Accessing the Wellbeing Commons is a Wellcome-funded project that explores how people access bodies of water for therapeutic purposes, in the UK and Inner Asia.

Campaigners say ‘seismic shift’ follows years of pressure to sever ties with oil and gas firm The London Science Museum has ended its decades-long partnership with the oil and gas company BP in what has been described as a “seismic shift” for the museum. The Science Museum Group academy, which was established in 2018 to provide training and resources, announced on Friday that it would be ending its partnership with BP. In a statement, the director and chief executive of the Science Museum Group, Sir Ian Blatchford, said the partnership had “drawn to a close at the end of the current contract term”. Continue reading...

Katrina Navickas, Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. 384pp. 38 illustrations. £20.00 hbk.

Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...

A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.

IHR Internships support new researchers to develop their skills and broaden their experience within and beyond the historical research community.

Lena Ferriday discusses danger and wildness in Dartmoor

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Lena Ferriday discusses danger and wildness in Dartmoor

Abstract. This article proposes that gifts of everyday foodstuffs were a crucial way in which labouring communities attempted to provide care, and express

Accessing the wellbeing commons: therapeutic resource-ification of natural and historic environments and social exclusion in the UK and Inner Asia

How Guernica became a symbol of the horrors of modern warfare.

The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Social mobility report highlights ‘extreme regional differences’ in terms of childhood, jobs, innovation and growth

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Funding Opportunities within King's CHoSTM

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

As leaders try to break smugglers’ business model, research suggests strategy so far has had opposite effect

An exciting opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the academic peer review and publishing process. Part time, six-month fixed term contract.

Want to learn more about what studying emotions in the past entails? Interested in how historians manage their own emotional relationships with their source material?

We’re consulting on future access at Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds to ensure arrangements remain fair, lawful & respectful.

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

The Anthropocene (climate histories) seminar offers sessions in the related fields of climate history and Anthropocene studies. Meetings are held on Thursdays at 1pm–2pm in Seminar Room 2. All are wel...

Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger

“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”

Funded by Brigstow Institute’s Seedcorn, these partnerships evolved during the Personal to Planetary Fellowship programme.