Shameless self-plug, but if you want to read a bit on the history of cutting hospital beds, and what beds symbolise in the media, I wrote an (open access) article with @agnesjuliet.bsky.social on this a couple of years ago: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Early Career historian and looking to publish your book? Join us online next Thursday (18th) as we join Palgrave to host ‘Academic Publishing 101’.
There’s also the opportunity for 1-1 meetings with Palgrave History editors to discuss your book ideas. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
How are researchers using digital history methods to write new global histories of peace internationalism?
Henrike Vellinge discusses the collaborative methods of The Peace Movements & Decolonisation Project at the University of Leiden.
For further details of 100+ UK subject societies in history, please see our new resource bit.ly/43xhXw6
All are membership groups, offering support for historians from a wide range of backgrounds. If you seek fellow researchers in your field, we hope this guide proves useful #Skystorians.
Registration for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17-19 September) is now open!! The deadline to sign-up is 5 August, with early bird rates available until mid-July.
For full information, please see the conference website:
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Out today! 🥳 The King's Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin.... My book with Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social & @adamcrymble.bsky.social. It is #openaccess so come take a look! cc @uclpress.bsky.social #skystorians #foodhistory
New review (paywalled, TLS) www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
Over the next three weeks, we feature the 8 monographs and 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book & Early Career Article Prizes.
Today: 'The Bonds of Freedom. Liberated Africans & the End of the Slave Trade', by Jake Subryan Richards (Yale UP, 2025) bit.ly/4onv2BK 1/2 #Skystorians
Great workshop on comparative colonial histories in Leiden today now on to Florence for this tomorrow. www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...
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Care and Crisis: Making Beds in the National Health Service - Volume 63 Issue 2
Presentation of the ERC COLVET project by Prof Dónal Hasset (Maynooth University) and Dr Nicola Camilleri (Maynooth University and Università Roma Tre)
🚨 Permanent Job in Early Modern History in lovely Limerick🚨
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BBC report talks of “inappropriate” & “shameful” NHS “corridor care”.
As if NHS Staff choose this.
No mention of cause:
Insufficient beds because successive govts have cut them.
Beds occupied by patients who can’t be discharged because of no community services.
What’s shameful:
BBC reporting.
This afternoon @royalhistsoc.org hosts its annual meeting of heads of UK #history societies. We'll be joined by representatives of 35 subject societies which support and champion historians and our discipline.
They, and other societies, are a vital part of UK scholarly and civic life #Skystorians
