Why did the People's Vote campaign fail? Could Brexit have been stopped? What lessons can be learned?
Join us on 19 March to launch @morganj0nes.bsky.social's new book: "No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second Referendum".
All welcome!
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JOB
Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Super exciting to see this in the flesh! This was such a side project for me but I got so much from it and loved having the opportunity to do it!
NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨
The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections.
Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
*Conference announcement*
Modern Enquiries into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations: International Prosperity and Development 250 Years After Adam Smith. King's College, Cambridge. 5-6 MARCH 2026. Further information & to register via Eventbrite: www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/docs/Camb_WO...
Cover of book, with satellite view of the Suez Canal
@janeijking.com, The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere - @academic.oup.com, July 2026
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Book launch 1. Leslie James' The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought: this Thursday 4 March, 6pm QMUL Graduate Centre, 7th Floor in conversation with Musab Younis (Oxford)
The 2026 S-USIH Annual Conference will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, on November 12-14, 2026, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The theme is “Intellectual Historians’ Toolkits: Methods, Theories, Practices.” Check out the CFP. s-usih.org/2026/02/s-us...
Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions.
Please tell your libraries to pre-order!
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We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Any A-Level history teachers out there to help a sister out?
Stir To Action has invited me to join their book festival on 22 May. I’ll be talking with Matt Thompson (@mattthompson.bsky.social) about charity, the economy, and what a genuinely solidaristic economy might require today.
Get your ticket here!
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Early medievalists! Come join us at Magdalen College, Oxford: apply for this permanent job by 27 March. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...
Please join us for the launch of our 'Women Strike Back!' exhibition on Monday 9th March. The wonderful Vanessa Kasuule will be joining us for a poetry reading.
You can book your tickets via: ticketpass.org/event/ELVTJM...
'Stuart Hall, Ideology, and Neoliberalism’s Reactionary Drift', by @lcornelissen.bsky.social for the @jhideas.bsky.social blog.
CFP: Race, Law and Empire
beautiful B x
Book cover of We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain showing a group of children against an eerie blue-green backdrop.
Delighted to be speaking about my forthcoming book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain at the fantastic @litandphil.bsky.social on 30 April! Do come along if you're Newcastle/NE based - admission free www.litandphil.org.uk/event/we-hav...
Such a great paper—rich comparative analysis of “baby farms” in Britain, France, and the USA (late 19th–early 20th c.), showing how labor and care were reconfigured differently despite similar feminist arguments. Can’t wait for the book @emilybaughan.bsky.social! (also check out this wild image)
New article, by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser: 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945'
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Looking forward to launching @faisaldevji.bsky.social‘s "Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam", with Karthick Ram Manoharan, in London today, Tuesday, 11 February, 5pm. Join us! More Infos here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wanin...
CONFERENCE - 'Sociability & Political Life', University of York, 3rd/4th July 2026
Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!
Very much looking forward to hearing @emilybaughan.bsky.social talk about her current work on the politics of childcare this Thursday. Come if you're in town!
this saturday! I haven't heard it yet, but there's not only interviews with Carolyn Steedman and Miriam Stoppard, but also live audio of me attempting to get my kids out the door for school in the mornings www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!
Join us for the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2026 with Prof. Sandrine Kott on 19 March 2026 @rshc.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social
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This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).
CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
A colour block banner with the words 'International Fellowships 2026' written on the left-hand side.
The International Fellowships 2026 scheme, run with the @royalsociety.org, supports international early career researchers to undertake a two-year research career with UK partner organisations. Find out more and apply ahead of 11 March deadline: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC
For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social
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Can't wait to read Bethany's forthcoming book on this. @khc-oxford.bsky.social
