Laura Gowing

Post-Doctoral Research Associate - LSTM Decolonial History Project | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to support the delivery of a two-year, independent academic research project to develop a rigorous...

A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25.

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We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!

Visit southasianbritain.org

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🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history?

The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).

Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.

Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist

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.

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The next round of the BA Talent Development Scheme is open! 🚨I had one of these this year to build historic dress making skills for my performance history work - so culture studies people, don’t be put off, this is also for you!

Many thanks for sharing - we're glad you're looking forward to it - as are we! willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

Fantastic news!

Green background with the book The Heretic of Chacheu on front.

Congratulations to former British Academy Book Prize winner Toby Green FBA on the release of his new book, The Heretic of Cacheu.

This powerful history of the global slave trade is told through the life of one woman: Crispina Peres.

Out now with Penguin 👉 buff.ly/e7yfl7p

@historyworkshop.org.uk is looking for new editorial fellows! For early career historians with an interest in radical, public and digital histories: paid, part-time work commissioning and editing on our digital history magazine. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

could it be London Stone tho I like your rustic stow?

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — CEMS KCL Blog Join King's Medicine and the Making of Race for two keynote lectures by Dr. Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama) and Prof. Susan D. Amussen (University of California Merced). Each keynote will think thr...

Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week.

25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous"

26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy"

Full details below.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...

Signing in irately

To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

Now emancipated from its paywall.

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fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my
@leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!

A group of women graduates at Bradford University in 1987.

Register: tinyurl.com/2yytrdd8
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The Institute of Historical Research’s Black British History seminar series is hosting a writing workshop and dinner, before the first GPI Annual Lecture. Full details available on our seminar page: bit.ly/4jycw72

📍 GC202 & GC102, Queen Mary University of London
🗓️ Thursday 30th January
⏰ 16:15

thanks lovely! Alice Benden a proper model for the other Jane Anger

Past & Present Fellowships Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open

Applications close on 31st Jan 2025

Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months

Please share with your network

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Size and ‘special’ vs ‘ordinary’

A wonderful opportunity to undertake funded PhD research with one of the most supportive and interesting scholars I know.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Barking

‘To cough was to risk death’: the artist who mapped Syria’s Sednaya prison with testimonies from its survivors As an artist and audio investigator, I interviewed people who had been imprisoned in a building where sound and vision were weaponised. So what should happen to this monstrous place now it has been li...

On the weaponisation of sound and silence. Extraordinary insights in this piece by audio artist/investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction a book by Sadiah Qureshi. Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ...

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here.

#skystorians

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Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

Being a body in a vibrant sonic space: my most personal account of listening ever in the new issue of the Wire magazine. Three.

Hillary Taylor’s new book on perjury and social relations relevant here too

Exterior of 24 Gordon Square, entrance to UCL History Dept. Late Georgian Building with red door.

Just advertised: UCL History Department leave cover (fixed-term, Associate Lecturer, Teaching) from Jan 2025-April 2026). US History. £43,124–£51,610. Deadline 12 Dec 2024. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Join us at the IHR Women's History Seminar's inaugural lightning talks.
Register: www.history.ac.uk/events/lightning-talks

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So much and it gets more every year

A real honour to publish this in the Historical Journal. Thanks so much to Stefan Hanß for all his work in bringing it to print, and to the late, great Natalie Zemon Davis for these extraordinary reflections on scholarship and persecution. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...