Disability history has been widely suppressed to the extent it rarely even gets mentioned when talking about the past. Huge congrats to Prof. David Turner for his groundbreaking deep dive, A History of Resistance.
Out this week: www.waterstones.com/book/disabil...
Some stray thoughts on gap-filling. Take them for what they are
1. Gaps in archives are not like rips in clothing; they don't have a well defined and wholly known, or in the broadest sense wholly knowable, shape or extent. You can't cut a patch for them or fill them with putty and smooth them over.
History Job Klaxon. Join us at the University of Manchester!
In 1783, a group of Bristol merchants petitioned the king following the hanging of Jenkin Prothero. (Fair warning, this story contains some light gibbeting) E 389/247 [1/5]
I have an essay in the Irish Times this weekend reflecting on the intimate practice of writing about queer history in Belfast.
Warning: contains pillow talk
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Next Weds 10 June we welcome @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (KCL) to our seminar, who will present their paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship’
Register below to join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
📣 The deadline for taking part in the annual UK archive sector survey has been extended to Friday 12 June
We need significant response levels from every part of the sector so we can use this data to advocate for archives nationwide!
Take part today: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Northern History is supporting this workshop on environmental history, which will take place in Leeds on 10 Sept.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is 17 July - see below for more information. We’re planning to publish a special issue on the topic too.
Please repost!
Writing a history of gay Belfast has been an intensely personal and emotional journey
Today marks the 160th anniversary of the first mass petition for women's suffrage.
Below, Dr Kathryn Rix has explored the debate around this petition and its place in the campaign to secure the parliamentary vote for women.
@victoriancommons.bsky.social
‘In its excesses of costume, consumption and display the masquerade became synonymous with an emergent capitalist economy and with the marketisation of individual whims and pleasures.’
Daisy Hay on masquerades:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
A. Dingsdale, '"Generous and lofty sympathies": the Kensington Society, the 1866 women's suffrage petition and the development of mid-Victorian feminism'
historyofparliament.com
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar
Tom Hulme
We're hiring a permanent Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
We've been asked to share a CfP for a workshop organised by a group of historians at Leeds. Papers on a variety of topics related to the Environmental History of Northern England are invited: the orgnaisers hope to develop some papers presented into a special issue of @northernhistory.bsky.social
Northern Environmental History Network
Eloise Moss
Dror Wahrman argues that ‘it is hard to overestimate – though easy to forget – the cultural significance of the...
