24 September (Thursday)

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked t...

The University of Hertfordshire has announced that it intends to make cuts across a range of humanities subjects, including the end of its taught history provision. The Social History Society is de…

Archives West Midlands will have three trustee vacancies on its Board from September 2026. Would you or one of your service users/stakeholders relish the opportunity to join an ambitious, friendly net...

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...

East Dulwich Beer Houses & Beer Shops Talk – Upstairs at the Crown & Greyhound, 73 Dulwich Village, Mon 11 May 2026 - This lively local history talk uncovers the forgotten world of East Dulwich's beer...

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Chair of the Board of Trustees As the Thackray Museum of Medicine looks to build on a period of bold...

Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

The Faculty of History wishes to recruit a Temporary Assistant Professor in Modern British History. This is a fixed term 24 month Temporary Assistant Professorship. To cover the academic leave of the

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The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life - Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

This blog post by Mike Power (Oxford Brookes University) reflects research supported by the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for Graduate Students. The research will form part of their PhD the...

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Volume 50, Issue 3 of The London Journal

Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

A radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over...

At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 62 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 248 people newly associated with the Society, f...

Explore the UK Government Web Archive, one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, in workshops.