Sarah Longair
Historian of empire, museums and collecting in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. University of Lincoln. Also interested in islands, the environment and pedagogy.
- Reposted by Sarah LongairEnjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with @rbgkew.bsky.social and HRP, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: kew.org/science/trai... or DM me
- Reposted by Sarah LongairOrganising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract. We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!
- Call for Papers #HistSTM #EnvHist: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Organisers: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairWe're delighted to announce publication of 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle The Shadow of a Young Woman', by Rachel E Johnson bit.ly/4hMppbB Rachel's is latest title in our 'New Historical Perspectives' series with @ihr.bsky.social & @uolpress.bsky.social 1/3 👇
- Reposted by Sarah LongairThe Society welcomes applications for Associate Fellowship from historians across a range of professions. Associate Fellows are academic historians beginning their careers, or those working in museums, heritage, publishing, teaching or public history. For more see bit.ly/3XXlXn7, 1/2 #Skystorians
- Reposted by Sarah Longair🚨Funding alert🚨: The British Institute in Eastern Africa - where I am part of the research committee - 2025 grant programme is now open for applications! There are opportunities for Writing Fellowships, Thematic Grants, Dissemination Grants, Workshop Grants, ... biea.ac.uk/call-for-app...
- Reposted by Sarah Longair*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
- New post-doc opportunity at the University of Utrecht researching colonial history of botanical gardens. Looks fascinating www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairGood to see this statement from the various professional associations for History about the current crisis in HE, and their support for my department in particular royalhistsoc.org/more-than-ev...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairWe would welcome support from #history colleagues to help @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social hear the absence of #ITT bursaries is a threat to the future of history in schools! @carolinepennock.bsky.social @drfernriddell.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @scl1979.bsky.social
- @htenuk.bsky.social recently wrote to SoS at DfE requesting reinstatement of bursaries for beginning #ITT #historyteacher & #primaryteacher s to remove barriers to access & relieve hardship in training. Join us in raising this issue with your MP - support can be found on our website www.hten.org.uk
- Reposted by Sarah LongairThe incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social): "I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
- Reposted by Sarah Longair'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians
- Reposted by Sarah LongairAnother lootplunder review in four posts Anyone interested in loot, plunder, museums, Ethiopia, empire - anyone following this feed in other words - should read @zoecormack.bsky.social's article "The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... 1/4
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Great to see HA conference programme now available for May 9/10 in Liverpool. I'm delighted to see that Michael Riley is delivering the keynote education lecture on 'Why teaching about the historic environment matters more than ever' www.haconference.com - Reposted by Sarah LongairThis is all really interesting. Bringing back student number controls won't cost anything, will work to stabilise the hugely-unstable HE sector, and help a lot with other parts of Labour's agenda (as suggested below). But the Government just doesn't seem interested, for no obvious reason at all.
- Without student number controls, both Labour's regional and urban renewal policies are unlikely to work. They don't even appear to know they're making themselves run up the down escalator. wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
- Reposted by Sarah Longair@scl1979.bsky.social @sashasmith.bsky.social will get @alcs-uk.bsky.social Reteach History Podcast Series 3 off to a flying start in the spring with their ‘Objects of Empire’ episode! Loved 🥰 the chat! 🎧
- Reposted by Sarah Longair@bsky.app Exciting position at Cambridge - deadline 30th January 2025 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/
- Reposted by Sarah LongairThe Society's book series, 'New Historical Perspectives', has just published its 20th title. The series is for early career historians and publishes first monographs and edited collections. All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2
- Very excited about the publication of the 20th book in the RHS New Historical Perspective series, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z ed. by @mariacannon.bsky.social @lauratisdall.bsky.social. See their blog about the book here: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/11/28/h...
- Reposted by Sarah Longair'State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions,' by Surya Bowyer, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson, & Niti Acharya @hisjournalha.bsky.social 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairIt also links to work History-UK are doing with @histassoc.bsky.social & @htenuk.bsky.social & inc. academics eg. @scl1979.bsky.social. This goes deeper than outreach projects into schools & is about trying to strengthen mutual cross-phase understanding. www.history-uk.ac.uk/collaboratio... 3/
- Reposted by Sarah LongairLaunched today, this British Academy's pilot project maps changes in provision of UK undergraduate courses in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. 'Cold spots in SHAPE subject access matter. These subjects play a vital and vibrant role in university life, developing critical thinking'. 1/3 #UKHE
- Reposted by Sarah LongairDoing this next week, it would be lovely to see London folks there #Tibet #Dissent #MaterialCulture #TheDissidentMuseum courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/tow...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairLooking forward to speaking at this #exhibitions and #museumhistory event from @mghg.bsky.social later this month
- Forthcoming online event - MGHG In Conversation, with Dr Rebecca Wade and Dr Clare Wintle, on museum and exhibition cultures in the 19th century and beyond. Monday 25 November, 5.30-6.30pm. Do join us! More details and booking link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mghg-in-co...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairAlthough reintroduction of student number controls won't solve the crisis, even the very modest step of reintroducing SNCs into the discussion would improve its quality. The resounding silence on this issue impoverishes both systematic understanding of how HE actually works and policy-making. 3/3
- Reposted by Sarah LongairThe @ghilondon.bsky.social is hiring! Two positions 3+3 years: 1.) Medieval history with a focus on Britain. 2.) Colonial history of the British Empire/Commonwealth. For questions about the positions, please contact the GHI-Director. For detailed job descriptions: www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunitie...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairOur new blog is with Professor Rachel E. Johnson, whose #OpenAccess book in the New Historical Perspectives series publishes in early 2025. Her book examines the life and death of Masabata Loate, a young woman activist in #SouthAfrica. #OAWeek @ihr.bsky.social uolpress.co.uk/2024/10/refl...
- Reposted by Sarah Longair'we...need to talk about museums, whose opening times are constantly being hacked back, while staff numbers are falling away. Even people who talk up a long record of resilience and creative thinking now fear widespread closures.'
- Reposted by Sarah LongairHi all. We are still looking for teachers to complete our "Teaching Indigenous Presence..." survey. Will build into the exciting project we are doing to develop resources for schools. Please do share if you can #historyteacher #EduSky urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairA quick blog on the remains of two long-closed museums on display in a third one: markliebenrood.com/museums/the-... 🗃️
- Reposted by Sarah LongairKew Gardens Library and Archive has a brand new catalogue. www2.calmview.co.uk/kew/calmview/
- Reposted by Sarah LongairThe latest book in our #OpenAccess series with the Royal Historical Society and @ihr.bsky.social, #NewHistoricalPerspectives, is out today. Mapping the State by Martin Spychal rethinks the 1832 Reform Act in the light of a significant new archival discovery. uolpress.co.uk/book/mapping...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairThis is such a cool idea: Wiley are asking people to nominate their Research Heroes. So, #skystorians why not nominate someone in your department or field. It might help with promotion, be an esteem indicator or simply make someone's day! m.info.wiley.com/webApp/Resea...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairGood to see @histassoc.bsky.social arrive.
- Reposted by Sarah LongairThe 'high-tariff' University practice of gobbling up as many students as possible puts depts like mine at risk and really limits options for a range of students who e.g. can't move away, have perfectly decent, but not stellar grades, and who need the support we offer. 1/
- What's going to happen is mid-tariff unis are going to gut or close depts and fields that don't reach a 'critical mass' of students - leaving large parts of the country w/out e.g. History, Maths or Languages. That's not an education system - it's chaos. www.theguardian.com/education/ar...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairWhy will no one in a position to do anything about it talk about capping numbers per institution?
- thinking about student fees discourse again, given the rumors here that they will go up in 2025 wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/... so what happens then? a load of places gobble up ridiculous numbers of domestic students with 0 prep, as happened during early COVID?
- Reposted by Sarah LongairReally delighted to see this article challenging #historyeducation at university & school #historyteacher s to rethink assessment from UoN's Sarah Holland. #EastMids history teachers who attend our #SIG in March may remember this from our conversations there. journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairAnniversary of the launch of the Quit India movement in 1942. Watching this Fox Movietone newsreel from then. The voiceover and music are a study in themselves. youtu.be/hRvAaNWBQd0?...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairOut now: a new Royal Historical Society blog post by the author of 'Designed for Play', Dr Jon Winder, giving an overview of his #OpenAcess book on the #history of children's playgrounds, published in association with @ihr.bsky.social and the RHS. blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/07/11/d...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairCitizen science, community collaboration, gender equality, environmentalism and more: in a bleak landscape, a promising initiative.
- Reposted by Sarah LongairI highly recommend visiting the excellent 'Paper Cuts' exhibition at Birkbeck's Peltz Gallery, curated by @suryabowyer.bsky.social and open until 12 July. I reviewed it for Apollo magazine here: www.apollo-magazine.com/turnbull-wat...
- Reposted by Sarah LongairUniversity crisis. The national media taking more interest now (finally). But still little mention of the removal of the Student Cap in 2015. This is a major cause of the crisis & its reintroduction should be a key part of the solution. And our Union needs to shout much more about this.
- Reposted by Sarah LongairRich hunting grounds here for those who research English material culture. English Heritage's Architectural Study Collection (some records of which are being digitised):
- Reposted by Sarah LongairA kind-of-creepy-but-beautifully-carved bone model of a guillotine, made by a French POW during the Napoleonic Wars. It's on display at The Box, Plymouth's (UK) museum and archive. Unfortunately it was too low for my creaky knees, so I couldn't get a closer photo through the glass case.
- Reposted by Sarah LongairHumanities are being destroyed because they’re incredibly inconvenient to authoritarianism, representing 'a pedagogical practice that embraces the ethical imperative to care for others & historical memory & works to dismantle structures of domination' ... www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- Reposted by Sarah Longair"The British Empire was an empire OF things and we can effectively explore it THROUGH things." @scl1979.bsky.social 12/
- Reposted by Sarah Longair"The distinct histories of the devolved nations of the United Kingdom have undergirded their relationships with the broader British imperial project..."
