'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) 3-4 September 2026, LSE Library & Fr…

A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

Andy Burnham's 'place first' philosophy opens up questions of land ownership & access

Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

The Society’s Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...

Searching for an academic job? Explore this British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

LandExplorer makes it simple to find out who owns the land & buildings in your community. Help us keep it free for everyone who needs it!

The Society’s 2026 Prothero Lecture will be given by Rebecca Earle FBA, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Warwick. Rebecca's lecture, which takes place at 6.00pm on Wednesday 1 Ju...

Policy agreement means trans people will continue to have access to Kenwood Ladies’ and Highgate Men’s ponds in north-west London The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules. There are gender-segregated ponds for men and women, with trans people able to swim in whichever they feel most appropriate, or use the heath’s mixed-gender pond instead. Continue reading...

In the last decade, two films about Joy Division and the Manchester music scene in the 1970s have been released, 24 Hour Party People and Control, but these films are dramatically different in thei...

Each year the Society awards Scholarships to support students who will study for a Master's degree in history at a UK university. Master's Scholarships, each of £5000, support students from groups cur...

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Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

On Friday 6 February the Society hosted the first lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) who spoke on: ‘"Alike in Appearance but not in Sco...

New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish