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This year we are running an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI essay) competition open to all year 12 and 13 students across the UK. Essay Question: As the United States marks 250 years, how should historians assess the nation’s progress toward the truths that its Declaration of Independence holds to be self-evident? Answer with reference to ONE of the following themes: a) disability, b) gender c) race. Key Dates Entries open: Monday, 16 February Entries close: Friday, 15 May Winners announced: Monday, 6 July

"Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture", a book series published by EUP, is looking for new projects to consider. If you would like to have an informal conversation with one of the series editors, Andrew Taylor, at the Glasgow BAAS conference, please email him to arrange a time/date (andrew.taylor@ed.ac.uk).

Join biographer Nicholas Boggs and Bernardine Evaristo for the launch of a new biography centring the personal relationships that shaped James Baldwin's life and work.

The Department of History at the University of Warwick is seeking to appoint a 3 Year Teaching Fellow in the History of the USA

CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Close Encounters of the Nonhumankind: In the U.S. and Beyond’ New Voices in Postcolonialism Network are hosting a one day in-person conference at the University of Westminster on Thursday 2nd July 2026. We are looking for abstracts within the field of arts/humanities which thematically deal with the nonhuman.

Black Heritage Voices is a conference dedicated to uniting professionals from Black communities working across the heritage sector, including archivists, researchers, audience engagement practitioners, community historians, heritage programmers and those in leadership roles.