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The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
The ISA Spring Lecture Series commences Wed 18 March at 6pm, Conference Room, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
'The Archives of the Fianna Fáil Party: A Case Study of Political Party Archives and Their Role in a Democratic State' by Kate Manning, Principal Archivist, UCD
Calling all History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’ with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela 18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury Info
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @jessicareinisch.bsky.social
New call for book proposals 📚
The Boydell Studies in War and Military History series (Boydell & Brewer) is inviting proposals for monographs and edited volumes exploring warfare, armed forces, and military institutions across all periods and regions.
Details below. ⬇️
How do archaeologists engage with material culture? What can we learn from ‘reading’ the everyday lives, ideas and cultures of the people who built the world around us? Join us on 19 Mar at our IHR Archaeology and Local History Online Free Taster Session. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
We are sorry to learn of the death of Norman L. Jones (1951-2026), historian of Elizabeth England and professor at Utah State University. Professor Jones was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1996 and won the RHS book prize in 1982.
For an @thenacbs.bsky.social obituary, please see bit.ly/3MQ0AC9
We are pleased to announce the latest cohort of SHAPE Involve and Engage awardees, who will be working with various partner organisations in the GLAM sector to help bring the humanities and social sciences closer to the public. Read more about the projects here: https://bit.ly/4suMO75
Do you have a Ten Minute Talk idea to share with us? We're always looking for new stories of local history research!
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/news-promote...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
The Society's next public events - including lectures by Profs Sasha Handley and Miri Rubin - will be taking place in Sheffield, Warwick and Aberystwyth.
Further details are available here bit.ly/40OGrPY. We look forward to welcoming you to these events #Skystorians
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
The programme supports mid-career historians, currently working on a 2nd or 3rd project which will lead to publication of a monograph.
Workshops enable an author to bring together 6 fellow scholars to discuss and develop the MS of a monograph. The next call for this RHS scheme opens on 4 May 2/2
Funded Book Workshops: The Society’s Funded Book Workshops awards support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enable an author to bring together fellow scholars to discuss and develop the manuscript of a scholarly monograph.
We are very pleased to be hosting - today, at the RHS Office - a workshop for Mark Williams' forthcoming book, 'The Uneasy World: A Cultural History of the East India Company, 1600-1757'.
Mark is recipient of a 2025-26 'Funded Book Grant' which supports writing a 2nd or 3rd book bit.ly/4sziaJL 1/2
The benefits of RHS Fellowship and Membership are set out in our 'Guide for Members' bit.ly/4l0HVQp.
We welcome applications from historians at all career stages, of all subject areas, and from those - researching or studying - in the UK and worldwide. 2/2
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
The Society's next public events - including lectures by Profs Sasha Handley and Miri Rubin - will be taking place in Sheffield, Warwick and Aberystwyth.
Further details are available here bit.ly/40OGrPY. We look forward to welcoming you to these events #Skystorians
Author Prof Richard Toye has many years experience studying the career and speeches of Winston Churchill. This is the value of historical training, scholarship, judgement and expertise - and it's seen daily from historians working in higher education. @richardtoye.bsky.social #Skystorians
Join us on 10 March at 5:30pm for a GHIL Lecture by Karin Friedrich (University of Aberdeen) on 'Between Republic and Dynasty: Transnational Governors and Noble Agents between Poland-Lithuania and the Duchy of Prussia' taking place at the Warburg Institute (online participation possible)! 📅
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In March, the Society opens the following four calls for research funding - for historians in HE and related professional sectors across all career stages.
Further details on dates and eligibility are available here: bit.ly/46IGRuH #Skystorians
Just to confirm, this session by History UK takes place on MONDAY 16th March: our apologies: full details of timing and booking for this valuable discussion via the link below. #Skystorians
Very pleased to promote this forthcoming event - on 'Second Projects for Historians' - organised and hosted by History UK.
Now booking for Tuesday 16 March at 2pm bit.ly/47saS26 #Skystorians
Author Prof Richard Toye has many years experience studying the career and speeches of Winston Churchill. This is the value of historical training, scholarship, judgement and expertise - and it's seen daily from historians working in higher education. @richardtoye.bsky.social #Skystorians
Donald Trump has said Keir Starmer is ‘no Churchill’, but his dismissal is based on a simplified version of history.
Front cover of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson.
Coming soon: the next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series is 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq
Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social on 9 April #Skystorians 1/2
Image of women with speech bubble with question mark. Caption states IHR Library Survey. Open now, closes 10 April. Give your thoughts and help us secure future funding! More details in caption.
The IHR Library 2026 survey is now open and closes Friday 10 April! 😊
Do you have any feedback, comments or suggestions about the IHR Library? If so, please fill out our annual survey here: forms.office.com/e/BjwVZYhsc5.
This coming Thursday! Join us for ‘The Silences of Christopher Hill’ with Mike Braddick (University of Oxford)
5th March, 4.30pm, Birkbeck, London
Followed by a reception.
Book here SilencesChristopherHill.eventbrite.co.uk
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Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Covers of the 5 new titles in the New Historical Perspectives book series, published in 2025. Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society, Rachael Harkes Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940, Gareth Roddy Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, Andrew McTominey Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England, Hannah Jeans Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle, Rachel E. Johnson
Rowan's is the 26th in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series for early career historians, published with @uolpress.bsky.social and support from @ihr.bsky.social and @echistsoc.bsky.social
All titles are available free Open Access and in paperback: bit.ly/3OW1GN3 2/2
Front cover of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson.
Coming soon: the next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series is 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq
Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social on 9 April #Skystorians 1/2
Consider submitting a proposal for this upcoming hybrid conference on Archives and Ethics! Experts from all fields are welcome! padlet.com/dturner2_23/... @astonuniversity.bsky.social @astonpress.bsky.social
Gilded effigy of crowned couple on tomb chest with elaborate heraldry
Still spaces available for the first lecture in our FREE Spring series - Sophie Oosterwijk on precious-metal effigies, 14 March 5 pm. Details at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/gilde... - and the whole series is at churchmonumentssociety.org/events
An image of Sedber Lane, which includes green grass and stone walls synonymous with the Yorkshire Dales. It is a clear winter's day in the image, with grey stone buildings in the background.
Always wanted to learn about the local history of the Yorkshire Dales? Join us for a one-day conference on Saturday 2 May to find out more!
Book your place: www.balh.org.uk/yorkshire26
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
