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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

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Absence in the Archives

Cambridge Core - Global History - Absence in the Archives

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Permanent 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... #SkyStorians

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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road

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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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Elise Garritzen @egarritzen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What an academic treat this was! Thank you @zoethomas.bsky.social @svenjaros.bsky.social and the team for making "Power Couples" happen!

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

So exciting to have over a 100 public attendees here tonight for the public workshop @ Mortizburg Museum in Halle, Germany as part of our Power Couples workshop!

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Dracula 1933 Irish translation cover

Dracula, Bram Stoker, translated into Irish by Seán Ó Cuirrín, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1933. Design: AóM (Austin Molloy). John Moore/Little Museum of Dublin

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Manchester University Press is proud to launch Radical Histories, a new series dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged political, social and cultural authority. Call for proposals now open. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

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Sven Jaros @svenjaros.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

They do look pretty nice on paper as well!

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Exciting news! I've signed a contract to write my first solo book - on women, politics and the battle for equal franchise between 1918 and 1928. It will be published for the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act in 2028 by @yalebooks.bsky.social Suffraduck is on my desk waiting for me to start! 🗃️

Working from home set up with rubber suffragette duck on desk, New Dawn colourful print on wall behind and a suffrage teatowel hanging over a monitor

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Mathias Valverde @vlvde.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In a month we are going to present the Invention of the scientific power couple in 18th century France with @meghankroberts.bsky.social in this exciting workshop! Glad to get to travel after this long writing period and listen to those great papers! couples.hypotheses.org @zoethomas.bsky.social

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Our colleague @martinspychal.bsky.social will be speaking about Harriet & George Grote. Some of his work on Harriet can be found on the #HistParl website: historyofparliament.com?s=Harriet+Gr...

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Harriet Grote - The History of Parliament

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Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So looking forward to participating in this workshop! I’ll be presenting on Una & Richard Pope-Hennessy’s intellectual partnership, exploring their collaborative endeavours before and during #WW1. Huge thanks to Zoe, Sven, and the team for their work putting together this wonderful programme 🙌🏻

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Grateful to Marta Bartkowska for making a beautiful postcard & flyer for mine & @svenjaros.bsky.social workshop & public event in Germany this May! "Power Couples: Collaborations at work and at home, c. 1750-1920s" funded by the DFG & others. Do get in touch if you want more info about the project!

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Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Publishing today! A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life. 'A queer scrapbook' is a rich archive of histories from across Britain & Ireland. Featuring interviews, photographs & flyers, it captures the diversity of queer & trans lives since WW2. Out now. #booksky

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Another day, another “uncovered” archive. The materials “have been stored in Cambridge University’s herbarium for nearly 200 years.” The course sounds great, but this Indiana Jones framing and erasure of archivists’ work is getting really tired.

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I'm looking forward to speaking to French history students in Birmingham later this week (guest video appearance on Simon Jackson's 'Equality, Environment and Empire in Modern France' course) If anyone would like me to speak about the book, then drop me a line, I'm happy to help! 🗃️ #skystorians

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Berkshire Conference of Women Historians @berksconference.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Our CfP for the 2027 Big Berks is now OPEN! The 2027 theme is “Beyond Boundaries: Gender, History and the Futures We Imagine". You can find out more and submit your proposal here: berksconference.org/big-ber...

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

So great to see amazing @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social PhD researcher Kelly Bosomworth‘s work in “The Women’s Library at 100“ exhibition @lselibrary.bsky.social as part of her wider PhD project all about the Six Point Group 😍

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Next Weds 25th at IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social we welcome Leila Sellers @leilarsellers.bsky.social for a paper on the Beaumont Society and online trans communities in the 90s-00s. Register here! Hybrid option available too (if the tech works). www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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'The Future is Bright. The Future is Beaumont': Transvestite Lives in a Digital Age

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404 Media @404media.co · 10/03/2026

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...

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Nineteenth-Century Afterlives: Creative and Critical Approaches

An exploration of the many ways in which the 19th century is revisited, reimagined, and critically reinterpreted

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Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The 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/9781009650939

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨ The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections. Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

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Current exhibition | LSE Library

Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

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Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Thank you to @kellybosomworth.bsky.social for highlighting the campaigning work of the feminist organisation, the Six Point Group. This image shows the first six points of action in the early 1920s.

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As well as Naomi, thanks also to co-authors and to PHJ @parlhistjournal.bsky.social for commissioning this special edition, Parliamentary History 45-1 (2026) The Politics of Organising in the Long 19th Century Full issue : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206...

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Special Issue: The Politics of Organising in the Long 19th Century: Parliamentary History: Vol 45, No 1

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

My article ‘The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48’ has been published in Parliamentary History Journal 45-1 (2026) Thanks to Naomi Lloyd-Jones for a great job editing Read/download here (open source): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A bit of a long shot, but I’m looking to pay someone to photograph some archival documents for me in Amsterdam in the next 6 months. If you know any PhD students based there etc who might be interested pls do send me a message. #historians #paidresearcher

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

more like the “MENguin history of europe” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pen... 🗃️

THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF EUROPE
General Editor: David Cannadine
I. SIMON PRICE AND PETER THONEMANN:
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine*
II. CHRIS WICKHAM: The Inheritance of Rome:
A History of Europe from 400 to 1000*
III. WILLIAM JORDAN: Europe in the High Middle Ages*
IV. ANTHONY GRAFTON: Renaissance Europe
V. MARK GREENGRASS: Christendom Destroyed:
Europe 1517-1648*
VI. TIM BLANNING: The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-I8I5* VII: RICHARD J. EVANS:
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
VIII. IAN KERSHAW: To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949*
IX. IAN KERSHAW: Fractured Continent:
Europe 1950-The Present
* already published

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I'm excited to present some findings from my placement at the Norfolk Record Office. You can join remotely, so consider hearing about some sexy gay diaries over lunch!

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

*drum roll* Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026! I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Deadline end of this week for MBS2026!

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Prof @petermandler.bsky.social will give the James Ford Lectures 2026 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Peter Mandler will chart the spread & use of the language of social science into everyday life in 20th-century Britain. Thursdays, 5pm Weeks 1-6 Hilary Term 🔗 www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...

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The James Ford Lectures in British History

The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life - Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026

Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents on Saturday, was a registered nurse who worked in the ICU at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. “He wanted to be helpful, to help humanity and have a career that was a force of good in the world,” a colleague said. trib.al/0Yb3jXF

People in winter clothes at a vigil for Alex Pretti. One person in a medical mask and gloves holds a poster that says JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI. A headline reads: "Alex Pretti, the Man Killed by Agents, Was a Nurse and U.S. Citizen" Photo by David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My PhD student Mike Power has written a great blog for the @echistsoc.bsky.social... Which very kindly helped to fund this research. The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In of 1971/72 was a key moment in so many ways: take a look! ehs.org.uk/legacies-and...

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Legacies and Lessons from the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In of 1971/72 - Economic History Society

This blog post by Mike Power (Oxford Brookes University) reflects research supported by the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for Graduate Students. The research will form part of their PhD the...

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I’m super enjoying organising our History Dept research seminars @ UoB this year! (We started off the term with a fab talk by Professor Jonathan Reinarz on the olfactory history of whisky 🥃). If any historians are in the Birmingham area & fancy coming along in the next few months then please do!

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A little while ago, info was circulating on here about (I think) a remote/online fellowship opportunity for independent/precarious scholars, that would provide useful things like an email address and access to digital resources. Can anyone remember the details? It might have been based in Canada..?

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I curated this exhibition and it is on at Charleston in Lewes until April. You absolutely don’t need to have read my novel to appreciate the works on show. AND It has pictures that have never been seen in public before!

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Nicolai von Eggers @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

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2 Postdoctoral positions in Intellectual History at the Department of History - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Historie, fag, Aarhus Universitet

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Fantastic looking online conference all about the history of motherhood - and including cutting edge new research by FIVE current history PhD researchers from @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Applications now open. Find out more at birmingham.ac.uk/gender-ma

MA in Gender and Sexuality. Black text on white background with photograph of two students. Text reads: 1st in the UK for graduate recruits, 63rd in the world for Arts and Humanities. Engage with urgent conversations around difference and equality and connect your research to challenges in contemporary society. Learn from leading researchers in areas such as queer and trans studies, feminist legal research, gender in arts and history.

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Anna Lively @annalively.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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