'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

Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down...

Between 4 and 12 May 1926, nearly three million workers – 20 per cent of the adult population – downed tools, and...

Deindustrialisation was not a long, slow process but a very quick one, erasing whole occupations and transforming one...

Few British prime ministers besides Winston Churchill or Margaret Thatcher have wide public recognition in the United States. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) is an important exception.

‘Impossible to plan’ for research and teaching, say staff, as threat of redundancy looms large over summer breaks

Document revealed by National Archives ahead of its anniversary on Saturday

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences

Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The University of Exeter has recorded sweeping success in the latest prestigious international ranking, reflecting its strong teaching and research excellence. Exeter has recorded significant, double-...

There’s been a deluge of misinformation recently about ponies on Dartmoor. Dartmoor Nature Alliance’s Tony Whitehead looks at the origins and potential impacts of the current “pony campaigning". He st...

Women's History Seminar

Conference information

Job title: Associate Professor (297742), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor (Grade 9) in political theory, to be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. The post will be

Discussant: Emily Jones (History, University of Manchester) – author of the forthcoming The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition (Princeton UP, 2026)

Last summer, after the most widespread racist rioting since 1919, IPPR wrote it was “a testament to progress” that deporting black and brown people living

PhD Project - Young Refugees to Britain in the early Twentieth Century at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

Conceptual frameworks of 'Open Science' and their implementation by funders, journals, institutions and other organisations have been criticised on the grounds that they are tailored primarily to quan...

The closing date for applications is 6 March 2026 at 23:55pm We are looking to appoint two independent members to the Regulation Committee of the UK Statistics Authority. The UK Statistics Authority ...