I have personally never visited the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford but I know many will be terribly sad at this news 🙁 @elaineamitchell.bsky.social

Shakespeare Institute Leaving Stratford in 2027 | What's up, Stratford

The Shakespeare Institute will leave Mason Croft in Stratford for Birmingham's Edgbaston campus in September 2027. What we know and what it means for town.

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'Getting Dirty with Wolverhampton Archaeological Group', a talk by Clive Westwood and Paul Robinson. November's BCS Event at Dudley Canal & Caverns 7.30pm Wednesday 25 November. Join us as we explore 3 projects dug locally, covering prehistory, medieval and post medieval periods.

📣 New issue available online 📣 Including #openaccess articles on Alice de Condet, the Colchester family, the Moon baronets, and our 2025 Essay Prize Winner, as well as book reviews from protest and public space to Shakespeare's Stratford to National Service www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/c...

Midland History

Volume 51, Issue 2 of Midland History

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📣 Volume 53, Issue 3 is out now! Featuring articles by: 📝 Radosław Gliński on Arcaded houses in Poland 📝 Arie van Steensel, Roos van Oosten & Martin Hooymans on Housing inequality and social segregation in Leiden 📝 William Cavert on Industrial brewing in London 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Join us tomorrow as Dr Erica Canela explores how the first Quakers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire challenged ministers and magistrates, revealing a movement driven by apocalyptic fervour and far removed from its later quietist image. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...

Huge news, Dispatchers 🚨 We've disabled our paywall! From now until the 9th of Nov, you can access all of our articles for the low, low price of nothing. Now's your chance to explore our archive, restriction-free www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-archive/

Delighted to share this funding opportunity! The Women’s Studies Group 1558–1837 is offering a £750 bursary to support research in women’s studies during the period 1558–1837. Open to PhD students, ECRs, and independent scholars. Deadline: 11 December 2026. womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

Last 2 weeks! The Unlocking the Vaults #free exhibition is open until 13 Nov at The Exchange, Centenary Square, #Birmingham Step inside The Vaults to learn more about the city's unique Municipal Bank (1919-1976) Open Mon-Sat 8am - 5pm (cafe open until 4pm) (Funded National Heritage Lottery Fund)

Exhibition: Unlocking the Vaults - University of Birmingham

Step inside The Vaults to discover the people, places, and experiences behind one of Birmingham's most distinctive civic institutions.

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📣 New article from Midland History 📣 Christopher Dyer traces five generations of Richard Colchesters, the Gloucestershire farmers playing their part in the late medieval transition from peasant society to modern agrarian economy Available now #openaccess 👇 doi.org/10.1080/0047...

Midland Farmers in the Later Middle Ages: The Colchester Family

The first generations of large-scale farmers in the period 1360–1550 deserve attention because they represent a new trend in rural economy and society. Without much evidence, we are not usually wel...

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Looking forward to visiting #Birmingham Museum this weekend for Forgotten India at 80: The Stories You Don't Know. Free drop-in activities, music, and crafts, to discover stories of South Asian contributions during the First & Second World Wars.

Forgotten India at 80: Museum Takeover | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums

Join Believe in Me CIC for a special three-day museum takeover celebrating the stories and themes behind their new project, Forgotten India at 80: The Stor

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It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

A nice local piece on University of Birmingham The Exchange, Helios and the free Unlocking the Vaults exhibition now on until 13 November in the historic vaults - open Mon-Sat!

The most breathtaking cafe in the city centre has a mystery no one can solve

The underrated spot has secrets around every corner.

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Well this is a lovely surprise! Very honoured to have been awarded the @urbanhistory.bsky.social Dyos Prize Thank you so much to the editors and judges #histmed #histSTM

Urban History@urbanhistory.bsky.social · 4w ago

We're pleased to share that @justinepick.bsky.social has been awarded the Dyos Prize for the best article published in the previous 12 months! 'Perilous privies and public health' uses 1870s-1920s Birmingham to challenge existing ideas on investment in sanitation infrastructure & mortality decline

'“We may not have the same sort of slums that we used to in Victorian times but there are still issues with living conditions for many people living in rented accommodation,” says academic librarian and curator Mura Ghosh.' #Skystorians

A Place to Call Home: Poverty and Housing in London

Explore the history of poverty, housing and community life in London over the past 200 years through maps, archives, photographs, literature and personal testimony.

london.ac.uk

For those who would like to know more about the thousands prisoners of war from the Caribbean at Portchester Castle in 1796, Dr Abigail Coppins and I have a guided tour on YouTube (link via the research pages below) and lots of background research outlined too: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...

Portchester Castle research projects

Research and engagement projects of Professor Kate Astbury, University of Warwick and Dr Abigail Coppins, University of Warwick

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w ago

Plaque telling story of African-Caribbean prisoners in Britain stolen within days

Readers! At the start of November we’re going to launch our first major campaign, involving a list of pledges to the city of Birmingham. Today, we want you to choose what those pledges will be. Vote, have your voice heard, and help make our city better www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/help-us-tran...

Help us transform Birmingham for the better

An editor’s note from Kate about our biggest project yet

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I’m really looking forward to running this event next month! Please do come along or share with people who might be interested!

UK Disability History and Heritage Hub@ukdishisthub.bsky.social · last mo.

We are pleased to announce that booking is now open for our event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on the 27th November! You can book to attend in-person (limited space) or virtually and all information can be found on the Eventbrite: #DisHist www.eventbrite.com/e/collection...

Local History Hub - connecting schools and heritage organisations and rooted in belonging Great to learn a #Birmingham Hub is on the way 👇

Local History Hub@localhistoryhub.bsky.social · last mo.

❤️ Powered by people! A huge thank you to everyone helping Local History Hub grow. We're now supported by: 👏 12+ Board and advisory members 👏 40+ volunteer Hub Leads 👏 250+ schools, heritage organisations and individuals in our network Not bad for a grassroots organisation!

What else would I be doing this evening but livestreaming The Secret Life of Sewers @britishacademy.bsky.social 😀 London's Great Stink, Bazalgette, fatbergs and the new super sewer

We'll be sharing some early findings from our 'Birthing Stories' oral history collaboration with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social next Thursday. If you'd like to share a memory of birth in Worcestershire (or know someone who might) do share our info with them: medicalmuseum.org.uk/birth-stories 👶

Birth Stories - George Marshall Medical Museum — Worcester Medical Museums

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University of Worcester@worcesteruni.bsky.social · last mo.

Researches from 'The Birthing Project' will be at The Hive on 15 October for a free drop-in event exploring memories of maternity care and childbirth across the decades 🧑‍🍼 Hear talks, chat to the team, see exhibits and get involved. Find out more 👉 ow.ly/7RFE50ZWKtE #WorcesterUni

Join us for Black Country History Day on Saturday 17 October. youtu.be/GLPYEmCpWRI?...

Black Country History Day - 17/10/2026

On 17th October the Black Country Society is holding it's Black Country History Day Visit https://bclm.com/tickets-and-events/whats-on/black-country-history-day/ for more details and to book!

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Following their Warwick Castle archives exhibition, Warwickshire County Record Office are holding an #online symposium with four invited academics to share the ways they have explored and interpreted the evidence for #LGBT lives in archive material. 📆Sat 7 Nov 🕰️1 - 4:30 pm Booking 👇(charges apply)

Queering the Past: Sex and Love in Stuart England

Online Symposium - same sex relationships in the 17th century

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Delighted to be one of the newly elected Associate Fellows of @royalhistsoc.org

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last mo.

We're very pleased to welcome 213 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members & Postgraduate Members who join @royalhistsoc.org today: bit.ly/4zjoRD1. Our new Fellows and Members reflect the breadth of historical research and practice: across all careers stages in the UK & worldwide #Skystorians 1/2

Check out all the brilliant talks being held as part of Dudley History Festival. Booking details listed per event, we'd love to see you there! www.better.org.uk/library/dudl...

Dudley History Festival

Take a step back in time and explore Dudley Borough's history at the first annual Dudley Writers' Festival.

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📣 Important Membership News 📣 Keep informed with latest issue of The Gazette (September 2026). This issue explains changes to membership management with a new system from November. Look out for your renewal letters arriving early December. #histSTM #histmed

Stay Informed with The Gazette of SSHM

The Gazette of the SSHM launched in 1990 to keep subscribers of Social History of Medicine informed about professional events within as well as outside the SSHM. It not only provides a means to com…

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✨ New article from Midland History ✨ Discover the rise and fall of the Moon baronetcy of Coventry and what it tells us about modern attitudes towards hereditary honours by @brandontaylorian.bsky.social Read online now, available #openaccess 👇 doi.org/10.1080/0047...

The Moon Baronets of Copsewood Grange, Coventry: Rise, Decline and Dormancy in a Late Victorian Industrial Baronetcy

The dormancy of a baronetcy may appear a minor historical detail, yet it illuminates the changing meanings and limits of hereditary honour in modern Britain. This article examines the rise, decline...

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For the #Skystorians , but not just for them. blog.royalhistsoc.org/2026/09/24/t...