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[Not loaded yet] - Calling all UCL History alumni! 📣 Share your memories of student life at UCL History as part of our bicentenary photo competition! 📸 Up to 3 photos 🏆 Winner announced 5 March 2026 👉 Submit here: tinyurl.com/4bt9dm3n
- As UCL marks its 2026 Bicentenary, we invite colleagues, students, alumni and history enthusiasts to a special roundtable on Commemorations, Memory, and the Many Pasts 💬 📅 05 March 2026 ⏰ 18:00–20:30 📍 All welcome 👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/3pDEC 👈
- The Tassi Graduate Scholarship in Ancient Greek History at UCL 🏛️📚 A fully funded 3-year PhD opportunity (including home fees + annual stipend) starting October 2026, supported by a generous private donation. Deadline: 19 January 2026 👉 shorturl.at/3YcIf 👈
- The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) is excited to announce 3 new roles on our groundbreaking Valuable Lives project! 🔍 Open roles: • 2 x Research Assistant (Digital Humanities) • 1 x Research Fellow (Digital Humanities) 🗓 Closing date: 23 Jan 2026 shorturl.at/OCpLP
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- Thinking of doing a History PhD at UCL? 📚🎓 There are several funded scholarship opportunities available 💼✨ Deadline: 9 January 2026 ⏳ Find out more via our PhD funding page: shorturl.at/dQzHW
- Huge congratulations to Chloe L. Ireton (Associate Professor of the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500-1800), whose monograph Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic has earned an Honorable Mention from the Sixteenth Century Society! 📚👏 shorturl.at/WZKQJ
- Now open: The Tassi Graduate Scholarship in Ancient Greek History at UCL - a fully funded 3-year PhD opportunity starting Oct 2026 🏛️📚 Applications due 19 Jan 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Join us for A Public Conversation with Dorothy Berry - archivist, writer, and author of The House Archives Built. 🗓 Dec 3 | ⏰ 5:30–7:30pm 📍 IAS Common Ground, Gower St Explore how archives shape history, identity, and Black cultural memory. 🔗 shorturl.at/5lUOO #UCL #DorothyBerry #BlackHistory
- Congratulations to Berry Pillot de Chenecey (MA Public History) for winning the Pollard Prize 2025 by the Institute of Historical Research! 🏆 Her paper on children’s play during WWII has also earned her an offer of publication with Historical Research (Oxford University Press) 📖 shorturl.at/2qw2N
- 🌍 New from Anthropocene Vernaculars: @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social's 'Koutarcano: An Exercise in the Historic Present' explores Wendat history, language, and the Anthropocene at Crawford Lake. 🔗 shorturl.at/6UyCn
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- Last night, Professor Jason Peacey delivered a truly magisterial Annual Holden Lecture at Senate House! ✨ His talk, Tickets and Trifles: Ephemeral Print and Restoration England, revealed how the most fleeting historical documents can offer the deepest insights into our past. 📜
- 🌍 Black History Month 2025: Ever wondered what Port Royal, Jamaica, was like through the eyes of the enslaved? Prof. Matthew J. Smith’s New World Royalists has the story 📜✨ 👉https://shorturl.at/MEDKk👈
- Many congratulations to our very own Patrick Lantschner on the publication of The Cambridge Urban History of Europe! 🎉 Patrick co-edited the medieval and early modern volume of this three-volume project which has involved more than 120 authors from across the globe 📚✨ 👉https://shorturl.at/1XA6u👈
- 🎓 Holden Lecture 2025 📜 Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print in Restoration England 🗓️ Thurs 30 Oct, 6pm 📍 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, London Join Prof. Jason Peacey as he reveals how fleeting print shaped Restoration history. 👉 Learn more & book: shorturl.at/EEKa1
- Reposted by UCL HistoryDon't miss this year's Holden Lecture by Prof Jason Peacey at Senate House Library, University of London, 30 October at 6PM. It's inspired by Senate House Library's Spineless Wonders Exhibition. 1/2 @uclhistory.bsky.social
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- Reposted by UCL HistoryNew on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928" by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
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- We’re honoured to welcome renowned journalist and SOAS President Zeinab Badawi for the launch of the new African History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research✨ 🗓️ 14 Oct 2025 🕠 5:30–7:30 pm 📍 Hybrid: Zoom & Senate House, London All welcome and free, register here: shorturl.at/vyAMN
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- 🏏 Windrush Cricket by Dr Michael Collins — OUT NOW from @oxunipress.bsky.social! Imperial culture, Caribbean migration & the remaking of postwar England. 📘 Get your copy: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 💸 Use code AUFLY30 for hardback at £21.00! #Cricket #Caribbean #Empire #decolonisation #Britain
- 🌍 Professor Pat Hudson’s lecture was a powerful reminder: modern finance has roots in slavery and colonialism. Building on Aaron Graham’s work, she showed how 18th-century profits shaped the world we live in now. 🎥Watch the full lecture! www.youtube.com/watch?v=poTk...
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- Dr Jagjeet Lally, Associate Professor of the History of Early Modern and Colonial India, joins the latest episode of You’re Dead to Me - the comedy podcast that takes history seriously! 🎧Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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- 🖼️ Could museums be more transparent? 🕵️♀️ Dr Eva Miller dives into the practices of collecting, curating, and labelling at the Ashmolean Museum. 🔍 A must-read for anyone curious about what happens behind the glass.
- 🚨 Fellowship Opportunities at UCL History 🚨 Are you an early career researcher ready to take the next step? ⭐ Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships (2025–26) Deadline: 4pm, Mon 6 Oct 2025 ⭐British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Deadline: Mon 8 Sept 2025 👉 Apply here: shorturl.at/r1f9Q
- 📜 New World Royalists is a new digital humanities project from CSLBS, exploring 19th-century Port Royal Parish, Jamaica. Through three creatively reconstructed stories, it sheds light on Black lives during and after British slavery. 👉 Step into the past right here: shorturl.at/hO3dH
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- 🎉 Congratulations to Dr Yağmur Heffron on being awarded a prestigious research grant by the Gerald Averay Wainwright Fund for Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Oxford! This support will further archaeological fieldwork at the remarkable site of Uşaklı Höyük in Türkiye: shorturl.at/SygYV
- 📢 Fully funded 4-year #PhD: The Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery & Reparations 🌍✊ 🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork. 🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July 📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term 🔗 shorturl.at/1KZvV
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- 📚 Sacred Wars? Religion, Violence & Cold War Politics 🔥✝️ Join us for a seminar on the entanglement of religion, ideology, and violence in Cold War-era Mexico and Colombia. 📍 Hybrid 📅 12 June 2025 | 5:30–7:00PM 🎙️ Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (UCC & UCL History) Free & open to all: shorturl.at/WwPCk
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- 🎓 London calling! Study at a top-10 QS uni in the heart of Bloomsbury. Visa students: just over a month left to apply for a Master’s at UCL History! 🌍 Culture, Economy, Empires, Environment, Modern, Medieval, Ancient & Public History! Apply now 👉 shorturl.at/13nVr #UCL #History #Masters
- We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus John North, a distinguished scholar and beloved colleague. His legacy lives on through his work and all those he inspired ✨ Memorial details to follow: shorturl.at/utKSb
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- UCL History invites you to this year's roundtable discussion on Histories of Work in a Global Perspective 🎤 📆: 13 May 2025, 17:30-20:00 📍: LG04, 26 Bedford Way (followed by reception) 🌟All welcome🌟 👉Book your free place here: shorturl.at/XVC7O
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- 🌟Congratulations to Rebecca Jennings on her Professorship! 🌟 She marked this incredible achievement with an inspiring inaugural lecture: "I simply rejected femaleness": Diana Chapman’s Narratives of Gendered and Sexual Selfhood in Mid-20th Century Britain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_bJ...
- 📢 We're hiring! The Department of History is seeking a Lecturer in Digital History 📚✨ 📍 London | 💼 Permanent | 💰 £52,762-£62,035 🔎 Expertise: Any period/region + digital methods (e.g. data viz, computational analysis, GIS) Apply by 7 April: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...
- This year’s Neale Lecture welcomed Professor Jo Van Steenbergen from Ghent University, exploring “The enslavement of Middle Eastern history: Politics, historiography, ideology, and the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo (13th–16th centuries).” 💬 📺 Watch the full lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqtO...
- 🎉 Congratulations to @berrypillot.bsky.social, our Public History MA student, for winning the 2024 Batman Prize with her outstanding undergraduate dissertation at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 🏆 👉 Read about Berry's award winning dissertation here: shorturl.at/kUAZr
- 📢 Hiring: Lecturer in Middle Eastern History! 🌟 Join our vibrant team, specializing in political, intellectual, global, & gender histories. Seeking a scholar to expand into environmental, social, economic, or cultural fields (1600 CE+). 👉Apply by 11 April 2025: shorturl.at/4CsjG
- 📢 Join us for UCL History’s annual Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture with Prof Pat Hudson on "Caribbean Investment and the Financialisation of the British Economy in the Eighteenth Century." 📅 10 June 2025, 5:30 pm 📍 Location: G6 Archaeology Lecture Theatre 👉 Open to all, book here: shorturl.at/BJcKo
- The UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship has reopened for applications - deadline: 30 April 2025! 📣 This scholarship supports BAME postgraduate research students at UCL, covering full tuition fees and providing a maintenance stipend for up to 3 years ✨ 👉 Find out more and apply: shorturl.at/uCHqO
- 🌟 Join us on 11 March 2025 at 6:30pm to celebrate the professorship of Rebecca Jennings, Professor of Modern Gender History at UCL! 🌟 🎤‘‘I simply rejected femaleness’: Diana Chapman’s Narratives of Gendered and Sexual Selfhood in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain.’ 🎟️Book here: shorturl.at/VDtDn
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- Join us for a special screening of rare silent films on classical antiquity at the quirky Cinema Museum in Kennington and 19 March, 7:30pm ✨🎬 Step back in time with early cinema's fascinating take on ancient Greece and Rome! 🎟️£8: pay at the door or via shorturl.at/eXDyr
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- Join us for an evening with Professor Dame Sonia Boyce, award-winning artist & academic, as she presents “Crop Over: A Talk” - exploring Caribbean carnival traditions, resistance, and legacies of British slavery 💬 🌟Open to all🌟 👉Register here: shorturl.at/0p4cZ%F0%9F%...
- We’re accepting applications for a Collaborative Doctoral Award on Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in Early Modern England & France – starting Oct 2025! 📖👹 💰 £21,237 stipend (+£600 top-up) 📅 Deadline: 5pm, 26 Feb 2025 Find our more and apply: shorturl.at/Wp543
- 📢 We’re hiring! Join us as a Lecturer in Ancient History at UCL. 📍 London (Hybrid) | 💼 Full Time, Permanent 💷 £52,487 - £61,534 (Grade 8) ⏰ Apply by 24 Feb 2025 | 📅 Interviews: W/B 24 March 🔗 Find out more & apply: shorturl.at/1ArDm #AcademicJobs #History #Lecturer #RomanHistory #HigherEd
- Dr Fabian Krautwald has recently published a short article for the American-German Institute on the nearing conclusion of the 'reconciliation agreement' between Namibia and Germany about the genocide of 1904-1908 against the Herero and Nama 📖 americangerman.institute/2025/01/a-ze...
- Exciting news! 🎉 Prof John Sabapathy joins The English Historical Review (EHR) as an editor! As the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world, EHR has shaped the field since 1886, recently celebrating its 600th issue. Congratulations @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social ! 👏📖
- A great evening celebrating the launch of 'Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century' by José Lingna Nafafé 📖✨ Thank you to José, Michael Pope & Hélène Neveu Kringelbach for an insightful discussion on history, resistance & new perspectives 💬
- Reposted by UCL HistoryGet in touch with me if you are an non-UK early career researcher and would like to apply with @uclhistory.bsky.social to this excellent scheme @britishacademy.bsky.social.
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