Member News

Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972 by Averill Earls is available now from Temple University Press! 

Judges and Convicts: The Principles and Patterns of Criminal Sentencing in Victorian England by Victor Bailey is out now with Routledge!

Lori Rogers-Stokes' new book Gathered Into a Church: Indigenous-English Congregationalism in Woodland New England is coming out on September 30 from University of Massachusetts Press

Congratulations to Simeon Koole and Charmian Mansell for being shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize. You can see the shortlist here. 

Margaret DeLacy's article "Dr. Richard Davies (1708-1761): Reform, Contagion, Blood and Inflammation," was awarded the Librarians, Librarian Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences Patricia E. Gallager Publication Award for Best Article. The open-access article can be found here. 

Kate Fullagar recently appeared on the podcast Biographers in Conversation to discuss her work Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled. You can listen to the episode here. 

Rochelle Rowe (@drrochellerowe.bskky.social) recently published "' The negro type of beauty': Black Women modernist muses in Jacob Epstein's Art, 1915-1959," in Women's History Review. You read the article here. 

NACBS Fellow Olivia Wyatt was recently announced as the winner of the IHR’s History Lab Olivette Otele Prize for her paper “Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women’s Movement.” Congrats!

Antoinette Burton was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. You can read the announcement here. 

Laura Beers' work Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century was awarded the LA Times Book Prize for biography. Read the announcement here. 

Priya Satia has recently published two op-eds: "The Deep Roots of Oligarchy," in Foreign Policy and, with Jessica Riskin, "Is it 1984 in 2015?"  You can follow Priya at @priyasatia @profpriyasatia and @priyasatia.bsky.social. 

Mary Fissell, who delivered a fascinating plenary at our Denver conference last year, recently published a new book on the long history of abortion. You can view the UK version, Abortion: A History, here and the US version, Pushback: The 2,500 Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion, here.