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Tom Cryer

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Teaching Fellow in U.S. History @ Warwick | Comms @ HistoryLab+ | Richard Aldrich Fellow @ History of Education Society Historian of education, ideas, and memory in 20th-C America. Mostly RT's!

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HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The CfP is now open for the 2027 HOTCUS Winter Symposium, Perspectives on the History of American Education.
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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Finding a Role: Using History PhD Skills Beyond HE | Online Workshop Aug 24, 17:30-19:00 Imogen Albiston Civil Service George Higgins Private sector grant writing Andy Holroyde Teaching / policy &nd research Joe Ryan-Hume Committee specialist - House of Commons. More: historylab.plus/events-2/
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About | Events | Meet us | Contact | Join History Lab Plus Events Coming up . . . Finding a Role: Using History PhD Skills Beyond HE | Online Workshop August 24, 17:30-19:00 Considering your career…
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 04/08/2026
Thank you to all who attended today's meeting on the 'Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History'. Very valuable proposals in difficult times for history in HE / UK HE more widely. We've also a new guide bit.ly/4z1fAjO listing 100+ UK #history societies & networks supporting historians #Skystorians
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🌟 Exciting news! Recruitment for the next History Lab committee is open 📚 We have a range of roles available for the 2026/27 academic year. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to join the UK's national network for history PGRs! Email us if you have any questions! Please share widely!
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David Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
New article by @hngreen.bsky.social, Adam Domby, Katherine Burns, and me in @anchistjournal.bsky.social on writing Black biography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography: a roundtable discussion
This roundtable is an outgrowth of a panel held at the BrANCH annual conference in Cardiff in September 2025. While the BrANCH panel focused on the particulars of the research findings of the panel...
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Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
On First View from our special issue on the U.S. 250th! "Thinning the Nation? The 1976 Bicentennial and the Politics of Revolutionary Memory in a Neoliberal Age" by @thomascryer.bsky.social, which considers commemorative occasions not as political sideshows but as key formative moments.
President Gerald Ford Boards the Michigan Wagon at the Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage Encampment, July 4, 1976.
Source: Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🗣️ CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS! 🇮🇪 The History of Education Conference is back for 2026, and will be held at Maynooth University, Ireland. 📆 Now, you can submit your 250-word abstracts - you have until 25 May 2026! 👇 More here: hes2026.wixsite.com/hes2026mayno...
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Call for Papers | HES2026
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
📢2 more days until the application deadline! You have until Friday 15th to send us your application to join our committee for the next academic year! Roles we are highlighting are: 💻Social Media & Outreach Coordinators 🏆Awards Officer 💰Treasurer DM us if you have any questions!
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Today on the blog, scholars Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne discuss the theoretical intricacies and historical perplexities behind neoconservatism.
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Neoconservatism: A Roundtable
Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne
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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🏆 Huge congratulations to the 2025 winners of the Arthur Miller Institute prizes for First Book & Article. Read more: buff.ly/LtVaFhq
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Arthur Miller Prize Winners Announced! - British Association for American Studies
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Arthur Miller First Book Prize and the Arthur Miller Article Prize.
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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America. The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025. Proposals are invited before 22 August.
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Call for Papers: BAAS Postgraduate Symposium - Teesside University, 29th November 2025 - British Association for American Studies
BAAS Postgraduate Symposium – Teesside University, 29th November 2025 ‘The people favored and the people oppressed’: The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America The original copies of the…
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
📢 CALL FOR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS! 📢 History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK. Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!
Applications for History Lab's 2025-26 Committee
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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The SHA's Annual Membership Drive begins this month, so take advantage of this deal!
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History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025 We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for our Annual Conference, taking place at the Winchester Hotel and Spa on the 16th - 18th November 2025. Information: historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/ #cfp #histed #conference #edusky
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
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David Weinfeld @davidweinfeld.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
And in this interview I recently gave for the Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social blog: www.jhiblog.org/2025/04/23/f...
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Friendship and the Politics of Difference: An Interview with David Weinfeld
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We have teamed up with @historylabplus.bsky.social and History UK on a collaborative upcoming conference "Teaching in a Time of Crisis" which will be held at University of Warwick on Thursday 29th May. You can now book your place by using the following link: www.history.ac.uk/events/teach... 1/4
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Teaching in A Time of Crisis: A History Lab, History Lab + and History UK Collaborative Conference
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🎓New free online PGR Session! Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’. Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/ #histed #edusky
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PGR Seminars & Workshops - History of Education Society
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📢Conference update! You can now book your place for our annual conference! "Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception Through Time" will take place on 24th July 2025. It is free to attend but booking is essential, so secure your place now using the link below! See you there! #skystorians
History Lab 2025 Conference poster: Registration now open!

Our annual conference, this year titled "Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception Through Time" taking place on Thursday 24th July 2025, is now available for booking. The keynote speaker is Neil Forbes who is a professor in international history at Coventry University and will be presenting a speech titled "War and Conflict in Europe Since 1900: The Shaping and Representation of Identity". 

The conference will take place in the Wolfson Conference Suite, at the Institute of Historical Research in London. Book your place now!
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement". Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
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More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🚨DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK! #cfp #skystorians The deadline for our annual conference is next Friday! Have you sent in your abstract yet? This year's conference is titled Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time. Keep on reading to find out about the themes we are looking for...
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daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@branchuk.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social As part of an all too pertinent special edition of American Nineteenth Century History, see: The price of Knowledge: Universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective: "www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108…
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The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective
This article centers on the different ways that English and American universities have uncovered, publicized, and responded to their historical connections to transatlantic slavery. It argues that ...
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Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It's a sign of the times that, pre-publication, this HE redundancies article started out as a story about UEA with Durham added. Then Kent was added...then Cardiff. A microcosm of UK HE right now, and a typical day in the life at the moment. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Four UK universities announce plans to cut over 750 jobs - Research Professional News
Cardiff, Durham, Kent and UEA the latest institutions to join wave of sector redundancies
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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting! tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
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Edinburgh Southern History Workshop @edishw.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The Edinburgh Southern History Workshop brings together PhDs and ECRs in the UK who study the history of the American South. Join us on 6 June 2025 to present your work, receive feedback, and connect with likeminded scholars. CFP due 28 Feb 2025 edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk
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Tom Cryer @thomascryer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Excited to be speaking at the IHR's North American History Seminar from 17:30 this Thursday, Jan 16th! Looking forward to talking about my thesis on education, memory, race, and John Hope Franklin. www.history.ac.uk/seminars/nor... 📖
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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Truly delighted to launch our brand new 2025 research training programme in history and the humanities at SAS today. Research training lies at the very heart of our mission to support the next generation of arts and humanities researchers. www.sas.ac.uk/support-rese... @ihr.bsky.social
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Research Training
Browse our full programme of research training sessions and book your place.
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We are so excited to have Neil as our keynote speaker, and if you want to find out more about Neil's research and our ongoing #cfp then please use the link below! 📢Deadline for submissions is 28th February 2025! (4/4) www.history.ac.uk/events/cfp-h...
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Call for Papers | HistoryLab Annual Conference 2025- Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time
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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Submissions are now open for the fantastic Olivette Otele Paper Prize Black UK-based PhD students working in history/related disciplines can win an opportunity to present at the History Lab 2025 Conference + a cash prize of £500 Deadline: 29th November 2024
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Postgraduate Opportunities with History Lab - British Association for American Studies
History Lab is proud to announce three exciting opportunities that may be of particular interest to PGRs & ECRs! We are delighted to announce that the 2024/2025 instalment of our Olivette Otele Paper ...
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
🏆Prize announcement! #CFP #History We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading... #OlivetteOtelePrize (1)
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
TEACHING IN A TIME OF CRISIS An urgent collaboration between @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social , HistoryLabPlus & history UK explores how history education can navigate contemporary crises Deadline for submissions: 17 January 2025 Conference: 29 May 2025 at Warwick rensoc.org.uk/event/teachi...
Teaching in time of crisis call for papers. Full text on the webpage
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I'm starting a pack for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers working on any aspect of Historical Studies! go.bsky.app/95yTEM3
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Tom Cryer @thomascryer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! 💙☁️ I'm a historian researching the intersections of race, liberalism, education, and ideas in the 20th-C U.S. I'm currently writing an intellectual biography of the historian John Hope Franklin and thinking a lot about pedagogy, public history, education policy, & Southern Studies.
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