📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on recording community histories through the Bengali Photo Archive and the extraordinary work of Lloyd Gee.

Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.

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You can now quickly identify single female plaintiffs in Court of Requests cases by searching REQ 2 for the code "SFP". Over 2,500 hits. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_s...

Daniel F Gosling@thegozfather.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some very REQciting news. My Court of Requests pleadings (REQ 2/16-424) project is now complete. Over 28,000 items dating from c.1547-c.1625 (Edw VI to Jas I) now searchable online. Happy researching everyone 🙂 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

Some very REQciting news. My Court of Requests pleadings (REQ 2/16-424) project is now complete. Over 28,000 items dating from c.1547-c.1625 (Edw VI to Jas I) now searchable online. Happy researching everyone 🙂 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

Tickets are now available for Chartism Day 2026. The £12 ticket price includes refreshments and a light buffet lunch (plus all the Chartism you can eat). All are welcome. #C19th #History #Chartism www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

Chartism Day 2026

Join us to discover the latest research on Chartism and get the chance to meet fellow Chartist scholars and enthusiasts. All welcome.

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It’s Lammas Day! In the traditional rural calendar, Lammas Day signalled the annual shift from planting crops to grazing animals. It was the last day on which grass was cut for hay, and the day grazing could commence and the hunting season began.

'The Historian's Craft & Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/45l8I2M Selected recent articles from the Society's journal, 'Transactions', on the practice of pedagogy and research. All content available Open Access. New article submissions invited #Skystorians

The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS

The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...

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Text of the act here: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/4... #LegalHistory

History of Parliament@histparl.bsky.social · 6d ago

Today in 1963, the Peerage Act was given royal assent. This allowed those who inherited a peerage who had entered the House of Lords the option of disclaiming their title. Alfie Steer explores Tony Benn's role in the passage of this Act, enabling him to be reelected to the House of Commons.

"and this inscription to be written "Exit tyrannus Regum ultimus, anno primo restitutœ libertatis Angliœ 1648,"" The orders can be found here: www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-pa... #History

John McCafferty@jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 6d ago

31 July 1650: Order in #Parliament to 'throw down & break into pieces' all images of the late king Charles I #otd (BM)

The 1919 Housing Act - the Addison Act - received the royal assent on this day in 1919. 176,000 council homes were built under its terms and its standard of high quality housing set a benchmark for decades to come. A 1917 photo of Addison and housing from Newcastle, Lancaster and Winchester.

New open access monograph 'The State Bibles' from Esther van Raamsdonk compares the 1611 King James Version and the 1637 Dutch Statenvertaling, revealing shared influences, editorial choices, and political contexts: https://bit.ly/4pK4bk2

Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026.

I often wonder how everyone organises and structures their historical research data? I’ve never been taught how to do this and just use an Excel sheet. How do you do it?

Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · last wk.

How do you decide which digital tools will help structure your historical research data? How can you organise your notes, tables and/or spreadsheets to help with your analysis? Join @justincolson.bsky.social at his IHR short course Sources to Data to find out more! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Today in quantitative historical research: "Penis count debate rages over Bayeux Tapestry" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #History

Penis count debate rages over Bayeux Tapestry

A podcast has again investigated the penises on the embroidery, which has a replica in Reading.

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Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.

Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/

Ye gods, now the Prediction Markets are sending out bots and scrapers, taking everything down.

Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 2w ago

did you see this piece? really interesting on the impact of AI -not just taking away traffic of humans but overloading websites with crawling etc stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...

Following the changes made by the 'Great' Reform Act of 1832, who was able to vote? From potwalloper to scot and lot voters, Dr Philip Salmon explores each type of post-1832 voting qualification. @victoriancommons.bsky.social

Who could vote? From potwallopers to ten-pounders: post-1832 franchises explained

Philip Salmon examines who could vote following the changes made by the ‘Great’ Reform Act of 1832. This article covers the system which was in operation until the next major Reform Act in 1867.

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"Douglass’s 19-month tour of Britain and Ireland began in Liverpool in 1845 and, for much of the time, Manchester was his base." #slavery #abolition #history www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain

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The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History Open, online meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline in a time of crisis. 2-4pm BST, Tuesday 4 August 2026 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis...

The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

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New from the Many Headed Monster blog: Becoming Home: Football and Geographic Identity in Early Modern Britain manyheadedmonster.com/2026/07/17/b... #History #Football

Becoming Home: Football and Geographic Identity in Early Modern Britain

This summer’s football World Cup has prompted lots of talk of ‘historic’ matches and rivalries that have played out over decades, but the game’s history – and its conn…

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The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History Open, online meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline in a time of crisis. 2-4pm BST, Tuesday 4 August 2026 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis...

The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

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For Haydon's painting of the Mock Election see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moc... And also the companion picture, Chairing the Member: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairin... #CarceralHistory #History

The Mock Election - Wikipedia

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social@pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 3w ago

#OnThisDay in penal history, 1827: Kings Bench Prisoners hold mock election, satirising the farcical election process of the time. wp.me/p74yfw-aU

You might be wondering how this decline in the number of people entering academic disciplines in the humanities affects something like a project devoted to researching, writing, and publishing histories of place (or local histories)? These early career researchers are essential to our work. 🗃️ 1/5

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w ago

In perhaps our most devastating briefing we find early career staff in the humanities as a whole have declined by 20% since 2016/17. Between 23/24 and 24/25 early career staff across all SHAPE subject areas fell by 6%, (from 52,795 to 49,410 FPE). That is the pipeline for our disciplines

Just out, my latest article for Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, 'Placing Archives: The Victoria County History and Archival Landscapes'. This draws on the archive of @vch-home.bsky.social and reflects on its role in shaping the landscape of archives in England. 1/3 🗃️

THE MAURICE BOND LECTURE 2024. PLACING ARCHIVES: THE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY AND ARCHIVAL LANDSCAPES | Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association

This paper was delivered as the 2024 Maurice Bond Lecture. It explores the place of the Victoria County History in the landscape of English archives over the last 125 years. It examines the ways in which historians working for the project have helped ...

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Have you heard of Lilian Redstone? She was one of the first women to make history her profession and helped establish the first county record offices in Suffolk, shaping how the county's history is kept and shared today. We're honouring her life and work with a range of events https://orlo.uk/1LVxg

I’m delighted to share that my new Cambridge Element, The Poet-Physician: George Crabbe and Medicine, has now been published. It’s freely available to read online for the next two weeks. If you’d like to review the book, Cambridge University Press can provide a digital review copy upon request.

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Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - The Poet-Physician

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Don't forget our next online event is this Saturday! Join us for '“Blaring defiant tunes”: relief, resilience and jazz' with a great line up of talks from Sir Deian Hopkin, Sue Bowyer and Dr Steve Thompson. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1926-and-c...

What can pills advertised to women in nineteenth century London tell us about the history of at-home abortion? Julia Porter Burke reveals the story of Lady Montrose.

Lady Montrose and the At-Home Abortion

What can an advertisement in a nineteenth century London newspaper tell us about the history of at-home abortion?

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The Irish Legislation Database is back, at a new URL: resources.qub.ac.uk/ild/ Be warned: there seem to be quite a few broken links. #LegalHistory #History