Durham University's Department of History is nestled right at the heart of this historic city, sitting alongside the World Heritage Cathedral and Castle.https://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mpqvp435ps2mMarc Jaffré has a new article out in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society! 💻🎉💾👑 ‘Dwarfism, Institutionalisation and Marginalisation at the Court in Early Bourbon France, 1589–1715’, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440126100772 @royalhistsoc.org03 Jul 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqvp435ps2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mpqu4t23dc2iCongratulations to our new colleague John Latham-Sprinkle on winning the Royal Historical Society first book prize for *The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850–1240*! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jul 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqu4t23dc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mpq47b264c2iCongratulations to our students graduating today! A cool breeze and lots of graduation gowns this morning on Palace Green 👏 🙌 🥳 🥂 🍃 🧑‍🎓03 Jul 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpq47b264c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3monijgk6m22wThis week PhD candidate Sophie Bellamy spoke to BBC Look North for a story about Jewish businesses in the North East – Drawing on her doctoral research, she emphasised how Jewish history in our region goes beyond just economics and is linked to our wider social and cultural heritage 👏👏👏19 Jun 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3monijgk6m22whttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3moky3ggobc2xPresence: A Hidden History of the Female Body, by Erin Maglaque is published today! 'This is the invisible history of the female body – birthing, caring, working, desiring. ... points towards a radical new way of understanding our bodies today.' @erinmaglaque.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bddaumzk https://tinyurl.com/bddaumzk18 Jun 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3moky3ggobc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3moimlsg3jc2cNew article by our colleague Nick McGee! 'Two Journeys into Diaspora: Qing and British Imperial Investigations in the Dutch East Indies and Australia' 🤩 'demonstrating the surprisingly global reach of the late Qing state' https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/two-journeys-into-diaspora-qing-and-british-imperial-investigations-in-the-dutch-east-indies-and-australia/E8D4B30E2A9BBC2E51AD778747461E91?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark17 Jun 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3moimlsg3jc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mnkgtfgryk23'Touristed: European travellers, host communities and the production of local culture (1880–1940)' – a special issue of the Journal of Tourism History edited by our colleague Talitha Ilacqua 🥳🎉🌞 https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2026.266161905 Jun 2026 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkgtfgryk23https://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mneyrbem7k2aOur colleague Talitha Ilacqua reviews *The First Fascist* in the Times Literary Supplement – 'the picaresque life of an antisemitic agitator' https://www.the-tls.com/lives/biography/the-first-fascist-sergio-luzzatto-book-review-talitha-ilacqua @thetls.bsky.social03 Jun 2026 11:25 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mneyrbem7k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mncbk3megc2iCongratulations to Hasaam Latif who has been awarded a Pearsall Fellowship in Naval and Maritime History by the Royal Historical Society! You can read more about Hasaam's research into Lascars, Homelands and the twentieth-century British Empire here: https://culturesofdisability.mmu.ac.uk/lascars-descent-into-madness/02 Jun 2026 09:24 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mncbk3megc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mnc74cyxg225Congratulations to Alastair on the article! It's also Gold Open Access and based on a recent Durham PhD 🎉🌟⚔️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jun 2026 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnc74cyxg225https://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mlvbgkuit226Len Scales in Die Zeit! Als die Deutschen Deutsche wurden / When the Germans became Germans https://www.zeit.de/2026/22/deutsche-identitaet-mittelalter-heiliges-roemisches-reich-geschichte @lenscales.bsky.social15 May 2026 11:52 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvbgkuit226https://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mlt6ty5mw22bWhat a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague 💀⛪💀👑 https://theconversation.com/what-a-list-of-black-death-survivors-reveals-about-the-way-people-recovered-from-plague-275622?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton14 May 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt6ty5mw22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3mlt6pkgmsc2p🎉 New article by Grace Owen and Jane Whittle, 'Women's Wage Labour in Rural England, c. 1250-c. 1450: Identifying the Known Unknowns in Manorial Accounts' 🎉 https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2026.2663312 @graceowen.bsky.social14 May 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt6pkgmsc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/durhamhistory.bsky.social/post/3ml3zcfu6hs2uCongratulations to Catherine-Rose Hailstone, whose book is now available to pre-order from Edinburgh University Press! *God, Demons, and Fear: Emotion, The Self, and Self-control in Gregory of Tours* https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-god-demons-and-fear.html @caterose.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social05 May 2026 10:50 +0000at://did:plc:zh2o7nbgazn5cwf4tkxa27e6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3zcfu6hs2u