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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Congratulations to my colleague @tomcutterham.bsky.social. Just look at the reviews! The American Revolution from below. Very excited to read this.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/07/2026

Qu 9 in the Survey asks: 'How well has your course developed your knowledge and skills that you think you will need for your future?' History again scores well here. It's within +/- 2% of responses for degrees in subjects often considered more vocational. See Chart 4: bit.ly/4eOf2FO #Skystorians

Chart of NSS 2026 date relating to Question 9: 'How well has your course developed your knowledge and skills that you think you will need for your future?' This shows all available CAH Level 1 subjects (including History within 'Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies') in terms of their positivity score for Question 9. HPRS scores 84.4% against an all subject mean of 86.8%.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

NEW from me... On 25 Sept I'll be giving a @royalhistsoc.org public lecture at the Institute of Historical Research in London. It'll be about rights of way and access to the countryside since the 1940s - all welcome, do come and have a listen! Booking below. 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

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RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'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

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 08/07/2026

Action Alert: The federal government has proposed changes to research grant rules that could weaken independent peer review, make awarded grants less secure, and discourage international scholarly collaboration. Submit a public comment by July 13. 🧵

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Action Alert: Protect Independent Historical Research - AHA

The federal government is proposing sweeping changes to the way research grants are awarded and managed. If adopted, these changes would mandate greater political involvement in funding decisions, wea...

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The case of Mary Toft’s monstrous births have attracted artistic, scientific and political reinventions since they began almost 300 years ago. This is a fascinating new account of a 20th doctor trying to make sense of the case!

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Dr Emma Marshall @earlymodernemma.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I'm very proud of this work and hope that through the pamphlet and an upcoming CPD session in February, we will continue to support teachers to try this place-based approach in their classrooms: literacytrust.org.uk/communities/... (3/3)

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Place-themed literacy: a free CPD series and pamphlet | National Literacy Trust

Join us for a series of monthly, free teacher CPD workshops exploring how tailoring and theming literacy activities around your local area can increase engagement amongst your secondary school student...

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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

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Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 01/08/2025

OTD in 1714, Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, died at age 49. In an article from our archive, Karen Harvey ‪(@kharveyhistory.bsky.social) considers the role of women's bodies in Queen Anne's court, drawing from the historical film, The Favourite (2018). www.historyworkshop....

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The Favourite, Mary Toft the Rabbit Breeder, and Women's Bodies

Historian Karen Harvey on the hidden symbolism of rabbits and women's bodies in The Favourite, and the real-life case of eighteenth-century mother Mary Toft.

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for a brilliant #SHSConf2025. Outstanding papers, ran like a well-oiled machine in a terrific venue. And I got to give the keynote in a swimming pool!

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Keynote written. On my way to the #SHSConf2025. Excited to hear so many great-looking papers. (And to eat Black Country fish n chips)

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/05/2025

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July. #Skystorians

Image of the eight titles shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize for early career historians, 2025.

Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press)

Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age, by Simeon Koole (University of Chicago Press)

Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell (British Academy / Oxford University Press)

The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization, by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (Palgrave MacMillan)

Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press)

The Quislings. The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964, by Anika Seemann (Cambridge University Press)

Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, by Fiona Smyth (Manchester University Press)

Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West, by Ulriika Vihervalli (Liverpool University Press)

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Looking forward to being back at CECS York with this new work!

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Our article 'Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain' with @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out online and OA in the JBS @thenacbs.bsky.social. It's about older people and the body and shows them having fun (as well as coping with the challenges of old age). ‪ doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.181

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10/05/2025

This week we also opened booking for our 2025 Prothero Lecture, on 2 July, with Professor Peter Gatrell. Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All are very welcome #skystorians

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Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective

Professor Peter Gatrell delivers the 2025 Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture, followed by the Society's annual summer party.

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Our 20th anniversary of c18th studies at Birmingham. Do join us!

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I was delighted to be interviewed for this wonderful series on the history of the body. It was a great opportunity to think about how we do this sort of history. Thanks @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social!

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Our transcribathon generated 122 submissions. Thank you! Your transcriptions will be used by researchers and school children, adults learners, older people and archive users who we work with in our engagement projects. Special thanks to @earlymodernemma.bsky.social for such a superb day!

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We've reached over 100 submissions so far today! I'm stunned by this response. Thanks to our brilliant letter transcribers in Canada, Romania, Dubai, as well as closer to the @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Warwick, Sutton Coldfield and Edgbaston

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Very excited for our day-long transcribathon event today!

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 07/04/2025

For World Health Day this year, WHO are launching a campaign on maternal and newborn health. #HealthforAll From the archive, here are just some of our radical archives on histories of maternal healthcare, parenthood and family planning (we have a whole category on health too!): ✊🗃

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:

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Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

📢 Exciting news to end the week - we are hosting an online transcribathon on Friday 25th April! All are welcome to transcribe fascinating C18th letters. Zoom rooms will also be open for sharing tips, questions and interesting finds. Please share and join us! 📝 transcribathon.eventbrite.com

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 05/12/2024

A reminder that tomorrow, Friday 6 Dec, is the closing date for two of our open calls for Research Funding: - Postgraduate Research Support Grants - Early Career Research Support Grants Both offering £500 or £1000 for research. Further details of these and other RHS funding calls bit.ly/3ZnsQhv

Image of Chinese bowl with scholars and caption 'Research Funding opportunities, December 2024'

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 05/12/2024

We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise quality historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024. Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.

Image of open book advertising the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article prizes, 2025. Applications now invited.

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Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Honoured to be the keynote for the SHS Annual Conference in July 2025!

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