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Alice Marples

@alicemarples.bsky.social

New year, new postdoctoral fellowship!

Be our next Visiting Research Fellow in Sustainability & Environment (£10k bursary, P/T, flexible, Apr-Oct 26). Applications invited from arts and humanities researchers within 10yr of PhD. Deadline 9 Feb noon.

For more information: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Sustainability & Environment

Researchers are invited to propose a project that will encourage the use of British Library collections.

www.bl.uk

January 5, 2026 at 9:11 AM

Tehila Sasson

@tsasson.bsky.social

Had a blast talking about the history of imperialism, socialism, and fascism with these brilliant historians! Can’t wait for Disha’s amazing book to come out so you can all read it.

Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social · 14d

Had the pleasure of hosting a manuscript workshop for Disha Karnad Jani’s exciting work on the League Against Imperialism. Thank you to @tsasson.bsky.social, Masha Kirasirova, and Judith Surkis for your brilliant comments and generosity. I look forward to this book being out in the world!

December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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dsj2110.bsky.social

@dsj2110.bsky.social

My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Capitalism’s Toxic Nature

A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

www.thenation.com

December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM

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Brodie Waddell

@brodiewaddell.bsky.social

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk

2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

Screenshot of search for 'petition' on the BL's Archives and Manuscript catalogue

December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM

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Timothy Nunan

@timothynunan.bsky.social

CfP for a conference on "New Histories of the North-South Conflict" (July 7-9, 2026, deadline January 15, 2026) from my colleague Eva-Maria Muschik at @univie.ac.at. Looks like a great event examining histories of decolonization, the 1970s and 1980s, and IPE! www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

New Histories of the “North-South Conflict”

Call for Papers for a conference on New Histories of the “North-South Conflict”, to be held from July 7-9, 2026 at the University of Vienna

www.hsozkult.de

December 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM

Tehila Sasson

@tsasson.bsky.social

There’s still time to apply!

Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · Nov 26

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!

We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.

This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”

Deadline: 17 Dec 2025

Please share widely!

December 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM

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Tehila Sasson

@tsasson.bsky.social

Here's a link to the junior applications. Open to any postdoctoral, early career (tenure track) or tenured academic within 10 years of being awarded their PhD at the time of application.

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

my.corehr.com

November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM

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Tehila Sasson

@tsasson.bsky.social

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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · Nov 26

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!

We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.

This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”

Deadline: 17 Dec 2025

Please share widely!

December 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM

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Hsozkult Service

@hsozkultservice.bsky.social

Job: Full Professor "International History and Politics" (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159326

Geneva, , The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland, Bewerbungsschluss: …

www.hsozkult.de

December 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM

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Anna Aslanyan

@anna-aslanyan.bsky.social

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

www.lrb.co.uk

December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM

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Boston Review

@bostonreview.bsky.social

While today’s waged care worker might be doubly burdened—caring within the home and beyond it—this means that unlike her housewife foremother she is not isolated. Within a workplace, there is the possibility of organizing and collective bargaining.

@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:

The Care Factory - Boston Review

In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.

www.bostonreview.net

December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

@mrcwarwick.bsky.social

#CfP Call for Papers

Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick:

Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today

Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026

Submit to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk

Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today

We invite papers for a workshop entitled “Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History Today”, to be held at the University of Warwick on 26-27 June 2026. This workshop will seek to bring together historians of labour to collectively reflect on a large historiographical shift that has taken place over the last two decades, from the social history of labour (in national contexts) to global and trans-national labour history. The social history of labour “from below” is a tradition initiated by E.P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963), and extended over several decades by a robust tradition of politically engaged left-wing historical studies of the working classes: a tradition most powerfully entrenched in British historiography (but with many imprints elsewhere, ranging from the United States to Brazil to South Africa to India). The global history of labour, which revised and questioned many of the features of “Thompsonian” history-writing, has sought to overcome “methodological nationalism” in the writing of labour history, to investigate specific labour histories within a global frame, and to enable trans-national histories of workers and work. It has emerged as an increasingly dominant frame of reference for contemporary studies of labour around the world.
This workshop seeks to place these two historiographical traditions in conversation with each other, to examine the stakes of the passage from the older, “Thompsonian” tradition to the “global turn”, and to think about the changed meanings of “doing labour history” today. Participants are urged to explicitly reflect on the methodological and conceptual issues at stake in the practice of labour history.

We would like to invite submissions that address (but are not necessarily limited to) the following themes:
1. To what extent has the global labour history tradition that has flourished over the last 20 years drawn upon or rejected the methodological and conceptual approaches of Thompsonian social/labour history? What other methodologies and concepts have been deployed and proven fruitful?
2. How do we address the burgeoning critique of Thompsonian social/labour history as parochial and Anglocentric (Bressey, 2015; Satia, 2020), and how have historians responded to this challenge and reshaped British labour history accordingly? What can historians of British labour learn from broader global trajectories of workforce formation and labour movements?
3. How might integrating histories of consumption, environment, and reproduction enrich our understanding of labour and its global entanglements?
4. In what ways can collaboration between historians of Britain and the global south generate new analytical frameworks or unsettle established narratives of class, race, and empire?
5. What kinds of politically-engaged global social and labour history can best respond to the contemporary challenges of rising global inequality and the appropriation of class politics by some sections of the populist right?
6. The legitimacy of 'radical' forms of labour-history writing initially arose from politics, from the apparently established centrality of the industrial working class both in society and in projects of social emancipation. That centrality has now been in precipitous decline for a long time. In this context, how might we think about what the ‘politics of doing labour history’ actually implies today?
7. What has been gained and what has been lost in the shift from a labour history dominated by “history from below” to one dominated by global history?
Please send abstracts to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk

December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM

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Laura C Forster

@lauracforster.bsky.social

📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life

Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?

Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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Or Rosenboim

@orrosenboim.bsky.social

My article on Hans Kelsen and the world state is now published in open access on The Journal of Global History and you can check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S174....

Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s - Volume 20 Issue 3

doi.org

December 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM

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Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー

@tomaashby.bsky.social

A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social

December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM

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Kirstin Munro

@kmunro-econ.bsky.social

We did wind up recording this event, and you can watch it here: youtu.be/9QnHoi3GwLA

December 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Princeton University Press

@princetonupress.bsky.social

Now in #paperback, The Life and Death of States by Natasha Wheatley is an intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order.

Order yours and enjoy 30% off with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#ReadUP #History

The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty by Natasha Wheatley

December 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM

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Thea Riofrancos

@triofrancos.bsky.social

On Fri. 12/19 I'll join Andreas Malm and Wim Carton to discuss our new books, the deadly combination of accelerating global warming and stalling political action, and what is to be done from a left perspective. Moderated by @learning2live.bsky.social via @haymarketbooks.org & @versobooks.bsky.social

December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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John Merrick

@johnmerrick.bsky.social

We're now open for pitches for Issue #3 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, AIRBORNE, on the importance of air in the climate crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet.

If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/

November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM

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Martin Grandjean

@martingrandjean.ch

I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations!

🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual...
📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...

December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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Marianna Dudley

@dudleymarianna.bsky.social

Please come! Glasgow became an important thread in my book, almost a character in its own right. I can’t wait to give this talk!

Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · Dec 4

On Thursday 11 December I'm hosting a talk by @dudleymarianna.bsky.social who will present her new book, Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain, to the Economic and Social History seminar series at Glasgow University.

Kicking off at 11am in 42 Bute Gardens, room 717. All welcome.

December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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Sarah Knott

@sarahknott.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP284/e...

Eleanor Rathbone Professorship of Contemporary European History at University of Oxford

Explore an exciting academic career as a Eleanor Rathbone Professorship of Contemporary European History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM

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Helen McCarthy

@historianhelen.bsky.social

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...