Today is Remembrance Day, marking the day World War One ended - at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. We will pause at 11am today for a two-minute silence for Remembrance. In the Air, 1917, Christopher Nevinson (1889 - 1946). Lithograph. WA1919.31.40

Given this is a House of Galloway stan account, good to see more credit given to Dervorgilla. theconversation.com/medieval-wom...

During the eight months of bombing, misery and resistance known as The Blitz, many families slept on the underground. Hear the stories of firefighters, bomb squads, the Home Guard and London’s trailblazing women in this podcast: tinyurl.com/mrx4huz4 #history #WW2 #Blitz #london

This is a short piece about the newly unveiled headstone at the location of her burial. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/l...

Our latest “Document of the Week”, chosen by our Editor, Nishah Malik, is an article from 1915 depicting Indian soldiers who served in the British Army during the First World War.

She was also a suffragist, attempting to register to vote in 1871. The medal was revoked in 1917, but Walker refused to return it, and wore it until her death in 1919. It was restored to her in 1977. 3/3

#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/3

The Scottish WW1 piper who marched through gas, bullets and bombs to save his regiment www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘They give the impression that the BBC has caved in to a concerted campaign of pressure from rightwing media and political forces on both sides of the Atlantic.’ You could cut out the first five words of that

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Last year I wrote a collection of pen portraits of those in my family tree who lost their lives in wartime. Sharing here, along with photos taken in Whitehall yesterday. www.allthosebefore.co.uk/2024/11/11/m...

#OtD 10 Nov 1984 1000 people protested in Rugby, England, against the local council removing LGBT+ people from their equal opportunities policy. The Sun tabloid supported the "brave" Tory council for confronting the "sick nonsense" of LGBT+ rights stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8236...

Holding hands for all time. Romance is not dead even if we are. (Winterbourne Bassett) C13 tomb of possibly Hugh Despenser and Aline Basset.

Studies of his six servants in the 1750s: masterful oil sketch by William Hogarth, who was born on this day in 1697.

Today we have "Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819" by Oliver Aas This is the sixth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/10/t... #envhist #arctic #envhum

perhaps you're in need of some vibrant colour? perhaps this Erythrina speciosa will serve? from the Botanic Garden in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, 2017. From the before times. it looks like a starburst of vermilion, of satisfyingly substantial texture. 🌱

The Sagas of the Icelanders - Egil’s Saga, Part 9 (The Final One) - an episode of The Medieval Murder Podcast youtu.be/h6RwfUE93y4?... #MedievalMurder

The BBC’s problem is not really impartiality, it’s understanding the relationship between impartiality and accuracy. The two are paired in the BBC’s code. Due impartiality is paired with due accuracy. The BBC forgets this all too often, focussing only on impartiality and neglecting accuracy.

Moulton Hall near Richmond was rebuilt on the site of a previous building in the mid 17th century for the Smithson family. Perhaps it's most interesting owner though was Sir Ralph Millbanke who sold it when his daughter made a disastrous marriage to Lord Byron.

Images of wood #fishweir wicker fence 2 meter tall on the shore #RhosonSea #ConwyCounty Borough, #Wales. Historical sources indicted used for seasonal fisheries for herring and mackerel late 19th century. 1/6 #maritimeheritage #oceandecadeheritage #coastalhistory

More about the medieval clock whose fine replica rings out @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge!

Police have confirmed details of the Welsh Bronze Age jewellery stolen in a burglary at St Fagan’s Museum last month. Two people have been charged over the incident, and detectives say they are now focused on finding the items not yet recovered. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

NEW ESSAY: The Story No. 8 | Fieldwork – The Linnaean Way | Writing and Drawing during Naturalist Journeys: Part 2. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/th...

This Thursday sees the first of our autumn online lecture series; 4 top historians on aspects of the 1600s, the first being Dr David Smith on how Cromwell and the Civil Wars have been depicted in films and TV drama. Book now at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Our new exhibit 'Stitching the Nation: Fashion in Times of Turmoil' is now open, looking at how what we wore was affected by the turmoil of the mid-1600s. It includes rare surviving items kindly loaned to us - more details at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/stitc...

NEW: Reported plans to double tax rates on the top two council tax bands would cause huge distortions and unequal treatment between owners of expensive homes across England One area where homes cost £500k would barely be touched By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...

“There will be those who will clap and cheer at the senior BBC resignations … but such elation is misconceived. For the BBC to be this weak as an institution when faced with outside (and politically motivated) criticism is not a sign of a healthy mixed polity.” By @davidallengreen.bsky.social

If the BBC is guilty of anything it has been far too ready and willing to follow the right-wing media narratives pushed by the billionaire press barons, instead of pursuing its own independent journalism based on exposing and uncovering the truth – regardless of whether people want to hear it.

A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy. Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common. My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...

Grade 1 listed St. Wilfred's Church at Standish near Wigan which dates from 1580 added to the heritage at risk register due to beetle infestation. 👇 BBC News - Beetle infestation puts Wigan church on at-risk register - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

351 years ago, on the 10th of November 1674, the Netherlands ceded their colony of Nieuw Nederland to England, including the city of New Amsterdam which would permanently be renamed to New York after already having been under English control since 1664 and temporarily renamed. #otd #history 🗃️

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon #BBC www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's week two of Buckinghamshire History Festival! Head over to histfestbucks.co.uk to see our brilliant events this week, including a couple of online events that are completely free to attend!

*TALK* The Nabob, his mistress, his wife and his daughters: victims of English ambitions in India? Mary Siraut Tuesday 18th November - 7.30pm Wyndham Hall, Taunton Please book by emailing [email protected] or calling 01823 272429 by 17 November Full event details: bit.ly/4o1XqI1

I look at the hod empty and my back hurts.

A last look at the uncovering Roman Carlisle trenches as the dig ended today. After recording the #archaeology will be backfilled to preserve it #HadriansWall #History

Guernsey islanders asked to bring ideas to workshops exploring how to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of William the Conqueror's birthday which occurs in 2028. 👇 BBC News - Ideas wanted to mark William the Conqueror's birth www.bbc.com/news/article...

“I brought a couple of friends, I hope that’s cool.”

Looks like he was working as a miner in Cape Breton before he joined up. Looks like he was wounded early in the Battle of Cambrai in October, 1918.

2/2 Dolls' Tea Party, 1730, w/ non-cooperation of pup. Another ridiculously cute scene by normally sharp & satirical William Hogarth, born OTD 1697.

Great house of cards, assembled by five children w/ cooperation of their v good dog, & painted by William Hogarth. He was born OTD 1697.

Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...

ICYMI: How reported council tax proposals would leave the hundredth most expensive home in Walthamstow paying less than a third of the tax of the 7,000th most expensive home in Mid Buckinghamshire - despite the Walthamstow home being worth more

There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate

11/10/1896 — b. Lady Mary Heath, Irish aviatrix, athlete, lecturer, author. Pioneer record-breaking aviator, the first woman to obtain a commercial pilot’s license(1926). Despatchrider(WWI), champion high-jumper + javelin-thrower. One of most famous wmn worldwide(mid-20s) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM

Handwritten copies of In Flanders Fields poem preserved and recognized on UNESCO register #Canada Preservation and digitization made fragile manuscripts accessible to all www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Crosthwaite Parish Church near Keswick in Cumbria. The present building is largely medieval with some Victorian internal alterations. In 1181, Jocelyn of Furness wrote of a new church at Crosthwaite recently built for Alice de Romilly, the Lady of Allerdale. #MedievalMonday

This week’s astonishing artifact is an ancient Egyptian human-hair wig found in the tomb of a royal architect and his wife. 🏺🧪

This may be of interest to Napoleonic people. Our next online talk on 18 November at 7pm UK time. Register your interest by email to: [email protected] Maj-Gen (Retd) Rui Moura will tell us about the services of Thomas William Stubbs. Have a look at our other planned talks.