The @scotchurchhist.bsky.social essay prize is open! All entries will be considered for publication in the Society’s journal and the winning author will be awarded £500
This year's deadline is 30 July 2026. Full details here www.scottishchurchhistory.org/prize
Please share widely :)
I still think about this a lot.
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
News! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'.
Further details and how to sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:
'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April
A colourful poster depicting the Danish landscape from a bird's eye perspective. The sun shines brightly down on sea, beaches, and fields whilst the caption proudly proclaims it as the "Danish Riviera"
When you work with a large advertising archive you get used to lots of things being sold as "Rivieras" but the idea of a DANISH Riviera is a new one for me!
Franz Sedivy for LNER c.1930 (c)SMG
New French defence ministry postdoc positions www.memoiredeshommes.defense.gouv.fr/les-actualit...
I'm delighted to announce that I'm joining @tudorsdynasty.bsky.social and Dr Peter Stiffell for a lecture event on "Queenship Before Elizabeth: How Mary I shaped the Foundations of Elizabeth I's reign"! 👑
Further information and tickets are available here: drjohannastrong.ca/2026/03/08/q...
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Hot off the press! Newly released OA book on monarchy in medieval Sri Lanka by Bruno M. Shirley in @archumanities.bsky.social Gender and Power in the Premodern World Series. This is such an exciting new work in global royal studies, highly recommended!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...
I don’t know whether you know this but my book is Open Access and you can read it for free on your kindle via Amazon (where it is the number one health policy download!). Also totally open access with extra resources online at jimcrowintheasylum.com
So happy to see my article, ‘A Much Maligned but Clever Lady: Mary Verney, Who Saved Claydon House,’ published in the new issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine.
Read to find out why the first thing that Mary Verney did when she inherited Claydon House was to tear down two thirds of it 😉
Thrilled to have been awarded a Vandervort prize for my recent article "The Invention of the Kamikaze: Dissent and Resistance in the Japanese Military" by the Society for Military History, as one of the two best articles last year in the Journal of Military History!
Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.
Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork
Cover of Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 by Morgan Golf-French
My last couple posts have gotten way more traction than usual, so I guess now's the time to say my first book is coming out with OUP in April (ebook) and May (hardback)!
You can pre-order (or ask your library to pre-order) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally"
A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical.
You know feminism /s 🙄
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#ICYMI!
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Registration open for Radical Statistics annual conference "Using Data to Promote Progressive Change", London, 14.03.26
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2026-radic...
Programme here www.radstats.org.uk/conference
I'm doing a workshop on ECR wellbeing - with a critical use of underpinning data
Please come!
Screen grab of a call for papers at Leeds IMC. The text reads: TIME FOR CHANGE: TEMPORALITIES & CASTLES Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026 - 'Temporalities' What is a castle in time? Is there a time of castles, for castles? Can castles be atemporal? What does a castle studies engaging with questions of temporality look like? Whose castle temporalities matter? Can we call time on the castle studies of yesterday, yesteryear? Can the lens of temporality challenge castle knowledges and interpretations? This panel welcomes proposals which examine temporalities and temporalities in castle studies as a field of inquiry at the intersection of (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism. Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome: • Temporality in castle studies; • Remembering and memorializing in castle Obscured history, identities and heritages in spaces, communities, themes: past and castles past and present present; • Medieval temporalities and the heritage • Temporally situated antiquity, novelty and innovation in castles; • Planning, timing, scheduling, recording in • castle communities, lives, societies; • Ruined, lost and fictional castles in time Parallel and contradictory times; • Time and temporality in the reception of castles; Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to Dr William Wyeth (william.wyeth@english-heritage.org.uk) by 15 September 2025. This session is organised by Emma Fearon (Nottingham Trent University) and William Wyeth (English Heritage)
Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.
If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social
Original CfP below ⬇️
Did I mention this is a continuing post?
Link to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee report on 'AI, copyright and the creative industries': publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
I spoke at the Ceræ conference last year! Lovely group of people to present to
(Am I about to talk myself into putting in an abstract, even though it would involve writing something from scratch? Very possible)
Call for papers for the Centre for Port and Maritime History's 30th Anniversary Conference, Liverpool, 10-11 September 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS: Share your research at the Centre for Port and Maritime History's 30th Anniversary Conference, Liverpool, 10-11 September 2026. CPMH includes @ljmuofficial.bsky.social , @liverpooluni.bsky.social & Liverpool's Maritime Museum. Submit abstract to n.j.white@ljmu.ac.uk by 15 May.
My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Birkbeck, University of London, is looking for a talented researcher to join a project focused on expanding our understanding of non elite writers and writing in seventeenth century England. As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will join 'Written Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England', an exciting Leverhulme Trust–funded project. The role is offered on a 13 month, part time (17.5 hours a week) contract with a salary of £22,124 rising to £25,189 per annum (pro-rated £44,247 to £50,379 per annum). In this role, you will carry out dedicated research on non elite textual production, working closely with the Principal Investigator, Professor Sue Wiseman, and the Co Investigator, Dr Brodie Waddell. You will have the opportunity to work extensively with manuscripts and printed sources, visit archives, investigate datasets, develop the project database, and contribute to shaping the project’s scholarly outputs - and you may also be involved in textual editing. As Research Associate, you will focus on one of two thematic strands: 1. Non elite writing produced in the provinces, or 2. Writing produced by non elite women. Further details via link
We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I.
0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Though note - actually MONDAY 16th March for your diaries.
JOB
Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
💯🎯 As someone else put it recently, using genAI in many contexts is like taking a forklift to move weights around at the gym. The weights don’t need to be moved, & literature doesn’t need to be written or read for its own sake: the effort is the whole point.
I had so much fun recording this episode! But also it’s never a bad day to remind the world that Samuel Huntington and the people who use his theories do indeed suck.
