Tomorrow, @writersmosaic joins @OffTheShelfFest for 'Diverse Islands' - a vital conversation on race, identity & multiculturalism across the UK & Ireland. 🌍📚
With Kieran Connell, Emer O’Neill, Charlotte Rea-Patel & host John Siddique. In partnership with @SpeakVolumes.
Applications now open for 4 short-term postdoctoral fellowships working with materials in Cultural Collections and Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Deadline 29 September 2025. Find out more about the Brotherton and Bedford Fellowships and how to apply here: lahri.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/
At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!
Looking forward to co-convening this with Kat Rawling and an awesome bunch of colleagues.
🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history?
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
Royal Literary Fund
NEW DATASET - OUT NOW!
A massive 69,000 records added to the Railway Work, Life & Death project, covering English & Welsh railways, 1855-1929.
Download our free database from our website - & please spread the word!
#Railway200
📣 call for applications 📣
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
Please share widely!
www.historyworkshop....
In a new policy paper John Stewart argues that debates around blood supply to the NHS have been proxies for fundamental disagreements about the nature of British society. Read it here: historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history?
We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.
Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
www.historyworkshop....
John Stewart argues that debates around blood supply to the NHS have been proxies for fundamental disagreements about the nature of British society, specifically whether it should operate on the basis...
Next month the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social is hosting a Festival of Social History! Come one, come all! 🗃️
Experts! Projects! Zines! Lunch! Wine!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...
The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
Brodie Waddell
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
sshm.org
Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…
