Will Butler

#DigiPres the Digital Archiving Department at The National Archives (UK) is currently looking for a Digtial Archivist (Transfer) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... and 2 Data Engineers www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi.... ce.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Picture of the cover of the British Journal for Military History, Volume 11, Issue 2, August 2025. Cover picture is from the German East African Campaign. Kavirondo (BEA) porters of the 2nd Road Corps. Chikukwe Swamp, January 1918. Photo © Imperial War Museum, IWM (Q15625)

The new issue of the BJMH is now online at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ As always Open Access and free to all! Appropriately in the 80th anniversary of VE & VJ day we have 3 articles on the SWW. 1/7

Picture of the cover of the British Journal for Military History, Volume 11, Issue 2, August 2025. Cover picture is from the German East African Campaign. Kavirondo (BEA) porters of the 2nd Road Corps. Chikukwe Swamp, January 1918. Photo © Imperial War Museum, IWM (Q15625)

A heads up for the next issue of the BJMH! To be published online next Tuesday, 26 August this is a regular issue with topics from the American Revolution to Normandy in 1944 via East Africa in the FWW. As always, Open Access and free to all at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/

Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Records Specialist: 19th Century/Modern Parliament at The National Archives Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

There is still time to apply for these two roles: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS877/r...

Records Specialist: 19th Century/Modern Parliament at The National Archives Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

There is still time to apply for these two roles: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS877/r...

Our friends at the Army Records Society have launched another round of their fellowship programme, which offers funding over three years to create a volume in their long-running primary source series. Details at www.smh-hq.org/opps/jobs.html.

@histparl.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social

Two records specialist roles on Parliamentary records at TNA. Closing at the end of July: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Two records specialist roles on Parliamentary records at TNA. Closing at the end of July: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

John Lewis: A Black Sailor at the 1828 Weymouth By-Election - The History of Parliament In this guest article Dr Joe Cozens discusses his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election. Dr Cozens is

New article today for the #HistParl site.

@joecozens.bsky.social explores the records of John Lewis, a Black sailor arrested at the 1828 Weymouth by-election, and how his story serves as an example of Black political participation in the early 19th century:

historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...

VE Day, 8 May 1945 When it became increasingly clear that Allied victory over Nazi Germany in Europe was likely, plans were made by the British authorities to celebrate it.

More VE Day related records at The National Archives can be found here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Summary of arrangements for celebrating VE Day, taken from War Cabinet minutes, April 1945

@ssnci.bsky.social New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century is out on 28 July 2025! Order a copy for yourself, your class or your library via www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #SSNCI #IrishStudies #conflict

There's still some time to apply for this

🚨 Students and lecturers, there is still time to apply to The Western Front Association’s Masters Grant Scheme! 🚨

If you, or your students, are researching and writing a dissertation relating to the First World War as part of your masters degree then we want to hear from you!
#fwwhist

If you're interested in finding out more about TNAs Foreign Office records, this workshop might be of interest: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-recor...

PhD Opportunity in International Law/History: Empire’s Other Captives: Colonial Prisoners of War, British Diplomacy, and the Laws of War 1872—1977 at University of Roehampton Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

PhD opportunity co-supervised by me: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM400/p...

Report on the liberation of Bergen-Belsen This report provides an eyewitness account of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the Second World War.

beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

PAST: Working with Colonial Office Records at The National Archives This workshop is designed to develop the skills of researchers on records relating to Colonial Office records at The National Archives.

This archival training at The National Archives looks absolutely amazing www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-worki...

PhD Opportunity in International Law/History: Empire’s Other Captives: Colonial Prisoners of War, British Diplomacy, and the Laws of War 1872—1977 at University of Roehampton Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

PhD opportunity co-supervised by me: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM400/p...

The hub manager role for Spaces, Places & Belonging is live: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
If you’re interested in community engagement and working with a wide variety of partners and individuals across galleries, libraries, archives and museums, then do have a look.

Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement
1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn
2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz
If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

Picture of cover of Volume 11 Issue 1 of the BJMH.

The new issue of the BJMH is now online at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ As always Open Access and free to all! In this issue you’ll find a range of methodologies: biographical reassessment, statistical analysis, conflict archaeology, battlefield identification, oral history. 1/3

Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars.

Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

Coming Summer 2025!

Courtesy of @ssnci.bsky.social and three exceptional (if I do say so) staff from ucddublin.bsky.social and a dozen of their genius peers #ssnci #ireland #conflict

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

The National Archives to establish new hub for community-led research in the cultural heritage sector - The National Archives Staff working in galleries, libraries, archives and museums around the UK will soon be able to ask The National Archives for help funding community-led research projects, following a generous £1 milli...

Delighted to announce this grant at The National Archives in conjunction with the National Library of Wales and Leeds Museums & Galleries, and CAHG, which I am leading along with colleagues: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/t...

Approved Schools : documenting life in care This onsite event will showcase some of the records we hold relating to approved schools in England and Wales, and invites former pupils

Next week I’ve an event at @UkNatArchives about approved schools and I’d be particularly keen to hear from anyone who attended an approved school between 1933-1973.
I’ll be talking about my research on the schools to date, and showing some records: pls RT!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/approved-s...

Come & work with me! Principal Records Specialist - Maps job at The National Archives (UK). Apply by 12 Feb. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... #MapMonday #ArchivesJobs #MondayMotivation

We are delighted to announce with the National Archives and @ihrlibrary.bsky.social that the History and Archives in Practice 2025 registration is now live!

Join us to explore 'Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance' orlo.uk/HAP25_hq0EE