📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 24 February with Désha Osborne presenting a paper on “Of a ‘lively dark eye’ or ‘chilly and tender’: Jane Austen, the Morality of Empire, and the Hidden Scottish Presence"
🗓️ Tuesday 24 February, 5pm
📍 HG/21, Heslington Hall
🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
HistoryLab 20th Anniversary Annual Conference 2026 — Call for Papers Embodied Histories: Body, Mind, and Experience 17th July 2026 | Hybrid Conference, in-person at University of Birmingham, Staff House, Grand Central Room The human body is both a biological reality and a cultural construct. It is a site of meaning, experience, and power. From rituals of health and healing to practices of regulation, discipline, and display, bodies have both shaped and been shaped by their historical contexts. We invite papers that place the body and lived experience at the centre of historical inquiry, engaging with themes such as medicine, disability, gender, the senses, and the emotions. We welcome contributions that explore how bodies and experiences have been represented, regulated, or performed, and how these processes intersect with broader questions of identity, power, culture, and society across periods and regions. This conference also marks the 20th anniversary of HistoryLab. Since its founding, HistoryLab has provided a national platform for postgraduate and early career historians to share ideas, foster collaboration, and build community. We invite participants to join us in celebrating this milestone year.
Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham!
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18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP
Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026.
Please see the poster for further information!
We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up!
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
📍 The London Archives
📅 1 April + 3 June
🕛️ 1-4:30pm
Thank you!
This looks brilliant & if anyone is in need of inspiration take a look at the work of colleagues at @hexhistory.bsky.social & articles in @hexhandbook.bsky.social. Lots to think about in this fascinating field of history.
What a shame! If you have a paper in mind feel free to present at one of our seminars :)
The next @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t
Hi! This will be a hybrid conference so you will be able to join online :)
We are organising a big "Festival of Social History" at the IHR, Friday April 24. The ticket price is an absolute steal for SHS members (join!). Trust me when I say this one's built different, it will be a hands-on day demonstrating how vibrant and engaged UK social history is. ONLY £10!
DEADLINE is 27th March!
We look forward to reading through your abstracts! Please email us with any questions, good luck!
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Guidelines:
- Individual papers: 250-word abstract
- Panels: 250-word abstract for each paper + panel title
- Research posters: poster title + 150-word abstract
- 3-Minute Thesis: thesis title only
- All submissions to include a 150-word biography (name, affiliation, and research interests).
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Submission categories:
- A 20-minute paper
- A panel of three 20-minute papers or four 15-minute papers
- A research poster
- The 3-Minute Thesis Competition, summarising your research in just three minutes
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- How have societies regulated, celebrated, or suppressed bodily experience?
- How can historians integrate perspectives on embodiment into broader social, cultural, political, or global histories?
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Key questions include, but are not limited to:
- How have bodies and lived experience been represented, categorised, or idealised in historical sources?
- In what ways have identities, hierarchies, and power relations been inscribed, contested, or negotiated through the body?
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We welcome contributions that explore how bodies and experiences have been represented, regulated, or performed, and how these processes intersect with broader questions of identity, power, culture, and society across periods and regions.
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We invite papers that place the body and lived experience at the centre of historical inquiry, engaging with themes such as medicine, disability, gender, the senses, and the emotions.
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The human body is both a biological reality and a cultural construct. It is a site of meaning, experience, and power. From rituals of health and healing to practices of regulation, discipline, and display, bodies have both shaped and been shaped by their historical contexts.
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HistoryLab 20th Anniversary Annual Conference 2026 — Call for Papers Embodied Histories: Body, Mind, and Experience 17th July 2026 | Hybrid Conference, in-person at University of Birmingham, Staff House, Grand Central Room The human body is both a biological reality and a cultural construct. It is a site of meaning, experience, and power. From rituals of health and healing to practices of regulation, discipline, and display, bodies have both shaped and been shaped by their historical contexts. We invite papers that place the body and lived experience at the centre of historical inquiry, engaging with themes such as medicine, disability, gender, the senses, and the emotions. We welcome contributions that explore how bodies and experiences have been represented, regulated, or performed, and how these processes intersect with broader questions of identity, power, culture, and society across periods and regions. This conference also marks the 20th anniversary of HistoryLab. Since its founding, HistoryLab has provided a national platform for postgraduate and early career historians to share ideas, foster collaboration, and build community. We invite participants to join us in celebrating this milestone year.
Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham!
Keep on reading to find out more...(1/9)
It was a real pleasure and privilege for the @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar to host a showcase of postgrad students' work in migration history with @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social last night - some fascinating papers on academic mobility, gender, vikings and Irish "displaced patriots"
The Job Applications in History panel discussion on 4 Feb 2-4pm is now a hybrid session. Book your place to attend in person or over Zoom. #ResearchTraining www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
📣 Job opportunity: Digital Communications Officer (maternity leave cover)
We are recruiting a part-time Digital Communications Officer (12-month fixed-term contract)!
17.5 hrs per week
£37,085 pro rata
Apply by 25 Jan 2026
Find out more and apply: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #CommsJobs
Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
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NCPH Webinar Series. World War II and the Home Front. January 22, 23, 28 & 30, 2026. Explore new scholarship on the American World War II home front and its legacies. Presented in partnership with the National Park Service.
The 4-part American #WWII home front #history series begins this week! Jim Belcher, Jr. presents “Two Hearts, One Flag” on Jan. 22, and Clarissa Ceglio presents “A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy” on Jan. 23. https://community.ncph.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=WWIIWebinars2026 #AmericanHistory
🔊 Reminder: Abstracts for the UK American Studies Against the Genocide symposium are due by 6th February. We are also hoping to extend this into a broader network of scholars committed to organising against the genocide in the field. Please share widely + follow the below account.
#Skystorians #LocalHistory
Join us early next year for three new 'Discovery Courses' covering maps, towns and buildings, and archaeology for local historians. Details in the link!
@balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
https://www.history.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-short-courses
Join us in 2026 for our new @ihr.bsky.social Discovery Courses!
- Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
- Townscape & Architecture in History
- Archaeology for (Local) History
Each 2 days + optional free extra day of guided research @ihrlibrary.bsky.social.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Hello!
A little Sunday evening survey... 📝
We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures...
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HistoryLab+ presents ‘Christmas Connections @ York’ York city centre, December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025 Join the HistoryLab+ committee for our next Christmas Connections event in York on 17 December! There will be… Free hot drinks and comestibles at Sketch by Origin, York Art Gallery’s lovely café from midday A free, hour-long introduction to the history of print in York and traditional printing demonstrations at Thin Ice Press by the brilliant Prof. Helen Smith (University of York) and Lizzie Holling (Thin Ice Press) from 14:00 Some aimless wandering, enjoying York’s award-winning Christmas Market, historic pubs, and the beautiful Bar Walls together… Dinner with the exciting Spark* York project at 18:00 This is an opportunity for ECRs in and around York and North-East England to meet informally to support each other, build professional connections, and discover more about the HistoryLab+ network. Members from further afield are also more than welcome.
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social presents ‘Christmas Connections @ York’, December 17, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/histor...
Don't miss this webinar with our 2024-25 outreach fellow and postgraduate researcher Immy Tozer!
