@daviddoddington.bsky.social
Historian of slavery, age, and gender in the US. Co-editor of American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Most recent book, Old Age and American Slavery (CUP, 2024).
Most recent book, Old Age and American Slavery (CUP, 2024).
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The Frank and Harriet Owsley Award for the best book in Southern history published last year is awarded to David Doddington for Old Age and Americam Slavery #2025SHA
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Frank and Harriet Owsley Award for the best book in Southern history published last year is awarded to David Doddington for Old Age and Americam Slavery #2025SHA
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Congratulations! #2025SHA
David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Congratulations! #2025SHA
David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
#2025SHA didn't realise we were allowed to hold conferences in such nice weather. @branchuk.bsky.social just like Cardiff, right...?
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#2025SHA didn't realise we were allowed to hold conferences in such nice weather. @branchuk.bsky.social just like Cardiff, right...?
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It's been almost ten months to the day that my School has been 'in scope' for redundancy.
Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.
Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It's been almost ten months to the day that my School has been 'in scope' for redundancy.
Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.
Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.
Nearly 10 months of this now. Yay
'The affected staff, in the schools of foreign languages, history, religion and music, have been warned the university cannot rule out compulsory redundancy.'
Almost 200 Cardiff University staff left in limbo as they face losing jobs
Cardiff University confirmed it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies as it also apologised to students for problems with a new timetabling system as the academic year begins
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October 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Nearly 10 months of this now. Yay
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The copyedits for Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom are in, and now the preorder page is up on Amazon. www.amazon.com/This-Strife-...
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era [Milteer Jr., Warren Eugene] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
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September 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The copyedits for Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom are in, and now the preorder page is up on Amazon. www.amazon.com/This-Strife-...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... - CFP for fascinating workshop being held in (lovely) Leiden
CfP: Human Development and Its Outliers
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a workshop within the project 'Human Development and Its Outliers' on 26 and 27 March 2026 at Leiden University.
www.universiteitleiden.nl
September 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... - CFP for fascinating workshop being held in (lovely) Leiden
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The #AHR September 2025 issue is now online. Featuring articles on Korean atomic bomb survivors, socialist internationalism, and naturalized 19th-century naturalized Chinese citizens, the issue also includes a special edition of History Unclassified. 🗃️
AHR Current Issue - AHA
Current Issue September 2025Vol 130 | Issue 3 The September 2025 issue of the American Historical Review features articles on Korean diasporic atomic bomb survivors, Jamaican activists and socialist i...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The #AHR September 2025 issue is now online. Featuring articles on Korean atomic bomb survivors, socialist internationalism, and naturalized 19th-century naturalized Chinese citizens, the issue also includes a special edition of History Unclassified. 🗃️
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More well-deserved accolades for @daviddoddington.bsky.social whose book is a finalist for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social book prize--"is an extraordinary study shedding new light on old age and aging in the antebellum US South." @universitypress.cambridge.org offers our big congratulations!
September 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
More well-deserved accolades for @daviddoddington.bsky.social whose book is a finalist for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social book prize--"is an extraordinary study shedding new light on old age and aging in the antebellum US South." @universitypress.cambridge.org offers our big congratulations!
Delighted to see this important special edition of @anchistjournal.bsky.social "Universities and Slavery" out now, edited by Benedict Carton & Natalie Zacek, and featuring contributions from Chana Kai Lee, George D. Oberle III, Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
September 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Delighted to see this important special edition of @anchistjournal.bsky.social "Universities and Slavery" out now, edited by Benedict Carton & Natalie Zacek, and featuring contributions from Chana Kai Lee, George D. Oberle III, Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
Incredibly honored to see Old Age and American Slavery listed as a finalist alongside such important scholarship in the Slaveryarchive book prize. Very grateful indeed. www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
#Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 – #Slaveryarchive
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September 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Incredibly honored to see Old Age and American Slavery listed as a finalist alongside such important scholarship in the Slaveryarchive book prize. Very grateful indeed. www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
@branchuk.bsky.social @anchistjournal.bsky.social BrANCH/BGEAH conference looking real now. Who doesn't love putting name tags into plastic wallets and lanyards. Rock n roll...
September 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
@branchuk.bsky.social @anchistjournal.bsky.social BrANCH/BGEAH conference looking real now. Who doesn't love putting name tags into plastic wallets and lanyards. Rock n roll...
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This summer, why not try out our most-read papers? Our second most-read paper of 2025 so far is OPEN ACCESS: The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective by Natalie Zacek
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective
This article centers on the different ways that English and American universities have uncovered, publicized, and responded to their historical connections to transatlantic slavery. It argues that ...
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August 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This summer, why not try out our most-read papers? Our second most-read paper of 2025 so far is OPEN ACCESS: The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective by Natalie Zacek
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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'It is simply not possible to lose the number of academic staff that the sector has lost over the past two years and for providers to not be in breach of contract – promises have either been broken, or the contract itself gives a university too wide a discretion to vary....' 1/5
Beware the sharing issue in the depths of the higher education iceberg
Jim Dickinson explores the hidden depths of the higher education iceberg - from misconceptions about value to the quiet crisis of overstretched resources and shrinking provision Jim Dickinson explores...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
'It is simply not possible to lose the number of academic staff that the sector has lost over the past two years and for providers to not be in breach of contract – promises have either been broken, or the contract itself gives a university too wide a discretion to vary....' 1/5
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New on advance access: "The purposeful workhouse of England's Old Poor Law"
by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
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by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
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The purposeful workhouse of England’s Old Poor Law*
Abstract. It has long been recognized that the English workhouses of the Old Poor Law era (1601-1834) were important precursors to institutions of the mode
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July 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
New on advance access: "The purposeful workhouse of England's Old Poor Law"
by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
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Applications still open for this exciting opportunity. Happy to take questions via DM or email.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Exciting news - the journal is looking for a new book review editor or editors! For details of the role and how to apply, visit the journal website at: www.branch.org.uk/anch Deadline: 28 July 2025 📚✒️
ANCH — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
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July 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Applications still open for this exciting opportunity. Happy to take questions via DM or email.
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Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History
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Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History at University of Oxford
Apply now for the Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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July 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History
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📰🏆 Cardiff University historian @daviddoddington.bsky.social wins the Owsley award for distinguished book on the American South: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2924271-cardiff-university-historian-wins-the-owsley-award-for-distinguished-book-on-the-american-south
Cardiff University historian wins the Owsley award for distinguished book on the American South
Dr Doddington wins 2025’s Southern Historical Association (SHA)’s Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award
www.cardiff.ac.uk
July 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📰🏆 Cardiff University historian @daviddoddington.bsky.social wins the Owsley award for distinguished book on the American South: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2924271-cardiff-university-historian-wins-the-owsley-award-for-distinguished-book-on-the-american-south
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Congrats to @daviddoddington.bsky.social for being awarded the 2025 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association. The award committee says the books is "a brilliant and gripping achievement." @universitypress.cambridge.org is honored to be his publisher.
July 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Congrats to @daviddoddington.bsky.social for being awarded the 2025 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association. The award committee says the books is "a brilliant and gripping achievement." @universitypress.cambridge.org is honored to be his publisher.
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Exciting news - the journal is looking for a new book review editor or editors! For details of the role and how to apply, visit the journal website at: www.branch.org.uk/anch Deadline: 28 July 2025 📚✒️
ANCH — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
June 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Exciting news - the journal is looking for a new book review editor or editors! For details of the role and how to apply, visit the journal website at: www.branch.org.uk/anch Deadline: 28 July 2025 📚✒️
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Folks for your summer travels a big summer sale of #theriseansfallofthesecondamericanrepublic the audio book is 75% off! @nortonhistory.bsky.social www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
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June 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Folks for your summer travels a big summer sale of #theriseansfallofthesecondamericanrepublic the audio book is 75% off! @nortonhistory.bsky.social www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries
Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Lecturer in American History - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Lecturer in American HistorySchool of History, Archaeology and ReligionAn exciting new opportunity has arisen
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June 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries
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For those who could not hear this address in person, here is the published version. Thank you for the amazing editors and team at American Nineteenth Century History and BrANCH!
An innovative NEW PAPER in ANCH. @hngreen.bsky.social, James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College, calls for a new subfield in Civil War memory studies, focusing on the experiences, traditions, and community practices of African Americans.
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“Toward a new future in civil war memory studies”
This paper calls for the development of new subfield for exploring the experiences, traditions, and community practices of African Americans remembered and commemorated the American Civil War. Afri...
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May 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
For those who could not hear this address in person, here is the published version. Thank you for the amazing editors and team at American Nineteenth Century History and BrANCH!
Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Lecturer in American History - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Lecturer in American HistorySchool of History, Archaeology and ReligionAn exciting new opportunity has arisen
krb-sjobs.brassring.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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🚨AMERICAN HISTORY JOB ALERT🚨
Cambridge is looking for a one-year assistant prof in 20th century social/cultural history. As fixed-term jobs go, this is a pretty good one - so whether you're in the UK, the US or wherever else, please consider applying. But get your skates on: deadline is *June 4*
Cambridge is looking for a one-year assistant prof in 20th century social/cultural history. As fixed-term jobs go, this is a pretty good one - so whether you're in the UK, the US or wherever else, please consider applying. But get your skates on: deadline is *June 4*
May 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨AMERICAN HISTORY JOB ALERT🚨
Cambridge is looking for a one-year assistant prof in 20th century social/cultural history. As fixed-term jobs go, this is a pretty good one - so whether you're in the UK, the US or wherever else, please consider applying. But get your skates on: deadline is *June 4*
Cambridge is looking for a one-year assistant prof in 20th century social/cultural history. As fixed-term jobs go, this is a pretty good one - so whether you're in the UK, the US or wherever else, please consider applying. But get your skates on: deadline is *June 4*