Becca Palmer
@beccapalmer99.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @UCL | History of ideas, print culture, & the American Revolution | Seminar convenor at the IHR
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*DEADLINE EXTENDED* for both conferences, please apply by 28 February 2026.
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The next IHR Early Career Seminar will be taking place this Wednesday! Sam Phoenix Clarke from Cambridge will be talking to us about 'Understanding the history of science as political thought: the case of Britain, 1931-1956'. Remember to sign up if you're coming!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Understanding the history of science as political thought: the case of Britain, 1931-1956
www.history.ac.uk
January 26, 2026 at 9:16 AM
The next IHR Early Career Seminar will be taking place this Wednesday! Sam Phoenix Clarke from Cambridge will be talking to us about 'Understanding the history of science as political thought: the case of Britain, 1931-1956'. Remember to sign up if you're coming!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
*DEADLINE EXTENDED* for both conferences, please apply by 28 February 2026.
January 26, 2026 at 9:19 AM
*DEADLINE EXTENDED* for both conferences, please apply by 28 February 2026.
Another conference I’m helping to organise - please consider applying if you’re an MA/PhD student working on HPT (broadly conceived)!
The CfP for this year's London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought is now live! The theme is 'Vice, Corruption, and Decay', and it will be held at UCL on 11-12th June 2026. Abstracts due 1 March. All graduate students welcome!
January 23, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Another conference I’m helping to organise - please consider applying if you’re an MA/PhD student working on HPT (broadly conceived)!
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Born #otd in Boston, Massachusetts, 320 years ago, Benjamin Franklin, polymath, printer, scientist, diplomat, writer & US Founding Father. For those in central London wanting to celebrate, a visit to @benfranklinhouse.bsky.social, where he lived, wrote and experimented for years, is inspirational.
January 17, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Born #otd in Boston, Massachusetts, 320 years ago, Benjamin Franklin, polymath, printer, scientist, diplomat, writer & US Founding Father. For those in central London wanting to celebrate, a visit to @benfranklinhouse.bsky.social, where he lived, wrote and experimented for years, is inspirational.
I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳
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Common Sense wasn't a hit with British audiences, but that didn't mean no-one here was down for revolution.
Thomas Paine, Englishman
The American Revolution was an event in British history. Remembering the English roots of revolutionaries like Paine helps put the story in its transatlantic frame.
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January 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Common Sense wasn't a hit with British audiences, but that didn't mean no-one here was down for revolution.
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CFP: OXFORD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY!
Welcoming submissions in any area of political theory—including critical theory, analytic political philosophy, and the history of political thought.
Submit by 31 January: forms.gle/v6Zv1cH7a6Da...
Welcoming submissions in any area of political theory—including critical theory, analytic political philosophy, and the history of political thought.
Submit by 31 January: forms.gle/v6Zv1cH7a6Da...
January 5, 2026 at 5:39 PM
CFP: OXFORD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY!
Welcoming submissions in any area of political theory—including critical theory, analytic political philosophy, and the history of political thought.
Submit by 31 January: forms.gle/v6Zv1cH7a6Da...
Welcoming submissions in any area of political theory—including critical theory, analytic political philosophy, and the history of political thought.
Submit by 31 January: forms.gle/v6Zv1cH7a6Da...
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Looking for a New Year's resolution that is good for your mind and (relatively) easy to keep? Check out the Institute of Historical Research seminars for January 2026. Fourteen seminars in week 1 alone. Free, broad-ranging, open to the public and usually available both in person and online.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Looking for a New Year's resolution that is good for your mind and (relatively) easy to keep? Check out the Institute of Historical Research seminars for January 2026. Fourteen seminars in week 1 alone. Free, broad-ranging, open to the public and usually available both in person and online.
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My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
Thoroughly enjoyed dipping my toes into the waters of the body politic - looking forward to more research in the future! Thanks to everyone for such inspiring discussions.
This was a great coming together to discuss bodies, politic, physical, and otherwise, in republican political thought. These reflections by @rhammersley99.bsky.social offer details on the talks and discussion! @beccapalmer99.bsky.social
The notion of an ailing body politic feels sadly relevant today. My November blogpost reflects on a workshop held in September that explored how the notion of the body politic was deployed by republican writers in the C17 and C18.
www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/10/28/republican-bodies
www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/10/28/republican-bodies
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed dipping my toes into the waters of the body politic - looking forward to more research in the future! Thanks to everyone for such inspiring discussions.
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📢 Call for Contributions 📢
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📢 Call for Contributions 📢
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
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📣 Calling all PGR students, ECRs, & heritage employees: two weeks left to submit your abstract!
With a program of keynote speakers, paper presentations, & 10-minute ‘lightning talks’ to unpack works in progress, we welcome submissions from a range of research interests & disciplinary perspectives.
With a program of keynote speakers, paper presentations, & 10-minute ‘lightning talks’ to unpack works in progress, we welcome submissions from a range of research interests & disciplinary perspectives.
October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
📣 Calling all PGR students, ECRs, & heritage employees: two weeks left to submit your abstract!
With a program of keynote speakers, paper presentations, & 10-minute ‘lightning talks’ to unpack works in progress, we welcome submissions from a range of research interests & disciplinary perspectives.
With a program of keynote speakers, paper presentations, & 10-minute ‘lightning talks’ to unpack works in progress, we welcome submissions from a range of research interests & disciplinary perspectives.
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📢Call for papers!
Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!
Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...
If you have any questions, please email me at supervisor@benjaminfranklinhouse.org.
Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!
Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...
If you have any questions, please email me at supervisor@benjaminfranklinhouse.org.
October 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
📢Call for papers!
Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!
Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...
If you have any questions, please email me at supervisor@benjaminfranklinhouse.org.
Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!
Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...
If you have any questions, please email me at supervisor@benjaminfranklinhouse.org.
A wonderful workshop where I too contributed, this time on metaphors of the body politic in economic debates in colonial Virginia. Really enjoyed listening to the contributions of Tom, Rachel and others!
Last week I spoke on athleticism in seventeenth-century English political thought at "Republican Bodies" @imems.bsky.social (albeit online). This was a stimulating coming together (programme below!) including @beccapalmer99.bsky.social and @rhammersley99.bsky.social. I look forward to its future!
September 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A wonderful workshop where I too contributed, this time on metaphors of the body politic in economic debates in colonial Virginia. Really enjoyed listening to the contributions of Tom, Rachel and others!
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We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed).
The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.
Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.
Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed).
The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.
Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.
Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
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Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
What an amazing conference! Really enjoyed my first BrANCH/BGEAH conference and meeting so many wonderful researchers. Watch this space for more stuff on conspiracy!!
Great weekend attending my first BrANCH conference in Cardiff! A highlight was @beccapalmer99.bsky.social’s paper on Conspiracy in the Revolutionary Era.
September 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What an amazing conference! Really enjoyed my first BrANCH/BGEAH conference and meeting so many wonderful researchers. Watch this space for more stuff on conspiracy!!
Will be at the BGEAH/BrANCH annual conference this weekend in Cardiff if anyone else is there and wants to get coffee! Will be presenting on conspiracy and local politics on Sunday 🥳
September 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Will be at the BGEAH/BrANCH annual conference this weekend in Cardiff if anyone else is there and wants to get coffee! Will be presenting on conspiracy and local politics on Sunday 🥳
Always love seeing online options (even if it’s a little late in the UK) - looks fantastic!
Pencil in a talk by award-winning historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy on Sep. 11 at @AmRevInstitute! Both in-person and virtual registration options available.
Author’s Talk—Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence - The American Revolution Institute
At the time of the American Revolution, the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland and Scotland. The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinces in the British world after the Seven Years’ War. As much as the Revolution was an event in […]
www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Always love seeing online options (even if it’s a little late in the UK) - looks fantastic!
Please do join my fellow committee members at this amazing conference! Whilst I’m away on research, I know it’ll be a fantastic event ✨
We're very pleased to announce the programme for this year's conference on States and Spaces!
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
June 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Please do join my fellow committee members at this amazing conference! Whilst I’m away on research, I know it’ll be a fantastic event ✨
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We're very pleased to announce the programme for this year's conference on States and Spaces!
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
June 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We're very pleased to announce the programme for this year's conference on States and Spaces!
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June.
Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...
Had a great time @mhs1791.bsky.social yesterday examining the MA Baptist Church’s origins. Such an amazing archive that I’ve had to book another appointment! James Winchell’s 1820 history includes a familiar echo of the ongoing complex relationship with the founders at the top of the page…
May 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Had a great time @mhs1791.bsky.social yesterday examining the MA Baptist Church’s origins. Such an amazing archive that I’ve had to book another appointment! James Winchell’s 1820 history includes a familiar echo of the ongoing complex relationship with the founders at the top of the page…
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Give Ben Franklin’s World a follow for all things early America. A fantastic podcast hosted expertly by @lizcovart.bsky.social.
What did politics look like after the Revolution? 🗳️
In Ep. 393 of Ben Franklin’s World, we explore how everyday Americans shaped political culture in the new republic.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/393
#VastEarlyAmerica #History #EarlyRepublic #Politics #USHistory
In Ep. 393 of Ben Franklin’s World, we explore how everyday Americans shaped political culture in the new republic.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/393
#VastEarlyAmerica #History #EarlyRepublic #Politics #USHistory
Episode 393: Jonathan Gienapp and Rachel Shelden, Politics and Political Culture in the Early American Republic
Jonathan Gienapp and Rachel Shelden talk about early American political culture and political civility in the early American republic.
benfranklinsworld.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Give Ben Franklin’s World a follow for all things early America. A fantastic podcast hosted expertly by @lizcovart.bsky.social.
What a fantastic conference! It was an honour to present among such distinguished speakers.
Part 2 of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration is now online on
@standrewsiih.bsky.social YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Q3...
@standrewsiih.bsky.social YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Q3...
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought: 20th Anniversary Publication Celebration (Part 2)
YouTube video by StAndrewsIIH
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March 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
What a fantastic conference! It was an honour to present among such distinguished speakers.
Last chance to apply!
We've extended our deadline until Monday 24th March for anyone that needed a little extra time!
We're delighted to share our Call for Papers for the 16th London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought, on the theme of ‘States and Spaces' (19th-20th June, LSE). Deadline for submissions is 14 March! For more details: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...
March 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Last chance to apply!