Cultural & Social History

Politics, Media, and the Representation of Chinese Youth Suicide and Melancholy (1930–1937) In the 1930s, Chinese media extensively reported on youth suicides, commonly attributing them to patriotism, academic pressure, and economic hardship. Adult commentators overwhelmingly condemned th...

Great to see my PhD student @jianhaoxu.bsky.social's first article out in @cultsochistory.bsky.social! It's a fascinating analysis of media reporting of young people's suicides in 1930s China & how young people themselves responded to this www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #histchild #skystorians

Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Elisa Camiscioli focuses on borders as much as brothels; her beautiful focus on individual stories makes the archives sing in “Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking and Global Migrations”. Read my review for @cultsochistory.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣The latest issue of Cultural & Social History is here!

A special issue on 'Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives'📜✨

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The Industrial Revolution, AI, and the Past and Future of Leisure Blog by Dr Nicholas Collins, relating to his recent Open Access article in Cultural and Social History – read here! I’ve always been fascinated by a deceptively simple historical question: wh…

📣New blog!

Nicholas Collins reflects on 'The Industrial Revolution, AI, and the Past and Future of Leisure'

This blog gives insight into Collins' latest article published in @cultsochistory.bsky.social!

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Committee Nominations 2025 The Social History Society’s committee plays a vital role in shaping the society’s activities and priorities. This year we have started the search for a new Chair, who will take over wh…

📢Would you like to help shape the Social History Society?

We're looking for one Ordinary Member to join the team!

⭐️Gain committee experience
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📢Bookings for our 2025 conference are now open!

⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK

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Expulsion, Incarceration, Incapacitation. Policing Drinking Women in Poland and Britain in the Second Half of the 19th Century In Victorian Britain and post-partition Poland, despite cultural, political and economic differences, there was a shared belief that women’s drinking was more harmful than men’s which prompted form...

‼️New article form our Wom and and Alcohol @ncngovpl.bsky.social project in @cultsochistory.bsky.social : Expulsion, Incarceration, Incapacitation. Policing Drinking Women in Poland and Britain in the Second Half of the 19th Century www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Absolutely delighted that my article on class and conscientious objection during the Second World War is now available from @cultsochistory.bsky.social . Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣The latest issue of Cultural & Social History is here!

Featuring shrines, social mobility, galleries, 'odious work', child welfare work and popular culture from the 16th to the 20th centuries...📜✨

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📢From our latest issue!

Kate Tilson (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Religion, Disease and Cultural Difference on the Voyage from Britain to the South Pacific in the Early Nineteenth Century'

#Missionary #Maritime #SouthPacific #Imperial ⛵️🗃️19thc

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Thanks for your message! Not sure if this answers your question directly, but our journal was formed with a mind towards some of the major debates captured in Peter Mandler's 'The Problem with Cultural History' (2004) and Carla Hesse's 'The New Empiricism' (2004).

📕From our latest issue!

Giovanni Patriarca (Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala) on 'A Franciscan Monetary Theory? Alexander Bonini and the Forms of Money at the End of the Middle Ages'

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📣The latest issue of Cultural and Social History is here!

Featuring Franciscan money, disease outbreaks, stag-hunting, sibling relationships, necropolitics and women's histories of migration, from the 12th to 20th centuries...📜

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SHS Annual Conference 2025 Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…

📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨

We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025!

Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️

Please share widely!

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📣We are delighted to announce that Cultural and Social History are now on BlueSky!

We're an academic journal that publishes on all aspects of social and cultural history, and place particular emphasis on the ways the 'social' and 'culture' are mutually constitutive.

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