The British International History Group (BIHG) is an academic organisation which promotes the study of International History. We have members worldwide.

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📢 #CallforPapers! Join us at the 34th BIHG Annual Conference, 2–4 Sept 2026 Loughborough University Seeking 20‑min papers & full panels on all areas of international history. Keynote: Prof Sue Onslow (KCL) Submit your abstract CV to bihg1919@gmail.com #InternationalHistory
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📢 CfP Extended! Join us for the 33rd BIHG Conference at UEA, 3–5 Sept 2025. 🗓 New deadline: 21 May 🐦 Early bird: by 15 June 🎤 Keynote: Prof. Thomas Otte Submit your abstract CV to bihg1919@gmail.com 🌍 No remote presentations—on-site only!
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26 Jun 2024
Registration for our 33rd annual conference (#BIHG2024), at @KingsCollegeLon is open! 🔗eventbrite.co.uk/e/928400650… Our #callforpapers is open until Fri 18th July - please email bihg1919@gmail.com All aspects of #InternationalHistory are welcome. #twitterstorians
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19 Jun 2024
Join us at our 33rd annual conference (#BIHG2024), this time at @KingsCollegeLon! Our #callforpapers is open until Fri 18th July - please email bihg1919@gmail.com All aspects of #InternationalHistory are welcome. Registration link will be posted shortly. #twitterstorians
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Have you recently taken your #PHDViva and finished your #historyphd? We are looking for the best doctoral thesis completed in 2023 on any aspect & any period of #InternationalHistory. Send PDF to: Martin.Folly@brunel.ac.uk #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #PhdChat #phdlife
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Congratulations to @ElinevanOmmen, 2019 winner of our Michael Dockrill Thesis Prize Winner, whose PhD thesis is now available to pre-order as a book. 👇
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Nominations are open for the @BIHGroup Michael Dockrill Thesis Prize! Awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis on any aspect and any period of International History Deadline 30 April Learn more at: bisa.ac.uk/members/working-g… @patrickfinney1
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.@RoyalHistSoc's call for 'Transactions Workshop Grants, 2023' now open bit.ly/3yvHFBF Grants fund research workshops for historians to discuss a shared topic, with an onward path to publication in RHS journal 'Transactions'. Open call closes 5 May #twitterstorians
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Nominations are now OPEN for our #InternationalHistory research prize supported by @MYBISA @BIHGroup! The award provides up to £1500 for research that will lead to an article submission to the IHR. 👉:ow.ly/zunY50MF0Ff #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
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Delighted to announce that the winner of the 2022 Michael L. Dockrill Thesis Prize is Dr @HamishMcD, for his thesis entitled 'Staying alive': New Zealand, Britain and European integration, 1960-85,' completed @lsehistory 2021. Congratulations! 👉etheses.lse.ac.uk/4367/
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Nominations are now OPEN for our #InternationalHistory research prize supported by @MYBISA @BIHGroup! The award provides up to £1500 for research that will lead to an article submission to the IHR. 👉:ow.ly/zunY50MF0Ff #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
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Book Launch: Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975. @nat_telepneva will discuss her book with @OAWestad and David Anderson. Monday 25 April, 15:00-16:30 BST Online. Registration eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-war-… @MYBISA
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This time last week, I was lounging around London in the sun…
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Join us @UniStrathclyde Glasgow! We are looking for Chancellor’s Fellow in History of Activism. Excellent opportunity to contribute to @StrathHistory including our MSc Diplomacy and International Security. #HumanRights #Peacebuilding Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/CNV972/strath…
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On 15 March 1938, Hitler arrived in Vienna to cement the Nazi grip on Austria. A year ago, I discussed my research on Anglo-Austrian cultural diplomacy in the 1930s with the Chief Historian of @MFA_Austria at the @ACF_London, available online 👇 acflondon.org/events/acf-lec…
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After eight years of war culminating in Algerian nationhood, why did security cooperation between Algeria and France resume within months? 🇩🇿🇫🇷After the war was over: Franco-Algerian security cooperation in the 1960s 🗓️ Weds 23 March 🕐 18:00-20:00 eventbrite.co.uk/e/after-the…

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Have you recently taken your #PHDViva and finished your #historyphd? We are looking for the best doctoral thesis completed in 2021 on any aspect & any period of #InternationalHistory. More info: ow.ly/9WmM50Iio7q #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #PhdChat #phdlife @MYBISA
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TONIGHT, Simon Heffer & Christopher Andrew @Christo50984430 will discuss #WWII #Munich #MI5 #SIS and much more. See details below and tune in at 5:30pm GMT!
Tune in this Friday at 5:00pm GMT for another double act: Simon Heffer who will discuss ‘Chips Channon, foreign policy and intelligence from Munich to the Second World War’, and Christopher Andrew @Christo50984430 on ‘MI5, SIS and Intelligence from Munich to the Second World War’
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