Join Centre for Early Modern Studies at King's next Mon 22 April for a discussion of 'Ideas of Poverty in the Enlightenment', with Anna Plassart (Open University), Alexandra Ortolja-Baird (University of Portsmouth) and Niall O’Flaherty (King’s College London). Details below.
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Join us to celebrate Gareth Stedman Jones's years School of History, Queen Mary University of London on 2 May 2024, 3-6pm. Social history, intellectual history, the history of political thought, history-politics-theory: qmul.ac.uk/history/news-a…… Royal Historical Society Institute of Historical Research Cambridge School Cambridge History @MileEndIn

Ideas of Poverty in the Enlightenment! tickettailor.com/events/centref…

'To make cuts like this, which are planned for this September, will surely change the face of the university, diminishing the educational offer that many students signed up for, and curtailing much of the activity for which Goldsmiths is famous.' #twitterstorians 1/2

UCL 'short-term finance-driven decision making and the university’s lack of any real interest in continuity of employment or in staff-student relations”

Student nos + casualisation= double-figure redundancies in its History Dept

Plse sign petition

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The fact that I maganed to write a research essay on cat history may be one of my greatest accomplishments so far! Thanks to Sandra Swart and all other editors of Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis for accepting the cats.The book 'Gender and Animals in History' can be bought via Amsterdam Univ Press

Dr Cockayne is holding a Q&A on Saturday. Not seen Wicked Little Letters yet? Come along, 3pm, for tickets see below:

This month’s blogpost reflects on an event celebrating the life of the renowned historian and ‘model citizen’ John Pocock, who died in December 2023. rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2024/…

Slyvester joined me on the UEA campus earlier to help with my essay marking.
🐈😻🐈 #uea #academicswithcats

'New Historical Perspectives' is Royal Historical Society's book series for early career historians, published University of London Press. All books are available free #OpenAccess and in print: bit.ly/3M9uKwx

Earlier this month, the series passed its 100,000th book download #twitterstorians 1/2

We've written to:
⭐️ Staff&Students explaining the lack on financial reason for drastic reorganisation: qmucu.org/2024/03/19/hss…
⭐️ Management with QMUL UNISON 🌵 requesting genuine consultation qmucu.org/2024/03/22/qm-…
⭐️ Council encouraging monitoring strategy qmucu.org/2024/03/28/let…

'Josephine Quinn will join the Faculty on 1 January 2025 and will be the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient History in the University.'

(It's Moses Finley's old chair, and it is fantastic news, obvs.)

Dr Sharkey’s paper, “Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: The End of the Tudors” was delivered to a sold-out audience at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh last week.

Find a link to her lecture online at rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks…

Save the date, 4 June 2024, 6.15pm for Professor Georgios Varouxakis' Inaugural Lecture: ' What on earth is 'the West'? It's a long story...' QM Political Thought School of History, Queen Mary University of London QMUL School of Law Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Avi Lifschitz Cambridge School eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-le…

Join us at the ECR Seminar this Wednesday (20th March), 17:30, where our very own Cathleen Mair (QMUL) will be discussing 'A Revolution of Feeling? Wollstonecraft and Staël on Passions and Politics in Revolutionary France'. As ever, all very welcome!

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delighted to announce that I passed my viva last week 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️ superlative thanks to my examiners William Purkis 🇪🇺 @williampurkis.bsky.social and Andrew Jotischky for the stimulating discussion and the attention they paid to my thesis, and my supervisors Miri Rubin, Tom Asbridge & Eyal Poleg

One sleep! Honoured to be joined by members from UEA UCU says join a union Sussex UCU Goldsmiths UCU Sheffield UCU Leicester UCU Aberdeen UCU #SaveUoALanguages: so much to learn from organising and advocating for workers and humanity & social sciences.

14 March, 3pm, David Sizer and MS Teams (link in linktree)

Happening this week – Join us to celebrate the publication of Richard Whatmore's new book!
📅 5 pm, 7 March
📍Audit Room, King's College, Cambridge (please note the change of venue)
More info: polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-events/…

Cambridge History Intellectual History St Andrews History Politics and International Studies Cambridge QM Political Thought

In his new book, Dr Robin Mills traces shifting views of religion, human nature and historical change in the second half of the eighteenth century rb.gy/0b9wet