The Social History Society has released an official statement on the impact of COVID-19 on the working lives of historians, and the implications for the future of our discipline.

The practice of social and cultural history has always depended on the contributions of scholars across all career stages. From the undergraduate essay to the book-length studies of established scholars, historical research can make us reflect on our own practice and think differently about our own research areas.

The international joint doctoral program Global History of Empire is announcing the call for applications for admission in 2020. Students enrolled in the program enjoy qualified co-supervision of their dissertation research by the leading faculty of University of Turin and Higher School of Economics (Moscow and St Petersburg), the intensive introductory seminar with world experts on the global dimensions of histories of empires, as well as joint dissertation workshops and summer schools co-organized by the universities in this partnership : 

Given the exceptional circumstances surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, the organizers wish to express that we will follow the situation closely and an online version of this conference might be considered if future updates advise it. Even though an on- site format is preferred, a final decision will be provided to all participants at the beginning of September.

Atlantic Worlds between the Global and the National

Kloster Bernried, Lake Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, Germany
29 August – 1 September 2021

https://www.fruehe-neuzeit.uni-bayreuth.de/en/conferences-workshops/Summer-Academy-of-Atlantic-History/index.html

"Cold War liberalism" is one of the most oft-used terms in the historical profession. A diversity of phenomena, from postwar housing policy to U.S. geostrategy to 1950s-era cinema, have been said to be instantiations of the Cold War liberal project. Despite the promiscuous use of "Cold War liberalism," however, the term remains ill-defined, and that which it signifies ill-understood.

COVID-19 & Environmental History.
Making sense of COVID-19 from the perspective of environmental history

A compilation of historical essays to be published in the Journal for the History of Environment and Society

The Working Class Movement Library is keen to contribute to the collective search both for intellectual stimulation and for social solidarity during these hard times. A guest exhibition which was due to open this month at the Library has now been reinvented and is available for viewing online here.