If you study legal history, please consider submitting a proposal for the 2026 conference of the American Society for Legal History in Banff, Canada in November! The Program Committee accepts proposals until March 24! #ASLH #legalhistory 🗃️
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The next conference of the Society for the History of War will take place at the University of Limerick, Ireland 🇮🇪
🗓 26–27 November 2026
Historians of war, conflict, and violence - mark your calendars!!
📄 Call for Papers coming soon!
The Easter bunny will soon be baking
BL Lansdowne 451; 1st quarter of the 15th century; England; f.6r @blmedieval.bsky.social
In eleven days they’ve spent one half the total annual budget of USAID. All the talk of waste was LIES.
The Disability History Association awards are open! One of the best parts of serving in this organization is getting to celebrate the amazing new scholarship happening in our field. Please consider nominating your work from this past year - and feel free to reach out with any questions! #dishist
Announcing the Journal of Victorian Culture Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026!
Anyone currently registered for a higher research degree or awarded one within 3 years can apply. Deadline October 1st 2026.
Details: academic.oup.com/jvc/pages/es...
Please share widely!
@jofvictculture.bsky.social
It’s not the same, but it’s similar to the feigned (or genuine; but, anyway, functionally necessary) ignorance that has characterized a decade and more of (tech- or STEM-originated) claims to answer for the first time questions that have in fact long been both asked and answered by, say, historians.
It’s easy (more easy than accurate) to dismiss academic critics of generative AI as uninformed or emotive, which is often anyway code for “moralizing.” But it’s remarkable how much gen AI boosterism requires feigning ignorance that theft and impersonation are widely seen as wrong, for good reasons.
Go @saimanasar.bsky.social! This new exhibition about Black & Asian women’s activism in Britain looks amazing! Excited to go check it out in #Bristol soon…
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I really can't recommend this book highly enough. It's premise – that it is in loss that we find meaning – was as true for Kate’s subjects in the eighteenth century as it is for historians today.
There is something dreadfully dystopian about all of this
INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH BLACK BRITISH HISTORY SEMINAR THE 'WEST AFRICAN VILLAGE': ROMANCING SCOTTISHNESS AT THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1911 SEMINARS SPEAKER: DR ROCHELLE ROWE (EDINBURGH) THURSDAY, 19 MARCH 2026, 5:30 PM (IN PERSON & ONLINE) HTTPS://WWW.HISTORY.AC.UK/NEWS-EVENTS/EVENTS/WEST-AFRICAN-VILLAGE-ROMANCING-SCOTTISHNESS-NATIONAL-
Join us next Thursday to hear from Dr Rochelle Rowe: “The 'West African Village': romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911”
📍 N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House (and online)
📆 Thursday 19th March, 2026
⏰ 17:30
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In the latest Urban History interview, @erikahanna.bsky.social speaks to @samgrinsell.bsky.social about his recent article 'Urban History as Urgent Work'. It's an incredibly rich discussion of the intersection of urban history and environmental history, and how we do and communicate our research
Holy crap. This is very bad.
Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie...
This year's David Pinkney Prize goes to Miranda Spieler for Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Congratulations!
Whose voices count in the modern history of distinction?
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social considers how much historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.
It's 500 years since the first text printed in Yiddish, and one of our amazing grad students is hosting a symposium this October to mark the date: please forward the CFP to Yiddishists, book historians, typography nerds, and anyone you think might be up for this! medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...
‘Luck is central to our lives.’ In the first episode of season 10 of the We Society podcast, Will Hutton is joined by @richardwiseman.bsky.social @herts.ac.uk to discuss how we can use psychology to create our own good fortune and become luckier.
🎙️ Tune in: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/rich...
Lovely piece on my upcoming talk in @bristol247.bsky.social by a recently graduated student from ELCE. Please share - we have seats and all proceed go to the brilliant @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social
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Opening slide for keynote address "Margins of Experience: Witches, Conspiracy and Godly Power"
Rousing start to second day of Histories of Experience conference at Tampere University with fascinating keynote address by @witchykallestrup.bsky.social on "Margins ot Experience: Witches, Conspiracy and Godly Power."
So many students have come to me over the years feeling trapped by a law degree they only did because people around them pushed them into a "sensible" option, and yet this messaging is now so loud my response that the right degree is what you want to study falls flat:
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Net replacement rates in unemployment for a single homeowner on average wage without children (%, 2024) - pink dot is at month one of unemployment and blue dot at month 60. UK rates are low by international standards
Even if AI doesn’t hit jobs in a big way, unemployment is starting to re-emerge as a policy issue. So it’s good that @sarahoconnorft.ft.com reminds us how low our unemployment benefits are, and how this can lead to people taking jobs below their skill level
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'It had been expected that many universities...would encourage more of their academics to focus on teaching, with research commitments, particularly at less prestigious universities, under threat.'
But 'the number of teaching-only roles fell by 3,555 across the sector last year'. 3/3
'There were 85,170 (35 per cent) in teaching-only roles, which was 4 per cent down on the year before and in contrast to the number in research-only roles, which rose 4 per cent to 52,220 (21 per cent).' 2/3
'Of the 244,755 academics recorded [by Hesa], the largest share were in teaching and research roles – 105,630 (43 per cent of the total), which was slightly fewer than in 2023-24.' 1/3
NYT article “How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Warehouse,” with the comment “Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.” The image is a vertical floorplan with pods tightly packed that resembles diagrams of slave ships in abolitionist literature from the 18th century
The person who made this image is well versed in the iconography of the transatlantic slave trade.
1. an oatmilk dirty chai is barely customized + people with issues with dairy deserve alternatives. talk to an actual fucking barista.
2. "let our appetites rule us" what in the temperance movement??
3. "cultural unity"?? bro is 3 seconds away from yelling abt immigrants over a coffee order wtf.
Happening in just over two weeks!
Did everyone catch @nimishabarton.bsky.social's incredible essay on the DEI debacle in Academe Magazine? If not, here's your chance to catch up on an essay we badly need academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
