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Kristina Decker

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📚Historian 🖋️18thC cultural history, country house & material culture studies, animal histories ✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland

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Kristina Decker @kristinadecker.bsky.social · Jun 23

I’m absolutely delighted to receive my contributor copy of ‘Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain’. Thank you to the editors, Markman Ellis and Jack Orchard, and congratulations to all contributors. I can’t wait to read all the other chapters!

A hardback book is held up against a green landscape.

The first page of a chapter and its heading.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23h

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – BARS Blog

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Kristina Decker @kristinadecker.bsky.social · 22h

10/10 would wear.
National Museum of Ireland.

An amber necklace dating from 900-500 BC at the National Museum of Ireland.

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 7d

📣New HJ blog!

Joel Herman (@joelherman.bsky.social) explores how news both connected and divided people across the eighteenth-century British Empire📰

#History #Newspapers #Journalism #PublicSphere 18thc 🗃️

👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

A News Revolution?: The Imperial Public Sphere and the Destabilization of the British Empire « History# « Cambridge Core Blog

The news connects individuals and communities across space at certain moments in time. One need only think back to recent events like the Arab Spring, the Refugee Crisis, or COVID to find striking exa...

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 7d

Please join us for our inaugural seminar of the term in the IHR and online. Register: tinyurl.com/298ssvkr
@ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 7d

One of our most iconic librarians is reviving a children’s lit classic.

Reading Rainbow is back, thanks to this famous internet librarian.

After a 20 year hiatus, Reading Rainbow, the former PBS tentpole, is headed back to the airwaves. A reboot of the literacy loving children’s television show is coming to a (small) screen near…

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 12d

Call for papers for the Womens HistoryNetwork Seminar Series. Deadline is the 10th November, email submissions to [email protected]

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 12d

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 12d

JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY

3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)

full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152

www.uni-bonn.de

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12d

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12d

RHS funding opportunity: David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.

The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj

Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026

David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS

Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 12d

Are you a postdoctoral researcher? Don't miss the application deadline for British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants on 5 November. Funding is available for research projects across all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA

White banner with an image of a researcher focused on his work. The words 'BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants' are written on the right-hand side.

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Anglesey History @angleseyhistory.bsky.social · 13d

Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map.
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

Record Welsh Place Names | DataMapWales

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 14d

This Fri, 3 October at 2pm — 3rd and final talk in @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy's "Finding Ireland" online series: "Ireland's undiscovered past: the 1800s" from @gillianobrien.bsky.social. More info on how to join here:

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

Professor Gillian O'Brien (https://www.gillianobrien.net/about)

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 14d

#ICYMI You can bag 20% off my new book with the code PiousLimerick until this Thursday. Add the code to the checkout at shop.ria.ie/products/Pio... Pls share ☺️ #Family #IrishFamily #IrishHist #History #NewBook

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 13d

TY students! Explore museum careers at @NMIreland this Feb: conservation, education, marketing & more.
📍 Dublin & Mayo
📅 9–13 Feb 2026
📝 Apply by 24 Oct
🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...
#TYIreland #MuseumCareers #TransitionYear

Students work with the National Museum of Ireland Design team during the transition year programme at the National Museum of Ireland.

Students work with replica artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland handling collections during the Transition year programme at the National Museum of Ireland

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 13d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 13d

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 16d

For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture

18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 14d

Just a reminder that the deadline of this Friday is fast approaching for two postdoc positions on the COLVET project, a 23 month position on veterans in British colonies in Southern and/or Eastern Africa and an 18 month positon on veterans among Indigenous/colonized populations in the USA.

Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Specified Purpose, Department of History and the Arts and Humanities Institute | University Vacancies Ireland

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British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social · 14d

OPPORTUNITY: applications are open for the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies

Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies @ndirishstudies.bsky.social · 20d

Take advantage of the Hesburgh Libraries’ outstanding Irish studies collection — including the finest collection of Irish-language printed texts in North America.

Established scholars, grad students, and postdocs are encouraged to apply!

See more details here: irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/vis...

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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · 14d

FLASH WRITERS! I'm judging the Allingham Flash Fiction Comp and it's been extended!

The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 14d

A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

British Library

Explore British Library’s 1,073,564 photos on Flickr!

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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · Sep 9

Call for Papers!

A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century

Deadline 31 December 2025

voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

Call for Papers: A social question before the Social Question - Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century

University of Oxford 22-23 October 2026 A pdf file of this call can be found here. Precariousness and hardships were inescapable features of the life of the lower orders in early modern European…

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 14d

Teaching fellow role for six months in Department of History MIC Limerick www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

Vacancies | Mary Immaculate College

Mary Immaculate College has a wide range of academic and professional services job opportunities on an ongoing basis. Learn more about our vacancies.

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Sep 10

Humanities, arts and social sciences degrees are disappearing in many UK regions.

With more young people than ever studying close to home, course cuts are narrowing their choices at university.

@timeshighered.bsky.social covers our 'Cold Spots' report today. Read more at https://bit.ly/46e3wOy

Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK

Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

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