Daniel Grey

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

The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar resumes on 14 January 2026, in person at the Institute of Historical Research and online via Zoom. (Kate Gibson, speaking on Fostering in 18th-century Britain).

Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. Tea, coffee and a drink will be provided.

Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.

📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00

Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.

The Racial Code Miles, a successful lawyer, is mistaken for the waiter at a networking event. Femi is on the verge of breakdown having been consistently overlooked for promotion at her university. Nigel's emails, rep...

'This is racism. It is not about the overt acts of random people at the fringes of society. It's about the everyday. It's the loaded silence, the throwaway remark, the casual comment or a 'joke' in the workplace.'

www.penguin.co.uk/books/444010...

The Home Office also recognise that this may have an impact on user of care services who are likely to be older people and those with disabilities. The Home Office believes that despite these points the changes are justified for a number of policy reasons including reducing net migration and ending reliance on overseas recruitment.

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

This is the stupidest strategy imaginable. “Quick! Curb people’s human rights, or those people who want to curb human rights will get into power!” *headdesk*

Excellent and crucial read, as the varoius crises in higher education give managers (and others) a quiet excuse to scale back, undo, or continue to ignore the work needed.

Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British schools

"Art history gives you tools to interpret the visual world and makes you more of a critical viewer of political messages, advertising and a barrage of social media images. It’s dangerous if you can’t examine these things critically".

apollo-magazine.com/art-history-...

Honoured to have been elected President of the WHAI. Impressive shoes to fill following Diane Urquhart. Wonderful association to represent.

International Public History Volume 8 Issue 2 Volume 8, issue 2 of the journal International Public History was published in 2025.

Some excellent, open access, analyses here of History Reclaimed’s counterpart right wing public history campaigns around the world:

www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

A £10 billion hole in the economy and a deepening care crisis — to appease the far right (which will never be appeased anyway)

'Love in the Lav' by Dr Averill Earls - Talk and Panel Discussion Irish launch of Averill Earl’s 'Love in the Lav' with Páraic Kerrigan (UCD) and Tom Hulme (QUB).

If you'll be in Dublin at the end of January, come to hear me talk for a bit (and then converse with the wonderful @tomhulme.bsky.social and @paraickerrigan.bsky.social), the eventbrite sign up is now live: www.eventbrite.ie/e/love-in-th...

The @ifrwh-offical.bsky.social voted in their next board for the 2025-30 term. Delighted to be serving as President for the next five years alongside some great friends & colleagues. This means the next IFRWH conference will be in Limerick, Ireland, in a few years time! Details to follow soon 😍

Guide for Members - RHS On 18 November 2025, the Society released its new Guide for Members to highlight the benefits available to current Fellows and Members. The Guide provides information relating to the following areas o...

The Society is a community of 6500+ historians in the UK and 70 countries worldwide. Applications to join them are welcome at any time, with the next closing dates of 15 December and 9 March 2026 bit.ly/48u4rg0.

The benefits of Fellow / Membership are available in our new guide bit.ly/4oTBPSw 2/2

Society elects 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS At its latest meeting on 21 November 2025, the RHS Council elected 58 Fellows, 30 Associate Fellows, 51 Members and 95 Postgraduate Members, a total of 234 people newly associated with the Society, fr...

The Society is very pleased to welcome 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members who join @royalhistsoc.org after the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/48Nd30f

Our new Fellows and Members practice history across many professions and as independent researchers 1/2

I try not to talk about this much, but in case someone else needs to hear it… Being a carer to a loved one is incredibly hard physically and mentally and unbearable sometimes. Doing paid work on top of that can sometimes feel impossible no matter how much of a privilege it is to have the option.

Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past

If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B

Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.

Slide inviting historians to Join the Royal Historical Society, with the closing dates 15 December 2025 and 9 March 2026.

Tomorrow we make our final Visit of 2025: to historians
@lshtm.bsky.social and @ioe.bsky.social.

Our focus is on working as a historian outside 'traditional' history departments - something that's increasingly common. The RHS welcomes historians to join us, wherever they work bit.ly/3KBcnTy 1/2

one small lesson to take away from the crumbling HE sector, btw, is that there is no such thing as meritocracy here and the only thing that matters is doing work that is meaningful to you and the people you care about and to make friends and collaborators in the process

SWAAN | Seafaring Women Ashore and Abroad Network Women have always been at sea. Here at SWAAN, we look to the past to push for a future where women have opportunities to work in maritime industries on land and at sea with our partners. We will build...

Announcing a workshop on women and the sea, taking place in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 29th-May 1st, 2026!

www.swaan.org

Supported by a Lloyd's Heritage Foundation grant, the SWAAN project focuses on women in ocean industries in history and today. The workshop is the first of 2 gatherings...

First two paragraphy of Hillner & MacCarron, Social Network Analysis, in Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography, Leiden 2026

Cover of Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography edited by Marietta Horster, Richard Flower, Frédéric Hurlet, and Ralph W. Mathisen

So pleased this is finally out: "Social Network Analysis", with my favourite writing buddy, the incomparable Máirín MacCarron, in Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography. We hope it will be useful, also for teaching!
The whole volume looks great, congrats to the editors!
brill.com/display/titl...

📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life

Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?

Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

Babies will die if he gets to take even one step further on this train of thought. women will be further subjugated, immiserated, and pushed deeper into postpartum mental health crises. He needs to be stopped.

This will be a lovely event tomorrow! Come, all!

A twofold plight: for researchers and for Library staff (some of whom are also researchers). Past time for DCMS to take note.

As Nick says here, this really is a 'gem of a story' and told expertly and brilliantly by @victoriancommons.bsky.social

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 ...

New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb

Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.

Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Hello from History at the University of Hertfordshire, with a similar story to tell about research excellence.

In the 1996 RAE 'in Physics, Hertfordshire with a 4 equalled most Russell Group universities, as did their score in Computer Science. In the areas of Linguistics and in Russian Thames Valley (University of West London) and Portsmouth earned 5s respectively, equalling Oxford and Cambridge.'