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Joe Cozens

@joecozens.bsky.social

Historian of protest, smuggling, and the British state, 1700-1850.

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Migration Museum@migrationmuseum.org · 2d ago

Major funding secured! 🏛️💛 We’re thrilled to share that the @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social has committed £600,000 as a Founding Partner to help make our new permanent home in the City of London a reality. We're one step closer to bringing the UK’s missing museum to life in Spring 2028! 🧵👇 📸 Unknown Works

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Justin Colson@justincolson.bsky.social · 5d ago

My paper "Interpreting status, hierarchy and oligarchy in London’s livery companies in the earlier sixteenth century" has just been published in Social History. How did London's livery companies conceive of status and hierarchy, and how did this compare across the companies?

Interpreting status, hierarchy and oligarchy in London’s livery companies in the earlier sixteenth century

London’s livery companies (or guilds) have long been seen as bastions of privilege, but their members have never been equally privileged or esteemed. Their mechanisms of power and status are highly...

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Katrina Navickas@katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just a reminder to everyone: join a trade union. And if you're already a member, please be active. Vote, volunteer, become a rep or an officer. You are the union. The larger the union membership the more strength and agency we have.

Graham Moore@mooregraham.bsky.social · last mo.

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

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some stray thoughts on gap-filling. Take them for what they are 1. Gaps in archives are not like rips in clothing; they don't have a well defined and wholly known, or in the broadest sense wholly knowable, shape or extent. You can't cut a patch for them or fill them with putty and smooth them over.

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

History of Parliament@histparl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today marks the 160th anniversary of the first mass petition for women's suffrage. Below, Dr Kathryn Rix has explored the debate around this petition and its place in the campaign to secure the parliamentary vote for women. @victoriancommons.bsky.social

‘The first humble beginnings of an agitation’: the women’s suffrage petition of 7 June 1866

A. Dingsdale, '"Generous and lofty sympathies": the Kensington Society, the 1866 women's suffrage petition and the development of mid-Victorian feminism'

historyofparliament.com

Northern History@northernhistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Northern History is supporting this workshop on environmental history, which will take place in Leeds on 10 Sept. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 17 July - see below for more information. We’re planning to publish a special issue on the topic too. Please repost!

Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We've been asked to share a CfP for a workshop organised by a group of historians at Leeds. Papers on a variety of topics related to the Environmental History of Northern England are invited: the orgnaisers hope to develop some papers presented into a special issue of @northernhistory.bsky.social

Poster for CfP: a man cuts peat, with peat drying in the background. The text, overlaid on the image in two text boxes, reads: The Environmental History of the North of England School of History, University of Leeds Themes presented could include but are not limited to: the history of water management schemes, land-use change, degradation of landscapes, the environmental impacts of urban expansion, and the emergence of conservation and restoration efforts. Papers relating to any historical period are welcome. Paper titles and a 150-word abstract should be sent to the organizers by Friday, 17 July. Nir Arielli: n.arielli@leeds.ac.uk Anne Caldwell: A.Caldwell@leeds.ac.uk Alex Worsfold: hyamaw@leeds.ac.uk
Ant Dawson@railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Long but rewarding day in Llangollen to remember Charles Beyer, who died 150 years ago this year and is one of five famous LGBTQ+ innovators recognised this year. Really privileged to take part and represent Brookfield Church. And as Beyer's biographer. Some Victorians were gay. Get over it.

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British History Online@bho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New #OpenAccess book: Petty Tyranny and Oppression: Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws by Paul Carter and Steven King londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/petty-... #History

Petty Tyranny and Oppression: Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership

This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor, drawing on many thousands of accounts of...

londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk

Kieran Connell@kieranconnell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about a new AHRC project I’m proud to be involved in with @jcrangle.bsky.social & @tortietabby.bsky.social on a hundred years of diversity in Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Kieran Connell: Ireland has a long multicultural history. It's time to tell that story

Refugees from Hungary and Belgium; migrant workers from Poland and Germany; doctors from Africa and Asia — over the last century, Ireland was far more diverse than many of us seem to realise

irishexaminer.com

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

Here’s someone you’ve never heard of! Ann Nevil: A Loyalist during the American Revolution, Ann guided escaped British POWs back to New York after the defeat at Saratoga. Read this ‘less-told’ story from our ‘Revolution 250’ exhibition: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-... #skystorians

Ann Nevil: 'The most Notorious Malafactor Imaginable'

Some of the most exciting stories in the American Revolution are those of the extraordinary, yet ordinary, men and women whose lives were forever changed.

nationalarchives.gov.uk