I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research.
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@thenacbs.bsky.social Great news about a @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article from January
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65
📢New article in JBS!
📗"'Captured at Sea': Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain" by Rebecca Earle
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Delighted to see Liz Egan's "'A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant': Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca. 1865-1938" shortlisted for the RHS Early Career Article Prize. Congrats @lizegan.bsky.social !
You can read the article open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
NACBS has signed on to the @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the OMB proposal.
"The new rules place peer review below political ideology in making funding decisions and gives politicians the power to cut projects regardless of their merit."
Read the statement here: www.acls.org/news/acls-st...
"Switchboard logbooks are delicate artefacts that hold the personal stories of anonymous callers seeking help and advice."
Next in our #pridemonth blog series, Katherine Wallace discusses how records left by gay helplines link activism and everyday experiences across Britain.
"In other words, 'queer' has always been understood as 'posh'."
Read more from Laura Schwartz in the next in our blog series celebrating Pride Month.
www.nacbs.org/post/how-que...
Saima Nasar
📢Introducing 1776: Views from the British World!
Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the USA, this series complicates traditional narratives of this event by situating it in a larger British world context.
“Captured at Sea”: Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain - Volume 65
Over the next few months, this forum will feature around 20 essays. The first is now available!
📗"Teaching the Declaration of Independence as Imperial History," by Michelle Tusan
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Tammy Proctor
Journal of British Studies
Journal of British Studies
FORUM: 1776. Views from the British World: Teaching the Declaration of Independence as Imperial History - Volume 65
Over the next two weeks, we feature the 8 articles and 8 monographs shortlisted for the Society's 2026 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes.
Today: 'Domestic labor and white Creole womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938', by Liz Egan, published in 'Journal of British Studies' #Skystorians 1/2
"Switchboard logbooks are delicate artefacts that hold the personal stories of anonymous callers seeking help and advice."
Over the next two weeks, we feature the 8 articles and 8 monographs shortlisted for the Society's 2026 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes.
Today: 'Domestic labor and white Creole womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938', by Liz Egan, published in 'Journal of British Studies' #Skystorians 1/2
ACLS has released a statement opposing the Office of Management and Budget’s proposal for new criteria and process for federal funding for scientific research.
Read the full statement: bit.ly/4v2lbE0
"Let us be clear: research must not be under the thumb of politicians."
Pleasantly surprised to learn my January
@jbritishstudies.bsky.social
article was covered in a recent issue of Historie, a chain of Scandinavian history magazines!
Check out doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... for my original "From Amputee to Author" article.
