Long time readers of this blog will know that for a couple of years I was the administrator for the Social History Society. The role is run as a postdoctoral position out of the History Department at Lancaster University and helps to keep a newly-minted PhD in academia while they try to get an academic job. It comes with an honorary research position within the department so that the postdoc can continue to access the libraries and databases that they need to carry on with their research. I gave the position up in January and handed it over to the lovely Louis Pulford, but in June I was elected as the new secretary of the Social History Society, so my links with them will continue. I’m really looking forward to working with the rest of the executive and the committee to take the society forward over the next few years.