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Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 5d

Fantastic resource for 18thC historians!

Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 5d

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

London Lives

www.londonlives.org

Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 5d

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

London Lives

www.londonlives.org

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 19d

JOB for historian in Scotland. NB Closing date = 31 October @standrewshist.bsky.social

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19d

Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.

Vacancy: Legacy of Slavery Research Project Officer - The Scottish Episcopal Church

Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade)Contract: Fixed term for 12 months Hours: Fulltime, 35 hours a week (.8 FTE or 28 hours will also be considered). Some occasional evening or weekend ...

www.scotland.anglican.org

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 19d

It's 10 years since the Open Library of Humanities published its first article. Since then, OLH has published 13,000 open access scholarly articles which have been downloaded over 8 million times.

This excellent editorial by Rose looks back at that decade.

olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Editorial Freedom in Academic Publishing: On the First Decade of the Open Library of Humanities

This editorial commemorates the tenth anniversary of diamond open access journal publisher the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and its flagship journal, the Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ)....

olh.openlibhums.org

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19d

Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.

Vacancy: Legacy of Slavery Research Project Officer - The Scottish Episcopal Church

Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade)Contract: Fixed term for 12 months Hours: Fulltime, 35 hours a week (.8 FTE or 28 hours will also be considered). Some occasional evening or weekend ...

www.scotland.anglican.org

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 24d

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Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 24d

Any early-modern Scottish #skystorians? re monarchs and popes: BBC says 'first British', Guardian says 'first reigning English' monarch to pray with the Pope ('in the last 500 years', 'since the Reformation' or 'since 1534'). Does the distinction matter? Did James V or MaryQS pray with the Pope?

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 24d

Any early-modern Scottish #skystorians? re monarchs and popes: BBC says 'first British', Guardian says 'first reigning English' monarch to pray with the Pope ('in the last 500 years', 'since the Reformation' or 'since 1534'). Does the distinction matter? Did James V or MaryQS pray with the Pope?

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 25d

Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · 26d

I've recently finished a 2-yr Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (though I wish I'd asked for 3yrs). And my uni did hire a person for the full 2yrs. I think Leverhulme would have complained otherwise...

Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 28d

Free workshop on ‘Using historical census data for research’, 23 October www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Using historic UK census data for research

www.sas.ac.uk

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Oct 6

The RHS is a membership organisation of 6500+ historians. We welcome applications to join us at any time. Our next closing dates are 13 October and 15 December.

We offer categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research, from Postgraduate to Fellow: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians

Closing dates for next application rounds:
Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025

The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 29

If you'll take a science example... Royal Society journals: backlist 1665-1950 is free, but 1950-1996 is paywalled. The most recent stuff is either diamondOA or hybrid-moving-to-Subscribe-to-Open, depending on which journal. royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstl...

Journals Archive | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

royalsocietypublishing.org

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 19

You've got to love #openaccess for books (if you can fund it). Now ~19,000 downloads for A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015. Unbelievable figures, compared to traditional academic book publishing! From @uclpress.bsky.social or www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · Sep 17

Died #OnThisDay 1877 William Henry Fox Talbot. Best known as the pioneer of photography, he was also briefly MP for Chippenham, 1832-5, but stepped down to concentrate on his scientific interests. There’s more on him in our short article: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/w...

William Fox Talbot MP: the inventor of photography

The inventor of photography William Fox Talbot died one hundred and thirty-five years ago today. A man of many talents, Talbot made distinguished contributions to maths, physics, botany, archaeolog…

victoriancommons.wordpress.com

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 17

Exciting early-career fellowships with UK cultural institutions, funded by #AHRC, www.ukri.org/opportunity/... (look for the spreadsheet with the list of institutions!) Deadline for EoI: 10 December.

Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025

Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.

www.ukri.org

BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · Sep 17

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the Hughes Prize 2025! Check out these four highly intriguing books from different corners of the history of STEM, all of them perfect reads for non-experts. Accessible to broader audiences, they will take you to unexpected places and times!
🧵

Banner with "shortlist" and the four book covers

Dr Katy Barrett @spoonsontrays.bsky.social · Sep 16

This is a great PhD opportunity for someone! I was lucky to do some work on Sarah Sophia’s coin collection in early days www.bl.uk/services/res...

Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships research theme 3

Research theme 3 for the CDP 2026/27 cohort is Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks

www.bl.uk

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

Another @vchlondon.bsky.social woman with a St Andrews connection is Ann Kettle (several decades later...) women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/10/19/a...

Ann Kettle

Ann Kettle lectured in the Department of Mediaeval History at St Andrews for more than forty years. In addition to her teaching and research, she held various administrative posts in the university…

women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

I'm just starting a new student-led project focusing on St Andrews students 1898-1948 (including LLAs, and women degree graduates), so all info gratefully received!

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

Thank you! I'm particularly intrigued by the colonial connections of two of those names... One of my other projects was legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk - section 7 of the report examines students who came from or went to British colonies, but we struggled to get much career info for LLAs

St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire – St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire project

legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ooh, thanks for that!

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 15

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…

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Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

My current favourite stories - for two contrasting experiences of women historians from the interwar period - are those of Caroline Doris Ketelbey MA and Edith MacQueen PhD. See women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2021/03/22/e... and women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/04/05/d...

Edith MacQueen PhD (1900-1977)

Edith Edgar MacQueen (1900-1977) MA 1922, PhD 1927 (later Mrs Haden-Guest, later Lady Haden-Guest) Edith MacQueen appears to have been the first woman historian to be awarded a Ph.D. in History by …

women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

1889 Universities (Scotland) Act affected all the Scottish universities. Lots of clauses, implemented over the next few years, including the admission of women in 1892. (And new faculties and degree programmes, e.g. Honours degree in History)

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

Anybody wanting to trace students at St Andrews pre-1897 (but not LLA women, unless they later did a degree - sorry) can look them up here: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical...

Biographical Register 1579-1897

arts.st-andrews.ac.uk

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

The Uni archives will have details of which subjects they took in their LLAs, and some basic details from when they registered (e.g. address). Whethere there is more info... It depends! Ask my archives colleagues on unicolls@st-andrews.ac.uk

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

Do visit! standrewsmuseum.com

Home - St Andrews Heritage Museum & Gardens

St Andrews Heritage Museum and Garden is set in a 17th century fisherfolk house, one of the earliest domestic dwellings in the area.

standrewsmuseum.com

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

Lovely event in #StAndrews yesterday - the reopening of the Heritage Museum on North Street. Local history (toy shop!) blended with an awareness of the wider world (medieval European connections; the colonial trade in sugar; Italian, Polish and Ukrainian migrants...)

Museums Galleries Scotland @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk · Sep 14

St Andrews Heritage Museum is reopening today after a major redevelopment. Congrats to the museum team for all their work; the results are fantastic! 🎉
We're pleased to have supported the redevelopment by providing funding towards staff costs, object conservation and the refurbishment of their roof.

A group of 8 adults posing for a photo in front of a stone building.

A museum gallery with white walls and a wooden first-floor balcony. Models of medieval stone buildings are displayed on a plinth in the middle of the gallery.

Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Sep 15

The story of one (Scottish) university: admission of women students, 1892; first women graduates in History, 1903; woman PhD in History, 1927; woman lecturer in History, 1935;.... first woman professor of History, 2009. We've been exploring the women before 2009: women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Women Historians of St Andrews

Women Historians in St Andrews research project

women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · Sep 14

More detail on the three winners of the @bshsnews.bsky.social Exhibiting Excellence Prize for #histSTM exhibitions 📜 www.bshs.org.uk/bshs-exhibit...

BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 Winners Announced

BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 Winners Announced The Exhibiting Excellence Prize recognises excellence in public exhibitions that address topics in the history of science, history of technolog...

www.bshs.org.uk

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