We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026!

Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.

For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk

🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.

📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

How do we teach public history today? Pleasure to join @julialaite.bsky.social, @ktrcarpenter.bsky.social & Anna Maguire in this roundtable for @historyworkshop.org.uk. Image from @qmul.bsky.social qHeritage project with @museumofthehome.bsky.social
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Here it is, my 243rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative.

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Who are the publics in public history? Report from our recent staff-student project highlights issues around inclusion, marketisation and the politicisation of DEI
@engageqm.bsky.social
@royalhistsoc.org
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Venturing into historical sociology with this essay on religious and scientific forms of sexual knowledge - conceptualised here as Biofaiths: brill.com/view/journal...

In the panel on the secularisation thesis and religion past 1945.

Already very fascinated by a paper on Christian feminists finding they are dismissed in the church and disregarded in the feminist movement. #QMCBS

@davidgeiringer.bsky.social & @alastairhackney.bsky.social are studying the vicarage as a space of faith, of home making, of ministry, of community. And it’s place in the crisis of the inner city. #QMCBS

We're looking for a Public Engagement Manager (1yr fixed term) at Queen Mary to work with amazing Centre for Public Engagement team. Public engagement is deeply rooted at @qmul.ac.uk (we have Platinum Engage Watermark!) and this would be an exciting and varied role qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

My first #Delighted post on here! Delighted to receive a copy of @clairelanghamer.bsky.social’s expertly edited collection A Cultural History of Love. Includes my chapter on ‘Love and the Divine’ - featuring Virginia Woolf, the Beatles and Sun Myong Moon - and many other brilliant contributions!

As such, we think there are connections to the great special issue of CBH recently edited by @davidgeiringer.bsky.social and @historianhelen.bsky.social — www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/3...

A book with @davidgeiringer.bsky.social ‘The Anglican Vicarage and Urban Crisis: Parish Ministry and the English Inner City in the late Twentieth Century’ looking at at how the Church responded to urban crisis in London and Liverpool in the ‘long 1980s’, from the practice of clergy living there. 2/5

It's out! After many years in the making, you can read the @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social special issue on the 1990s here. Huge thanks to @historianhelen.bsky.social & @davidgeiringer.bsky.social for masterminding this special issue and including my work in it. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/3...