Northumbria History
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- Reposted by Northumbria HistoryIt'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...
- Our FREE ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20th January 2026 will now be a fully virtual event. Come and join us and our fantastic speakers, all welcome. #Archives #History #MaritalBreakdown #Divorce #DomesticAbuse #ChildWelfare #ChildCustody #PolicyReform #Policy #England #Wales
- Reposted by Northumbria HistoryNorthumbria 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 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
- Reposted by Northumbria HistoryLooking 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...
- 📃 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). www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
- Reposted by Northumbria HistoryI 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...
- Reposted by Northumbria History🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ 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... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
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- 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...
- 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...
- Reposted by Northumbria HistoryJOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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- 📖 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...
- "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...
- Reposted by Northumbria History📣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
- 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!
- 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).
- 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).
- Reposted by Northumbria HistoryCongratulations to our colleague @elsadevienne.bsky.social on winning this year's W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association! 🍾🏆⛱️
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- 📖 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...
- Reposted by Northumbria History#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...
- Reposted by Northumbria History#History #SkyStorians #History&IR Still time to register for this great event at @northumbriahistory.bsky.social on global issues and local action, past & present
- Reposted by Northumbria History📢 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 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal... ✨Apply today!
- Reposted by Northumbria HistoryAN #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.
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