🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

The fabulous editors and contributors are proofing this wonderful collection this week. I'm so looking forward to it being out in the world for anyone interested in family history. One of the culminations of the important @InheritingtheFamily project.

Out now. Our anthology of commissioned creative writing & short historical commentaries from the #ColonialCountryside project about National Trust houses published by Peepal Tree Press. With a photo essay by Ingrid Pollard

Coming out in paperback on 29th Oct, and now dedicated to our late friend and co-editor, Trevor Burnard.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159557/

New blog post on my use of the Rugby School registers as a historical source - really important in my early stage research 👇

Just in time for #BlackHistoryMonth2024 we are so excited about our team members Annabelle Gilmore and Montaz Marche's publication on researching early modern Black British histories with Kristy Warren in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. (1/2)

Fascinating article on Hobbes' involvement in the Bermuda company, and how that influenced his political thought. Hobbes, Cavendish, and the Bermuda Company | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3NfBPf3

Now Open! Visit BCA to experience our latest exhibition, 'Race Today: Black History is British History.' This exhibition explores the groundbreaking Race Today journals, with a spotlight on the pivotal years from 1973 to 1988. For more information, visit buff.ly/4dENWgr

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for the conference: 'Schooling for Empire, c.1750-c.1945', in collaboration with Institute of Historical Research. Keynotes: the wonderful Prof. Catherine Hall and poet John Agard. Deadline for proposals: 15 January. Please do share further!

1/9 🧵The right wing press, informed originally by its allies in History Reclaimed, is repeating this misinformation again and again in its attempts to prevent a conversation about reparations. Each time it is repeated it needs to be called out because it is being used to suggest

As 'The Value of History', Royal Historical Society's new briefing, shows, cuts to history depts hit hardest on historians / students working in post-92 universities. 88% of post-92 depts, responding to a recent RHS survey, report cuts in staffing since 2020. Why does this matter? 1/4

I am excited to be seeking for 3 PhD canditates to research the generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism on my European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project. Please share widely wur.nl/en/vacancy/thr… #PhDvacancy #academicjobs #ERCStG2024 #GHSRNL #AOBRPT #NABRDE

🚨We are excited to officially announce our 2025 conference, RESISTANCE, RENEWAL, REIMAGINATION: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain🚨 ⏳CfP deadline: 13th January 2025 📅 7th March 2025 📍University of Oxford Huge thanks to our sponsor, Black Academic Futures⭐

*Anti-racism in Britain: traditions, histories and trajectories*, edited by @saffdoeshistory Grace Redhead and me, is out with Manchester University Press this month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171115/

"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our virtual special issue, ‘Contesting Monuments’ is out! Read the introduction, ‘Contesting Monuments: Heritage & Historical Geographies of Inequality’, written by the issue editor Stephenlegg, here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.… Take a look at the issue’s contents below 🧵 1/15

📢New publication!📢 "Comparative portrayals of the British Empire in history textbooks" This fascinating article explores how the #BritishEmpire, #migration and #belonging are taught in English secondary schools. Read the full, #OpenAccess paper here: doi.org/10.14324/HERJ.…

(RE)DISCOVERING NATURAL HISTORY: symposium of historians, archivists, curators, artists The Linnean Society of London 11 Feb 2025: Advolly Richmond FLS Laura Van Broekhoven Marenka Thompson-Odlum Miranda Lowe CBE Oliver J.W. Cox Brad Scott Joy Gregory Details: eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-re… @KewScience RHUL GeoHumanities @Kew_LAA

#GARDENS & #EMPIRES: conference organised by @KewScience English Heritage & British Library 27-28 June 2025. Call for papers: gardensandempires.tiiny.site @Kew_LAA Royal Holloway History Department RHUL GeoHumanities MGHG IHR_History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes The Gardens Trust Botanic Gardens Conservation International National Trust Environment & Empire, in the museum

The CFP for our closing conference 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, 1440-1833' is now live! Deadline for submissions is 14th February, and the conference takes place 15th-17th May 2025. Please share! tinyurl.com/4y9bee66 #earlymodern #histmed King's History