Reposted by Chris Mooresnataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026brilliant special issue of CBH here on writing labour histories in Brexit Britain, featuring great people like @emilyrobinson.bsky.social, @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social and @ewangibbs.bsky.socialtandfonline.comContemporary British HistoryOrdinary Working-Class People? Labour History and 'Brexit Britain'. Volume 40, Issue 3 of Contemporary British History 053
Reposted by Chris MooresModern 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
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I enjoyed this by my brother, @spinal-bap.bsky.social who must be a contender for the title of the UK/world's leading Linda McCartney apologist. 131
Reposted by Chris MooresNathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026My new article in @modamhist.bsky.social is out now in first view and open access and is a preview of chapter 6 of the 'The World Awheel' (@columbiaup.bsky.social). It's a story of American mobility, femininity, and power in the spaces of European empires. doi.org/10.1017/mah.... 11511
Reposted by Chris MooresJohn Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCarsurbancyclinginstitute.substack.comStealing Cars: Property, Automobility, and the Colonial Crisis of Car CultureLong Ride | Historian John Munro delves into the past in order to understand how the primacy of private property shapes mobility hierarchies in the present 625395
Reposted by Chris MooresChris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Great to hear my Birmingham colleague Dr Simon Yarrow talking about saints with @gregjenner.bsky.social : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - You're Dead to Me, Medieval saints: miracles, relics and pilgrimageJoin Greg and his guests to learn about the medieval cult of saints and their relics. 12610
Reposted by Chris MooresHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 26/06/2026📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!historyworkshop.org.ukCall for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. 184100
Reposted by Chris MooresSadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStoriansjobs.manchester.ac.ukLecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road 14568
Reposted by Chris MooresJohn Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026One week from today, join me & @yosra999.bsky.social for a conversation with @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social about Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. With Azbah Ansari, Sadok Damak, @reenamahajan.bsky.social, & Gabriela García Portuondo.eventbrite.co.ukLife After CarsFreeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile 0138
Reposted by Chris MooresTom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Hello London! This Thursday (4 June, 5.30pm) I'll be talking at the @ihr.bsky.social North American History Seminar about "Liberty, Dissent, and the Internal Enemy in Britain's American Revolution" www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...history.ac.ukLiberty, Dissent, and the Internal Enemy in Britain's American RevolutionNorth American History Seminar 22510
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Periodic reminder from ex-journal editor that if we all turn down peer review requests, nothing will be reviewed and things grind to a halt. Clear that job losses, workload in the sector are having a pinching effect. Any room for (£££) publishers to hire human reviewers to help? 172
Reposted by Chris MooresMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Is the UK's science base being eroded by policy, or by sleepwalking? As Britons head to the polls, it's timely to recall the hustings at the Royal Society before the last GE. All 3 parties there pledged to support science, & confirmed that included SHAPE disciplines. 1/9 24524
Reposted by Chris MooresModern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 01/05/2026A century and a half of history encased in more than 1,500 archive boxes After three years, conservation and cataloguing of the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has been completed... 15424
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Two big events are happening in the School of History & Cultures at Birmingham next week (plus some lovely smaller ones). Links, dates, times, and registration below. 1. Tara Hamling's inaugural lecture: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/re-vi.... Expect lots of lovely visuals there!birmingham.ac.ukRe-viewing the ‘bad’ arts of Tudor and Stuart England - University of BirminghamProfessor Tara Hamling's Inaugural Lecture 143
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Reposting - registration details for the return to Birmingham of big Modern British Studies conversations. 001
Reposted by Chris MooresChris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Registration details for this summer's Modern British Studies Conference. Looking forward to seeing people on Birmingham's green and pleasant campus! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...birmingham.ac.ukModern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of BirminghamConference information 011
Reposted by Chris MooresSarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 20/04/2026My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...doi.orgThe Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gendering of Undercover Police Surveillance in 1970s Britain: the Public Inquiry as (Un)Ethical archiveAbstract. In the 1970s a female police officer went undercover in the feminist movement in Britain. Across two years, she shared plans, conversations, and 210746
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Registration details for this summer's Modern British Studies Conference. Looking forward to seeing people on Birmingham's green and pleasant campus! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...birmingham.ac.ukModern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of BirminghamConference information 011
Reposted by Chris MooresChris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...eventbrite.co.ukSagas! The 2026 Midland Viking Symposium. 02123
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 31/03/2026A good day for people to (re)read my brilliant colleague @momoulton.bsky.social's HWJ article: academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...academic.oup.comValidate User 000
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Reviewed Tehila Sasson's book and solipsistically my own hopeless approach to personal financing in the AHR. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... 2102
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Register for the Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures Big Annual Event here - should be a good one: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/every...birmingham.ac.ukEvery monument will fall: in conversation with Dan Hicks - University of BirminghamHear Professor Dan Hicks speak on his recent work on conflict, memory, heritage, and colonialism. 025
Reposted by Chris MooresCaitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Lovely evening spent at @lselibrary.bsky.social #womenslibrary in great company with @gillianmurphy.bsky.social to celebrate 💯 years of this fantastic archival resource + a great exhibition curated by fantastic historians of women. @womenshistnet.bsky.social 1232
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Just me that thinks the permission structure test allowing the non-consensual imposition of AI on all our lives was U2 installing Songs of Innocence on everyone's ITunes in 2014? Team, I've found a way to blame it all Bono. @spinal-bap.bsky.social - grounds for your Bononaissance critique? 261
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I also refuse to use Royal Mail. Bring back Consignia. 120
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Wonder if anyone is having a little think about the need for historians to credentialize themselves via the crown today? 230
Reposted by Chris MooresChristine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939ww.cambridge.org 64820
Reposted by Chris MooresQMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Today is the publication date for Matthew Hilton's Charity After Empire: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...qmul.ac.ukHow charity helped shape Britain after empire 2107
Reposted by Chris MooresKate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k... 118834
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 17/02/2026My brilliant friend and colleague @kateesthersmith.bsky.social s book is out on Thursday. Read and become wiser! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...cambridge.orgKeeping Hold | Cambridge University Press & Assessment 022
Reposted by Chris MooresRaphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Why did charity become the outlet for global compassion? Join us for the launch of 'Charity After Empire' by Matthew Hilton 24/3/26, QMUL, London E1 Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-charity-after-empire-tickets-1981162909594 @qmul.bsky.socialeventbrite.co.ukBook Launch: Charity After EmpireBritish Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development 0148
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Uni VLE's increasingly in partnership with businesses like OpenAI. It's easy to see what is provided (AI chat features, design assistants, etc.. ) but does anyone know what is extracted? I am thinking stuff like class exercises, readings, Uni IP, the academic labour etc.. that goes into these? 110
Reposted by Chris MooresMax Long @maxlong.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share! 13317
Reposted by Chris MooresMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/02/202618 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027. Repost to spread the word. #Skystoriansjobs.london.ac.ukJacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - HybridThe University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions. 03667
Reposted by Chris MooresJonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Today! If you are in or near Oxford, please come along www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/eventsccw.ox.ac.ukEvents — The Changing Character of War CentreUpcoming CCW events 094
Reposted by Chris MooresJulia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...cis7.bbk.ac.ukCurrent Vacancies - Birkbeck, University of LondonBirkbeck 18656
Reposted by Chris MooresIntl Federation for Research in Women's & Gender History @ifrwh-offical.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Published a book on transnational women's or gender history 2020-25? 🚨Submissions to the Ida Blom-Karen Offen Book Prize in Transnational Women's & Gender History now open🚨You can see the full details on our website: www.ifrwh.com Closing date is 28 February 2026! #WomensHist #GenderHistifrwh.comHome PageThe International Federation for Women's History 11218
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Once again, M*tt G**dwin owes me/ghosted me on a book review from c. 2011 (fully appreciate everyone misses these/they get put to one side given all our priorities) but, you know, I was sending him grumpy emails before you knew he existed. 1151
Reposted by Chris MooresKate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Looking forward to @sethrockman.bsky.social public lecture on Plantation Goods tomorrow. 6pm at BRIG cafe. @johnmunro.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/publi...birmingham.ac.ukPublic Lecture exploring how the production and consumption of goods shaped American slavery - University of BirminghamA public lecture by historian Seth Rockman, whose research explores the relationships between slavery and capitalism in the making of modern America. 033
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Outgoing academic journal editor here. I know everyone is busy AND over-worked AND its unclear who profits from the work being done AND there are fewer of us than previously, BUT if everyone's New Year resolution is to say 'no' to peer review requests things might grind a bit to a halt. 140
Reposted by Chris MooresCentre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 19/12/2025We are delighted to be co-sponsoring this event alongside @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org. Details and sign-up information is below! 058
Reposted by Chris MooresKate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 06/01/2026@sethrockman.bsky.social @apeikeumolu.bsky.social @aishadjelid.bsky.social and @sallytuckett.bsky.social are coming to Birmingham next Friday to discuss Plantation Goods: A Material History of Slavery - everyone welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...birmingham.ac.ukRoundtable on new book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery - University of BirminghamOn Friday 16 January 2026 (14.00-16.00), the Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities and the Centre for Global American Studies, will be hosting historian Seth Rockman (Brown). 1126
Reposted by Chris MooresMo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Applications now open. Find out more at birmingham.ac.uk/gender-ma 0811
Reposted by Chris MooresJohn Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Free public lecture by @sethrockman.bsky.social on slavery, capitalism, and his award winning new book. 6 PM, Friday, 16 January. BRIG Cafe @inthewarehouse.bsky.social Introduced by Gabrielle Hemmings (@unibirmingham.bsky.social) See you there!birmingham.ac.ukPublic Lecture exploring how the production and consumption of goods shaped American slavery - University of BirminghamA public lecture by historian Seth Rockman, whose research explores the relationships between slavery and capitalism in the making of modern America. 077
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Had a very good time talking about stomach aches, pain, and conservatism at #nacbs in Montreal while also representing @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social 2163
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 18/05/2025From what I've seen, I'd say coursework and online exams have made ChatGPT look pointless. It's basically shit at these things. 100