H-Albion

Please share this opportunity widely. Fellowship for individuals working in all fields of British Studies whose work examines themes related to the environment.

Together with the Royal Historical Society & The National Archives, we are taking #HAP26 across the UK again.

We are looking to partner with archive centres, large and small.

Interested? Then read more and submit your application by 13 January 2025
www.history.ac.uk/news/call-a-...

Excerpt from The Freemason newspaper reading: Mr T Broadbent Trowsdale, author of "Glimpses of OLden England," "Customs of CHristmas-tide," "Old Times Tales," and other works of antiquarian interest, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Looking to find out more about the biography of 19th c antiquarian (?) Thomas Broadbent Trowsdale. Any help appreciated!

If You Charge Facts with Bias, Historians Are Guilty – AHA A historian reflects on the political backlash he faced after an op-ed was picked up by the right-wing media.

From #AHAPerspectives in 2020: @itsjohn.bsky.social asked, "How should historians behave in response to an active movement aiming to paint them as partisans seeking points in a zero-sum game?" 🗃️

FYI, #skystorians, H-Albion is now on Bluesky at @halbion.bsky.social #history #historians

Lewis Wade @wadehistory.bsky.social reviews Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England, by Anne L. Murphy @18thc-finance.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @princetonupress.bsky.social

November 20th marks #TransDayofRemembrance, which first took place on this day in 1999 🏳️‍⚧️

As we mourn and remember trans lives taken by violence this year, we'd like to share some pieces from HW's #transhistory archive 🧵👇 1/8

#queerhistory #transliberation

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

‘If the painting was nothing more than a realistic portrait of an 18th-century Black scholar in his study, that would be extraordinary enough. It’s the earliest such image in Western art, the first self-presentation of a Black person as an intellectual.’

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Please note that the deadline for the BSSH Inclusive Communities History Prize is fast approaching. So check out www.sportinhistory.org/categories/inclusive-communities-history-prize Deadline is 1st December. @BASASofficial @OHS_LGBT @DisabilityHistr @ihr_bbh

📣Out now on #firstview!

Eve Pennington (The University of Manchester) on 'Gender, Paid Employment, and Deindustrialization in New Towns in North-West England, c. 1970–1990s'

#Economic #OralHistory #Urban #Work 👩‍🏭🏭🗃️ 20thc

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is happening today. Please consider joining remotely if you can't come in person. Registration available at the link to get Zoom access. #history #18thCentury

We are delighted to be able to offer the BSECS/Georgian Papers fellowship again this year. £1,000 to support a project drawing on the papers of the Georgian Papers Programme. **DEADLINE 1 FEBRUARY 2025** #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ #history
www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Do you know that H-Albion started as a listserv in 1992? We're 32 years old--and some of you have been connected to us since the beginning!

We left the bird network over a year ago, but we've just arrived here on Bluesky. Looking forward to seeing old faces and making new friends.