Happy birthday to us! Sadly, there’s no cake, but today we’re still celebrating 55 years since the OU was established by Royal Charter. Huge thanks to all members of the #OUfamily – we wouldn’t be here without you! #OUCharterDay

This is the first peer-reviewed publication from our AHRC project on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern England, so here's a short thread to introduce it... 🧵 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#twitterstorians! Registration for communication and exchange in the early modern c.1500-1850 #conference is now open! The conference is free and available in-person and online. Interested? Take a look at the programme here: forms.gle/AxQ7cJFVaANrho…  #earlymodern #History

Congratulations to the German History Society Undergraduate Essay Prize winners. Wonderful to see such exciting research being done

📢ENTRIES OPEN: UNDERGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE 2024📢 📎 Essays of more than 8000 words 💰 £300 prize 👥 Nominated by supervisor 📅Deadline: 5 July 24 🖥️Further details: germanhistorysociety.org/undergraduate-…

FREE The Open University Online Workshop ‘Slavery, the Industrial Revolution, & Public History’ 28 May 2024 Talks Pat Hudson (Professor) & Maxine Berg Corinne Fowler Susanne Seymour Legacy Makers Bright Ideas Katie Vidal Belshaw CSLBS Justice 2 History Book eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-on-…

Look at the very pleasing term card our postgraduate convenors, nicola clarke💙🧡 and Tiéphaine Thomason, have put together for the Society, Culture and Belief seminar! Three great talks this term. Sign up here: history.ac.uk/seminars/socie…

We sold out yesterday but owing to enthusiastic demand we have released more tickets! Great to see the topic resonating with so many people. Looking forward to our discussions!

Deadline approaching! Fully funded £19,237/year + tuition fees covered. PhD project in partnership with Bodleian Libraries Atlantic Stories, Colonial Legacies and the Bodleian Library, 1650-1800 #PhDlife coventry.ac.uk/research/resea…

In our first ever blog post, I wrote about indirect medical involvement in the slave trade. In our latest, I'm writing about the direct opposite: medical expertise constructed in the crucible of the middle passage, and the social authority its surgeons claim as their due...

It's here!! *The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain* Published #OpenAccess by UCL Press, chapters from @treorchyexile, @EllyRobson9, Sharon Howard, Hannah Worthen, Imogen Peck, @KarinBowie, @annlaurahughes & J. Peacey: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/05/n… #PowerOfPetitioning

The Forgeries and Networks project (uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/fo…) is recruiting! We're looking for research assistants and a post-doc in art history: uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/ph… Please apply and/or spread the word! #digitalhumanities

🚨NEW Issue of 'German History' is out!🚨 Issue 42/2 (June 2024) is a special issue edited by Bridget Heal and Thomas Brodie entitled 'Churches and Warfare in German History' Check out the full issue here: academic.oup.com/gh/issue/42/2 🧵below for all the articles... [1/]

A lovely inperson seminar with starry Prof Ulinka Rublack. Join us!

📢GHS AWARD DEADLINES📢 The deadline for applications for our various awards are quickly approaching! ✒️UG Essay Prize: 5 July (Róisín Watson) 📖PG Essay Prize: 21 July (Joseph Cronin) 📚Rethinking German History Prize: 15 July For more info see: germanhistorysociety.org

#CfP: 'Interconnections' #RenSoc25, Bristol, 2-5 July 2025! Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables & seminars to reach the brilliant Bristol team by 27 Sept 2024 #EarlyModernEvents #Twitterstorians #SRSlyGood rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-11th…

We are looking to recruit a new editor to our journal. The applicant should have broad expertise in modern history, especially Asia and/or Africa. The deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on 31 August 2023. Full details linked below: socialhistory.org.uk/2024/07/15/cal…

Save Black British History at Goldsmiths - Sign the Petition! chng.it/t7vqxkDwHR via Change.org UK

Last month Royal Historical Society published an Update to its 2018 report 'Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History': bit.ly/4bKmlJS The Update surveys developments in teaching and made special mention of the Black British History Masters Goldsmiths History🏛️ 1/3 🧵⬇️ #twitterstorians