Fantastic week at Western Cape Archives in Cape Town. Some great little finds here (researching POWs, convicts and ships) - and lovely people!
19.09.2025 12:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Economic and Social History Society of Ireland CfP for their annual conference deadline 30 September 2025!
26.08.2025 13:39 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Secret lives of the "low water" panel discussion
In London on Tuesday 2 September? Interested about the lives of people, ships, and spaces connected to the Thames? Then come join us at London Museum Docklands and hear about the secret lives of the "low water": www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sec...
28.08.2025 13:08 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
14.05.2025 12:14 — 👍 31 🔁 38 💬 0 📌 1
34 degrees at the Huntington Library today..! Great day scoping the collections ☀️☀️☀️
10.05.2025 04:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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) 🗃️
09.05.2025 07:20 — 👍 41 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Letterhead from All the Year Round, Charles Dickens's weekly journal, 1859. So exciting! #HuntingtonLibrary
08.05.2025 21:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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..!
05.05.2025 21:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
23.04.2025 07:58 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories
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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...
14.04.2025 09:30 — 👍 35 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0
Checking out some cheery library books @liverpooluni.bsky.social this morning..
13.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
'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
11.04.2025 10:35 — 👍 24 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 0
CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 September, Maynooth University
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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...
26.03.2025 09:44 — 👍 7 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
..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...
11.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
..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
11.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
...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
11.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
...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
11.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
11.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hello Bluesky! I am VERY late to the party but looking forward to reconnecting and hearing about everyone's research and adventures...!
11.04.2025 19:41 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
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
03.04.2025 12:15 — 👍 88 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1
Historian of health and medicine in the maritime world
Currently a Caird Research Fellow at Royal Museums Greenwich
Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
Associate professor at Université Paris Cité (history of knowledge - 17th-18th c.) Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow at the Huntington (April/May/June 2025) & Associate Fellow of the RHS. At work on a monograph about women's meditations in 17th c. England
Writer, historian and broadcaster
WRITING ON THE WALL (Profile, 2024)
AFTER DARK podcast (History Hit)
Currently writing about historical hoaxes, fake news and conspiracy theories
Freelance Historian | Part-time PhD English print trade networks 1600-50 📚 Vice-Chair, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors. Co-editor How-to History. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for over 25 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary in MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Author of many books - the latest The Bookshop, the Draper, The Candlestick Maker: a history of the High Street. Also grows vegetables, often badly.
Inspiring the extraordinary.
Official Durham University Bluesky account.
Senior Lecturer in History at ARU | Researches poverty, welfare, consumption and material culture | Obsesses over fonts far too much
Historian of empire, museums and collecting in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. University of Lincoln. Also interested in islands, the environment and pedagogy.
Historical & Maritime Archaeologist | Shipyards, Dry Docks & Ship(wreck)s | Port Cities | Great Lakes-Atlantic Shipping | Welland Canal Heritage Advocate | Adjunct Professor. https://beacons.ai/shicklunashipyard
Professor at Queen Mary University of London; Chair of Trustees at the Geographical Association. Research, write and teach about Britain (especially London) since 1800. Collaborator, especially with heritage sector + food, music, books, Hackney.
Principal Research Fellow, Bentham Project, @ucllaws.bsky.social Editing Bentham's works and correspondence. Historian of convict transportation and the Norfolk Island penal station.
An award-winning crowdsourcing initiative led by the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, engaging people in the transcription of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for a new edition of his Collected Works.
Interested in co-production, archives and public histories. Historian of 18thC poverty, marginal communities and cleanliness. Currently researching 19thC prisons. I did a thing here www.thomasturner.org.uk #18C
