The final sunset of 2025 ✨

✨ As we approach the shortest day, the skies seem to become all the more spectacular - a reminder that the light remains, and the light in all its fullness will return.

It might be nearly Christmas, but whatever the time of year, it’s always a season for chocolate brownies - even more so if they are decadently gooey and fudgy in the middle! Do you agree?

We are ready 🎶 The soloists are ready 🎤 The wine and mince pies are ready 🍷🥧 Are you ready to come and join us on Saturday for a celebration of Saint Nicholas? If so, get your tickets using the link below! www.cbcplatform.org/dbpage.php?p...

Why not buy a gift of membership for someone interested in the Huguenots this year? Just go to our website www.huguenotsociety.org.uk to download a form from the ‘About the Society’ page and submit it for someone on your gift list. #skystorians #huguenots

A very worthy and long overdue recipient; congratulations, Sir John Rutter! 🥂

ISM@ism-music.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🏆 Sir John Rutter 🏆 And the winner of the Distinguished Music Award 2025 is... 🥁 Sir John Rutter! The honour is in recognition of Sir John’s remarkable career and lifetime of service to the art of music 🎉 Read the full story ⬇️ www.ism.org/news/sir-joh...

I’d love to say we came to welcome HM King to Lichfield, but in truth, we’d just come for the 10:39 to Sutton Coldfield 😂 Well timed! 🙌 He gave us a wave and a smile too - not bad considering we probably look like we’ve been through a hedge backwards 💨😂

Sheet Music Downloads from Carl Fischer & Theodore Presser are now available! 🔎 Explore here: https://tinyurl.com/3e4v6ur3

IHGS has shaped my own #genealogy journey, if you’re at The Family History Show in London on 4th October, make sure to stop by their stand! #OnePlaceWednesday

IHGS - The School of Family History@ihgs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We will be at The Family History Show, London 2025 on 4th October 2025. Do come and visit our stand and say hello. #FamilyHistoryShow thefamilyhistoryshow.com/london/ #genealogy #familyhistory

Nominations for the 2026 #RPSAwards have now closed. Huge thanks to RPS Members and colleagues across the classical music profession who have shared their favourites with us! Stay tuned for shortlists, and join us at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social on 12 March to discover the winners!

If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

Campaigners fighting Sheppard Robson and Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s plans to redevelop an area on the edge of the Barbican Estate have won permission to proceed with a legal challenge that claims alternatives to demolition were overlooked

Campaigners get green light for legal challenge against Barbican demolition

Campaigners get green light for legal challenge against Barbican demolition

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EVENT: Join C20 for the launch of a major new book on Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House in Los Angeles (1927-30); a masterpiece of the international modernist movement and cinematic star of ‘L.A. Confidential’. 🗓️ Wed 15 Oct 2025, 6.30pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online 🎟️ c20society.org.uk/events

For over 240 years, our Fellows have used the post-nominals FSAScot to identify themselves as part of Scotland's oldest antiquarian society. If you would like to become a Fellow in 2025 and help play an active role in safeguarding Scotland’s past, apply before 30 September: www.socantscot.org/join/

Victorian and Edwardian Childhood and Education 1820-1920. This course will explore childhood and education throughout the Victorian and Edwardian eras in England and Wales, a period spanning one hundred years of considerable social change. www.pharostutors.com/details.php?...

🌳 Have you traced your family tree as far back as the 17th century? Few records survive from that period - but some do remain, and can even be found online. Find out more with our guide: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Fellows of the Society are recognised for their contribution to historical understanding and knowledge. We welcome invitations to join the Fellowship at any time from historians working in Higher Education and other sectors, as well as independent researchers bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

#AATP25 is very much *not* the event in its usual format, more a look back at some of the fab things from the two events held so far—with a theme for each day. 👇🏻 However, @projectkin.bsky.social and ourselves will be contributing new material: keep your eyes peeled for details! #OnePlaceWednesday

Feeling scattered with your DNA results? Skip random videos—join the DNA Study Group: ✔️ 2 live expert sessions/month ✔️ Supportive community ✔️ Core lessons + handouts Enroll by Sept 30 for bonus planner + welcome party! Make your research organized + supported—join today! hubs.la/Q03K2tvf0

Join us on 15th October for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall.' The work uses the story of the Drax family's history as enslavers in Barbados as a microcosm of Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...

New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. "Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f #Skystorians 1/2

The report featured in the Guardian today on the inclusion of women in hustory lessons is really important - lets make women’s voices heard and their actions remembered. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum

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A celebratory evening marking the publication of the 250th Big Red Book of #local & #place based #history from @vch-home.bsky.social: Westmorland vol 1, from VCH Cumbria (Cumbria County History Trust). Many congratulations to Sarah Rose and her colleagues, and to all the local contributors involved.

We’re not just planning for a digital future: we’re living in a digital present. How do we make a sustainable cultural memory? @TJOwens.bsky.social & @ShannonMattern.bsky.social discuss in the #booktalk AFTER DISRUPTION. 🗓 Thurs Sept 25 🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...

On the #AATP25 Day 1 theme of introductions, welcomes, and getting started with #OnePlaceStudies and place-based #FamilyHistory, be sure to check out on our website: ✦ About us (the Society for One-Place Studies) ✦ What is a One-Place Study? ✦ A guide to one-place studies (PDF) #OnePlaceWednesday

Society for One-Place Studies@oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We promised some new material from us for #AATP25, and the first video is now live on our #OnePlaceStudies YouTube channel! Check out Mini-AATP - Welcome and getting started presented by @willsmanonename.bsky.social Liz Craig on this wonderful #OnePlaceWednesday

A course from the Society of Genealogists that may be of interest to #OnePlaceStudy people is Maps for Genealogists. Four 1-hour sessions over four weeks, on Monday evenings from 20th October. £50, with a discount for SoG members. #OnePlaceWednesday

We promised some new material from us for #AATP25, and the first video is now live on our #OnePlaceStudies YouTube channel! Check out Mini-AATP - Welcome and getting started presented by @willsmanonename.bsky.social Liz Craig on this wonderful #OnePlaceWednesday

Exciting times! We have now sold 62% of our tickets for this concert & there’s still just over 7 weeks to go…so the message is: Don’t delay, get YOUR tickets today! We’d love you to experience this tribal-choral masterpiece encompassing a thrilling setting of the Latin Mass.

Floella Benjamin is 76 today, Happy Birthday Floella, I hope you are having a wonderful day 🎁🎂

On the Westerly point in Wales is St Davids Cathedral Originally a monastery founded by St David, in 1123 papal privilege was bestowed upon the cathedral and this made it a focus for pilgrims. Today pilgrims come in 1000s, still finding this one of the world’s ‘thin’ places More ⤵️ buff.ly/FwqrtZR