Joel Herman

The ‘Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800’ seminar at the Institute for Historical Research would like to appoint a doctoral student as a stipendiary postgraduate seminar convenor for 2025/26. You would be an active member of our lively, friendly seminar. Your main responsibilities would be to contribute to our social media presence, encourage other postgrads to attend the seminar, and occasionally assist with minor administrative tasks to help the seminar run smoothly. The expectation would be that you would come to the seminar as often as possible. We normally host nine seminar talks over the course of the academic year. In 2024/25, we hosted talks by Rachel Winchcombe (Manchester), Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), Will Tullet (York), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Nikki Clarke (Birkbeck), and Juliet Atkinson (Leeds). The Institute will provide you with a stipend of £300 (£100/term) and will cover the cost of your meals if you attend post-seminar dinners. The current convenors are Holly Fletcher (UCL), Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (East London), Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen Mary), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Emily Vine (Exeter), Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck) and Roisin Watson (Open University). To apply, please send a cover letter (max one page) indicating why this opportunity is of interest and a CV (1-2 pages) to b.waddell@bbk.ac.uk by September 1st.

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

The #SHEAR2026 CFP is open! During the semiquincentennial of American Independence the Program Committee invites proposals for sessions and papers considering this epochal event in the early American republic. Deadline: December 1. CFP details: shear.org/annual-meeti...

British History in the Long 18th Century Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns

Autumn schedule for @ihr.bsky.social 's British History in the Long 18th Century fortnightly seminar is now live. @long18thsem.bsky.social. Join us in person at the IHR in London or on Zoom, for Mansfield on the Chevalier d'Eon, servants' travel, rhetorics of slavery, Bengal textile workers & more.

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: three current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with a closing date of 5 September 2025. For further i...

5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians

Departmental Lecturer in Global and Imperial History at University of Oxford Discover an exciting academic career path as a Departmental Lecturer in Global and Imperial History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

4-year Departmental Lectureship in Global & Imperial History in Oxford: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC516/d...

Research Fellowships Submit an application for a research fellowship at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon.

Fellowship applications for the '26-'27 cycle have opened at Mount Vernon.

Research Fellowships at the George Washington Presidential Library share.google/P5pDZjrl58i0...

A UCC Library job advertisement with a background of sunlight streaming through a forest. The University College Cork logo is in the top-right corner. Text reads: “We are hiring a Head of Special Collections & Archives. UCC Library. Permanent Whole Time Post. Closing Date 19 August 2025.

UCC Library is recruiting a Head of Special Collections & Archives.

Lead the development, digitisation, and promotion of our rare books, manuscripts & archives.

Apply by 12pm, 19 Aug: www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

How millions of priceless words lost in a fire were painstakingly recovered The essential mission of anyone who takes the past seriously is “to make human understanding more profound”

How millions of priceless words lost in a fire were painstakingly recovered

📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025.
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

#SkyStorians One day workshop on oaths/oath-taking in Britain/Ireland/British Empire, 1600-present in London, 11 Sept.

Supported by @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social & @hisjournalha.bsky.social.

Sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oaths-and-...

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#CfA Joint Fellowship

📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism

Deadline: 26 September 2025

🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...

Our latest special issue (53/3) on 'Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-colonial Contexts' has been released, fantastically co-edited by Miranda Johnson and @henryjmiller.bsky.social - you can read the issue here:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

This is a fascinating read. I can't wait for the book.

Review of THE GREAT EXCHANGE: Making the news in early modern Europe 624pp. Allen Lane. £40. By Joad Raymond Wren.

The news that was fit to print

'While the news might often have been false, it was seldom ‘fake news’, deliberately fabricated.'

Noel Malcolm: Where newspapers came from

NYC Revolutionary Trail

nycrevolutionarytrail.org

LSE Library Fellowships Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.

#History #SkyStorians @lselibrary.bsky.social are launching a Library Fellowships scheme to work with their archives and special collections, includes funding for travel/accommodation/subsistence up to £5k. 3 themed fellowships available. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Why did a Boston Son of Liberty name his kids Catherine Macaulay and John Wilkes?

🧬 Because lineage was political.

Karin Wulf explores family, power & identity.

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#America250 #Revolution250 #AmericanRevolution #AmRev #USHistory #History

The JCB is seeking a senior leader for its ambitious digital programs. Our Associate Director for Digital Asset Management will guide the continuing development of our innovative platform, Americana, and oversee the digitization of library collections. 1/3

Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.

From teenage years my family has always vacationed at Kure Beach, NC. Here we are again bringing the next generation into the tradition.

I also think the UCC library recently acquired a large collection of maps of Ireland, but I’m not sure if they are digitised. Hope this helps.

There might be something here of use: virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...

"The History of the French Revolution, 1789 to 1795; or a country without a God". Image taken from page 22 of 'The History of the French Revolution, 1789 to 1795; or a country without a God', The British Library

Happy #BastilleDay! 🇫🇷

Discover how the French Revolution echoed in Ireland through the parliamentary debates in our Irish House of Commons Gold Seam, curated by @joelherman.bsky.social.

virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/i...

Fellowships

Researchers!

Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications.

Deadline is July 31.

beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

Great to hear the essay has been helpful.

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....

Thanks so much! I hope you find it helpful.

Thank you so much, Niamh!

The cover of the latest bokk on the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move," edited by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, showing an image of an Italian family preparing to depart and and Irish family reading a letter from America.

Interested in global history in the contexts of migration, diaspora, and empire? See the Glusksman Irish Diaspora Series, an initiative by @gihnyu.bsky.social that I have the pleasure of editing for @nyupress.bsky.social: nyupress.org/search-resul...