Congratulations, Sara. Can’t wait to read your research!
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Congratulations, Sara. Can’t wait to read your research!
You can also explore BBIH's free online reading list 'Researching women's histories' buff.ly/XwrPrf5 @brepols.net
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
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
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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.
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-...
📢 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
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
Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration.
More info and book here: tinyurl.com/29nn4z33
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#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
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
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.
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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.
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/...
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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/...
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).
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-...
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...
👀 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
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
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/...
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/...
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/...
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
You can also explore BBIH's free online reading list 'Researching LGBTQ+ histories' buff.ly/XwrPrf5 @brepols.net
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
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In case you missed it, the IHR Bulletin for February 2026 is out. Read it here:
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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
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
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