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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · 7h

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026

More details:
@sslh.bsky.social

sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...

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Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk

#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 8d

Are you of African/Caribbean descent with ties to the Valleys? The Black Valleys Project would love to hear your story!

Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools.

🗓️Friday 24th October
🕰️2pm
📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Apr 2

In the run up to the centenary anniversary next year, here's my short introduction to the 1926 General Strike for @phm.org.uk #GeneralStrike100 phm.org.uk/blogposts/19...

Tank next to two children on a residential street

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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social · 8h

Missing out on the best period IMHO 😀!

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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social · 8h

#History Great new book klaxon! Great event also, highly recommended.

Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 8h

Join Dr Jake Subryan Richards on the 22nd of October at Heffers Bookshop where he will discusses his new book 'The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade' with Prof. Nicholas Guyatt

Weds October 22nd, 6-7:30pm, Heffers Cambridge

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bonds-...

The Bonds of Freedom - Jake Subryan Richards, at Heffers Bookshop

Join us on the 22nd of October as Dr Jake Subryan Richards discusses his brand new book 'The Bonds of Freedom' at Heffers Bookshop

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 8h

@helenkingstone.bsky.social I now have no reason not to be at BAVS this year! Hopefully see you in Liverpool

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Aoife Nolan @aoifenolan.bsky.social · 2d

Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 10h

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10h

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social · 10h

My sympathies as the catalyst and curiosity awards are very tight once half of budget eaten up with 'estates' and 'indirect' costs. Only options are to shorten length of project, reduce PI buy-out so it's minimal, or have fractional post-doc: none of which are ideal.

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Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social · 10h

Want to learn more about tracing people in the past for your research? I’m running my life course tracing sessions again this year and more details are available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-...

Do come along and join in!

Practical Archival Skills Training: Life Course Tracing (19th and 20thC)

Eventbrite - The National Archives: for academic and research communities presents Practical Archival Skills Training: Life Course Tracing (19th and 20thC) - Thursday, 27 November 2025 - Find event an...

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social · 10h

I remember as a PhD being pleasantly surprised when I met some professors who were also nice people, as at that point I had encountered quite a few who were not.

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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social · 11h

South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories showcases the long presence of South Asians in Britain, from the establishment of Hindoostane Coffee House in 1810 to the Gate Gourmet industrial dispute in 2005.

southasianbritain.org/events/

@uobartsmatter.bsky.social @BL_Learning @QMULsed

Events — South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories

Find out more about key events involving South Asians in Britain

southasianbritain.org

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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social · 10h

Very useful particularly as I'm finally revising an article some months after receiving one bruising review....

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 10h

New on advance access: "The Colonial Metamorphosis of Egyptian Capital Punishment, 1884–1903"

by Alaa El-Shafei (@yale.edu)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

The Colonial Metamorphosis of Egyptian Capital Punishment, 1884–1903*

Abstract. This article analyses how colonial rule remade Egyptian capital punishment. Around the turn of the twentieth century, British officials deliberat

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 11h

Final reminder about Lyndal Roper's talk on Thursday at the @ihrscb.bsky.social on 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'.

Register here for in-person or online attendance: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Professor Lyndal Roper will speak on ‘Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6’. She holds the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford. Her most recent publications include Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War (2025), Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy (2021) and Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (2012).

Lyndal Roper’s talk will be preceded by a brief session marking Michael Hunter’s retirement from active involvement with the seminar. This will commemorate Michael’s inauguration of the seminar in 1979 in conjunction with the late Bob Scribner and its continuous existence since its revival in 1987, when one of its co-founders was Lyndal Roper.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

The October updates include, for example, 162 titles about the history of Wales, 229 records re histories of African nations, 359 publications re Scottish history, 448 records discuss the histories of the Americas and Atlantic Ocean, 468 publications focusing on Irish history, and much more.

Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 1d

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 5000+ new references. Discover further details about this update in this On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/bibl... @brepols.net

Bibliography of British and Irish History October 2025 update - On History

What’s new in BBIH?  The October 2025 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds over 5,000 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters and…

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

And unlike ChatGPT, BBIH will not hallucinate bibliographical references for you or for your students. (Ah, the wonders of using humans in peer review).

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 11h

Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃

Waterstones flyer with cover of book and description of deal as explained in text.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11h

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Not research apparently...

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The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a fan of what we do at The Portico?

If you are, we'd be eternally grateful if you could nominate us in Benefact Group's upcoming Art & Culture draw.

Nominations are open now and will be until Sunday 19th October.

culture.movementforgood.com

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Elizabeth Neswald @octobeth.bsky.social · 1d

Giving thanks for many things today

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

I am mostly done with the archival material I used for my book The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transfomation of International Order, and so I am putting as much of these materials as I can online, where they can be used by other scholars: www.bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determi...

Self-determination Documents — Bradley R. Simpson

www.bradleyrsimpson.com

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy

www.cambridge.org

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