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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

And here’s the full Term One programme! Following our PhD welcome on 22 Oct, Britain at Home and Abroad meets Thursdays at 17.30, in N304, IHR and online via Teams. Booking is open for Liam Ryan’s talk on 29 Oct, and the rest opens soon. history.ac.uk/news-events/ihr-seminars/britain-home-abroad

Term One programme for the IHR seminar Britain at Home and Abroad since c.1800, Thursdays 17.30, N304, IHR and online via Teams. 22 Oct: PhD Student Welcome, Meet and Greet (in person only). 29 Oct: Liam Ryan (Oxford), Enemies of the Red Flag: Anti-Socialism in Britain, 1900–40. 5 Nov: Emily Jones (Manchester), When Two (Nations) Become One: The Many Afterlives of Benjamin Disraeli, 1881–2012. Monday 16 Nov: Guillaume Yverneau (Caen-Normandie), Liberators and Liberated People: A Social History of the British Military Presence in France (1944–1948). 10 Dec: Holly Swenson (Northwestern), The Business of Culture in the British World, or, The Muppet Show Down Under (online only). Registration opens soon.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I love it when institutions step up & face the challenges. And this is @ihr.bsky.social stepping up. Sure, will be directly helping only a few people, but what a solace to know clever people are trying to come up with support in the face of the overwhelming crisis. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

The IHR Trust Career Support Scheme 2026-2027

The IHR Trust is pleased to announce the launch of a new Career Support Scheme for historians.

The scheme directly addresses the UK-wide context of cuts, closures and redundancies currently faced by historians. Over 30,000 jobs have been lost within Universities in the past three years, with academic job losses disproportionately affecting Humanities researchers. Redundancies and programme closures have been felt across the four nations and their regions, leading to losses at every level in the academic pipeline.

This context leaves many researchers unable to complete projects in which they have invested considerable time and resource, and which will have real value to the history community and wider public.

The six month Bridging Fellowships are designed to provide a history home for those who need one. They sit alongside the IHR’s other funded schemes which include Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships and Applied History Fellowships, as well as the non-stipendiary IHR Fellowship.

In this first year of the scheme, we will accept applications from those who have lost academic posts within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027) or who have been awarded their PhD within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027). We hope to extend the scheme in later years if funding can be raised to do so.

The Fellowships are designed to provide some of the resources needed to complete unfinished projects including time, money, skills, intellectual infrastructure, mentoring and community. They also provide space and support to plan next career steps, whether back into academia or into other history-related sectors.

Fellows will be supported by the IHR’s training package and encouraged to avail themselves of its resources, publication opportunities, and the national research seminar programme. They will have access to the IHR Library and its dig…

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Can I pick academic colleagues’ brains? I just met a hugely impressive ex-student who had a really good PhD proposal on maternal ambivalence in contemporary fiction. She’s looking for that magical sweet spot of a) supervisory expertise and b) funding. Any UK-based suggestions/volunteers?

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New on LSE Digital Library! The Women’s Freedom League; 1,063 items including minutes, annual reports, pamphlets, banners, photographs and issues of The Vote. @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 View collection here: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

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Collections - LSE Digital Library

Explore our digital collections through curated selections of material according to themes, type or source of material.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's still plenty of time to apply for this fantastic funded #PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948! Interested? Know someone great who should apply? Get in touch! #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Explore a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣 Reminder: 📍Online 📆 Weds 7 October, 2026 ⏰ 5.30pm -7pm 🎟️ Free! but register below to get the Zoom link @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @carorusterholz.bsky.social @jcrangle.bsky.social @helenglew.bsky.social

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

& @carorusterholz.bsky.social will present in our usual Wednesday slot: Weds 7 October 5.30pm to 7pm (online only). Free event but booking required 👇. @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social @helenglew.bsky.social @benmechen.bsky.social @gcgosling.bsky.social @jcrangle.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

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The Evil Dr. Joanna and Her Two Giant Demon Dogs @jlphistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I finish typing up today's lecture, which I started my latest draft of at 5:30 this morning, I reflect once again on the person who keeps telling me that "university teaching is easy, it's just three hours a week of work."

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just found myself in the weird position of turning down an academic job offer. I’ve decided not to apply for them before (recently enquiring about a research role I was told the ‘research budget’ came out of your salary) but never encountered t&cs so awful and exploitative that I’ve declined one

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Your quarterly - or thereabouts - reminder that I have capacity for some freelance work: historical research, document photography in archives, indexing, copy-editing etc. Feel free to contact me via my website to discuss your ideas or requirements: helenglew.com

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Historical Research and Writing

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Historical Research and Writing

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“AI chatbots present a problem for the teaching of history not only because they hallucinate, nor simply because they threaten to make even conscientious students’ writing less original, but because they thwart the process that might lead students toward original interpretations in the first place.”

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1. 1st yr: went along at pre-advertised time to sign up for modules - sent booklet in mail prior to arriving I think. Other years: got info in April/May and filled out a paper form 2. For lecture times/venues, exams etc, went to find out on notice board.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And speaking of Emmylou Harris, if you don’t know Dolly’s Trio albums with Emmylou and Linda Ronstadt, check them out. The harmonies and genre reach of those women’s voices in combination are incredible.

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also I’ve been here for about half an hour now and it looks like it’s all that Sky News has covered in this time.

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

‘9 to 5’, ‘I Will Always Love You’, and ‘Jolene’ are rightly recognised as her masterpieces and signature songs. But I’d put in a vote for ‘To Daddy’ (perhaps made most famous by Emmylou Harris) as one of the best quietly feminist songs of the 1970s.

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At the gym and listening to Dolly. 😭

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yes, totally! Was telling my partner about it and we both burst into song.

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yep, I told my partner earlier and we both looked at each other and spontaneously started singing it!

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh wow, I remember this show so well!

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“If you want research led teaching then at a minimum you have to allow teaching staff time to *read* and incorporate new research” I say every year as I object, again, to a workload model that allows 50mins prep per 1 hour teaching.

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Excited to listen as someone else with a lifelong obsession with the Emily series!

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yes - I run (though not as much this summer as it’s been so hot) and go to the gym. Used to swim a lot too and hoping to get back into that. The why? Helps my mental health, and also sitting a lot gets to my neck, shoulders, back etc.

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

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‘Black is beautiful’: gender, pigmentation and political blackness in modern Britain*

Abstract. By examining political literature, ephemera and oral histories, this article investigates the politics of pigmentation within the Black Power and

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Another piece in the cuts of funding for the humanities is visible in local record offices. The Somerset Archives are only open 3 days a week; Norfolk only 4 days a week. As a US grad student doing research in the UK, that would have made it impossible to write my dissertation.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If it's something I need to read I do not want AI summarising it for me. The point of reading is to be immersive, thoughtful, critical and analytical. It's not to have a few bullets, a bland interpretation, a corporate repackaging, and an entire loss of meaning.

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Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

still looking! please share with your networks ☺️

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Of interest to UK university #Skystorians: Royal Historical Society open online meeting on 'The crisis in UK higher education: The future for History'. 4 August 2-4 pm.

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The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History

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

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Historian colleagues, can you rec a book or article using/about rumors as source material? Theorization of same? There's a few good things in my field (Russia) but I'm looking for stuff from elsewhere. 🗃️ #historiansky

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Well everyone else seems to be doing it & so I will too! @manchesterup.bsky.social big summer half price sale 🥳. You can get my 'Housewives & Citizens' for just £12.50, worth it for the cover alone (in my humble opinion 😀). @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians

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