@ihrlifecycles
A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods .https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
Check out this week's interview on Digital Childhoods with Bianca Premo on the tragic case of the "youngest mother in the world" and what it teaches us about time, maturity, and Peruvian history: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/jumping-...
Two great new articles on university history in History of Education
1. Tomas Vancisin & @aileenfyfe.bsky.social:
St Andrews records reveal how universities were embedded in British imperial networks.
doi.org/10.1080/0046...
Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of gender? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
🎥 We’re interested in different ways of disseminating research. So, we’re trying our hand at short-form video content to summarise the core arguments of amazing projects.
🥘 Up first, here’s our journal’s co-editor @heatherlwellis.bsky.social talking about the @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social project:
Join us on Tuesday 10th. February from 17:30 GMT to hear @elenarossi.bsky.social speak about families in the middle ages as their children left for university and international travel.
We will be at the IHR in London. You may meet us there or online.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Screen shot from the RHS website from the Join Us page. Text reads: Join the Royal Historical Society Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 9 March and 11 May 2026
Monday (9th March) is the next closing date for applications to join the Society as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member.
Applications are welcome at any time, with future deadlines on 11 May & 27 July. Further details of Fellowship / Membership bit.ly/4rM2H9h #Skystorians 1/2
✍️ Fancy doing more writing?
📖 We are encouraging more people to submit a blog post to the History of Education Society!
👇 More here - this is an excellent chance to boost your writing and see more published online, especially for early ideas.
historyofeducation.org.uk/submit-a-blo...
@elenarossi.bsky.social will present our next seminar on 10th. February. Elena will explore the emotional impact on family life when members travelled internationally for university in the Middle Ages.
To hear the paper, you may travel to London or listen online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
🚨 EXCITING NEWS - SAVE THE DATE!
The History of Education Society conference is back for 2026.
🇮🇪 13-15 November 2026. Maynooth University, Ireland.
Find out more below 👇
historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/
This evening's seminar is 'The People without Age. Civilization, civility and the rise of European age consciousness in the 18th century' with Ludwig Pelzl. Join us from 17:30 online or at the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Deadline extended until end of Tuesday 24th: if you were meaning to submit but missed the original deadline, don't worry!
This evening's seminar is 'The People without Age. Civilization, civility and the rise of European age consciousness in the 18th century' with Ludwig Pelzl. Join us from 17:30 online or at the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/701308 Eleven Ages of Man, Gerhard Altzenbach
Ludvig Pelzl will present his research in our next seminar, 'The People without Age. Civilization, civility & the rise of European age consciousness in the 18th century'. Join us at the IHR or online on Tuesday 24th. February '26 at 17:30.
Register through the link!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
One of our convenors, @hagenilda.bsky.social , will be speaking in Oxford next week.
In case you missed it, the IHR Bulletin for February 2026 is out. Read it here:
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Our next seminar will be on 24th February at 17:30 GMT. Ludwig Pelzl will join us remotely to deliver 'The People without Age. Civilization, civility and the rise of European age consciousness in the 18th century'. Further details are below.
Join us at the IHR or online. Everybody's welcome!
The @ihr.bsky.social has brought all its online resources - journals, @vch-home.bsky.social, OA book series, @bho.bsky.social, BBIH, @layersoflondon.bsky.social, and more - into one section of its website for easier access bit.ly/4cCrpUD.
Much of this content is free to use online #Skystorians
This Valentine’s season, discover how 18th c. couples poured their hopes, anxieties and desires into hand written love letters - read my article in Bath Spa uni news feature here #18c #love #letters www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Excited to be speaking at the IHR Food History seminar on 12 February 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm.
Book a place to hear about cheesemaking and women’s dominance of the dairy in early modern England.
Online via Zoom so no real cheese this time I’m afraid.
This evening's seminar details are attached. Take a look and join us! The seminar starts at 17:30 GMT. If you are near Bloomsbury, you are very welcome to join us in Senate House.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
That sounds like a fun day!
Calendar of IHR Research Training January to April 2026. All the details are in the web link in the body of the post.
More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
A "friendly warning": “There is always danger for girls who go abroad alone."
Learn how to guard against this by coming to our seminar tomorrow, 10/2/26 at 17:30 GMT, where Madgalene Klassen will tell us.
Join us online or at the IHR. Everyone is welcome!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Come travelling with us on 10th. February at 17:30GMT! Magdalene Klassen will safely escort us through 'Friendly Warnings: Youth & Protection in British Sexual Surveillance of International Travel, 1885–1914'. You may join us in London at Senate House or online.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Next Tuesday, 10th. February at 17:30 GMT - Madgalene Klassen and 'Friendly Warnings: Youth and Protection in British Sexual Surveillance of International Travel, 1885–1914'.
All who are interested are welcome to join us online or at the IHR in London.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Sneak preview - @lauratisdall.bsky.social will be talking about her new book at Life Cycles next term.
Join us this evening at the IHR in London or through Zoo to hear John Hide present 'Presenting the Boy with Two Penises; Participatory Science and the Public Sphere in Early Victorian London'.
We start at 17:30 BST & you're very welcome to come along.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Tuesday 27th. January, 17:30 - 19:00 GMT. John Hide of @ihr.bsky.social will give his paper, 'Presenting the Boy with Two Penises; Participatory Science and the Public Sphere in Early Victorian London'.
You may join us at the IHR or through Zoom to hear him.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
We enjoyed two seminars from the School Meals team. There was a lot of it to discuss and we only really touched on it.
It is interesting to read how the project is continuing and great to see how it is having an impact. 😀
CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
