Sarah Longair

Huge thanks to @scl1979.bsky.social for organising a wonderful day at @kewgardens.bsky.social Herbarium and Library. Amazing papers from historians, and great to see how material culture is being used in more schools, particularly from our HA series. Exploring their archive of objects was so special

Teacher supply: why 5 subjects face gloomier forecasts Why are drama, history, RE, PE and Classics having trainee recruitment targets hiked up when overall teacher supply is improving? Tes speaks to experts to find out

Pleased to see our @htenuk.bsky.social call for minimum bursary payments for all #ITT students gaining some attention. Equity of access to the profession is important for the health of our education system.

www.tes.com/magazine/new...

#historyteacher #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation

Placements for PhD Students We welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex.

Enjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with @rbgkew.bsky.social and HRP, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: kew.org/science/trai... or DM me

Organising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract.

We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!

Book cover of Rachel E. Johnson's 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle. The Shadow of a Young Woman.

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle
The Shadow of a Young Woman', by Rachel E Johnson bit.ly/4hMppbB

Rachel's is latest title in our 'New Historical Perspectives' series with @ihr.bsky.social & @uolpress.bsky.social 1/3 👇

Image of museum curator with text: 'Associate Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. Applications invited. Next closing dates 24 March and 26 May 2025'

The Society welcomes applications for Associate Fellowship from historians across a range of professions.

Associate Fellows are academic historians beginning their careers, or those working in museums, heritage, publishing, teaching or public history. For more see bit.ly/3XXlXn7, 1/2 #Skystorians

🚨Funding alert🚨: The British Institute in Eastern Africa - where I am part of the research committee - 2025 grant programme is now open for applications! There are opportunities for Writing Fellowships, Thematic Grants, Dissemination Grants, Workshop Grants, ...

biea.ac.uk/call-for-app...

Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!

New post-doc opportunity at the University of Utrecht researching colonial history of botanical gardens. Looks fascinating www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Good to see this statement from the various professional associations for History about the current crisis in HE, and their support for my department in particular
royalhistsoc.org/more-than-ev...

We would welcome support from #history colleagues to help @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social hear the absence of #ITT bursaries is a threat to the future of history in schools!

@carolinepennock.bsky.social @drfernriddell.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @scl1979.bsky.social

An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged

The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social):

"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE

An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8 In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and...

Another lootplunder review in four posts

Anyone interested in loot, plunder, museums, Ethiopia, empire - anyone following this feed in other words - should read @zoecormack.bsky.social's article "The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... 1/4

Historical Association Conference 2025

Great to see HA conference programme now available for May 9/10 in Liverpool. I'm delighted to see that Michael Riley is delivering the keynote education lecture on 'Why teaching about the historic environment matters more than ever'
www.haconference.com

This is all really interesting. Bringing back student number controls won't cost anything, will work to stabilise the hugely-unstable HE sector, and help a lot with other parts of Labour's agenda (as suggested below). But the Government just doesn't seem interested, for no obvious reason at all.

@scl1979.bsky.social
@sashasmith.bsky.social will get @alcs-uk.bsky.social Reteach History Podcast Series 3 off to a flying start in the spring with their ‘Objects of Empire’ episode! Loved 🥰 the chat! 🎧

@bsky.app

Exciting position at Cambridge - deadline 30th January 2025
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/

Image of 20 book covers from the Royal Historical Society's New Historical perspectives book series for early career historians.

The Society's book series, 'New Historical Perspectives', has just published its 20th title. The series is for early career historians and publishes first monographs and edited collections.

All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2

Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z - University of London Press Adulthood has a history. This book explores how concepts of adulthood have changed over time in Britain and the United States from 1350 to the present day through eleven case studies. Ideas of adultho...

and a link to the open access book here: uolpress.co.uk/book/adultho...

Very excited about the publication of the 20th book in the RHS New Historical Perspective series, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z ed. by @mariacannon.bsky.social @lauratisdall.bsky.social. See their blog about the book here:
blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/11/28/h...

State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the present pie...

'State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions,' by Surya Bowyer, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson, & Niti Acharya @hisjournalha.bsky.social 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Collaborations between universities and schools History UK have been fostering collaborations between universities and schools. The working group are producing support and guidance for those interesting in starting and sustaining collaborations …

It also links to work History-UK are doing with @histassoc.bsky.social & @htenuk.bsky.social & inc. academics eg. @scl1979.bsky.social. This goes deeper than outreach projects into schools & is about trying to strengthen mutual cross-phase understanding.
www.history-uk.ac.uk/collaboratio... 3/

There are cold spots in arts, humanities, and social sciences provision New British Academy interactive maps reveal cold spots in social sciences, humanities and arts in UK higher education – especially affecting disadvantaged students. Ruairi Cullen explains

Launched today, this British Academy's pilot project maps changes in provision of UK undergraduate courses in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. 'Cold spots in SHAPE subject access matter. These subjects play a vital and vibrant role in university life, developing critical thinking'. 1/3 #UKHE

Thank you!

Yes please if you have space! Thanks for doing this

Towards a Tibetan Material Culture of Dissent Join Dr. Emma Martin as she explores the intersection of Tibetan social movements and material culture in the Tibet Museum, revealing how the museum's curatorial approach uses non-violent resistance t...

Doing this next week, it would be lovely to see London folks there #Tibet #Dissent #MaterialCulture #TheDissidentMuseum courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/tow...

Looking forward to speaking at this #exhibitions and #museumhistory event from @mghg.bsky.social later this month

Although reintroduction of student number controls won't solve the crisis, even the very modest step of reintroducing SNCs into the discussion would improve its quality. The resounding silence on this issue impoverishes both systematic understanding of how HE actually works and policy-making. 3/3

The @ghilondon.bsky.social is hiring! Two positions 3+3 years:

1.) Medieval history with a focus on Britain.

2.) Colonial history of the British Empire/Commonwealth.

For questions about the positions, please contact the GHI-Director. For detailed job descriptions: www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunitie...