Member News

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. 

Erin Fetterly, author of Women Who Kill: A History of Britain's Most Dangerous Women, has been shortlisted for Best New Author by the 2025 True Crime Awards. You can follow Fetterly on Instagram here.

Gary S. De Krey recently published "What made the Levellers Revolutionary? Reconsidering Leveller Political Economy," in the Journal of Modern History. You can read the article here. 

Erin Fetterly's new book Women Who Kill: A History of Britain's Most Dangerous Women is in contention for the Reader's Choice True Crime Book of the Year! Please vote here!

Devoney Looser recently published "The Necessity of Public Writing" in the new journal, Public Humanities, and participated in a webinar celebrating the journal's launch.

Tom Sojka recently published "It's all a bit rich: The British elite's quest to be viewed as 'ordinary'," in the Times Literary Supplement.

The Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph has just published an open-access festschrift, Networks and Networking in Scottish Studies: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Ewan. You can view the open-access volume here. 

Allyson May recently published Class, Servitude, and the Criminal Justice System in Early Victorian London: The Russell Murder with Routledge.