Do you know a BA or MA history student/ graduate that might want to gain some paid research experience this summer? I’m running an internship to research and produce a public resource on ‘Sheffield’s Clean Air Movement: A Local Environmental History’. >> shu.ac.uk/research/degre…

Terrible news for Abingdon and Basingstoke. x.com/jjoque/status/…

It has been a very long time in the making, but I have pressed send on the final manuscript for Growing Up and Going Out.

It's a book about youth culture, leisure, and the remaking of the post-war city. Coming to a library shelf near you soon!

Great to see this out - and in paperback! It’s a moving set of accounts of living through lockdown from the Mass Observers who kept thousands of Covid diaries. Nick has drawn out a set of crosscutting themes and topped and tailed them with insightful essays. Unmissable!

Doctoral studentship: Growing up Queer, 1790-1918; Very excited about this project. Student will work with Matt Cook, me, & the wonderful Museum of Home & be nurtured by Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood & WGIQ at Oxford CGIS.history.ox.ac.uk/ahrc-cdp-stude…

Come work with me! Fully-funded PhD to research material life in Gressenhall workhouse findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

After a few days of catching up with family, friends, and sleep, I’m overjoyed to share that last Friday, I submitted my PhD thesis! 🎉 🥳 📚🎨

Today's #ArchiveFind is this wonderful 1909 suffragette calendar featuring Christabel Pankhurst. Held in Jill Craigie's archive 📁7JCC #VotesForWomen

We've added 5 brand new papers to The Archive this week, including the 'Prisoners of War News' from the Second World War and 'The Regiment,' an 'illustrated military journal for everybody.' Find out more here: bit.ly/43pfD9K #TuesdayTitles #MilitaryHistory

Check out the trailer for #ThanksforTyping , a new podcast series from Ros Edwards 🕯🌱 and Val Gillies, working with Research Podcasts and The Sociological Review Foundation. It's sure to be a brilliant listen and features Phyllis Willmott's diaries from our collections 📚🎙️

Do come along!

Cover reveal time! I’m completely delighted to be able to finally share the absolutely gorgeous front cover for my forthcoming book Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage. Out September 10th with Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Happening today! ⬇️📚🎨✂️

• How exactly DO historical researchers find & apply for paid consultancy opportunities?
• What do these roles entail?

HistoryLab+ warmly invites you to explore both questions at 18:00-20:00 on 12 and 13 March.

Register at sas.sym-online.com/registrationfo… to secure your spot!

📔🎨This Thursday at 1pm, I'll be giving a 20 minute paper on what's been keeping me busy for the last 3 years...exploring the history of scrapbooking in Britain during the C20.

Sign up to the Institute of Historical Research ECR Symposium to join in-person or online ⬇️

history.ac.uk/events/ecr-sym…

✅Reached my penultimate PhD milestone...an updated draft of my entire thesis.

Three and half years of research is now in a single Word document, with acknowledgements, and bibliography.🎉🥳

Working on an essay or dissertation? Check out our videos and guides on using the Bibliography of British and Irish History buff.ly/3sA1x71 #BBIH #twitterstorians Royal Historical Society Brepols

Thinking about John Craske, a Norfolk fisherman who started embroidering after contracting influenza while fighting in WWI. His doctor suggested he embroider to occupy himself. These are from the Dereham Heritage Trust, The Red House, and Norwich Castle Museum

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 5000) Tuesday 5th December 2023.
So here it is - my final picture of uninterrupted daily photographs of Cambridge - 5,000 consecutive posts over 13 years. I’m sure you’ll forgive the fact that it wasn’t taken today but a week ago