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"Housing in New York City provides a much-needed, encyclopedic overview of the distinctive history of the city's housing. It combines discussion of the role the government has played in ensuring the safety of private housing, with an overview of the ways and means the government has supplemented the private sector. Katrin Anacker provides a valuable reference for New York's housing history." – Howard Husock, author of The Projects: A New History of Public Housing

A forgotten archive of the war at sea is presented at our workshop, The Price Papers of the American War of Independence, on 8 October 2026. You can join via the online stream or in person at the National Archives in Kew!

SHAW invites expressions of interest to join its steering committee. The vacancies are for Chair and Membership Secretary.

A major reassessment of New York City’s first Black mayor and the fragile coalition politics that reshaped urban America.

The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies' (CISCS) Fiction and Poetry Reading Group is set to reconvene in November 2026! For this iteration of the group, we will be discussing 6 contemporary texts by Indigenous writers from across the Arctic. The group is open to all and meets online (typically) once per month.

Call for Papers: Geographies of Horror Department of English Studies (University of Zadar) in collaboration with The Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG) Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University) May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)