I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.
I always find myself drawn depictions of this, in part because they feel rare! The latest Bridgerton being one of them...
Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration.
More info and book here: tinyurl.com/29nn4z33
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The Oxford Food Symposium returns 10–12 July, St Catherine's College, Oxford. The 2026 theme: Food Poverty — how poverty shapes what people eat, across time, place and culture. Open to all; book early, places are limited. 🔗 oxfordsymposium.org.uk/next-symposium/#book-tickets #FoodStudies
📢 March is #Women’sHistoryMonth – a fitting time to support new research in women’s and gender history!
Women’s History Scotland invites applications for one £500 Research Bursary for 2026. For conditions and how to apply visit 🔗
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
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I actually cannot read history for fun 😂 If it's sufficiently far from my own area, I can sometimes manage an audio book while walking.
Reviewing a book is one of the best and most fun service opportunities available! Check out the awesome books available from H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #envtech #conservation #sustainability #envjustice #ecocrit #envphil #plantstudies #animalstudies #nature
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Hello, fellow historians, especially those in the north of the UK! Booking is open for the second of our events on Second Projects, organised by me and Tracey Loughran and supported by History UK - details of speakers and registration link below!
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
9,600 redundancies at research intensive unis in 2 yrs.
9,400 staff paid £100,000+ a yr at Russell Group institutions.
'Uni of Nottingham, which recorded a loss of over £85 million, increased its number of top earners significantly from 207 to 294.'
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/top-ear...
This looks like a brilliant role with the #MedHums team at Durham (2 year postdoc, 28 hours/week) ‘Amplifying the mental health of Black university students: A Black, Mad and Disability Studies Intersectional Inquiry’: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ154/p...
We've got a really exciting seminar comming up TOMORROW! Join us at 1400 to hear Simone Edgar Holmes discuss how early colonial maps thought with rivers in Surianame:
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We've extended this deadline, so if you send us an abstract over the weekend, or on Monday/Tuesday, we'll still consider it! @gcyfrg.bsky.social
📢In partnership with St Andrews University, we're looking for a 'Joseph Bell Writer in Residence at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh' to pursue a writing project drawing on our archives. Stipend of up to £15,000. Closing date 6 March 2026. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
OBS / Lincoln College research associate position!
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March
Job opening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (3 year fixed term): Heritage Operations Officer, responsible for coordinating public engagement and events for the Heritage Fund programme associated with the First Light redevelopment of the site #scicomm 📜
POST-DOC at Institut Pasteur, Paris (passed on to me by a former PhD student). Anthropology & Ecology of Disease Emergence dep't to study human practices in relation to avian influenza, CCHF, and rabies. Fieldwork: France, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Ivory Coast. Contact: tamara.giles-vernick@pasteur.fr
Call for Abstracts for EASST2026 conference which takes place in September, in beautiful Krakow, will close on 9 March 2026 [23:59 CET]. Please submit your abstracts to our panel below welcoming submissions on topics across #STS #environmental #climate #socialscience #affect #planetary thinking.
Our work on @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social found that remaking methodologies engaged varied communities in the past in physical and embodied ways, and people report that this is great for their wellbeing. More to come in forthcoming publications!
Really enjoyed this talk on history and wellbeing tonight (plus snacks and wine!). Encouraging to see historians coming to thinking about wellbeing from a variety of perspectives. Always interested to hear from folk thinking about engaging in history beyond the academy.
💥New | What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research
✍️ Paul Merchant & @angecass.bsky.social
#OralHistory #ResearchImpact #CoProduction
I'm not sure if ppl outside academia realise that if you quit a permanent post in this job market you will amost certainly never get another one, esp in arts & hums. All that post graduate training, the years of precarity, not being able to choose where you or your family live. Pffft. For nothing.
A conference poster for: Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisclipinary Approaches. The text on the poster can be found by following the link, it does not fit here.
We're hosting a hybrid conference!
"Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches" will explore traditional and recent themes in public health history.
To be notified when registration opens, fill out this form: forms.gle/CSEQLpo75n56...
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The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering two short-term research fellowships of between 1 week and 1 month between Jun and Nov 2026 to encourage research relevant to its collection of c. 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Dublin physician Edward Worth (1676-1733).
#histmed
I enjoy a barrel leg / peg shape - nice and breezy around the thigh but tucked in at the ankle, fabric flapping minimised.
CFP: Race, Law and Empire
Flyer for lecture with Professor David Stack on the subject of 'History and Well-Being. A Historian's Perspective', Sheffield Hallam University, 5.45pm on Wednesday 18 February 2026. All are welcome to attend.
Next Wednesday, the Society visits historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield.
Our visit closes (5.45pm) with a guest lecture by Prof David Stack (Reading) on 'History and Well-Being: a Historian's Perspective' bit.ly/4aa4Yoe
Open to all and followed by a reception.
On 16 April, we co-host 'History and Archives in Practice, 2026' with @ihr.bsky.social, The National Archives, and University of Sheffield Library.
For #HAP26 our theme is: ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research’ bit.ly/4tvKUnX. Booking now #Skystorians
