MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

New Bibliography: Royal Proclamations statutes.org.uk/site/collect... #LegalHistory

Please join us for our inaugural seminar of the term in the IHR and online. Register: tinyurl.com/298ssvkr @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Your best ever night at the #theatre? Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Thurs 13 Nov to recreate it - or stage the show of your dreams - & discover the use of #toy theatre in #heritage #research! From my fab PhD student @pdwebster.bsky.social. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We're moving our Mastodon account. As our previous provider is shutting down, we've moved to hcommons.social/@bho Gi' us a follow!

Who did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Here's the full seminar programme for autumn 2025. Seminars are either hybrid or online only so plenty of opportunities for those not local to London to join us. Please sign up using the links for any papers you'd like to come to. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We're moving our Mastodon account. As our previous provider is shutting down, we've moved to hcommons.social/@bho Gi' us a follow!

Decided it was about time to make an account for this research project. You can learn more about the current "People's Papers" archival efforts underway @wcmlibrary.bsky.social here: wcml.org.uk/blog/the-peo... And catch up on updates via Instagram: www.instagram.com/peoplespapers/

New draft material available from our friends at VCH Essex: all comment/feedback or corrections gratefully received and acknowledged! #LocalHistory #Skystorians

Want to know more about the sorts of benefits that working with @vch-home.bsky.social could have, particularly for Early Career Researchers? Take a look at this blog. #Skystorians

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

More on the Ancestry vs National Records Scotland battle: Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly by @chrismpaton.bsky.social scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance... #Archives

The Society is deeply concerned by a growing pattern of the Secretary of State refusing to add important historic buildings to the National Heritage List for England, even when formally recommended to do so by Historic England. Read more: bit.ly/4pQKFSI 📷 Hotspur Press by Alan Davies #heritage

This is the Ancestry vs National Records of Scotland decision. There is one mention of the Open Govt License, but opening up the records isn't really discussed. Doesn't seem to have copyright implications, but I can't claim to understand all the details.

@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!

I can't find the General Regulatory Chamber decision on this case (probably because I'm completely unfamiliar with such modern matters). Can anyone point me in the right direction? #Archives #Law #FreedomOfInformation #FOI

The condition of state archives in the UK, part 2: Commercial co. demands access to state records. (But not, it seems, that the records are made freely available.) "Ancestry in legal bid to access Scottish family records" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #History #Archives

The condition of state archives in the UK, part 1: Inaccessible police records, which are particularly important given, for example, the #Spycops scandal. "Why aren’t Police Records covered by the Public Records Act?" www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-are... #History #Archives

Why aren’t Police Records in England & Wales covered by the Public Records Act? We've been campaigning on this since 2012 - blog for more info: www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-arent-police-records-covered-by-the-public-records-act #publicaccountability of interest @andyburnham.bsky.social ?

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is! We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Important new #OpenAccess article on how slavery in Britain was ended, and who ended it. Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain by Simon Newman www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #History #EnslavedHistory 🗃️

Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla... #OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

Whoops, actually it's published by the University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social , not UCL press @uclpress.bsky.social (Both of whom are fine publishers with marvellous catalogues!)

To tie the last two reposts togetehr, Helen Macfarlane, born OTD in 1818 is discussed in @uclpress.bsky.social new #OpenAccess volume on working class writers: read.uolpress.co.uk/read/british... #History 🗃️

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social. This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏 'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!' uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

Helen Macfarlane, Chartist journalist, translator, and witness to the revolutions of 1848, was born #OnThisDay 25 September 1818 www.chartistancestors.co.uk/helen-macfar...

The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky! Follow us for updates and keep your eyes peeled for information about our upcoming seminars 👀 @ihr.bsky.social #BlackBritishHistory #historians #academia

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

We are delighted to flag that @vch-home.bsky.social has refocused its work in #London - including all those areas now in Greater London that were once in the counties of #Middlesex, #Surrey, #Essex and #Kent under the banner of 'VCH London' - @vch-london.bsky.social. Please give them a folllow!

People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist

Welcome IHR @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social! You can find them and our other projects, seminars and people in our starter pack go.bsky.app/2AUxmcA Let me know if we've missed anyone.

The first results of my FIFA-funded project are out in the world! ⚽ Why the FA's takeover of women's football from the WFA in 1993 was a "Hobson's Choice" for the WFA, & a moment of disempowerment for #womensfootball ⚽ It's open access & available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT! Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'. Online and in-person, 5.30pm Book here:

Does anyone know of a list of early modern and c18th English spellings of words? i.e. a list of alternative spellings, such as 'publick' for publick, 'Wyllyam' for William, and so on? Surely such a thing must have been compiled? #History #LinguisticHistory 🗃️

Come and join us on Wednesday to learn more about our 250th Red Book (and something of the 249 before that!).

Very much looking forward to Dan Gosling (TNA) speaking on 'A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield’s “judgment” on the sex of the Chevalier d’Eon' this Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome online or in person, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join us for an online People's Papers research project workshop to learn about the history of 1970s alternative newspapers, their archival preservation & their continued relevance for today. All welcome! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

BBC coverage of research using Northampton General Hospital's archive: Child hospital care dates from 18th Century: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The study itself is #OpenAccess: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #History #MedicalHistory

Come and do my Victorian London 'Lowlife' Novel course or 'Alf' might have to come round & 'ave a word... Starts 17 October! @citylit.bsky.social Full reading list here: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-...

📣Calling all new research students in history & historical subjects. Do you want to learn how the IHR can help you during your studies? Join us on the 8 October to find out more. @royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social bit.ly/41UPOyG

Delighted to be giving an #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ talk on Wed 22 October for the St Giles Society at the Church of St Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2. Come & hear how the Irish presence in St Giles was so much more complex than the infamous Rookery! Tix only £5 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-irish-...

Thread on the Agas map of #London. Download a high res version from BHO's github repository: github.com/ihr-digital/... #History #Maps