Claire Langhamer

It was so ace Matt!

Hi Conor, yes it is, best, Claire

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social

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All welcome!

@mbsbirmingham.bsky.social Modern British Studies Conference 2026 CfP is live. Deadline for proposals 31 January 2026. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Medieval Studies to join our dynamic team within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Autumn 2026. As Lecturer in Medieval Studies you will contribute to the teaching of Medieval English literature and Medieval history across the Faculty, within our School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, and School of Historical Studies - this includes our BA English and BA History programmes, as well as postgraduate taught programmes in the two subject areas. This post is offered on a permanent contract at Birkbeck, full time 35 hours per week, with a salary of £44,247 rising to £60,858 per year. Teaching hours will vary from 6pm - 9pm, Monday to Friday. To be successful, you will bring research expertise in the literature, history and culture of the Late Medieval period (c.1300-1500), and demonstrate a capacity to contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching, participate actively in curriculum development, supervise doctoral students, and help shape the intellectual life of our vibrant academic community. We would also welcome applicants who would be able to contribute to collaborative teaching programmes or research in the Faculty, in areas such as identity, race/ethnicity, or gender - experience of collaboration with cultural institutions, whether through research or teaching, is also welcome. Core responsibilities will initially include programme/module administration, teaching, supervision, assessment, student support and pastoral care. You will also be equipped to supervise doctoral students. With a PhD in any area of Medieval Studies, you will contribute the Faculty’s and Schools’ research impact and culture, and to the intellectual and cultural life of the institution and the various communities and partners with whom we work and serve.

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.

They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.

Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Always lovely to work with History UK. If you are struggling with a second project do come along to the IHR tomorrow to think, discuss and problem solve.

Hull’s maritime history thrusts city into world’s top places to visit in 2026 Historic trawler and floating lighthouse among East Yorkshire city’s attractions as it gears up for tourism boost

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Bibliography of British and Irish History The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is the most extensive guide available to what's been published on British and Irish history.

Discounts for members of the Royal Historical Society, Historical Association &/or British Association for Local History. @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social

And remember, its entries are all peer-reviewed by expert human historians. No hallucinated references here. 2/2

The worst of times: Trouble at the British Library Cyber chaos, striking staff and a crisis of leadership. Claudia Cockerell investigates a national treasure’s year of reckoning

Not just a national asset but an international asset. Trashed, ignored, diminished.

Events Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research

Looking for a New Year's resolution that is good for your mind and (relatively) easy to keep? Check out the Institute of Historical Research seminars for January 2026. Fourteen seminars in week 1 alone. Free, broad-ranging, open to the public and usually available both in person and online.

Research Training and Short Courses The IHR offers a wide range of training courses for historians at all career stages, from digital research and oral history to archives and publishing.

Have you seen our Term 2 Research Training and Short Courses a the IHR? We deliver high-quality training programmes and short courses to a wide community of historians and professionals, and provide unique distance learning opportunities
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you working on an essay, dissertation, research project or conference proposal? Check out our videos on using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

We're delighted to share this initiative with our colleagues at the RHS and Chalke History Festival.

If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.

Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.

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#history #envhistory #earlymodern

Mobilising Women’s Workplace Rights: 50 Years of Sex Equality Legislation - History & Policy Women and men gained formal workplace equality on 29 December 1975 when the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts came into force. Incremental change has been achieved slowly across the subsequent 50 ...

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Happy 75th birthday to @thenacbs.bsky.social! If you are at #NACBS2025 in Montreal, say hello to our Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, Senior Lecturer in Urban & Digital History and Deputy Director of @chppc.bsky.social @justincolson.bsky.social, and Institute Manager Conor Wyer.

Domesday at the IHR - On History IHR Fellow, Chris Lewis, writes about new publication, 'Making Domesday'.

New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR.
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...

The runner up of the #PollardPrize 2025 is Niall Gray for his paper on '“The Burns Connection”: the Scotland-USSR Society and Cold War cultural diplomacy'. Congratulations to our winners and thanks to @Oxfordacademic.bsky.social for sponsoring the prize!

Berry (left) with Claire Langhamer (IHR) and Cyan Turin (OUP), celebrating winning the Pollard Prize 2025 at the Historical Research Annual Lecture

Congratulations to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the #PollardPrize 2025! Berry's paper 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool' will be published in Historical Research @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

The Curriers’ Prize The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.

The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award!

Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize

Making History Together History Day

IHR Director Professor Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social has written about today’s History Day #histday25 here at Senate House, and how it reflects the crucial work of @ihr.bsky.social in supporting historical research in all its forms. Read more here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

No I wasn’t - how fabulous!

Friends in Common How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?

What if friendship were understood not just on an individual, personal level, but as something political – a radical practice capable of upending hierarchies and producing revolutionary social change?

Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

The City and Port of Hull : official handbook : [Edit.] H.R. Wright : City of Hull Development Committee : A. Brown & Sons Ltd. : Hull : nd [1931]. A rather fine official handbook, published by local company A. Brown & Sons Ltd. on behalf of the City's Development Committee, giving details of the municipal amenities and services as well as of the port, docks and associated industries. This is a rather fine bold, pictorial cover showing the Old Town surrounded by the modern industrial city situated on the north bank of the River Humber and being approached by both air from the left and sea by liner from the right. Sadly it is uncredited. The land is shown in black, the sea blue and modern Hull by a series of rising red and white structures around the old walled city.

The fine UK east coast city of Kingston upon Hull #Yorkshire is in the good news bracket today having made Nat Geo's cut for one of the top 25 global destinations in 2026 - & it is worth a visit. Here's the cover to the 1931 Official Guide #Hull

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