Haven’t got tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum? Don’t worry you can visit Reading's full-size copy, faithfully embroidered by 35 women in 1885-86 (plus extra pants!) Or latest blog compares the two tapestries www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-bayeux-and-reading-tapestries

Comparing the Bayeux and Reading tapestries

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry is a full-size copy of the original 11th century tapestry. It was created in 1885-1886 by 35 women of the Leek Embroidery Society 'so that England should have a copy of its o...

readingmuseum.org.uk

*Many hands of every sort* I've got a 10-page feature in the latest @historytoday.com on the emergence of mass petitioning in late Tudor & early Stuart England. Tons of people adding their 'hands' to complaints and requests for the first time! #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Remember remember the 4th November 2026, when I'll be giving an online talk for The National Archives all about the original records relating to the discovery, trial, and punishment of the Gunpowder Plotters. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

Gunpowder Plot – punishing the plotters

What happened after Guy Fawkes was captured?

nationalarchives.gov.uk

More digging into TNA's copies of the US Declaration. Could this mysterious 'Baltimore Dunlap' be the 27th surviving original Declaration of Independence, actually printed in Philadelphia? (New evidence from our Heritage Science department says 'yes'!)

The mysterious Baltimore copy of the US Declaration of Independence

We hold an original version of the Declaration that is completely unique: the only known copy attributed to John Dunlap’s shop in Baltimore.

nationalarchives.gov.uk

maritime-executive.com/editorials/t... #MaritimeHistory

Tiny Crystals Reveal Historical Background of the Batavia Mutiny

Few episodes occupy a darker place in maritime history than the wreck of the Batavia. Wrecked off the mid-west coast of Western Australia in June 16...

maritime-executive.com

#OnThisDay in 1776, Jonas Phillips tried to spread the news of American independence to Europe. But a British ship intercepted his message. After 250 years tucked away at the National Archives in the UK, his letter and Declaration broadside have returned to Philadelphia. 📜: bit.ly/3MYjbIm

Absolute Units returns! We're back with the @uniofreading.bsky.social's Tom Oliver and Marzia Briel, talking about how we can rethink and rebuild humanity's relationship with nature. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life

Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

merl.reading.ac.uk

Who held the power during an arrest in early modern England? @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social explores how bystanders could uphold or undermine the power of the state.

Being an Audience to Arrest

Lucy Clarke examines the arrest in early modern England, reconstructing how bystanders could legitimise or challenge the power of the state.

historyworkshop.org.uk

The Polly, seized in July 1776, looked like an ordinary merchant ship hauling oil, candles and flour. In truth, she carried a secret mission: passenger William Hodge held orders to buy muskets, gunpowder and warships for Congress—papers he threw overboard moments before capture #skystorians #history

The 2026 World Cup (medieval edition). #MedievalMonday Bodleian Library MS. Douce 62

'"This is pure mentality," he said.' Actually, as cultural historians will instantly have picked up, Thomas Tuchel was making a sophisticated reference here to the concept of mentalité. If England wants to beat Argentina, the coaching team needs to be augmented with a cultural historian pronto.

World Cup 2026: Tuchel fumes at 'lucky' and 'sloppy' England - but Jude Bellingham defends players

England head coach Thomas Tuchel is praised by former England players for saying his players "got lucky" in World Cup quarter-final win over Norway - but match-winner Jude Bellingham disagrees.

bbc.co.uk

Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!

jobs.ac.uk

One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.

delighted to feature on History Hit's new film about the American Revolution, alongside documents from our Revolution 250 exhibition. Dan and I talk about everything from the US Declaration of Independence to an item colleagues and I affectionately call 'The Giant 18th-Century Spreadsheet'.

American Revolution: Declarations of War and Independence

The year 2026 marks a monumental milestone in global history: the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. To commemorate...

historyhit.com

Ahead of our upcoming exhibition Becoming America: how science shaped a nation, supported by Griffin Catalyst, our latest blog post explores the scientific thinking that underpinned the Declaration of Independence: https://bit.ly/4eKhgGk

On 3-4 July 1776, as Philadelphia finalised the Declaration of Independence, four American merchant ships were seized off Cape Henlopen, Delaware by the British, and taken to New York Bay. Papers from the Adrian, Fidelity, and Peggy were likely lost. More soon on the Polly's secret mission

New from The Natural History Museum -- The Other 250, a counter-atlas which "shows how place-names shape past and present struggles over land, power, and belonging, and holds the histories that official commemoration works to sanitize or suppress." wordsaremonuments.org/the-other-250/

The Other 250 - Words Are Monuments

wordsaremonuments.org

Rare find at the National Archives UK: earlier this year, the volunteer Michael Scurr at TNA discovered one of the earliest prints of the US Declaration of Independence in the Royal Navy Captains’ letters collection and can be linked to our collection as it travelled on the American privateer Dalton

Finding a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence

In May 2026, a volunteer working on a cataloguing project at The National Archives made an astonishing discovery.

nationalarchives.gov.uk

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Declaration was made in the land of Exeter.

Graham Moore@mooregraham.bsky.social · 3mo ago

we have some fun 4 July news over at The National Archives! a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence, with an amazing story behind it (privateers! printers! prisoners!) - but also, a find that shows the power and importance of our volunteering and cataloguing projects.

thanks for visiting, Katrina - it’s so great to hear you enjoyed it!! (the Anglo-Mohawk agreement here is one of my favourites from our item selection)

Katrina Navickas@katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At the American Revolution exhibition at TNA. It's great. Something so powerful seeing the materiality of ink on vellum of documents that actually changed everything and have massive legacy for today. #Long18thC

big thanks to BBC R4’s Today programme for having me on to talk about this (find me on catch-up, around 08.45am!)

Graham Moore@mooregraham.bsky.social · 3mo ago

we have some fun 4 July news over at The National Archives! a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence, with an amazing story behind it (privateers! printers! prisoners!) - but also, a find that shows the power and importance of our volunteering and cataloguing projects.

we have some fun 4 July news over at The National Archives! a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence, with an amazing story behind it (privateers! printers! prisoners!) - but also, a find that shows the power and importance of our volunteering and cataloguing projects.

‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

theguardian.com

Now That’s What I Call A Roundtable (on the Amistad no less!) (I’m also there, but on a different table. feasibly a quadrilateral table. many shapes of table are available, at a variety of furniture stores that may/not be Swedish. table humour aside this is a GREAT issue)

Lou Roper@roperlou.bsky.social · 3mo ago

delighted to announce new Journal of Early American History w/articles by @mooregraham.bsky.social @mariekeulen.bsky.social and 'heavyweight' roundtable w/ @thehistoriann.bsky.social @lhistorienne.bsky.social @csschmitt.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... #earlymodern

The Prize Papers Project announces a new collaboration with Capstan Games. Together with the German Maritime Museum and the Gamelab Oldenburg, we explore the Age of Sail by linking archival research with historically grounded game development for the game Ahoy #maritimehistory #earlymodern #history

Great new job as Professor of Early Modern Irish History at Dublin City University advertised today. universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

historyworkshop.org.uk

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

At Chalke History Festival today, talking about ‘Revolution 250’ with my colleague and co-curator Sean Cunningham. (Weird moment as, exactly 10 years ago in VERY different weather, I was part if the volunteer team at this same festival!) Thanks to everyone who braved the heat to hear us today!

Studied at Exeter for my BA/MA (History & Classics depts). Top of the line teaching and research, interlinked. Exeter remains one of the most productive UK universities in my own fields (early modern, social, maritime history). If Humanities here is up for cuts then what university is NOT at risk?

Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️