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We are elsewhere these days. Stay connected with us at the following places:

🦋Bluesky: /thenacbs.bsky.social
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📘Facebook: /theNACBS

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Thanks again to @April4Congress for taking time to discuss the importance of funding the humanities as part of Humanities Advocacy Day! #Humanitiesforall #NARA #Fulbright @NEHgov @HumanitiesAll

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Do you have a favorite JBS article? One that has been significant for you and your research? We’re soliciting nominations for a special collection to celebrate 75 years of scholarship! Read more at the link below!
@cambUP_History

https://t.co/KzQ4xXRovO

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🚨TODAY IS THE DAY!!🚨

If you want to join us in Liverpool for #batw2025, today is the last day to submit your individual and/or panel abstracts.

It’s shaping up to be another great conference, so don’t miss out, #twitterstorians.

https://t.co/2T54jfQCkO

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📢Upcoming book event! 📢

📅February 12
⏰12pm ET/ 5pm GMT

Join NACBS to celebrate Sam Fullerton’s recent work Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England.

https://t.co/wyFx8TvWEW

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"Have we become too averse towards attempts to study elite culture? What do we lose with its exclusion?"

Read more from @tomsojka in the latest for Broadsides.

https://t.co/11kkseGDDO

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Putting together a roundtable for #NACBS2025. Topic is Public History and Its Relevance to British Studies. MA graduate students are welcome to submit for this roundtable. Contact me for more info. #NCPH #publichistory #publichistorians #britishstudies @TheNACBS

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If you didn't have a chance to join us for this great discussion yesterday, you can view a recording of the event at the link below.
https://t.co/uoHs1lbxtn

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Join us tomorrow to discuss Intimate Subjects with Simeon Koole!

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Join us tomorrow to discuss Intimate Subjects with Simeon Koole!

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📢Book event📢

📕Intimate Subjects with @SimeonKoole
📅January 29 at 12pm ET

Info and RSVP: https://t.co/lmjVND7KQA

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“Of all the American Presidents, George Washington was perhaps best known to the British at the time of his inauguration.”

Read more from Troy Bickham in the final piece of our series on Britain and the US presidency.

https://t.co/S9hTxKsSo4

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The upcoming #inauguration is a good time to reflect on the US-UK special relationship and the ways in which Britain has shaped US presidents. The first piece in our series on Britain and the US presidency is up now! #twitterstorians

https://t.co/WQVZdfOr0V

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📕New article out now in JBS!

“In From the Cold: Notes on Sixteenth-Century English Catholic History” by Freddy Cristobal Dominguez

https://t.co/0t6dy1r6t3

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In the next piece in our series on Britain and the US presidency, Sarah Burns discusses Obama’s Afghanistan war policies and Britain’s involvement in the region.

https://t.co/wViNDWsHIj

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📢Book event📢

📕Intimate Subjects with @SimeonKoole
📅January 29 at 12pm ET

Info and RSVP: https://t.co/lmjVND7KQA

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Next up, Justin Olmstead on the different private and public attitudes of Churchill and Eisenhower.

https://t.co/q4oKMNtMQI

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As Americans reflect on the on the #presidency today, check out the next piece in our series on how Britain has shaped presidents and the presidency. Justin Olmstead on Churchill and Eisenhower.

https://t.co/q4oKMNtMQI

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"Some of Hoover’s problems during his presidency arose precisely because of his career in Britain and its empire, his lack of elected experience in the halls of Congress or in state politics, and his entrée into public life in London in 1914."

https://t.co/5KhJwfjR5u

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The Call for Papers for NACBS 2025 is now open! Join us in Montreal!

https://t.co/v55KYEOVCS

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Continuous publication & open access & online-only, oh my! The new year is bringing exciting changes to the Journal of British Studies. Read more about these new developments here.

https://t.co/9tqYoREpkd

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In this piece for ours series on Britain and the presidency, Tammy Proctor explores how Britain and its empire helped mold Herbert Hoover into a public servant.

#twitterstorians #presidency #History

https://t.co/5KhJwfjR5u

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Next in our series on Britain and the US presidency, Michelle Tusan reflected on the fictional special relationship as it was depicted twenty years ago in the film Love Actually.

https://t.co/XIr1uhkP5z