Tom Cryer
@thomascryer.bsky.social
Lecturer in US History @ Oxford | host @NewBooksNetwork | Chair @IHRHistoryLab.bsky.social | Rep @SHAGradCouncil.bsky.social | Commissioning Editor @jhideas.bsky.social| Education Policy @royalsociety.
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📢2 more days until the application deadline!
You have until Friday 15th to send us your application to join our committee for the next academic year! Roles we are highlighting are:
💻Social Media & Outreach Coordinators
🏆Awards Officer
💰Treasurer
DM us if you have any questions!
You have until Friday 15th to send us your application to join our committee for the next academic year! Roles we are highlighting are:
💻Social Media & Outreach Coordinators
🏆Awards Officer
💰Treasurer
DM us if you have any questions!
📢 CALL FOR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS! 📢
History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK.
Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!
History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK.
Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!
August 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📢2 more days until the application deadline!
You have until Friday 15th to send us your application to join our committee for the next academic year! Roles we are highlighting are:
💻Social Media & Outreach Coordinators
🏆Awards Officer
💰Treasurer
DM us if you have any questions!
You have until Friday 15th to send us your application to join our committee for the next academic year! Roles we are highlighting are:
💻Social Media & Outreach Coordinators
🏆Awards Officer
💰Treasurer
DM us if you have any questions!
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Today on the blog, scholars Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne discuss the theoretical intricacies and historical perplexities behind neoconservatism.
Neoconservatism: A Roundtable
Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne
www.jhiblog.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Today on the blog, scholars Graham Ashurst, Emily Hull, and Sophie Joscelyne discuss the theoretical intricacies and historical perplexities behind neoconservatism.
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🏆 Huge congratulations to the 2025 winners of the Arthur Miller Institute prizes for First Book & Article.
Read more: buff.ly/LtVaFhq
Read more: buff.ly/LtVaFhq
Arthur Miller Prize Winners Announced! - British Association for American Studies
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Arthur Miller First Book Prize and the Arthur Miller Article Prize.
buff.ly
July 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🏆 Huge congratulations to the 2025 winners of the Arthur Miller Institute prizes for First Book & Article.
Read more: buff.ly/LtVaFhq
Read more: buff.ly/LtVaFhq
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📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads
Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.
The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.
Proposals are invited before 22 August.
Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.
The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.
Proposals are invited before 22 August.
Call for Papers: BAAS Postgraduate Symposium - Teesside University, 29th November 2025 - British Association for American Studies
BAAS Postgraduate Symposium – Teesside University, 29th November 2025 ‘The people favored and the people oppressed’: The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America The original copies of the…
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July 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads
Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.
The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.
Proposals are invited before 22 August.
Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.
The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.
Proposals are invited before 22 August.
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📢 CALL FOR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS! 📢
History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK.
Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!
History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK.
Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!
July 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
📢 CALL FOR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS! 📢
History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK.
Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!
History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK.
Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!
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The SHA's Annual Membership Drive begins this month, so take advantage of this deal!
July 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The SHA's Annual Membership Drive begins this month, so take advantage of this deal!
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HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for our Annual Conference, taking place at the Winchester Hotel and Spa on the 16th - 18th November 2025.
Information:
historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/
#cfp #histed #conference #edusky
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for our Annual Conference, taking place at the Winchester Hotel and Spa on the 16th - 18th November 2025.
Information:
historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/
#cfp #histed #conference #edusky
historyofeducation.org.uk
June 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for our Annual Conference, taking place at the Winchester Hotel and Spa on the 16th - 18th November 2025.
Information:
historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/
#cfp #histed #conference #edusky
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for our Annual Conference, taking place at the Winchester Hotel and Spa on the 16th - 18th November 2025.
Information:
historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/
#cfp #histed #conference #edusky
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ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
May 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
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And in this interview I recently gave for the Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social blog: www.jhiblog.org/2025/04/23/f...
Friendship and the Politics of Difference: An Interview with David Weinfeld
by Thomas Cryer
www.jhiblog.org
May 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
And in this interview I recently gave for the Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social blog: www.jhiblog.org/2025/04/23/f...
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We have teamed up with @historylabplus.bsky.social and History UK on a collaborative upcoming conference "Teaching in a Time of Crisis" which will be held at University of Warwick on Thursday 29th May. You can now book your place by using the following link:
www.history.ac.uk/events/teach...
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www.history.ac.uk/events/teach...
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Teaching in A Time of Crisis: A History Lab, History Lab + and History UK Collaborative Conference
www.history.ac.uk
May 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
We have teamed up with @historylabplus.bsky.social and History UK on a collaborative upcoming conference "Teaching in a Time of Crisis" which will be held at University of Warwick on Thursday 29th May. You can now book your place by using the following link:
www.history.ac.uk/events/teach...
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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🎓New free online PGR Session!
Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’.
Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/
#histed #edusky
Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’.
Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/
#histed #edusky
PGR Seminars & Workshops - History of Education Society
historyofeducation.org.uk
May 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🎓New free online PGR Session!
Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’.
Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/
#histed #edusky
Wednesday 14th of May @ 5-6pm – Tom Cryer on ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’.
Access the link here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/
#histed #edusky
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📢Conference update!
You can now book your place for our annual conference! "Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception Through Time" will take place on 24th July 2025.
It is free to attend but booking is essential, so secure your place now using the link below! See you there! #skystorians
You can now book your place for our annual conference! "Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception Through Time" will take place on 24th July 2025.
It is free to attend but booking is essential, so secure your place now using the link below! See you there! #skystorians
May 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
📢Conference update!
You can now book your place for our annual conference! "Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception Through Time" will take place on 24th July 2025.
It is free to attend but booking is essential, so secure your place now using the link below! See you there! #skystorians
You can now book your place for our annual conference! "Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception Through Time" will take place on 24th July 2025.
It is free to attend but booking is essential, so secure your place now using the link below! See you there! #skystorians
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History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement".
Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨
Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨
April 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement".
Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨
Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨
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We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
voice.cymru
February 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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🚨DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK! #cfp #skystorians
The deadline for our annual conference is next Friday! Have you sent in your abstract yet? This year's conference is titled Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time.
Keep on reading to find out about the themes we are looking for...
The deadline for our annual conference is next Friday! Have you sent in your abstract yet? This year's conference is titled Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time.
Keep on reading to find out about the themes we are looking for...
February 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🚨DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK! #cfp #skystorians
The deadline for our annual conference is next Friday! Have you sent in your abstract yet? This year's conference is titled Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time.
Keep on reading to find out about the themes we are looking for...
The deadline for our annual conference is next Friday! Have you sent in your abstract yet? This year's conference is titled Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time.
Keep on reading to find out about the themes we are looking for...
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@branchuk.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social As part of an all too pertinent special edition of American Nineteenth Century History, see: The price of Knowledge: Universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective: "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2025.2455208?src=exp-la
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 ...
www.tandfonline.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
@branchuk.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social As part of an all too pertinent special edition of American Nineteenth Century History, see: The price of Knowledge: Universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective: "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2025.2455208?src=exp-la
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It's a sign of the times that, pre-publication, this HE redundancies article started out as a story about UEA with Durham added. Then Kent was added...then Cardiff.
A microcosm of UK HE right now, and a typical day in the life at the moment.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
A microcosm of UK HE right now, and a typical day in the life at the moment.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Four UK universities announce plans to cut over 750 jobs - Research Professional News
Cardiff, Durham, Kent and UEA the latest institutions to join wave of sector redundancies
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's a sign of the times that, pre-publication, this HE redundancies article started out as a story about UEA with Durham added. Then Kent was added...then Cardiff.
A microcosm of UK HE right now, and a typical day in the life at the moment.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
A microcosm of UK HE right now, and a typical day in the life at the moment.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
January 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
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The Edinburgh Southern History Workshop brings together PhDs and ECRs in the UK who study the history of the American South. Join us on 6 June 2025 to present your work, receive feedback, and connect with likeminded scholars. CFP due 28 Feb 2025
edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk
edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk
January 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The Edinburgh Southern History Workshop brings together PhDs and ECRs in the UK who study the history of the American South. Join us on 6 June 2025 to present your work, receive feedback, and connect with likeminded scholars. CFP due 28 Feb 2025
edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk
edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk
Excited to be speaking at the IHR's North American History Seminar from 17:30 this Thursday, Jan 16th! Looking forward to talking about my thesis on education, memory, race, and John Hope Franklin. www.history.ac.uk/seminars/nor... 📖
January 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Excited to be speaking at the IHR's North American History Seminar from 17:30 this Thursday, Jan 16th! Looking forward to talking about my thesis on education, memory, race, and John Hope Franklin. www.history.ac.uk/seminars/nor... 📖
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Truly delighted to launch our brand new 2025 research training programme in history and the humanities at SAS today. Research training lies at the very heart of our mission to support the next generation of arts and humanities researchers. www.sas.ac.uk/support-rese... @ihr.bsky.social
Research Training
Browse our full programme of research training sessions and book your place.
www.sas.ac.uk
December 11, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Truly delighted to launch our brand new 2025 research training programme in history and the humanities at SAS today. Research training lies at the very heart of our mission to support the next generation of arts and humanities researchers. www.sas.ac.uk/support-rese... @ihr.bsky.social
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We are so excited to have Neil as our keynote speaker, and if you want to find out more about Neil's research and our ongoing #cfp then please use the link below!
📢Deadline for submissions is 28th February 2025! (4/4)
www.history.ac.uk/events/cfp-h...
📢Deadline for submissions is 28th February 2025! (4/4)
www.history.ac.uk/events/cfp-h...
Call for Papers | HistoryLab Annual Conference 2025- Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time
www.history.ac.uk
December 10, 2024 at 11:14 AM
We are so excited to have Neil as our keynote speaker, and if you want to find out more about Neil's research and our ongoing #cfp then please use the link below!
📢Deadline for submissions is 28th February 2025! (4/4)
www.history.ac.uk/events/cfp-h...
📢Deadline for submissions is 28th February 2025! (4/4)
www.history.ac.uk/events/cfp-h...
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Submissions are now open for the fantastic Olivette Otele Paper Prize
Black UK-based PhD students working in history/related disciplines can win an opportunity to present at the History Lab 2025 Conference + a cash prize of £500
Deadline: 29th November 2024
Black UK-based PhD students working in history/related disciplines can win an opportunity to present at the History Lab 2025 Conference + a cash prize of £500
Deadline: 29th November 2024
Postgraduate Opportunities with History Lab - British Association for American Studies
History Lab is proud to announce three exciting opportunities that may be of particular interest to PGRs & ECRs! We are delighted to announce that the 2024/2025 instalment of our Olivette Otele Paper ...
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November 19, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Submissions are now open for the fantastic Olivette Otele Paper Prize
Black UK-based PhD students working in history/related disciplines can win an opportunity to present at the History Lab 2025 Conference + a cash prize of £500
Deadline: 29th November 2024
Black UK-based PhD students working in history/related disciplines can win an opportunity to present at the History Lab 2025 Conference + a cash prize of £500
Deadline: 29th November 2024