Lynn Abrams

‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Project Records Assistant We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Project Records Assistant to support a major records rationalisation project within our Heritage Depart

Project Records Assistant 'to support a major records rationalisation project within our Heritage Department'-
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/p... #skystorians 🗃️#medicalhistory #archivists

#Gaza:
People are being starved, while a few kilometers away supermarkets are loaded with food.

UNRWA has thousands of trucks in neighbouring countries, loaded with food and medicines.

We are just waiting for the green light.

Lift the siege and let aid in at scale.

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....

Lecturer in History at Ulster University Discover Lecturer in History jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Lecturer in History- Ulster University - School of Arts and Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU353/l...

My department at Lund University recruits 3 Associate Senior Lecturers (BUL) Gender studies: lnkd.in/dPzNNC7G; Social anthropology: lnkd.in/deXFaPXf; Sociology: lnkd.in/dK5BnZxz. Positions correspond to tenure-track (50/50 research/teaching) w/h permanent employment after 4 yrs.
Apply by 31 August!

I can’t wait for this to arrive here!

Two fabulous books written by two fabulous historians

And a huge thank you to everyone who organised @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 2025 conference, strand leaders, speakers, chairs, our fab keynote @kharveyhistory.bsky.social and the staff at the venue Black Country living history museum. Next time I’m dressing in appropriate period costume.

A rather special venue for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference - Black Country Living History museum. A unique vibe and a great event

This exciting fee waiver PhD may be of interest to members of @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social @thesahgb.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @bho.bsky.social. Please re-post to spread the word, full details below 👇, thank you! #skystorians

Screenshot for the Social History Society’s Community Exchange blog, which says: Our Community Exchange aims to foster links across history-making spaces-from museums and archives, streets and groups, stage and screen - and to open up dialogue between the many different audiences for social history. We welcome contributions showcasing public history events, as well as think pieces on community history, co-production, or how scholarship can be transformed by conversations beyond the academy.

Have you done some fun work with museums/archives/cultural spaces (anything beyond the academy, essentially) and want to tell people about it? Please do consider writing something for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social’s Community Exchange blog! #SHSConf2025

And come talk to me if you have an idea for MUP Gender in History series

Hello Social History friends! Come say hello at our stand. Unfortunately not all of our books arrived, but you can find a full list of new titles below. @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

So true but post Covid cuts and closures make research harder especially for people needing to travel to an archive.

Looks fab but the book is crying out for a beautiful cover!

There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going.

But my god, this isn't it.

I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.

We'd love to see some #skystorians at this virtual book launch & discussion of some of the very newest work in #histchild #histyouth #histsex! Do register below, and we'd really appreciate shares/RTs 🗃

This was a fun gig with the legend Jackie Bird

📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝

Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out!

🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

#WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding

Cambridge University Library and University of Leeds - Collections Connections Communities

🔬 Applications are open for the UL and @universityofleeds.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship:
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/hXILBEo
@camglamresearch.bsky.social

Book cover with blue border and white font that reads “Transatlantic Threads: Scottish linen and society c.1707-1780” by Sally Tuckett. The image is a watercolour sketch of a woman standing barefoot on a cobbled street. She wears a blue petticoat and white gown, with a blue and white checked apron.

Transatlantic Threads is now available for preorder! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transat...

Use code NEW30 for 30% discount. @edinburghup.bsky.social

Image: David Allan (1744-1796) thought to be one of earliest known portraits of a black woman by a Scottish artist. Nationalgalleries.org

How universities were sent over the edge UK higher education institutions did as the government asked and took on more students. Now many face collapse

'UK higher education institutions did as the government asked and took on more students. Now many face collapse.'

Ditto our car

Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter Recruiting now: Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship)
University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...

Before #WHM25 comes to a close, it's time for a series spotlight 🚨⬇️

Gender in History is one of our acclaimed Modern History series - edited by:

@lynncabrams.bsky.social
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
@migrationhistorian.bsky.social
@juliehardwick.bsky.social

A dream team of Women's History! 💜

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🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share!

📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social)
🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE'
📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025
🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo
#Postdoc #Demography

'Plate, porcelain, of octagonal shape, painted with blue floral motifs edging with gold rim, and central image of a figure in a red kimono sitting in a garden, Jingdezhen, China, decorated in Guangzhou (Canton), ca. 1750.' National Trust, Osterley NT 771529.

Lecturer/Associate Professor in Art and Material Cultures of Britain, c.1650-1900: a permanent post in UCL's History of Art Department. Includes British art and material culture in its global and colonial contexts. Standard teaching & research contract. 22 April.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Pretty much everything I’ve ever written is on the list. Didn’t give permission - really angry