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Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One afternoon only: we're selling duplicate books, pamphlets and magazines from our Special Collections & Archives; London history, LGBTQIA+ history, and general history. Free to attend. Sunday 27 September, 14:30–17:30. Details: www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/act…

Books are stacked horizontally in black and white at the bottom of the image. A green and yellow background highlights text that reads: "This Sunday. From 14:30 - 17:30, we will be selling our duplicate books, pamphlets, and magazines. Topics include London, LGBTQIA+, and general history. Pop in and grab a bargain.

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're looking for a freelance conservator to survey and rehouse audio heritage as part of the Sounds of the Midlands project. For more information please email us. Deadline for applications is Monday, 12 October #LibraryofBham @uniofleicester.bsky.social

Page 1 detailing the Sounds of the Midlands freelance conservator post. Heading has the logos for Birmingham City Council and the Library of Birmingham.

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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Indy Historians in the Midlands - we want to meet you! Come along to our meet up on Weds 16th September! It's just by New St so very easy to get to, and it's a drop-by-whenever-you-can format. DM or sign up here: forms.gle/4svnEKhdTDRL...

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here briefly to provide the registration link to this super exciting inaugural from Professor Sumita Mukherjee. 28 October in Bristol, with an online option available. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

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Inaugural Lecture of Professor Sumita Mukherjee (in person and online)

Please join the School of Humanities, University of Bristol, in celebrating Professor Sumita Mukherjee's inaugural lecture.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@indyhistnetwork.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association is seeking a representative for independent scholars on our Steering Committee - please do consider joining us. Further details via this link: modbritstud.org.uk/join/

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Become a member from just £10. Attend our annual conference, enter prizes & join a growing network of scholars. Join the MBSA today.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Modern British Studies Association is looking for volunteers to join its steering committee. We're keen to appoint a representative for independent scholars, for early career researchers, & co-editors for our blog. More details below; expressions of interest by 7 Sept. modbritstud.org.uk/join/

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Become a member from just £10. Attend our annual conference, enter prizes & join a growing network of scholars. Join the MBSA today.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We're delighted to announce that Somak Biswas has won the MBSA Early Career Prize for best presentation at #MBS2026, for a paper entitled ‘AIDS & the Racialisation of Mobility: Britain, 1985-1995’. The judges also highly commended Rebecca Orr & Naomi Samake-Bäckert modbritstud.org.uk/events-awards/

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Events & Prizes - The Modern British Studies Association

Explore our annual conference, prizes & early career awards. Join scholars sharing research on modern Britain.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

'Lawyers held a unique vantage point as the law was increasingly used in norm-breaking ways as a tool of campaigners from across the political spectrum.' Katherine Milliken identifies new avenues for understanding late twentieth century Britain through the law. modbritstud.org.uk/why-do-you-n...

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Why do you need more lawyers in your (historical) life? - The Modern British Studies Association

Katherine Milliken I spoke at the recent (and excellent) Modern British Studies Association conference in Birmingham as part of a panel on ‘New Legal Histories of Late Modern Britain, c,1970-2010’ and...

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For those looking for some longer historical context about white supremacist politics in Northern Ireland, I heartily recommend Daniel Geary’s chapter in this fantastic edited collection: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526147073/

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Manchester University Press - Global white nationalism

Global white nationalism - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Global white nationalism by Daniel Geary

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Joseph Price @joseph-price.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A really great time attending and speaking at @modbritstud.bsky.social Conference the past few days! Great papers with great speakers #MBS2026

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Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Being a part of this #MBS2026 panel was a real treat! Many thanks to my fellow speakers @drrochellerowe.bsky.social @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social Aleph Ross @leilarsellers.bsky.social @benjamin-bland.bsky.social and @evemworth.bsky.social and our fantastic chair @tsasson.bsky.social

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Biggest thanks to Chika Tonooka for all her posts over the course of #mbs26. It was great to be able to give glimpses of the panels and debate to folks on Bsky

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We’ve officially reached the end of #MBS2026! Thank you to everyone who attended, both in person and online. It’s been fantastic seeing so many people here and engaging in these vital conversations across Modern British Studies.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Discussion of passing in relation to race, class, disability, gender & ethnicity raises very pertinent final questions for #mbs26: how modern is the sense of self that underpins ideas of passing? Is the language of presenting more useful? How can we explore sonic and embodied aspects?

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

#MBS2026 post-lunch panel on social science and government identifies important areas of investigation for historicising the 1990s:

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

In the last panel of #mbs26 we are keeping our energy levels up with edible cups to nibble as we listen to the brilliant lineup discussing passing in modern Britain

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Heading into our final parallel sessions to close out #MBS2026. Here is the final session lineup: 1. Decolonising British Urban History 2. Class and Negotiations with the State 3. Passing in Modern British Studies

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Here are the choices for the post-lunch slot #MBS2026: 1. Social Science and British Government in the 1990s: Sex, Deficits, and Futurology 2. Politics, Society, and the Body 3. Energy transitions 4. Political Movements and the Afterlife of Empire 5. Crises of Sexual Health in Modern Britain

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Brilliant panel on cultural histories of climate #MBS2026. Papers highlight the potential of focusing on the weather for exploring the environmental, material, embodied, discursive and their intersections.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

And here is the lineup for our second morning slot - Day 3 #MBS2026: 1. Encounters with Nature 2. Writing Everyday Whiteness 3. Trauma, Memory, and Care in ‘Oral’ History and Contemporary Archives

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Great panel on US writer & activist James Baldwin’s relationship to Britain – Douglas Field highlights Baldwin’s commitment to trans-Atlantic black radicalism and critique of global reach of white supremacy. #MBS2026

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Fascinating panel on women's oral history evidence and how it might be used in policy collaborations. Dangers of flattening evidence and policymaker disinterest in slow research. Yet panelists note govt and business strong interest in participatory methods #mbs2026

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It’s Day 3 of #MBS2026! We’re kicking off at 9am with parallel sessions and plenty of tough choices to make across a range of modern British studies.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📚 Demystifying Trade Publishing: Some golden advice from Day 2’s #MBS2026 Roundtable on ‘Writing Public Histories of Modern Britain’. 📚 Featuring: Emily Baughan (Sheffield) Kieran Connell (Queen’s University Belfast) Helen McCarthy (Cambridge) Lucy Delap (Cambridge)

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Regimes of exploitation, mapped by Nick Draper and Legacies of Enslavement team. Illustrates the power of visualisation to capture racial capitalism and accumulation #mbs26

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The highlight plenary of #mbs26, with the legendary Catherine Hall

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The #MBS2026 hybrid Plenary Lecture begins at 5:30pm this evening. Catherine Hall (UCL) will present her keynote address, titled 'Laying an axe to the roots: history writing for the present'. Many thanks to @britishacademy.bsky.social for sponsoring this event. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Born digital sources panel #mbs2026 is quite pessimistic in tone, despite riches of 'digital heap' of two decades of uk state digital sources held by the National Archives. Digital records management broadly means deletion. Rot or obsolescence affects sources. And ethical parameters unclear.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Now moving into the last parallel sessions of Day 2 at #MBS2026: 1. Mass Observation and Vernacular Understandings of Crisis 2. New Legal Histories of Late Modern Britain, c.1970-2010 3. Colonialism, Belonging, and the British Empire

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We’re halfway through the #MBS2026 (3-5 June, University of Birmingham) and celebrating with 30% off a curated reading list of key titles in the field. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/05...

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

'Does thinking about your research in terms of absence/presence change your orientation to it?' Innovative workshop underway at #MBS2026: audience identifies absences in historical evidence and fills them with (other participants’) imagination.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Post lunch #mbs26 panel on environmental history. @julialaite.bsky.social puts extractivism and imperialism into the shared frame of the global commons, witnessed through Beothuk Newfoundland.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Refuelled after lunch. The afternoon sessions of #MBS2026 Day 2 are now underway: 1. Post-Feminism and Gender Politics 2. Environmental Histories of Britain and the World 3. Reflections on Radical Public History

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#MBS2026 in full swing now. Fantastic to see a great turnout.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

CUP editor Liz is at #MBS2026 today (only) - she's happy to chat!

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Make sure to check out the publisher stalls during the breaks! #MBS2026

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#MBS2026 continues with 6 more parallel sessions (aka more impossible choices) before we head into lunch: 1. Belonging in Post-War Britain 2. Rethinking 20th Century British History through New Histories of the North 3. Race, Mobility and the Migration State

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What makes international political solidarity possible? A great panel discussion this morning #MBS2026 making the case for taking sensory experiences (esp. music), intimacy (via international visits) & friendship (challenging its gendered associations with women) seriously in international history.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Panel discussing expansion of private security in postwar Britain, highlights many commercial challenges to state security provision. Police under-recruitment left space for bouncers, bailiffs, labour infiltration, immigration guards. #MBS26

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Welcome to Day 2 of #MBS2026! If you’re just joining us, yesterday marked the official launch of the Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social. Check out the website modbritstud.org.uk to find out how the Association will be supporting the study of modern Britain.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We are breaking into parallel panels for Day 2 of #MBS2026. We are spoilt for choice, with 24 panels and over 70 speakers showcasing a phenomenal range of modern British studies research.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

‘Polycrisis' is the theme of #MBS2026 and our keynote panelists reflected on it yesterday in various ways: Is it a useful term? What approaches help us make sense of it? Is it inherently global, or a particularly British phenomenon? Is there a way out? Looking fwd to seeing what emerges from Day 2.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Really enjoyed this conversation - and a pleasure to be in such excellent company. We had a lot to say about how we read histories of capitalism and where we see them. We also talked about the usefulness (or not) of the term 'polycrisis' as a widely applicable concept.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/06/2026

We're very pleased to be attending the 2026 Modern British Studies Conference this week. If you're also in Birmingham please stop by to say hello to our staff members, Hannah and Charlotte, pick up a badge, and learn more about the Society. @modbritstud.bsky.social #MBS2026 #Skystorians

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

That brings us to the end of Day 1. Thank you to everyone who joined the conversation—both in the room and watching online. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow for Day 2 #MBS2026.

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