New (draft) text now available! Thanks to Professor Nicholas Orme, we are pleased to share draft texts of around 40 medieval monastic and religious foundations in #Devon which will form part of our second volume on the county in due course. All comments/corrections gratefully received. 🗃️

Devon volume II - The Medieval Church and Religious Houses to 1550

When completed, the Victoria County History of Devon, volume II will provide detailed accounts of the medieval church in Devon and the religious houses of the county.

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#TeamWilliam or #TeamHarold? Yesterday we gave out stickers @sasnews.bsky.social Festival of Research as part of our new project to archive #BayeuxTapestry stories. Share yours (you don't have to have seen it!) and be part of history. Visit tinyurl.com/UoLTapestry or use the QR codes! #UoLTapestry

Such a privilege to work with the fantastic researchers involved in these projects. They are full of community spirit & rigorous research, and all demonstrate the value of studying places throughout time, their landscapes & communities. Long live the @vch-home.bsky.social

Victoria County History@vch-home.bsky.social · 6d ago

We're really excited to share updates on our exciting new projects in #Devon, #Dorset, #Kent , #Lincolnshire an #London in our latest blog with @ihr.bsky.social, part of our wonderful community of projects. Please take a look! #Skystorians

This is indeed exciting. I remember when I was in grad school and working on an exhibition at the BL, one of the curators introduced me to the shelf of red VCH books, a resource I’d not been introduced to. Was so valuable for my research. And continues to be.

Adam Chapman@adamchapman.bsky.social · 6d ago

So exciting to be able to share thee updates on new VCH projects (@vch-home.bsky.social might be over 125 years old, but it's always doing something *new*), from medieval religious houses, via the streets of Soho, the Isle of Purbeck and much, much more. 🗃️

The 2026 annual Dr Williams's Library Lecture, hosted by the @ihr.bsky.social, will be given by Dr James Vigus on 'The 'idle' life of Henry Crabb Robinson: Suffolk dissenter, European traveller, lawyer, literator'. 28th October 2026, 5.30pm. Sign up online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Dr Williams's Library Annual Lecture

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@uknatarcsector.bsky.social is advertising for expressions of interest in a Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Award PhD on 'Archives of Religion and Belief in Contemporary Britain: Sustainability, Inclusion, Digital Transformation and Community Memory' www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

Archives of Religion and Belief in Contemporary Britain: Sustainability, Inclusion, Digital Transformation and Community Memory

This project examines how the landscape of religious archives across the UK has changed and identifies strategic interventions needed to safeguard collections.

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🥳We're so pleased to announce that two Salvation Army periodicals are now available on the British Newspaper Archive. 'The War Cry' for 1879-1985 & 'The Social Gazette' for its entire run of 1893-1917. A total of more than 70,000 pages! 🙌 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/BL/war-cry 🔒

At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!

Brodie Waddell@brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Next month the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social is hosting a Festival of Social History! Come one, come all! 🗃️ Experts! Projects! Zines! Lunch! Wine! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

Really pleased to see another part of @hannahworthen.bsky.social & my research into #Methodist #women published. This article is all about Over the Rainbow. A craft-led anti-apartheid campaign organised by Methodist women www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Women, faith, and anti-apartheid activism in late twentieth-century Britain

Between 1989 and 1990 grassroots members of the Methodist women’s movement in Britain made, displayed, and exchanged an anti-apartheid ribbon. Constructed of hundreds of individual panels made by l...

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Really looking forward to being part of this event about Women & Methodism (past & present) at Wesley Memorial Church, Ox, in May. Everyone welcome, more info & registration link here: woxresearch.co.uk/events/

This looks like a fantastic seminar using GIS to reconstruct forgotten #volunteer networks in 19th C #London. Online, 6pm, 09.02.26 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Mapping the invisible: Using GIS to reconstruct forgotten volunteer networks in 19th-century London

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This looks like a fantastic PhD opportunity, engaging with amazing historical archives & exploring such important questions. Please share with anyone interested in #genderhistory history of #livedexperience, history of #religion www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

If you’re in the London and love the study of local histories, this looks very cool

Ruth Slatter@ruthslatter.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Have you researched a place’s history? Would you like support to turn your research material into a video? Check out these 2 free events in @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @ihr.bsky.social & @vch-home.bsky.social www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...

Have you researched a place’s history? Would you like support to turn your research material into a video? Check out these 2 free events in @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @ihr.bsky.social & @vch-home.bsky.social www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...

Digital Storytelling for Local History (London)

Are you interested in local history? Do you have photographs, stories, archival material, memories about somewhere - perhaps a local pub, church, school, or area. In this workshop you will be taught h...

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Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English-language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The p...

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1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!

Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research. Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #Geography #AREAjournal

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...

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New #OnHistory blog post fro @ruthslatter.bsky.social updating us on progress of the @vchlondon.bsky.social and @bho.bsky.social digitisation project. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/digi...

Digitising the Victoria County History: first new volume added to British History Online   - On History

In this blog post, Dr Ruth Slatter (Co-General Editor of the Victoria County History and the VCH Digitisation Project Manager) celebrates the publication of new digitised VCH material on British…

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A new VCH volume available @bho.bsky.social - for more detail, please have a read of this blog from our co-General Editor, @ruthslatter.bsky.social:

Digitising the Victoria County History: first new volume added to British History Online   - On History

In this blog post, Dr Ruth Slatter (Co-General Editor of the Victoria County History and the VCH Digitisation Project Manager) celebrates the publication of new digitised VCH material on British Histo...

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British History Online@bho.bsky.social · last yr.

New material on British History Online! The Victoria County History of Staffordshire, volume 6: www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/v... #History

#Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on @vchlondon.bsky.social projects & more. Closing date 29 August. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Historic Environment:London Senate House

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Brilliant news as my exceptional colleague, @ihr.bsky.social Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, is made Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social. It's a privilege to work with Claire as she ensures the IHR is a supportive, inspiring & inclusive home for all #historians www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...

Professor Claire Langhamer confirmed as new British Academy Fellow

IHR Professor Claire Langhamer has been appointed a British Academy Fellow

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We're very pleased to welcome @themakingofmaidstone.org, a Victoria County History project working on the development of Maidstone in the 16th and 17th centuries. Led by @jack-newman.com, this three-year project restarts our work in the county. For more: #Skystorians #LocalHistory

Kent

Learn about the Victoria County History of Kent.

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It was brilliant to host Tre Ventour-Griffiths in our seminar series earlier this term, talking about the ways in which adaptations of #Austen novels have overlooked her female characters’ role as (absentee) enslavers. The recording is now available here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

"You Can't Sit With Us": Austen's Lady Karens and the British Slave Trade

CHPPC Layers of London Map

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Are you interested in the history of #London? #Francisboorman from #VCH London will be giving a lecture on the development of #Mayfair as a London Suburb on 15.07.25 for the Residents’ Society of Mayfair & St James’s. More info here www.rsmsj.com/events

RSMSJ events in Mayfair & St James, London, UK

Events | RSMSJ events in Mayfair & St James, London, UK

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This was a really warm & collaborative event, which highlighted the value of historians working in all sectors coming together & sharing their experiences of the joys & challenges of collaborative research. Thank you to everyone who came along & generously engaged in the workshop in this spirit!

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community@chppc.bsky.social · last yr.

It was a pleasure to collaborate with @uhihistory.bsky.social colleagues in April to run a workshop on place-based public history & share our ongoing research into public history in the Highlands & Islands. You can now read more about this here blog.history.ac.uk/2025/06/plac...

Great to see this blog post mention several members of the #VCH community who attended the workshop & shared their practical experiences of engaging in #placebased #publichistory

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community@chppc.bsky.social · last yr.

It was a pleasure to collaborate with @uhihistory.bsky.social colleagues in April to run a workshop on place-based public history & share our ongoing research into public history in the Highlands & Islands. You can now read more about this here blog.history.ac.uk/2025/06/plac...

*NEW BOOK* (yes, the second in a fortnight). Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre is the latest in our 'Partnership Publications' series, this title in collaboration with @hobnobpress.bsky.social. #LocalHistory #Skystorians

Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre, edited by Jean Morrin — Hobnob Press

Basingstoke is frequently seen as a modern town, the product of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long, rich and prosperous history dating from the medieval period. This study ...

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You can buy Cradley online from @uolpress.bsky.social: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-vic... But not only from there! [cont.]

Our latest book from #Herefordshire, Cradley, was launched last night on a beautiful summer evening. The authors, Anastasia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes and our director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social joined an appreciative audience. We sold plenty of copies, but if you would like one [cont.]

Many thanks to Tre for sharing in such an open & personal way in this seminar last night. So much food for thought in his reflections on how the representation of white women in Austen screen adaptations is another way of dismissing the violence & trauma of enslavement. Recording coming soon.

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community@chppc.bsky.social · last yr.

The next event in our summer events series will take place 11.06.25, 5.30-7pm (BST), online only. Tre Ventour-Griffiths will explore female absentee enslavers in #JaneAusten ‘s novels. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇