Member News

Susan Amussen's new book What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare is now available from Manchester University Press!

Michael McLaughlin's commemorative book on the 23 April 1941 tragedy at Portland Square, during the Plymouth Blitz, is now available. Created in partnership with the Old Plymouth Society, you can find more information here. 

Tehila Sasson's The Solidarity Economy has been shortlisted for the Economic History Society book prize. You can watch a recording of our NACBS book event featuring the Solidarity Economy here.

Darragh Gannon has been awarded the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize at the Royal Dublin Society for his second monograph: Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922. The Irish Historical Research Prize is the highest accolade in the field, adjudicated by a panel of senior history scholars from each National University of Ireland institution.

Erin Fetterly (instagram.com/thecanadianlondoner) recently appeared on The Herstory Project Podcast to discuss her book, Women Who Kill 

Laura Tavolacci's new book Baptists, Bengalis, and the Construction of Agricultural and Horticultural Science in India, 1793-1840 is now available from Palgrave Macmillan. 

Lou Roper (@roperlou.bsky.social) recently contributed a 'Horizon Essay', 'South Carolina's Caribbean Connections and the Wider World', to the relaunch of _The South Carolina Historical Magazine_ , vol. 1, no. 1 (January 2026): 6-16.

Timothy Larsen's latest book The Fires of Moloch: Anglican Clergymen in the Furnace of World War One, is now available from Oxford University Press. 

Brooke Newman's latest book, The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas, is out now with Harper Collins!

Olivia Weisser's (@oliviaweisser.bsky.social) new book, The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London, is now available from Cambridge University Press!

Bright Alozie and Timothy Chibuike Anyanwu recently published "'Feet on the Ball, Minds on Their Rights': Women, Football and Protests in Eatern Nigeria, 1892-1975," in The Journal of the Historical Association 

Lydia Murdoch’s What We Mourn: Child Death and the Politics of Grief in Nineteenth-Century Britain is now out with the University of Virginia Press!