📣 Call for submissions: Singer Prize 2026
Submit your unpublished essay (< 10 000 words), based
on original research into any aspect of #HistSTM!
🎓 Eligibility: current postgraduates or awarded a PG degree within the past 5 years
📅 Deadline: 30 April
ℹ️ Learn more:
@drcamillam.bsky.social
CFP for 5-minute lightening talk proposals (due 13 March) for the IHR's British History in the Long 18th Century seminar is now live. Come introduce your PhD project to an enthusiastic group of fellow historians. Contact Brendan Tam (brendan.tam@warwick.ac.uk ) for more details. #Skystorians
Applications open to our scholarship to study the history of science and/or technology with us at MA and PHD-level. Get in touch with a prospective supervisor to discuss your proposal.
More about how to apply, what we offer and deadlines in the link tinyurl.com/mw84w7py
#histsci #histtech #histstm
Video and audio recordings are now available of the Society's latest lecture (6 February):
‘Alike in Appearance but not in Scope’: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe' with Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) bit.ly/46j42f5
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians
Join us for a keynote by Pamela H. Smith (Columbia) on “Tech Utopias Then and Now”!
📆 5.3. | 🕕 6pm GMT | 📍Pushkin House/Zoom
It is part of the workshop “Christianopolis: Re-Reading a Seventeenth Century German Utopia” organised by @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social (GHIL) and Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge).
Join us for the 6th Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture!
Taking place at Gresham College, historian Professor Mary Fulbrook will discuss experiences of hiding and help during the Holocaust, highlighting the significance of surrounding societies for the survival of Jews
Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting & the Invention of Rare Books
25 Feb 6-8pm @artshumsucl.bsky.social
Prof Emma Smith will examine the library of Glasgow merchant Richard Oswald (c.1705–84), in light of his vast profits from the transatlantic slave trade.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.
Are you interested in joining our team? scottishhistoricalreview.org/news/express...
Opening page of new Transactions article; 'Show me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources', by Ruth Ahnert, Katherine McDonough and Daniel C. S. Wilson. Full abstract: 'This comment examines the rapidly evolving ecosystem of historical research data in the United Kingdom, where cultural heritage collections are increasingly digitised, commercialised and fragmented. Historians face growing challenges in discovering, accessing and reusing data as resources move behind paywalls, and repositories remain scattered, without a national infrastructure to ensure long-term preservation or discoverability. Drawing on examples from major digital initiatives, we analyse the life cycle of historical research data and highlight the complex interplay of commercial, institutional and scholarly interests that shape access. We distinguish three types of data that emerge from historians’ typical engagements with digitised collections: derived, enhanced and aggregated data. We argue that historians must actively participate in the practices relating to the creation, maintenance and reuse of such data. This will involve new forms of citation, favouring open datasets, improving digital skills and building communities around shared resources. The comment concludes with proposals to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse, urging the discipline to establish common standards and infrastructures to secure an equitable data commons for future research.'
New in Transactions: 'Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources', by @ruthahnert.bsky.social, Katherine McDonough & @danielwilson.bsky.social: bit.ly/460nrkM
As the ecosystem of historical research data expands, how do we keep control of source materials, esp digital? #Skystorians 1/2
Poster for "Coding Codices Live: Medieval March." Four Events in March 2026.
The Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee invites you to Coding Codices Live: Medieval March - a series of beginner-friendly workshops to help you start using digital methods with medieval sources.
Open to MA students, PhDs & early-career researchers.
🗓️ Register by Feb 23
🔗 lnkd.in/dbJS2YhE
Flyer for lecture with Professor David Stack on the subject of 'History and Well-Being. A Historian's Perspective', Sheffield Hallam University, 5.45pm on Wednesday 18 February 2026. All are welcome to attend.
Next Wednesday, the Society visits historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield.
Our visit closes (5.45pm) with a guest lecture by Prof David Stack (Reading) on 'History and Well-Being: a Historian's Perspective' bit.ly/4aa4Yoe
Open to all and followed by a reception.
150 years ago today (Feb. 14, 1876), Alexander Graham Bell & Elisha Gray both tried to patent inventions that would transmit sounds over long distances.
Read about the priority dispute surrounding the invention of the #telephone. (HT @librarycongress.bsky.social) 🗃️📜☎️
#OnThisDay #histSTM #histtech
Social Survey in Global Perspective available from Berghahn next month: ftp.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...
'An immensely readable and interesting discussion of the history of social surveys across the globe' says Matt Dawson (Glasgow)
#STS #histsci #histstm
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
⏰ Deadline tomorrow!
Submit your nomination for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026—open to outstanding scholarly books in the history of science.
Anyone may nominate, including self-nominations.
Form available on the BSHS website. www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
⏰ One week left to nominate for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026!
We welcome nominations for outstanding scholarly books in the history of science.
Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Details & submission form on the BSHS website:
The text '2025 highlights. At our symposium, (Re)Discovering Natural History, archivists, curators & artists shared ways to tell stories in special collections.' surrounds an image of a woman wearing glasses and a headscarf, smiling.
Sharing natural history collections through unusual sights, sounds and even smells was the theme of our symposium in February.
In collaboration with @qmul.bsky.social and @bshsnews.bsky.social, the event explored new ways of (Re)Discovering Natural History.
Unfortunately, Eventbrite seems to be unsocial in general this evening :(
We have noticed that Eventbrite is experiencing some technical issues. To anyone unable to join Bergland’s lecture: If you would like to receive the link, please e-mail us at web@bshs.org.uk and we will send you the link.
We also aim to make the lecture accessible afterwards.
Apologies for the inconvenience! I'll send you the link. Anyone else having issues joining us, please send an email to web@bshs.org.uk, and we will send you the link.
Starting in 2 minutes!
Tonight’s the night!
Renée Bergland’s online lecture on Natural Magic begins at 6:30pm GMT.
Free event on Zoom—register via Eventbrite to receive the link and join us for an evening of poetry, science, and 19th-century “natural magic.” ✨ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-ma...
Happening tomorrow! Don't miss Renée Bergland's online lecture on her Hughes Prize–winning book Natural Magic at 6:30pm GMT.
Join us for a fascinating look at Dickinson, Darwin, and 19th-century imagination.
Register via Eventbrite for the Zoom link. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-ma...
We did it — 100 Eventbrite tickets gone in no time! 🎉
We’ve added more, so feel free to snag your free ticket. We can’t wait to see you next week!
IALS is inviting applications for a practitioner in residence for the academic year 2025-26.
We would be especially interested in proposals that respond to the building, its past and potential futures.
Full details here 👇
ials.sas.ac.uk/news/call-pr...
#LawAndCreativity
Are you studying, researching or teaching histories of the British Empire or Commonwealth? 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
A poster advertising the By-Fellowships and Research Grants offered by Churchill Archives Centre. The text included on this image can be found at the link in the main post.
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
Finally, the recording has landed! If you missed @jontopham.bsky.social's inaugural lecture on "Science and religion from the ground up" back in April, you can now catch up online at mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Pl.... @bshsnews.bsky.social @leedsprhs.bsky.social
Maybe one for the @vch-home.bsky.social. Can you help @adamchapman.bsky.social?
