.

We are looking for 1.500 word articles for our 'Doing History' feature of The Historian (magazine of The Historical Association). Please get in touch if you might like to share an aspect of historical practice with our members. 🗃️ @histassoc.bsky.social

CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 September, Maynooth University Irish Conference of Historians CFPDownload

35th Conference of Irish Historians. Hosted by @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of History. Theme 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'. Call for papers closes 31 March @muahi.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @iaphistorians.bsky.social

www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

..and recently published online is a new @liverpooluni.bsky.social Centre for Innovation in Education case study detailing my 2nd year History module, 'Investigating Journalism: British Newspapers from the Spectator to Stead', which I am so pleased with: www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-i...

..I had an adventure at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social later in March presenting my 'Interdisciplinary Walks' project to a very lovely crowd of researchers based at Durham and Leicester. More about the walks project here: www.leicias.le.ac.uk?cat=3

...before a week-long visiting fellowship at @muahi.bsky.social Maynooth University in March, which was SO excellent and another great chance to think about Irish convicts in Bermuda during the Famine

...then I finally got to carry out some in-person research at The National Archives of Ireland and visited Dún Laoghaire, where convict hulks were moored from 1825-1837

I started 2025 with a month-long stay at the wonderful @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social as a Leuven Centre for Irish Studies visiting fellow - researching the lives and experiences of Irish convicts in Bermuda - amazing town, tried every cake imaginable

Hello Bluesky! I am VERY late to the party but looking forward to reconnecting and hearing about everyone's research and adventures...!

A paperback copy of Small Things in the Eighteenth Century in the sunshine in front of King’s Manor in York.

📣 now out in paperback 📚 Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Personal and Political Value of the Miniature, co-edited by yours truly and the amazing Beth Fowkes Tobin from @cambridgeup.bsky.social