We're having a virtual launch event on Fri 19th June! Join us from wherever you are - timezone guide in poster, along with links to sign up and to download the book from @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
šJoin the teamšArchives West Midlands will have three trustee vacancies from September 2026.
Get involved with this ambitious, friendly network and help to shape the future direction of #ArchivesWM, supporting #archive services across the West Midlands!
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Archives West Midlands will have three trustee vacancies on its Board from September 2026. Would you or one of your service users/stakeholders relish the opportunity to join an ambitious, friendly net...
British American 19th C Historians (@branchuk.bsky.social) is looking for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History (@anchistjournal.bsky.social)
Applications due: 01.06.26. Pls share widely! @officialbaas.bsky.social @oah.org @royalhistsoc.org @historians.org @ihr.bsky.social
Dr Helen Glew
Archives West Midlands
Amberspire it out TOMORROW on PC, Mac and steamdeck š
And you can read in this post about how I applied academic historical understandings of micro and macro history to inform the writing and worldbuilding š
Come and study with us @glasgow.ac.uk and @vadundee.bsky.social! An AHRC funded doctoral project is up for grabs looking at the role textiles play in Scotlandās design story. Full details below š
Call for contributions - Decluttering: Past and Present Perspectives - please do get in touch if you would like to join us for our workshop at Royal Holloway in November ā¦
My chapter 'The end of the typing pool: New technologies,
old stereotypes, and emotional reactions to workplace change in British print media' is out this week and open access.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Extended CFP deadline to 15 June 2026: Please do share widely!! "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care" - 1 day conference 4 September 2026, keynote @janehamlett.bsky.social to be held at Wilton's Music Hall [1/9]
Excited to be talking at @ihr.bsky.social Women's History seminar tonight about how disabled women's economic lives can help reframe ideas of enterprise & self employment. Feminist, social justice & environmentalist commitments could be part of visions of enterprise for those at the economic margins
Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C.
Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians
A global history of the computer age from the perspective of work, gender, and emotions.
The SocietyāsĀ Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...
š£Statement from the Social History Society about the proposed cuts at the University of Hertfordshire
šRead here: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/05/15/h...
Jane Hamlett
The University of Hertfordshire has announced that it intends to make cuts across a range of humanities subjects, including the end of its taught history provision. The Social History Society is deā¦
Now open for applications until 12 June: PhD Scholarship for project on the legacy of Scottish textiles, with the great Sally Tuckett, University of Glasgow, and the V&A in Dundee
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
In Amberspire, you'll build a city on top of an enormous, abandoned mausoleum. So, naturally, we needed a historian's eye for the game's writing and worldbuilding.
Here's how Holly used micro- and macro-history in Amberspire's narrative design:
https://lunardivision.net/micro-and-macro-history/
