HA Secondary Survey: in important times, we need important points of view - make your view count! Take part in the HA Secondary survey history.org.uk/secondary/news…

I've posted a lot of football content, which isn't exactly Windrush related, for an additional reason. Southgate is one of a vanishingly small number of public personalities, who, at the height of insane BLM backlash and attacks on Black players, stood by them. Didn't tell them

#Twitterstorians! Registration for our 2024 conference will close at 23:59 tomorrow (18 July)! You can still join us for FREE at Wilberforce Institute next week to explore #c18th+ colonial & labour exploitation & the whys hows & politics of doing/sharing this history work for #ECRs👇

There's still some time left to register for HistoryLab+'s FREE conference at Wilberforce Institute on 25-26 July! Paper topics range from labour therapeutics to antislavery iconography, waterways to Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels...👉t.ly/wW7NK for the full programme

#Twitterstorians! Registration for our 2024 conference will close at 23:59 TODAY! You can still join us for FREE at Wilberforce Institute next week to explore #c18th+ colonial & labour exploitation & the whys hows & politics of doing/sharing this history work for #ECRs👇

Reporting on a workshop on Environmental Humanities hosted by H&P Institute of Historical Research School of Advanced Study, University of London in March, Andrew McTominey Pennine Heritage University of Huddersfield suggests historians can help open up urgent and difficult conversations about responses to the #ClimateCrisis. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articl…

Awful news that Goldsmiths that Dr Kesewa John is facing possible redundancy as convenor of MA Black British History. Kesewa has been an integral part of my academic journey, her kindness as a scholar & support of myself/peers has been so appreciated. Please sign: chng.it/PD87gFG7xs

.Royal Historical Society is deeply concerned by the scale and speed of further #History redundancies Goldsmiths, University of London. These cuts will remove student choice, wreak havoc on careers, and end specialist teaching and research. Our statement: bit.ly/3zO2nAF #twitterstorians 1/5 🧵⬇️

It’s always good to be back with the lovely Hull team Glad to have been able to run a workshop on decolonising the arts and heritage sector with support from Leeds Museums & Galleries & use of their collections. Lots of amazing discussions from all of our attendees #HistoryLabPlus2024

It’s keynote panel time! This panel features a range of academics whose work intersects with themes we’ve discussed over the last two days! We can’t wait to hear what they have to say about exploitation & colonialism, legacies and the role of ECRs #HistoryLabPlus2024

We are now out and about having a fantastic tour from Nick Evans to see the marks and legacies of enslavement left in Hull #HistoryLabPlus2024

HistoryLab+ eCommemoration Felix Fuhg | @felixfuhg.bsky.social Clare Brown Leeds Museums & Galleries Shabina Aslam UWI St. Augustine Alex Dold Diana Gabaldon Nick Evans It was a pleasure to chair w/Michael Reeve the keynote discussion between David Stirrup Dr Kesewa John Dr. Danielle Terrazas Williams & @DrNicholasEvans about #ECRs & researching & sharing histories of exploitative colonial practices & their legacies today #HistoryLabPlus2024

Thank you so much to our speakers at #HistoryLabPlus2024, everyone else who made discussions so informed & lively, our generous sponsors Wilberforce Institute Institute of Historical Research Society for the Study of Labour History & Economic History Society, & organisers Michael Reeve Sarah Wride Dr Lauren Theweneti Dr Amelia E. Clegg Duncan Hamilton!

As an RHS Teaching Fellow for 2023-24, Amy King Historians @ Bristol has been exploring 'Then and Now' approaches to histories of the far right. In this new post, Amy explains her work and evolving teaching practices bit.ly/4d6Kvje 1/2

This is a very nuanced thing and I'm wary of speaking in broad brushstrokes, but it really is alarming how much we reify traits about ourselves with this kind of over-identification. Most ways of being are about the choices you continually make, not what you intrinsically 'are'.

Call for Participation 📢 Applications are now welcome for our annual History and Archives in Practice event, held with The National Archives and Institute of Historical Research. Next year's event will be held in London on Wednesday 5 March on the theme 'Working with Memory'. Find out more

The undergrad Black Studies degree has been cancelled by BCU. We still have MA but this is an institutionally racist move that continues the attack on Black thought in higher ed. Full vid pouring (but not spilling) the tea on Make it Plain podcast: youtu.be/g7-oQU2XTNY

SSHM's Roy Porter Essay Competition 2024/5 £500 first prize plus opportunities for publication in SHM, mentoring and to deliver a plenary at the biennial conference! Deadline for entries 1 February 2025 #histmed #histSTM #humanities sshm.org/portfolio/priz…

This is almost perfect. A self-parody in three acts. 1.