Very excited that I’ve been elected as an Associate Fellow for the Royal Historical Society — what a wonderful community of historians, academics, curators, archivists, and scholars to be a part of!
02.10.2025 17:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Migration and Mobility History
Call for Papers: IHR History Lab and Migration and Mobility Seminar
Taking place at the IHR Senate House and online, 10th February 2026, 5.30pm-7.30pm. The IHR History Lab and Migration and Mobility are coming together for a special edition of our seminar series to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs working on migration and mobility history.
We invite submissions of 20 minute papers from PGRs and ECRs on the topic of migration and mobility (broadly defined), focusing on any period or place.
This is an opportunity to share your research with, and recieve feedback from, established and emerging scholars working on migration and mobility studies. To apply, send abstracts of under 250 words, with a short bio, to Kathleen Commons at kabcommons@gmail.com by 5pm on 15th November.
Migration and Mobility History
About the Seminars
History Lab is the national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. Based at the Institute of Historical Research, it serves as an intellectual and social forum that connects, empowers, and supports the postgraduate community.
The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history. The seminar seeks to attract papers on a diverse range of themes and periods in migration and mobility history, including the emerging field of pre-modern migration histories, and histories of migration within the Global South. We will take an interdisciplinary approach, working with sociologists, legal scholars, and geographers with an interest in historical migration and mobility.
if you have any queries about this seminar, contact Kathleen at kabcommons@gmail.com
📢 New Seminar Series!
We are thrilled to be working alongside @ihr.bsky.social on a brand new seminar series titled Migration and Mobility. We are coming together for a special edition of the seminar to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs on migration and mobility history (1/3)
24.09.2025 17:14 — 👍 29 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 2
An early pamphlet printing of The World Turn’d Upside Down (1647).
What do beekeeping books tell us about changes in early modern science and society? @jamesafox.bsky.social has some suggestions, especially in relation to #17thCentury England scilicet.org.uk/the-hive-tur...
#Skystorians #EarlyModern #Bees #AnimalHistory
24.09.2025 12:35 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025
Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.
Exciting early-career fellowships with UK cultural institutions, funded by #AHRC, www.ukri.org/opportunity/... (look for the spreadsheet with the list of institutions!) Deadline for EoI: 10 December.
17.09.2025 09:18 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
First page of 'Record-Keeping and the Business of Books in Pre-Union Edinburgh' by James Fox
The latest issue of Scottish Archives has now been published, featuring work from @mchapelproject.bsky.social @nicolemaceira.bsky.social @ksmcgregor.bsky.social and myself, among others. If anyone would like a PDF of my article, just send me a message!
#bookhistory #scottishhistory #Archives
17.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
It is perhaps an unsatisfactory summary to say that the sea shaped identities in multifaceted and conflicting ways, but it’s still important to push back against persistent homogenising linear narratives and to hear from researchers committed to bringing new and diverse stories to light. (3/3)
13.09.2025 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Covering #modernhistory, panelists discussed the sea and identity from diverse perspectives, including Black Bermudian seamen, working class stokers, women in the merchant service, and postcolonial Indian authors. (2/3)
13.09.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How did the sea shape British, maritime, and post/colonial identities? What is the role of #maritimehistory in telling these stories?
These are some of the questions tackled this weekend at this excellent conference at the #NationalMaritimeMuseum, supported by @britishacademy.bsky.social (1/3)
13.09.2025 17:45 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
As a medical historian who’s dabbled in amateur printmaking as a hobby, I loved reading this article! @richardtbellis.bsky.social explores how translational printmaking, as a social and collaborative process, shaped the visual appearance, epistemic content, and communication of anatomical pathology.
14.08.2025 11:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Check out our latest free exhibition!
'Hooked' explores the history of addiction, from snuff to gambling, from alcohol to love.
It runs until Feb 2026. Find out more www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...
10.06.2025 07:01 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
📣Exciting News 📣
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
12.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 35 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 2
Food for thought: Recipe books through history | Scilicet
We all need to eat, but the way we do says much about our place in society. Looking at a range of recipe books through history shows this has long been the case.
We all need to eat, but the way we cook and share food says a lot about class, culture and identity. In our latest post, @guyfassler.bsky.social, @jamesafox.bsky.social and @nataliesmith.bsky.social dig in to some historical recipes from across Europe 🍽️
scilicet.org.uk/food-for-tho... #Skystorians
19.05.2025 05:53 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
Congratulations to Manon C Williams who won the British Commission for Maritime History 2024 Boydell & Brewer Doctoral Prize in #MaritimeHistory! Read about her thesis and research into the journals of Royal Navy ship surgeons in Manon's blog post. buff.ly/NUEE1Uq
08.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Catherine Beck shares how the papers and letters of Admiral John Markham, acquired by the National Maritime Museum, inspired her book, Patronage and the British Navy, 1775-1815 in this video Q&A blog post: buff.ly/M4gEOVM @catsbeck.bsky.social #militaryhistory #maritimehistory #Navalhistory
29.05.2025 07:01 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Author: "Reader's Guide to Capital"; "Insecurity, Precarious Work & Labour Markets"; "Unravelling Capitalism". Editor: International Socialism. UCU activist. Posts in personal capacity.
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Publishing British naval documents and history since 1893. We'll post all the latest discoveries here...
British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Personal account, all opinions my own and not representative of anyone/thing else. Interested in critical thinking, naval history and raising ME/CFS awareness. Also, random nice photos :)
Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Canine enthusiast.
Craftsperson at large | They/Them
PhD Studentship in 'Gender and the Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790'
Ask me about early modern sailmakers
The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
We are the UK’s national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! 👉 https://historylab.plus/
The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
The London Group of Historical Geographers is a seminar series hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. Conveners: Felix Driver, Margot Finn, Innes M. Keighren, and Miles Ogborn. https://lghgseminar.wordpress.com/
Historian | Research Associate: Inclusive Histories Project 25-26 | Former IHR Pearsall Fellow 23-24 | Research interests: c.18-19th naval and military families, marginalised histories, lone women, petitioning, welfare and care
Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad
Since its foundation in 1846, the Hakluyt Society has published scholarly editions of primary records of voyages and travels. These are distributed to current members, and are illustrated with maps and plates. See www.hakluyt.com for more information.,
