Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Thank you to William Whyte and everyone who attended last night’s Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture at KCL. It was a fascinating paper! It was also wonderful to see so many people come together to discuss the ODNB - which, as we heard, is itself a profoundly collaborative project. 220
Reposted by Modern British History JournalModern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Join us for the 2026 Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture! William Whyte, new general editor of the ODNB, asks: what is the future of national biography? 📅 6 October, 6pm 📍 King’s College London 🎟️ Free and open to all www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...tickettailor.comSelect tickets – The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography – Council Room, Strand Campus, King's College LondonThe Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography – Council Room, Strand Campus, King's College London, Tue 6 Oct 2026 - The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - W... 054
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We’re so pleased to publish Alice Gorton’s terrific new article ‘The state of the forests: empire, unemployment and the creation of forest work, 1916–45’ Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...doi.org 050
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We're delighted to say that Edgar Jones’s fascinating new article has now been published in the journal: ‘The management of psychological casualties from large-scale attritional combat: shell shock, British military doctors and generals in the First World War’ Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...doi.org 000
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Join us for the 2026 Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture! William Whyte, new general editor of the ODNB, asks: what is the future of national biography? 📅 6 October, 6pm 📍 King’s College London 🎟️ Free and open to all www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...tickettailor.comSelect tickets – The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography – Council Room, Strand Campus, King's College LondonThe Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography – Council Room, Strand Campus, King's College London, Tue 6 Oct 2026 - The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - W... 054
Reposted by Modern British History JournalGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 16/07/2026NEW from me in @mbhjournal.bsky.social... My review of Josh Patel's excellent new book on the rise of Britain's universities after 1945, made all the more relevant by the tragic chaos enveloping them now. Read all about it. 👇 (1/2) academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...academic.oup.comUniversities and the purpose of higher education: expansion and development in post-war Britain. Josh Patel.Higher education’s many crises will have escaped very few readers of this journal. Josh Patel’s lively, sensitive, and thoughtful book about the sector’s p 1175
Reposted by Modern British History JournalGender Equalities At Work @genderwork50.bsky.social · 26/08/2026How workplace beauty contests were challenged as ‘institutionalised sexism’ in the 1980s. Brett Morritt’s new article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social is a great read: academic-oup-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/tcbh/article...academic-oup-com.eux.idm.oclc.orgShibboleth Authentication Request 001
Reposted by Modern British History JournalJack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026New article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social about Black Irish migration to postwar urban Britain. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...academic.oup.com‘I felt like I just belonged’: urban multiculture and black Irish migrants in post-war BritainAbstract. This article reevaluates historians’ understanding of the Irish in post-war Britain from the perspective of a previously unresearched population, 13421
Reposted by Modern British History JournalKieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Important new piece in @mbhjournal.bsky.social by my colleague @jcrangle.bsky.social on the experiences of Black and mixed race Irish immigrants in Britain 👇 academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...academic.oup.com‘I felt like I just belonged’: urban multiculture and black Irish migrants in post-war BritainAbstract. This article reevaluates historians’ understanding of the Irish in post-war Britain from the perspective of a previously unresearched population, 02317
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open! If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article on modern British history do consider entering! Deadline Sept 1st. #skystorians 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...academic.oup.comThe Duncan Tanner PrizeThe Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript. 01632
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/c...academic.oup.comCall for MBH Book Review EditorModern British History is seeking a Book Review Editor to replace Dr Shahmima Akhtar whose term of office is due to end in December 2024. The post involves 03467
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2024This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open! If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article on modern British history do consider entering! #skystorians 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...academic.oup.comDuncan Tanner Prize 2024The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript. 089
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2024We're thrilled to announce that Prof. Erika Rappaport will be giving this year's Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture on Friday 13th September at Kings College London. 🗃️ The lecture is free and open to all! Registration and further details here - www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...tickettailor.comSelect tickets – Modern British History Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2024: Professor Erika Rappaport – Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's Building, Strand, King's College LondonModern British History Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2024: Professor Erika Rappaport – Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's Building, Strand, King's College London, Fri 13 Sep 2024 - The Ben Pimlott Memori... 010
Reposted by Modern British History JournalAlistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social · 28/05/2024For those interested in Milton Keynes, new towns history, and the history of community: my new article in Modern British History @mbhjournal.bsky.social. Open Access at doi.org/10.1093/tcbh... 12710
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2024It's been great to see more work submitted to the journal on Welsh, Scottish and Irish histories in recent years. Our first issue contains a Forum reflecting on ‘Four Nations’ history and the definitions and boundaries of ‘Britain’ in ‘British history’ 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...academic.oup.comRoundtable: Four NationsAbstract. Nations have long since preoccupied historians. Histories of how nations came to be, how they persisted, and how nations were unmade are innumera 010
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2024For the re-launch, Erik Linstrum co-ordinated a Forum that explores The Past, Present and Futures of Modern British History. The pieces here ‘offer a variety of perspectives on where modern British history has been and where it might be going’. 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...academic.oup.comForum: The Past, Present, and Futures of Modern British HistoryAbstract. For the first issue of the renamed journal, Modern British History co-editor Erik Linstrum convened a group of scholars to reflect on the past, p 120
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 02/05/2024We've used the re-launch as a chance to reflect on the field and the journal's place within it. The issue opens with an editorial in which we consider what the name change means for the journal and the opportunities and challenges facing historians in the 2020s. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...academic.oup.comModern British History—First Issue EditorialTwentieth Century British History is now Modern British History. The volume numbering has not reset to 1, and the editorial board and the advisory and inte 100
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 02/05/2024The first issue of Modern British History was published yesterday! For the re-launch we brought our favourite features (the ECR essay prize and Pimlott lecture) together with a series of commisioned pieces. Thank you to all our contributors for their wonderful work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/issue/3...academic.oup.comVolume 35 Issue 1 | Modern British History | Oxford AcademicPublishes research that covers the variety of British history in the twentieth century in all its aspects. It links the many different and specialized branches of historical scholarship with work in p... 21410
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2024The relaunch of TCBH is here and 'Modern British History' has joined Bluesky! 🎉🗃️ 0105
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2024@rauchway.bsky.social Can we be added as a poster to What's History please? 010