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Dr Lily Chadwick @lilyrchadwick.bsky.social · 14h

Excited to be at @branchuk.bsky.social this rainy weekend, presenting on Quakers, colonial diplomacy, and peace as political capital in Pennsylvania during the Seven Years’ War

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Happy World Octopus Day 🐙! (Get it — Oct + 8) Also, BrANCH 2026 starts tomorrow 🎉 We have a fantastic programme this year ⬇️ www.branch.org.uk/warwick-2026 Hope everyone has lovely travels as we look forward to seeing wonderful friends new and old soon!

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Warwick 2026 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The HCA invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from April 5-9, 2027. More general information: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...

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David Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still plenty of time to apply for a position as an Assistant Prof. in US Legal History at UF. Applications due October 16. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

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University of Florida - Details - Assistant Professor US Legal History– Tenure Accruing, Department of History

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📣 Looking for undergraduate and postgrad-taught dissertations written by UK-based students on 19thC US history for BrANCH’s Peter Parish Prize £200 and opportunity to be published in @anchistjournal.bsky.social! Deadline to submit November 3rd. Share widely!!

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Parish Dissertation Prize — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

UK-based postdoctoral – or equivalent – researchers in the humanities and social sciences can still apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The deadline is 4 Nov for institutional applicants and 28 Oct for independent scholars. Find out more: bit.ly/4iwQQtI

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, deadline of 4 November 2026. Independent scholars deadline 28 October 2026

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

⏳ Time is running out — only about a month left before BrANCH’s annual conference, this year at the University of Warwick (9-11 Oct 2026) ⏰🗓️ 🪾🇺🇸 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🇬🇧🌲 Check out the fantastic programme below ⬇️

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Warwick 2026 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

From the controversial Washington Navy Yard Strike of 1835 to Haymarket, Homestead, the General New Orleans Strike, & Pullman, the 19C is full of significant events in American labor history Happy US Labor Day!!!

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Aisha Djelid @aishadjelid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

SO excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, Fruits of Their Labor, out with @ugapress.bsky.social next July!

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Are you or a friend in Oxford this November?

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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce the Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions. The Prize promotes & encourages the study of marginalised voices in American Studies at the PGR & ECR levels. Deadline: 7th December baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Ellen Craft Essay Prize 2026 - British Association for American Studies

The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce that this year’s Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions. The Ellen Craft Essay Prize is intended to help…

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Potentially a good opportunity for funding if you are researching 19thC British periodicals on “Victorian” America…

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Dave Thomson @davidthomson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New article out. First for the latest project on debt default in the Americas.

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Speaking of living history, Bedford Springs has a room named after the white supremacist and slavery-supporting enthusiast James C. Calhoun… Other 19th Century figures who stayed there (Louisa Adams, Harriet Lane, Thaddeus Stevens, members of Lincoln’s cabinet) have not received such honour

Framed picture of James C. Calhoun that appears in the Bedford Springs room honouring him, with text that reads:

“John C. Calhoun, who visited Bedford Springs at Ieast once during his illustrious political career, remains one of America's great politicians and political philosophers. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1810-1817), as Secretary of War (1817-1824), as Vice President under Adams and Jackson (1825-1829), as U.S. Senator (1832-1844) and as Secretary of State under John Tyler (1844-1845), and again as U.S. Senator (1845-1850). Calhoun and his closest colleagues, Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, were known as the "Great Triunvirate" of the U.S. Scate during the 1830s and 1840s for their respectful and brilliant representation of opposing viewpoints in the years leading up to the civil war”

There are also several framed pictures of his plantation, Fort Hill, where he enslaved people

Image of Thaddeus Stevens’s signature appearing in the Bedford Springs hotel registrar

List of famous guests who stayed at Bedford Springs during the Civil War years. List includes:

Sec. of State, William H. Seward Sec. of Treasurer, Salmon P. Chase Secs. of War, Simon Cameron and
Edwin M. Stanton
Sec. of Navy, Gideon Welles
Sec. of the Interior, Caleb B. Smith Atty. General, Edward Bates
Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair
Generals: John Williams, Selles, Green, J.L. Perry, Schriver, Todd, Kautz, Thurston, R.Carr, William Hickey, W.
Ettinger, Berry, Benjamin, Chew Howard, and D.B. McKibbin.
Admiral Breise,
Commodore Ringgold
Governors A.G. Curtin and
A.W. Bradford
Government Officials: President James
Buchanan, John Knox, Miss Lane, (President Buchanan's niece), Honorable
Jeremiah Sullivan Black
Industrialists: John H. Shoenberger (Iron
King), Honorable Asa Packer (LeHigh University Founder), W.D. Colt (of Colt
Firearms Fame)

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yesterday (16 August) marked a significant anniversary in British & American Nineteenth Century History, the first transatlantic telegraph message sent and received, from Queen Victoria in London to President Buchanan in Bedford Springs, PA (1858)!

Message sent from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan :

“The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work, in which The Queen has taken the deepest interest.

The Queen is convinced that the President will join her in fervently hoping that the electric cable, which now connects great Britain with the United States, will prove an additional link between the nations, whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem.

The Queen has much pleasure in thus communicating with the President, and renewing to him her wishes for the prosperity of the United States”

From https://www.rct.uk/collection/84450/tickertape

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🗞️ Great opportunity to join as a Lecturer in American History for 12 months with the Manchester Metropolitan University, particularly for recent graduates and ECRs! See details below ⬇️

manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk

Lecturer in American History - (9364) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you happen to find yourself in London next weekend, at the Camden Fringe, there will be a 19th century-themed historical drama exploring the complicated relationship between the Shakespearean-actor Edwin and his infamous brother John Wilkes Booth — could be interesting!

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Bastards – Camden Fringe

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American Nineteenth Century History Journal @anchistjournal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Check out the latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History - with articles on Jefferson's life and legacies, Malthusian politics in the US South, convict leasing, culture, temptation, and the US Civil War: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...

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American Nineteenth Century History

Volume 27, Issue 1 of American Nineteenth Century History

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of interesting Nineteenth Century history on Princeton U Press’s reading list! 🏔️🇺🇸

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Awesome pop up exhibition about American Independence through a British lens, including many hidden histories!

How We Lost America: A New Perspective on American Independence. For more details, visit https://www.aurorametro.org.uk/how-we-lost-america

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Many congratulations to @daviddoddington.bsky.social on receiving the Social History Society 2026 Book Prize 🥳 “Old Age and American Slavery” is a must read!

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Come and spend the next academic year embedded in our curatorial teams Two exciting fellowships are open to postdoctoral, early-career researchers which can be undertaken over 12-months full-time or part-time equivalent, as part of the Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme Find out more👇

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 06/07/2026

Friday 10 July is also the closing date for applications for the Society's next round of Teaching Fellowships: bit.ly/3QRapBH Grants support projects in innovative teaching practice, or studies of #History teaching in higher eduction. Fellowships are named for Jinty Nelson, RHS President 2000-04.

Text for Jinty Nelson Teaching fellowships, 2026-27: Launched in 2023, the Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships support History teaching in UK Higher Education. The Fellowships are named after Dame Jinty Nelson FBA (1942-2024), President of the Society between 2000 and 2004.

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🚨 Reminder: less than a month to submit your pieces for the Harriet Tubman Prize 🏆 www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...

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American Nineteenth Century History Journal @anchistjournal.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hope everybody had a great July 4th 🇺🇸 – as we reflect on the nation’s 250th birthday, why not check out this piece on Abraham Lincoln’s evolving appreciation of the Declaration of Independence by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Abraham Lincoln’s evolving appreciation of the declaration of independence

A scholarly consensus has emerged in recent years that the Declaration of Independence was the “apple of gold” in Abraham Lincoln’s anti-slavery political thought and moral grounding. Prior to Cong...

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I will hazard to add that, while signed in 1776, we Nineteenth Century Historians can claim the Declaration as fought over and reinterpreted as a liberatory document (read the Declaration of Sentiments or Frederick Douglass’s "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Speech) in the long 19th!!!

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of the Independence and the spiritual-national founding of the USA 📜🇺🇸🎆 Though perhaps many of you would prefer to go down the rabbit hole and chortle with the Mad Hatter this July 4th (also Alice in Wonderland Day 🐇☕️🎩)

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Also, a shout-out for @bethrwilson.bsky.social’s new must read book, ‘I Felt All This’: Enslaved People’s Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Still time to sign up for the Commonwealth Fund Lecture being hosted by @ucl.ac.uk this Thursday at 17:30! Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire) will be speaking on the American Revolution’s origins as an act of armed resistance and its continuing legacies!!

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Commonwealth Fund Lecture

From 1775 to 1776: The American Revolution and the Embarrassing Right of Resistance.

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🚨 Time is running out to apply for this round of Peter Parish Travel Grants — up to £1000 for PGRs & ECRs to travel to the USA for conferences or conducting archival research (including remotely) on nineteenth century American history! See the details below👇

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Parish Travel Grants — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Today marks the anniversary of Denmark Vesey’s arrest, among many others rebelling against slavery in South Carolina — read more about the Vesey Conspiracy in @anchistjournal.bsky.social!

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📢 Interesting ANCH-esque talk this Thursday in London hosted by @ihr.bsky.social: Dr. Catriona Byers on “a history of corruption at the New York morgue c.1860s-1890s” ⚰️

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Testimony of the dead: a history of corruption at the New York morgue c.1860s-1890s

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

What do you get when you add 33 & 250? BrANCH 2026 at Warwick, 9-11 October!!! Registration now open — come celebrate our 33rd annual conference as we reflect on the USA at 250! Speakers include the incomparable Mia Bay and sagacious @profmsinha.bsky.social. Plus, many more (check out the card)

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Warwick 2026 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Registration for @shaw-society.bsky.social’s 2026 Conference (June 26th) at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France is now open! shawsociety.net/conference/ Looks like a fantastic programme!!!

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Annual Conferences

SHAW runs annual conferences featuring panels and papers on the history and experiences of women in the Americas. The next conference will be on Friday 26th June 2026 at the University of Toulouse …

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

📣 Are you a PGR or ECR planning a visit to the United States for a conference or archive trip on nineteenth century American history??? Applications for the BrANCH Parish Travel Awards (up to £1000 of funding!) are now open!!! Deadline to apply for this cycle: July 1st See more details below 👇

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Parish Travel Grants — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

As we celebrate the 163rd anniversary of the Combahee River Raid, and its inspirational legacies, a reminder that BrANCH is inviting submissions for its Harriet Tubman Essay Prize, sponsored by @royalhistsoc.org For more details and a sample of the excellent essays from past recipients, see below:

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Harriet Tubman Essay Prize — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

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daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Thrilled that @erinshearer.bsky.social's article from ANCH @anchistjournal.bsky.social is shortlisted for this award. 2 years in a row ANCH authors have been listed here, and we're proud to support ECR colleagues getting their work published. Do think of us for your work! @branchuk.bsky.social

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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas is seeking two Postdoctoral Research Associates for a substantial writing project focused on any aspect of US affairs, including literature, culture, history, politics, & transnational relations. baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas - 2 postdoctoral Research Associates - British Association for American Studies

The David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas is looking to appoint 2 postdoctoral Research Associate posts from September 2006, running for 2 years.

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daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

British American 19th C Historians (@branchuk.bsky.social) is looking for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History (@anchistjournal.bsky.social) Applications due: 01.06.26. Pls share widely! @officialbaas.bsky.social @oah.org @royalhistsoc.org @historians.org @ihr.bsky.social

Job advert - applications involve CV (5pg) and letter of intent (1-2pg). Responsibilities include soliciting and reading all submissions, determining whether to send to reviewers, working with reviewers and authors as per the review process, editing manuscripts and working with Taylor and Francis. Liasing with book review team and BrANCH as an organization, including Steering Committee membership.

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

BrANCH is excited to invite submissions for the Harriet Tubman Prize 2026! Deadline: 25 July 2026 (For more details about the aim of the prize and submitting your work, see our CfP below. For queries related to the prize, please contact our EDI officer Jasmin Bath, Jtb43@cam.ac.uk)

We invite submissions for the Harriet Tubman Prize, sponsored by the Royal Historical Society. Undergraduate coursework on any aspect of American history in the long nineteenth century is welcome, from students identifying as BAME who are in the final two years of their undergraduate studies. Work should be 2500-3500 words in length, including footnotes but excluding bibliography. While we expect the thematic content to be broad, judges will consider the level of knowledge, writing style, degree of original thinking, and overall quality of the piece. The winner of the Harriet Tubman Prize will receive £500.

Submissions should include a letter from a lecturer in the student’s department confirming their registration on an undergraduate course, alongside a permanent mailing address and email address for the student. Submissions (with the subject line Harriet Tubman Prize), and any other queries related to the prize, should be sent to our EDI officer Jasmin Bath, Jtb43@cam.ac.uk.

Deadline: 25 July 2026

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 11/05/2026

Submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources.

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Awards & Prizes - AHA

Awards for Publications These prizes honor exceptional books, articles, films, and digital works on a wide range of historical topics. All prizes are awarded annually except for those with dates, whic...

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BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Does the Declaration of Independence still matter? Find out at a 1-day event hosted by the University of Cambridge on May 29th www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-un...

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The United States of America at 250

Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence. 29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 5.30pm, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge

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