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Contents | Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 173,

Most of this year's journal is open-access, and it's full of new research on one of the biggest industrial disputes of the 19th century, the Preston Strike and Lock-Out of 1853-54 -- inspiration for Dickens's Hard Times & Gaskell's North and South.
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A full-time, open-ended lectureship in Ancient History at Leeds! It's a different department to me but your duties will still include being asked interminable questions about ancient weirdos by me, your colleague with a healthy interest.

‘Our people were so innovative’: Māori art celebrated in landmark book Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of Māori art showcases creative work across a diverse range of mediums

'A new landmark book celebrating Māori art has clocked up a couple of impressive firsts: not only is it the most comprehensive account of creative work by Indigenous New Zealanders ever published, it is also the first wide-ranging art history written entirely by Māori scholars.'

Oil painting of Marie-Adélaïde on a sofa.

■ Marie-Adélaïde, Daughter of King Louis XV of France, in Ottoman Turkish Costume (France), 1753 #history #frenchhistory #1750s #18thcentury #portrait

Call for submissions now open for the EAJS conference grant programme

Apply for up to £ 9,500 for your conference/workshop/summerschool on a topic from the whole range of Jewish Studies

Deadline 20 March 2025

www.eurojewishstudies.org/homepage-ann...

A comic-strip's-eye-view of Operation Barbarossa - such a good theme (and much more important than it might seem at first glance)

My review of Ivan G. Marcus, How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500. in H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. December, 2024. www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

YouTube video by EdgeHist Palestinian Identity after 25 Years- A Lecture by Rashid Khalidi

Watch Rashid Khalidi speaking at our student-led conference on Palestine & the Palestinians ABT six weeks before 7 Oct 2023. youtu.be/6df_WGG1I64?...

YouTube video by James Renton Racism is being ignored by historians - Orwell on the BBC

'Racism is being ignored by historians-Orwell on the BBC'

Prof James Renton, Director of our International Centre on Racism

youtu.be/KBivE7NL0jA?...

History and Politics - Edge Hill University Apply for the History and Politics Research - Graduate Teaching Assistant PhD Studentship at Edge Hill University’s Graduate School.

PhD funding! Check out our new GTA/PhD job advert. Fields include: relational racism studies; the medieval Irish Sea, with Cardiff University; British politics & policymaking; History & cultural heritage. Deadline in Jan.

www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/...

Another late 19th-century ballet costume design. This time: a sweet chestnut (pen and ink and watercolour on pencil, V&A)

Still life quartet by Dutch golden age master to be shown together in Cambridge Jan Davidsz de Heem’s four paintings of sumptuous food and luxury objects were produced as series

'The show, which opens on 3 December and is called Picturing Excess, places the work in a historical context of rapid European expansion around the world, when the wealthy would flaunt their riches via the ostentatious displays painted by De Heem.'

Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain Cambridge Core - European History 450-1000 - Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain

Medieval England was a diverse place - multilingual, in fact. Check out Dr Lindy Brady's important book: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Great to see such a positive review of History Education and Historical Inquiry (2024) in the Teachers College Record. The book was a labour of love by many hand. Great to see the results so positively appreciated in a leading journal in the international educational community, therefore. 1/2

Newcomer! The International Society for Intellectual History is now here - welcome @isih-blueskye.bsky.social!

At University College London, which is one of the partners in our new consortium on combating antisemitism and Islamophobia as a connected issue in the context of Palestine/Israel.

‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–1791 On 11 May 1789, the night before Parliament’s first debate on ending the slave trade, a woman advocated for abolition before hundreds of Londoners at a debating society. Despite her compelling orat...

My first journal article is published! My research for @camhistory.bsky.social tells of a woman lost to history who spoke against the slave trade hours before Wilberforce’s 1st speech. Secret spy reports reveal the challenges women faced in public speaking: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bibles and Bible Translating in Early Modern England « History# « Cambridge Core Blog There are some 6 billion bibles circulating across the globe and a further 100 million printed every year. Each of these copies, from the children’s illustrated editions to the grandly bound King Jame...

📣New HJ blog!✨

Harry Spillane (@camhistory.bsky.social) asks: how did Elizabethans deal with the co-existence of multiple translations of the Bible?

#Bible #Protestant #Christianity #Language 16thc 📜📘🗃️

👉Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

📣Out now on #firstview!

Andrej Kotliartchouk (Uppsala University) on 'Understanding Stalin’s Terror against Western Minorities: The National Operations of the NKVD in Contemporary Academic Research'

#Review #Russia #Europe #Archives 📜🗃️ 20thc

👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview!

Eve Pennington (The University of Manchester) on 'Gender, Paid Employment, and Deindustrialization in New Towns in North-West England, c. 1970–1990s'

#Economic #OralHistory #Urban #Work 👩‍🏭🏭🗃️ 20thc

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣New HJ blog!✨

Rosalind Moran explores Francesca Fuoli's (University of Bern) recent article on the role of banditry in pre-modern societies

#Sovereignty #History #Society #Money 💰🗃️ 19thc 18thc 17thc 16thc 15thc

👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

#skystorians 🗃️

Edge Hill - winter wonderland

So what is the best way to 'bookmark' posts here?

Apart from liking them, has anyone got a good mechanism to store good posts and links?

Any help fellow #academics?

Black and white photograph from the end of the c19th. A group of 7 women stand and sit in front of Georgian house. A women holds a dog up in the left hand window.

Hello 👋 new followers! Just to introduce myself

I’m a #skyhistorian researching the British Settlement movement. My book centres their houses & homemaking practices in urban w/c neighbourhoods. Currently writing chapter in rooms. I’ve also written on cross-class friendship in letters &photos. 1/

Painting of a town featuring a central church next to smoking factory chimneys

Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring

Cover of the book Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies featuring an abstract piece of art by Kasimir Malevich

"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Here is a thread on what we have put together:

Reaching a global readership beyond the ivory tower. What's not to like? #OpenAccess

Interesting suggestions for #AcademicSky #PhDSky