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Devoney Looser's non-fiction book of essays, Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane, will be published on 2 September 2025 by St. Martin's Press. It includes sections on her writings, life, and legacy, including new historical research findings on her brothers' public abolition activism and her prominent collateral descendants' work in the anti-suffrage movement

Karl Ittmann's new book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945 is now available from Oxford University Press!

Erin Fetterly was recently interviewed for the Birbeck website about balancing a book deal and her studies as a PhD student. Her book Women Who Kill recently won the True Crime Awards Reader's Choice True Crime Book of the Year. 

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.