The @ihr.bsky.social has brought all its online resources - journals, @vch-home.bsky.social, OA book series, @bho.bsky.social, BBIH, @layersoflondon.bsky.social, and more - into one section of its website for easier access bit.ly/4cCrpUD. Much of this content is free to use online #Skystorians

#20s30s generalstrike100.com?event=15296#...

A tale of a common #C18th experience, of being detained for debt for just a few days. #History #DebtHistory

New blog post: "Jacque-Pierre Brissot in the Sponging House" inneskeighren.com/williammacin... #C18

How did I get to this stage of historical research without knowing of the existence of an anti-enclosure tea tray. I love a good tea tray. Memorabilia from a successful resistance attempt in Bedfont, Middlesex, 1801. Of interest to @markcrail.bsky.social ? Ref PhD thesis by Paul Carter, 1998.

An important new article on #DigitalHistory infrastructure (and #OpenAccess too): Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #History

Match-box makers, c.1906 In 1906 'sweated' (poorly paid) homeworkers were put on public display as part of a 6 week exhibition organised by the Daily News The exhibition handbook included photos of workers (mostly women) in their usual domestic working conditions warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

A version of this is now up — will post expanded versions in the future. sarahbull.me/mapping-nine...

CFP: Race, Law and Empire

18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026. Please see the poster for further information!

An important new article on #DigitalHistory infrastructure (and #OpenAccess too): Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #History

Two new #OpenAccess histories from @uclpress.bsky.social: Student London A new history of higher education in the capital uclpress.co.uk/book/student... Survey of London: University College London, The Bloomsbury Campus uclpress.co.uk/book/univers... #History #LondonHistory

#EarlyModern 🗃️ Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think. academic.oup.com/past/article...

#OnThisDay in London petitioning history, 1723: The residents of the Southwark Mint rookery petition Parliament against the recent closure of their sanctuary, a stronghold against bailiffs chasing debtors. An article on this petition on the Alsatia blog: alsatia.org.uk/site/2012/02...

“Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? … We all find our own way, and notice different things as we go.” @markhailwood.bsky.social manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i... 🗃️

Date for your diary - join us Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c... Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

📣Bookings now open! 👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor 📅 24 Apr 2026 💷 from £10 for members All welcome! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

#OTD in 1918: The Representation of the People Act is passed, extending the vote to men over 21 and some women over 30. statutes.org.uk/site/the-sta... #History #LegalHistory

Bill Turkel and I have just published an article in DHQ. It is about the emergence of Manslaughter as a charge at the Old Bailey, and the working methods we used to analyse the data. dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... Thanks to Gabor Toth for shepherding it through peer review.

Our first event of this term is taking place very soon, on Thursday 5 February! Holly Fletcher (UCL) will be speaking on 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'. You can sign-up to attend in person and online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Very much looking forward to @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social talking about The Ship Bedford and the Atlantic Slave Trade next Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome, either online or in person, but please register www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Free to download until Feb 17th: The Five Ages of Antifascism by Joseph Fronczak www.cambridge.org/core/element... #History #AntiFascism

Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30

Our history also includes the precursor to St Agatha's, Christchurch, Colmore Row, built in 1805 and sold (and demolished), to fund the building of St Agatha's. Our volume on Birmingham is one of several on English cities published after the Second World War. For more, see @bho.bsky.social.

📣Out now on #firstview! Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) (@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) on 'George Wallace and Britain’s First Abolitionist Publication (1760)' #Abolition #Slavery #Law #Scotland 18thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ooh look! @sharonhoward.bsky.social has updated and expanded the visualisations for the #PowerOfPetitioning material that we transcribed and published on @bho.bsky.social a few years ago. 🗃️📜 Very pretty pictures! 👀 the-power-of-petitioning.github.io

Some good #DigitalHistory funding news:

LSMS winter programme 2025/26 ft. researchers across the 🌎 speaking on medieval art/environment/medicine/architecture Tuesdays, 17:30 (GMT) at the @ihr.bsky.social in Bloomsbury or on Zoom. All welcome, register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians

NEW *draft text* from our friends and colleagues @vchgloucester.bsky.social. The parish of Preston near #Cirencester will form part of volume 16 for Gloucestershire. All comments, additional information and corrections greatly appreciated. #Skystorians #LocalHistory

Really interesting interview on doing research into historic periodicals from @rs4vp.org (2 parts of 3 so far published) rs4vp.org/introducing-... rs4vp.org/getting-star... #History

Between 1485 & 1603 Devon and Cornwall experienced 5 major rebellions: how were they remembered regionally, over time and across social divisions? And how are they being commemorated today? 'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West': bit.ly/3YXxbbz: a new TRHS article by Prof Mark Stoyle 1/2

Here's a sneak peek at a tiny slice of the research included in my new book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (available for pre-order now and out tomorrow, 1/27)!!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky #slaveryarchive www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

#OnThisDay in London anti-military history, 1916: A meeting against forced conscription into the army during World War 1 is held in Victoria Park, 1916. A post on the East London Federation of Suffragettes, the ‘Woman’s Dreadnought’ and East End opposition to the war wp.me/p74yfw-VD

Interview with @brookenewman.bsky.social on her new book 'The Crown’s Silence': British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... #History #EnslavedHistory

New free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

7th in thread of #PublicDomain books I've got Google to make fully available: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in #London 2: West London: books.google.co.uk/books?id=OXU... 3: Roman London: books.google.co.uk/books?id=4GX... 4: The City: books.google.co.uk/books?id=amb...

New #OpenAccess #LegalHistory from @uolpress.bsky.social Law and Justice in the 1950s Case Studies From a Neglected Decade uolpress.co.uk/book/law-and... #History

A new @exeter.ac.uk project, Past Harvests, will use 600 years of data to explore how historic farming systems coped with change. The team will assess sustainability from 1250 to 1850, offering insights to inform future land-use decisions. More info: sites.exeter.ac.uk/pastharvests/ #FoodStudies

The IHR’s January bulletin is out now! Read about events, training, fellowships, jobs, workshops, and other news. To subscribe visit www.history.ac.uk/about-instit... mailchi.mp/6fa0c3aa23bd...

#dhist If you missed @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History on Orientalist pixels, colonial colour palettes, and machine learning - plus the fab discussion that followed - the recording is now on our youtube channel youtu.be/kDTJToRCEHQ

Always great to see digitisations made freely available online! I scanned the HLHS back run of newsletters and journals a few years ago: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/publications...

And Bristol Record Society's full collection on @archive.org : 391 items! archive.org/details/bris... #OpenAccess #History

New from Bristol Record Society: Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade archive.org/details/bris... Really great to see BRS publish #OpenAccess on @archive.org ! #History #EnslavedHistory

Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration: tinyurl.com/24pxj5we @lauragowing.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Entry from @vch-home.bsky.social for Ilmington, which included Compton Scorpion, here, @bho.bsky.social:

[Former] place name of the day: Compton Scorpion, Warwickshire. 🦂🗃️

The BBC has had a sudden burst of #History and #Archaeology reporting: Plans to excavate 'world's oldest train platform' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Digitization of Hannah More's letters: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The London Archaeological 'Lasagne': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

6th in series of #PublicDomain books I've got Google to release (1/2): The Correspondance of King George 3: vol 1, 1760-1767 : books.google.co.uk/books?id=I3d... vol 4, 1778-9: books.google.co.uk/books?id=s3d... #History

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