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The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social

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Congratulations, Sara. Can’t wait to read your research!

06.03.2026 13:23 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Online reading lists from BBIH

You can also explore BBIH's free online reading list 'Researching women's histories' buff.ly/XwrPrf5 @brepols.net

06.03.2026 13:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of gender? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

06.03.2026 13:02 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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Medieval medicine just got visionary 🌿✨

On 17 March, Lauren Cole @medievallauren.bsky.social will present: ‘Transforming Medical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Hildegard of Bingen’s Physica'!

🗓️ 17 March
⏰ 17:30 GMT
🏛️ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 ONLINE

Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval

04.03.2026 11:15 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Image of women with speech bubble with question mark. Caption states IHR Library Survey. Open now, closes 10 April. Give your thoughts and help us secure future funding! More details in caption.

Image of women with speech bubble with question mark. Caption states IHR Library Survey. Open now, closes 10 April. Give your thoughts and help us secure future funding! More details in caption.

The IHR Library 2026 survey is now open and closes Friday 10 April! 😊

Do you have any feedback, comments or suggestions about the IHR Library? If so, please fill out our annual survey here: forms.office.com/e/BjwVZYhsc5.

03.03.2026 10:26 👍 6 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!

palaeography.uk/study/short-...

02.03.2026 19:37 👍 36 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 0
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Tuesday 17 March 2026 - Vincent Hiribarren (KCL): Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best - Digital History Seminar This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97943434361, later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: TBC Abstract: This paper compares how a historian and AI appro...

📢 Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 17 March (midday UK time) for Vincent Hiribarren on the topic 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best'. All our seminars are live on Zoom and published after on our YouTube channel ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist

03.03.2026 08:46 👍 11 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Covers of the 5 new titles in the New Historical Perspectives book series, published in 2025.

Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society, Rachael Harkes
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940, Gareth Roddy
Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, Andrew McTominey
Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England, Hannah Jeans
Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle, Rachel E. Johnson

Covers of the 5 new titles in the New Historical Perspectives book series, published in 2025. Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society, Rachael Harkes Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940, Gareth Roddy Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, Andrew McTominey Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England, Hannah Jeans Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle, Rachel E. Johnson

Rowan's is the 26th in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series for early career historians, published with @uolpress.bsky.social and support from @ihr.bsky.social and @echistsoc.bsky.social

All titles are available free Open Access and in paperback: bit.ly/3OW1GN3 2/2

03.03.2026 09:14 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration.
More info and book here: tinyurl.com/29nn4z33
@ihr.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

02.03.2026 15:32 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A data map of London showing points on the map that indicate finds. One highlighted find is a Roman temple to Mithras

A data map of London showing points on the map that indicate finds. One highlighted find is a Roman temple to Mithras

#MappyMonday! Our map of the week is "Archaeology of Greater London", created by the Museum of London Archaeology

Explore this map, and thousands of crowdsourced records, on the @ihr.bsky.social Layers of London platform: www.layersoflondon.org/map/...

#Archaeology #GLAM #GLAMA #GIS #PGIS #HGIS

02.03.2026 12:38 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

NEXT MONDAY!

Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid.

9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link.

#EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed

02.03.2026 11:50 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 3

Thanks for your question. The session will cover a range of media, including print, radio and digital from two very experienced historians with a background working in the sector.

02.03.2026 10:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Course attendee making a short film

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Thank you everyone who attended Oral History and Digital Storytelling short course at @ihr.bsky.social. It was a very special group of people who made some fascinating and beautiful short films co-creating history and heritage across many cultures.

01.03.2026 21:57 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Launch for Make Cheese not War. Transnational Resistance and the Larzac in modern France

Book launch 2. Andrew Smith's @smidbob.bsky.social ky.social Make Cheese not War. Transnational Resistance and the Larzac in modern France, 9pm, 5.30pm at @ihr.bsky.social in conversation with @alisoncarrol.bsky.social, @vbivar.bsky.social
& Sarah Farmer : www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

02.03.2026 08:24 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
All of the information in the image is available  via the web link.

All of the information in the image is available via the web link.

New free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

27.02.2026 12:03 👍 16 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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IHR Internships IHR Internships support new researchers to develop their skills and broaden their experience within and beyond the historical research community.

We have just launched our IHR 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), focusing on environmental histories. For more information and to apply visit: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3 (application deadline 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST).

27.02.2026 10:30 👍 21 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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The Huguenot Bursary for Historical Research 2026 The purpose of the award is to facilitate the research of the recipient, for example to cover research trips etc.

The Huguenot Bursary is now live ! A bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis. More info: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

26.02.2026 14:00 👍 22 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrest: this isn’t even close to the worst constitutional crisis the monarchy has faced The affair pales in significance beside the abdication crisis of 1936.

An article by Philip Murphy has just been published in @uk.theconversation.com comparing the scandal around Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to earlier crises for the royal family. theconversation.com/andrew-mount...

24.02.2026 16:44 👍 13 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2
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Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain - University of London Press While militaristic and patriotic organisations formed an important part of Edwardian political culture, 1918 often marks a terminus for histories of organised militarism in Britain. Taking the end of ...

👀 Looking ahead at some of the brilliant books we have coming up this year...

Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain by @rowan-thompson.bsky.social, part of our New Historical Perspectives series published with @ihr.bsky.social:

uolpress.co.uk/book/organis...

#Skystorians #History #OpenAccess

19.02.2026 11:26 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 3

We're welcoming Feike Dietz to the #LowCountries seminar @ihr.bsky.social next Friday!

She'll talk about "Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands"

27 FEB, 17:30, in Bloomsbury & on zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

20.02.2026 10:43 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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Re-Membering the Medieval Parliament, 1769-1886

The next @ihr.bsky.social 'Parliaments, Politics & People' seminar looks like a corker.

Sarah Wride (@york.ac.uk & IHR) 'Re-Membering the Medieval Parliament, 1769-1886'

📆 17 March ⏰ 17:30-19:00 @ IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU & online

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

20.02.2026 14:41 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

If you want to hear more about this research I’m speaking @lghgseminar.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social this Tuesday!

If you are in London it would be great to see some familiar faces, or you can join on-line.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

21.02.2026 16:23 👍 26 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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The French Extreme Right in the age of Fascism and National Socialism, 1919–1945

Tonight at the @ihr.bsky.social Modern French History seminar, we have Prof Kevin Passmore speaking on the (sadly timely) topic of 'The French Extreme Right in the age of Fascism and National Socialism, 1919–1945'

🗃️ #skystorians

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

23.02.2026 11:05 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

I'll be talking about the messy and difficult (but fun!) processes for making medieval manuscripts on Wednesday. There will also be guest appearances from cats in my presentation 😺 #bookhistory #medievalsky @ihr.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social

23.02.2026 12:37 👍 41 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
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Online reading lists from BBIH

You can also explore BBIH's free online reading list 'Researching LGBTQ+ histories' buff.ly/XwrPrf5 @brepols.net

20.02.2026 12:02 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of sexuality? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

20.02.2026 12:02 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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19.02.2026 16:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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IHR Bulletin February 2026 Being Human Festival 2026 Applications for Being Human Festival 2026 are now open, taking place from 5 - 14 November 2026, with the theme Crossroads.  Funding grants are available to connect your research...

In case you missed it, the IHR Bulletin for February 2026 is out. Read it here:
mailchi.mp/a115dcbd44a0...

19.02.2026 16:01 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
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Inhuman Reparations

Inhuman Reparations

On 26 February, join the lecture by Kathryn Yusoff @qmul.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/Lw7twBQ

In the framework of @ihr.bsky.social Planetary Histories seminar, co-organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello 👉 loom.ly/I0kI0cg

19.02.2026 13:18 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Make Ready! 🏰 On 3 March, Isobel Barnard from @kingshistory.bsky.social will present: ‘The Castle in 14th Century Scotland: A Sociological Study of Masculine Identity'.

🗓️ 03 March
⏰ 17:30 GMT
🏛️ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 ONLINE

Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval

18.02.2026 10:08 👍 21 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 4