For our next seminar we’ll be welcoming Prof. Jessica Parr for her paper ‘Claiming Our Birthrights: Black Radicalism, Resistance in Internationalism at the Dawn of Abolition’.
🗓️ Tuesday 30th April 13:00-14:30
📍 Wallbank Lecture Theatre, 12 Abercromby Square.
See you there!

Thanks to everyone who came along to this session. Lots of fantastic questions! If you didn’t get chance to ask something during the workshop, feel free to get in touch with me and Dave Musgrove on here.

We are still accepting PGR bursary applications for the The Dickens Society Symposium (31 May deadline) & the Robert B Partlow Jn. Prize for grads., independent scholars & contingent faculty members (1 May deadline) birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/…

If you'd like to help advocate for historians and for the value of #history , and connect with fellow historians of all kinds, please do consider joining Royal Historical Society bit.ly/45lOzr0 #twitterstorians

#OnOurBlog : #Conferences

Jewish Studies at the IMC – a Jewish studies conference hidden in plain sight: 1-4 July 2024, Leeds

A wealth of Jewish panels at this year's International Medieval Congress IMC_Leeds

biajs.co.uk/2024/04/10/jew… Institute for Medieval Studies Jewish Historical Society of England (JHSE)

My wonderful colleagues Roel Frakking and Roberta Biasillo are looking for the perfect candidate for this PhD position with us in Utrecht. Please help spread the word!
uu.nl/en/organisatio…

A fascinating podcast on the fight against US slavery & the Irish connection, beginning with a picture of abolitionist Frederick Douglas in an Irish-American bar. On the wonderful NPR's Code Switch open.spotify.com/episode/3Cenzd…

🗞️ How can we uncover marginalised voices from 19thC periodicals?
🐴 What are the ethical benefits of imagining the horse’s point of view?
🖼️ What can forged art teach us?
🧛‍♂️ Why are Mr Wickham & Dracula ‘Just Kens?’
JOIN US! Thurs 11 April. 6pm – 7pm
🎟️ sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/

Join us for the official release of the 'Writing Bilingually' database, the first comprehensive survey of prose self-translations produced in Italy and France from the early age of print to the end of the seventeenth century.

Wednesday 15 May, 2-4pm

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Imperial & Global: This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History dlvr.it/T4qXnp Imperial & Global

Fascinating, on genocide & more in colonial Newfoundland: 'Possible Maps: Ways of Knowing and Unknowing at the Edge of Empire (Newfoundland c. 1763-1829)'

Online lecture by Julia Laite ([email protected])

eventbrite.co.uk/e/possible-map…

Our very own Dr Sarah Fox on the emergence of male midwives in history 🤗

Hello loves. Academic begging time - is anyone willing to share their application (successful or not) to the AHRC Curiosity Scheme? I know there won't be many about but thought it was worth a speculative tweet #twitterstorians

Our PhD student Josh has organised a research panel on medieval political power & gender

An exciting opportunity for a Research Project Manager to join the Research Office to be part of the thriving Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing , as part of the Arts4us collaboration.
Applications are open until the 7th of April. Apply here 👇
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Are you a PGR member of SocialHistorySociety? Would you be interested in showcasing your research on the SHS website? We want to update the “Meet Our PGR Community” page & want you to be involved! Have a look at the site & get in touch with myself or Amy Stanning!
socialhistory.org.uk/postgraduates/…

Come to Berlin!! 👇

CFP: International Closing Conference - 'Queer Contemporary Histories - International and Intersectional Perspectives'

Deadline: March 15, 2024

Following a recent Ofsted inspection, EHU was awarded the highest grade for ‘overall effectiveness’ across primary, secondary and further initial education training – meaning our quality of education, and leadership and management is considered outstanding ehu.ac.uk/ehuoutstanding

Check out this travel grant opportunity, historians!

Papers of journalist & writer Zenka Bartek (1912-1997) have just arrived in #LGBTQ + #archives Bishopsgate Institute detailing her life with long-term partner Countess Judith Karolyi & friends such as Quentin Crisp, T.S. Eliot, Brigid Brophy & A.L. Barker. Available now!