IHR Life Cycles seminar

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It's a Life Cycles day! I hope that improves things.

The Dr Williams’s Trust Library Bursaries for Mid-Career Researchers The Dr Williams’s Trust has generously provided funds to support the work of mid-career historians researching the British Protestant dissenting traditions.

Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

‘I would be pleased if he did not pursue his studies further, but instead came home’: The Impact of University Studies and their International Character on Family Relations in the Middle Ages

Later this afternoon, we are off to the Middle Ages with @elenarossi.bsky.social to hear about families dealing with their children going to university. Come along with us! You may join us online or in person at the Institute of Historical Research in Bloomsbury.

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📚 Nominations for our book prizes are OPEN!

See below how to nominate a book that was published in 2023, 2024, or 2025, with our winner to be announced at our annual conference in November. 👇

historyofeducation.org.uk/book-prizes/

@elenarossi.bsky.social will be our speaker tomorrow at 17:30.
Join us at the IHR or online to hear her talk about the impact on families of offspring going off to university in the Middle Ages.
Every one is welcome. The registration details are in the link.

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Jumping Over Childhood - Digital Childhoods Most of us conceive of childhood and maternity as separate, linearly progressive stages of life. First comes childhood, then comes puberty, then comes adulthood and reproduction. However, scholars con...

Check out this week's interview on Digital Childhoods with Bianca Premo on the tragic case of the "youngest mother in the world" and what it teaches us about time, maturity, and Peruvian history: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/jumping-...

Visualising Historical University Records to Explore the Colonial Connections of the Students and Alumni of the University of St Andrews, 1700–1897 This paper uses the historical student records of the University of St Andrews to demonstrate how an exploration of the student community can contribute to our understanding of the ways UK universi...

Two great new articles on university history in History of Education

1. Tomas Vancisin & @aileenfyfe.bsky.social:
St Andrews records reveal how universities were embedded in British imperial networks.

doi.org/10.1080/0046...

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of gender? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

🎥 We’re interested in different ways of disseminating research. So, we’re trying our hand at short-form video content to summarise the core arguments of amazing projects.

🥘 Up first, here’s our journal’s co-editor @heatherlwellis.bsky.social talking about the @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project:

Join us on Tuesday 10th. February from 17:30 GMT to hear @elenarossi.bsky.social speak about families in the middle ages as their children left for university and international travel.
We will be at the IHR in London. You may meet us there or online.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Screen shot from the RHS website from the Join Us page. Text reads: Join the Royal Historical Society Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 9 March and 11 May 2026

Monday (9th March) is the next closing date for applications to join the Society as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member.

Applications are welcome at any time, with future deadlines on 11 May & 27 July. Further details of Fellowship / Membership bit.ly/4rM2H9h #Skystorians 1/2

✍️ Fancy doing more writing?

📖 We are encouraging more people to submit a blog post to the History of Education Society!

👇 More here - this is an excellent chance to boost your writing and see more published online, especially for early ideas.

historyofeducation.org.uk/submit-a-blo...

@elenarossi.bsky.social will present our next seminar on 10th. February. Elena will explore the emotional impact on family life when members travelled internationally for university in the Middle Ages.
To hear the paper, you may travel to London or listen online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨 EXCITING NEWS - SAVE THE DATE!

The History of Education Society conference is back for 2026.

🇮🇪 13-15 November 2026. Maynooth University, Ireland.

Find out more below 👇

historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/

This evening's seminar is 'The People without Age. Civilization, civility and the rise of European age consciousness in the 18th century' with Ludwig Pelzl. Join us from 17:30 online or at the IHR.

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Deadline extended until end of Tuesday 24th: if you were meaning to submit but missed the original deadline, don't worry!

This evening's seminar is 'The People without Age. Civilization, civility and the rise of European age consciousness in the 18th century' with Ludwig Pelzl. Join us from 17:30 online or at the IHR.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/701308 Eleven Ages of Man, Gerhard Altzenbach

Ludvig Pelzl will present his research in our next seminar, 'The People without Age. Civilization, civility & the rise of European age consciousness in the 18th century'. Join us at the IHR or online on Tuesday 24th. February '26 at 17:30.
Register through the link!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

One of our convenors, @hagenilda.bsky.social , will be speaking in Oxford next week.

IHR Bulletin February 2026 Being Human Festival 2026 Applications for Being Human Festival 2026 are now open, taking place from 5 - 14 November 2026, with the theme Crossroads.  Funding grants are available to connect your research...

In case you missed it, the IHR Bulletin for February 2026 is out. Read it here:
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The People without Age. Civilization, civility and the rise of European age consciousness in the 18th century

Our next seminar will be on 24th February at 17:30 GMT. Ludwig Pelzl will join us remotely to deliver 'The People without Age. Civilization, civility and the rise of European age consciousness in the 18th century'. Further details are below.
Join us at the IHR or online. Everybody's welcome!

Resources for Historians The IHR offers a wide range of online resources and publications for historians. These pages introduce and provide access to these resources.

The @ihr.bsky.social has brought all its online resources - journals, @vch-home.bsky.social, OA book series, @bho.bsky.social, BBIH, @layersoflondon.bsky.social, and more - into one section of its website for easier access bit.ly/4cCrpUD.

Much of this content is free to use online #Skystorians

This Valentine’s season, discover how 18th c. couples poured their hopes, anxieties and desires into hand written love letters - read my article in Bath Spa uni news feature here #18c #love #letters www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Women, Food and Power - Joint Session

Excited to be speaking at the IHR Food History seminar on 12 February 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm.

Book a place to hear about cheesemaking and women’s dominance of the dairy in early modern England.

Online via Zoom so no real cheese this time I’m afraid.

Friendly Warnings: Youth and Protection in British Sexual Surveillance of International Travel, 1885–1914

This evening's seminar details are attached. Take a look and join us! The seminar starts at 17:30 GMT. If you are near Bloomsbury, you are very welcome to join us in Senate House.

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That sounds like a fun day!

Calendar of IHR Research Training January to April 2026. All the details are in the web link in the body of the post.

More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Friendly Warnings: Youth and Protection in British Sexual Surveillance of International Travel, 1885–1914

A "friendly warning": “There is always danger for girls who go abroad alone."
Learn how to guard against this by coming to our seminar tomorrow, 10/2/26 at 17:30 GMT, where Madgalene Klassen will tell us.
Join us online or at the IHR. Everyone is welcome!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Friendly Warnings: Youth and Protection in British Sexual Surveillance of International Travel, 1885–1914

Come travelling with us on 10th. February at 17:30GMT! Magdalene Klassen will safely escort us through 'Friendly Warnings: Youth & Protection in British Sexual Surveillance of International Travel, 1885–1914'. You may join us in London at Senate House or online.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...