Northumbria History

#History #Skystorians Double new article drop from forthcoming Churchill special issue! First up, the intro by Allen Packwood, @richardtoye.bsky.social & Jayne Gifford's ' "Three Circles": Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at University of Oxford Discover an exciting academic career path as a Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Fellowship Opportunity!

Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History
University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College

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#History #Skystorians New review drop! @henryjmiller.bsky.social on Adrian Bingham's Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives: A New History of British Democracy, 1918-1992 (OUP, 2025), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

SLSA PRIZES 2026: SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED! From an extremely strong field and a large number of nominations in some categories, the SLSA Board is delighted to announce this year's shortlists for the Association's prestigious prizes. They are a...

I am delighted that my most recent book 'Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales' (Hart, 2024) has been nominated for the Hart-SLSA Book Prize AND the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize 2026... (more below!)

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It's the last day to register for the free & online @divorcehistory.bsky.social one-day workshop 'Archives to Action' where we will be examining the relevance of #humanities and #sociolegal research to contemporary policy issues. All welcome! Sign up here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 - Bridging Generations: Generational Voices and Silences Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 - Bridging Generations: Generational Voices and Silences

Northumbria University is hosting a public lecture for Holocaust Memorial Day 2026.

We have a guest speaker, Deanna Van der Velde, with additional talks by myself and two fellow PhD researchers.

@northumbriauni.bsky.social @northumbriahistory.bsky.social

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Research Training and Short Courses The IHR offers a wide range of training courses for historians at all career stages, from digital research and oral history to archives and publishing.

Looking to boost your historical research skills in 2026? Check out our range of research training and short courses. More coming in Term 3!
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Broken Bonds - New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969 This conference invites paper proposals from scholars in history, legal studies, human geography, anthropology, English, film studies, sociology, politics, and related disciplines. We welcome research...

📃 CfP: 'Broken Bonds - New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969,' @northumbriauni.bsky.social, April 2026. Deadline: February 2nd, 2026 (bursaries available for unfunded PhD students/ECRs).
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I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations!

🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual...
📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...

Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!

See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865 Damian Shiels joins Myles to discuss the Irishmen who fought for the Union in the American Civil War; and whose stories are revealed in forgotten U.S. pension files.

For anyone who wants to have a listen to my RTE History Show chat last night about the 250,000 Irish Americans who served in the U.S. military during the Civil War, you can now listen to that section of the show here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Richard Gott, former Guardian journalist and historian, dies aged 87 Charismatic figure of the left is remembered as one of the most informed commentators on Latin American affairs

The Guardian obituary for Gott, which mentions his 1966 campaign in the context of his longer career in journalism, is here. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

The campaign of the ‘red-bearded radical’: Richard Gott and the Hull North by-election, 1966 This article explores Richard Gott’s candidacy in the 1966 by-election at Hull North. Gott stood on a platform emphasising anti-nuclear and anti-militarist concerns, and crucially, vehement opposit...

The former Guardian journalist Richard Gott died over the weekend. One of our past PhD students, Dr Sophie Roberts, is the author an article on his anti-Vietnam War independent candidacy in the 1966 Hull North by-election in Contemporary British History. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1361...

JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge

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Modjeska Monteith Simkins and black female leadership: propriety, politics, place and periodization in the African American freedom struggle Modjeska Monteith Simkins was one of the most significant voices in the struggle for African American rights in South Carolina during the twentieth century. For a decade, starting in the mid-1960s,...

Delighted to see my open access article on Modjeska Simkins and Black Female Leadership appear in a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice honouring Richard H. King - a fine historian and wonderful man. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The west has long gripped the imagination." To mark publication day, Gareth has contributed a post to the @royalhistsoc.org blog exploring how a 'westward gaze' developed in nineteenth century Britain and Ireland.
blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/10/30/a...

📣The Call for Papers for our 2026 Winter Symposium, The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250, is now open

University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026

Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...

📖 It's publication day for our colleague Gareth Roddy's (@grod.bsky.social) new book, 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940.' You can buy your copy from @uolpress.bsky.social via the link below! Congratulations, Gareth!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

Our thanks to Nick's examiners, Dr James McConnel and Prof. Katrina Navickas (@katrinanavickas.bsky.social) and to the viva chair Prof. Brian Ward (@brian222ward.bsky.social).

This project was funded by a Northern Bridge (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Award, in partnership with Northumberland National Park Authority. Nick's supervisors were Prof Matthew Kelly (@matthewjkelly.bsky.social) and Dr Elsa Devienne (@elsadevienne.bsky.social).

Congratulations to new Dr Nick Pepper (@thenickpepper.bsky.social) who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Preserving Thirlwall Castle: Policy, Practice, and the History of Northumberland National Park, 1956-2002" on Friday!

Congratulations to our colleague @elsadevienne.bsky.social on winning this year's W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association! 🍾🏆⛱️

We too are very excited for the publication of the latest #OpenAccess book in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, Atlantic Isles by @grod.bsky.social!

Published with the @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org with funding from @jisc.bsky.social.

Read more:
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Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...

📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

#History #SkyStorians New article klaxon! Elizabeth Goodwin's ' "That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm": The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture, & Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

#History #SkyStorians #History&IR Still time to register for this great event at @northumbriahistory.bsky.social on global issues and local action, past & present

Small Grants The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities by members of the Society. We give priority to activities and research that would otherwise remai…

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!

💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history

🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
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✨Apply today!

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.

Please share widely!

No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
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A young woman sits at a stall, turned towards the camera and smiling. The desk in front of her has a purple tablecloth and is covered in society material and swag (stickers, Haribo, etc). Behind her is a panel with a large sign reading "History Society."

The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).