Member News

Starting July 1, 2026, Nadja Durbach will be the Carroll J. Amundson Professor of British History at the University of Pittsburgh. She will continue as co-editor of JBS and welcomes applications from potential graduate students.

Rae Tunstall recently contributed a blog post, "Portrait Swiping: The Original Dating App," to the Royal Studies Network blog. 

Worlds of Framework Knitters in Leicestershire, c. 1600-1850 and Small town Space and Society Documents Illustrative of Loughborough in the Eighteenth Century, both by Dave Postles are now available for download here 

Robert D. Cornwall's Visible and Apostolic: The Constitution of the Church in High Church Anglican and Nonjuror Thought, 1688-1745 is now availble in a revised second edition from Pickwick Publications. 

Old Dominion University is pleased to announce the publication of volume 47 of Scotia:  Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies.   This issue features Andrew Simpson’s article “The Amazonian Rebellion:  Women, Power, and Propaganda in the Jacobite ‘45” and Mike Kugler’s “Pulpit and Stage:  Moral and Rhetorical Education in Early Enlightenment Edinburgh.”

Kristen Thomas-McGill's article "Sexual Abuse in the British Empire: Speaking and Silence on 'A Spicy Little Isle Where Ladies Were Few,'" is available now in the Journal of the History of Sexuality.

Lou Roper (@roperlou.bsky.social) published "The Restoration and the Reconstitution of Seventeenth‐Century English Imperial Political Culture" in History: The Journal of the Historical Association

Courtney MacPhee's article "Ranters, Fifth Monarchists and Sectarian Exegesis: Imagined Apocalypses" is now available (open access) at the Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Susan E. Whyman recently published, "Edmund Rack: master of knowledge, scientific societies and social networks in eighteenth-century Bath," in Urban History. 

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.