BrANCH
@branchuk.bsky.social
Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
We welcome members from the UK, US & beyond
Affiliated with American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH)
Find out more about us: https://www.branch.org.uk/
We welcome members from the UK, US & beyond
Affiliated with American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH)
Find out more about us: https://www.branch.org.uk/
A Very Happy 2026 🥳
The 19th Century might have moved back another year in the past, but its relevance to the present has only grown!
Good luck to everybody’s research projects and life goals in the upcoming year!!!
The 19th Century might have moved back another year in the past, but its relevance to the present has only grown!
Good luck to everybody’s research projects and life goals in the upcoming year!!!
January 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
A Very Happy 2026 🥳
The 19th Century might have moved back another year in the past, but its relevance to the present has only grown!
Good luck to everybody’s research projects and life goals in the upcoming year!!!
The 19th Century might have moved back another year in the past, but its relevance to the present has only grown!
Good luck to everybody’s research projects and life goals in the upcoming year!!!
Sounds like a wonderful four-volume collection of documents and commentary that will be of great interest to the BrANCH community and beyond!
Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social
Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social
American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775–1919
This four-volume collection brings together a diverse array of primary sources that help contextualise the impacts of American imperialism across the long nineteenth century. These fascinating volumes...
www.routledge.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sounds like a wonderful four-volume collection of documents and commentary that will be of great interest to the BrANCH community and beyond!
Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social
Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social
Are you a PGR or ECR planning to travel for a conference or an archive on research into 19th century American history? 🇺🇸📖💡
BrANCH welcomes applications for the next round of Peter Parish travel grants (up to £1000)!
Deadline to apply: January 7, 2026
www.branch.org.uk/parish-trave...
BrANCH welcomes applications for the next round of Peter Parish travel grants (up to £1000)!
Deadline to apply: January 7, 2026
www.branch.org.uk/parish-trave...
Parish Travel Grants — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Are you a PGR or ECR planning to travel for a conference or an archive on research into 19th century American history? 🇺🇸📖💡
BrANCH welcomes applications for the next round of Peter Parish travel grants (up to £1000)!
Deadline to apply: January 7, 2026
www.branch.org.uk/parish-trave...
BrANCH welcomes applications for the next round of Peter Parish travel grants (up to £1000)!
Deadline to apply: January 7, 2026
www.branch.org.uk/parish-trave...
✅ Rare experience to study at the world-class Kinder Institute in Missouri
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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The deadline to submit a proposal for BAAS Annual Conference 2026 has been extended to Wednesday, 10th December. There's still time to submit and join us in Glasgow in 2026. Full details on the page below.
baas.ac.uk/conferences/...
#BAAS #AMStudies #AmericanStudies
baas.ac.uk/conferences/...
#BAAS #AMStudies #AmericanStudies
BAAS 2026 - University of Glasgow 9-11 April 2026 - British Association for American Studies
BAAS Annual Conference 2026 Call for Papers The College of Arts & Humanities and Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow are delighted to invite submissions for the 71st a...
baas.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The deadline to submit a proposal for BAAS Annual Conference 2026 has been extended to Wednesday, 10th December. There's still time to submit and join us in Glasgow in 2026. Full details on the page below.
baas.ac.uk/conferences/...
#BAAS #AMStudies #AmericanStudies
baas.ac.uk/conferences/...
#BAAS #AMStudies #AmericanStudies
I nice opportunity from our friend @scotamstudies.bsky.social
Deadline for submissions is this Friday!
Deadline for submissions is this Friday!
Join us in lovely Inverness for our annual conference on March 7, 2026. CFP and essay prize submissions due December 5! www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I nice opportunity from our friend @scotamstudies.bsky.social
Deadline for submissions is this Friday!
Deadline for submissions is this Friday!
Who knew!?!
A lot to admire about the wild turkey: “Despite their weight, wild turkeys, unlike their domesticated counterparts, are agile, fast fliers [and] have many calls: assembly call, gobble, plain yelp, purr, cluck and purr, cluck, cutt, excited yelp, fly-down cackle, tree call, kee kee run, and putt.”
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Who knew!?!
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln invited a divided and bleeding nation to pray and give thanks, a national thanksgiving—fashioned in the 18th century—having its heart in the turmoil of the 19th.
For those who celebrate, a happy and reflective American Thanksgiving!
For those who celebrate, a happy and reflective American Thanksgiving!
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November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln invited a divided and bleeding nation to pray and give thanks, a national thanksgiving—fashioned in the 18th century—having its heart in the turmoil of the 19th.
For those who celebrate, a happy and reflective American Thanksgiving!
For those who celebrate, a happy and reflective American Thanksgiving!
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Thrilled to have this roundtable on @profmsinha.bsky.social's (most recent!) hugely significant book. As ever, if you're interested in submitting to @anchistjournal.bsky.social - whether a research essay, historiographical or methodological piece, or perhaps a review roundtable - drop us a line!
Very grateful to American Nineteenth Century History’s David Cox for putting together this wonderful symposium on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic which grew out of the panel on the book at the United States Intellectual History conference organized by Benjamin Park.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thrilled to have this roundtable on @profmsinha.bsky.social's (most recent!) hugely significant book. As ever, if you're interested in submitting to @anchistjournal.bsky.social - whether a research essay, historiographical or methodological piece, or perhaps a review roundtable - drop us a line!
✅ Rare experience to study at the world-class Kinder Institute in Missouri
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Kinder-BrANCH MA Fellowship — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
✅ Rare experience to study at the world-class Kinder Institute in Missouri
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend
✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more!
Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)
While not necessarily BrANCH, a nice opportunity for someone interested in modern British and Irish history…
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_app...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_app...
IHR Applied History Fellowship 2026 - School of Advanced Study
universityoflondon.smapply.io
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
While not necessarily BrANCH, a nice opportunity for someone interested in modern British and Irish history…
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_app...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_app...
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On this important anniversary, see also Adam Smith's powerful article on Gettysburg and American history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
On this important anniversary, see also Adam Smith's powerful article on Gettysburg and American history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
As we look forward to a new year (and a season of gift-giving 😉), a hot off-the-press “Carolinian Crucible” by Dr. Patrick Doyle, an insightful history of South Carolina and the US Civil War, including the often overlooked upcountry, should be of great interest 📖!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Carolinian Crucible
Cambridge Core - American History 1861-1900 - Carolinian Crucible
www.cambridge.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
As we look forward to a new year (and a season of gift-giving 😉), a hot off-the-press “Carolinian Crucible” by Dr. Patrick Doyle, an insightful history of South Carolina and the US Civil War, including the often overlooked upcountry, should be of great interest 📖!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
As people celebrate Veterans/Armistice day, I hope they don’t forget the 19th Century and the works of those like Clara Barton, Walt Whitman, Susie King Taylor, and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker…
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
As people celebrate Veterans/Armistice day, I hope they don’t forget the 19th Century and the works of those like Clara Barton, Walt Whitman, Susie King Taylor, and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker…
Even if it is a bit of an advertisement, a nice little message about reading up on the crucial Indigenous part of United States history!
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by learning more about the long, rich, complex histories of North America's Native peoples with books from Hopkins Press, including "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina," "Traitor," and more.
www.press.jhu.edu/ne...
www.press.jhu.edu/ne...
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Even if it is a bit of an advertisement, a nice little message about reading up on the crucial Indigenous part of United States history!
A neat little guide to think about archives!
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A neat little guide to think about archives!
Government is STILL closed, but history STILL doesn’t stop…
Fortunate to have visited the riley-bolton house, where Josiah Henson spent his formative years, on Maryland’s #EmancipationDay
Fortunate to have visited the riley-bolton house, where Josiah Henson spent his formative years, on Maryland’s #EmancipationDay
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Government is STILL closed, but history STILL doesn’t stop…
Fortunate to have visited the riley-bolton house, where Josiah Henson spent his formative years, on Maryland’s #EmancipationDay
Fortunate to have visited the riley-bolton house, where Josiah Henson spent his formative years, on Maryland’s #EmancipationDay
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The latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History has just dropped online - the perfect thing to fill that awkward gap between Halloween and Thanksgiving! 🎃 🦃 🇺🇸 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...
American Nineteenth Century History
Volume 26, Issue 2 of American Nineteenth Century History
www.tandfonline.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History has just dropped online - the perfect thing to fill that awkward gap between Halloween and Thanksgiving! 🎃 🦃 🇺🇸 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...
What is your favorite American Nineteenth Century story (either set or written in) to tell on Halloween?
Mine is a little tale about the village of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman 🎃
Lots of happy tricks and treats to everyone!
Mine is a little tale about the village of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman 🎃
Lots of happy tricks and treats to everyone!
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What is your favorite American Nineteenth Century story (either set or written in) to tell on Halloween?
Mine is a little tale about the village of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman 🎃
Lots of happy tricks and treats to everyone!
Mine is a little tale about the village of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman 🎃
Lots of happy tricks and treats to everyone!
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OPPORTUNITY: Expressions of interest for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships to be held at the University of East Anglia are invited.
Deadline: 17th November
Learn more:
Deadline: 17th November
Learn more:
University of East Anglia: Leverhulme Trust ECF - British Association for American Studies
UEA: 2026 call for the Postdoc Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
OPPORTUNITY: Expressions of interest for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships to be held at the University of East Anglia are invited.
Deadline: 17th November
Learn more:
Deadline: 17th November
Learn more:
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I was walking around the Alamo (Texas) when I learned the CEO of the trust that maintains the grounds resigned over a dispute how the history of the 1836 battle is taught…
If the 19th century still matters and is a contested space, couldn’t that be more reason to fund 19th Century US historians 😉
If the 19th century still matters and is a contested space, couldn’t that be more reason to fund 19th Century US historians 😉
October 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I was walking around the Alamo (Texas) when I learned the CEO of the trust that maintains the grounds resigned over a dispute how the history of the 1836 battle is taught…
If the 19th century still matters and is a contested space, couldn’t that be more reason to fund 19th Century US historians 😉
If the 19th century still matters and is a contested space, couldn’t that be more reason to fund 19th Century US historians 😉
Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Kinder-BrANCH MA Fellowship — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Kinder-BrANCH MA Fellowship — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
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📨 You are invited to our annual conference. BAAS 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow in April 2026 🎉
Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November.
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Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November.
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BAAS Annual Conference - Glasgow 2026 - British Association for American Studies
The College of Arts & Humanities and Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow are delighted to invite submissions for the 71st annual British Association for American…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
📨 You are invited to our annual conference. BAAS 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow in April 2026 🎉
Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November.
buff.ly/xAdQJB8
Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November.
buff.ly/xAdQJB8