Final details for our study day and AGM at St Lawrence Edgware at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-.... Explore the gorgeous Chandos mausoleum, hear the organ that Handel actually played. AGM is members only but the study day is free to all.

Why was behind the impetus to develop parochial buildings in the #medieval period so strong? Dr Meg Bernstein investigates this, particularly in reference the addition of north and/or south aisles to an existing church, in her blogpost for us: eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/w...

📢 Applications are now open for our Winter Meeting on 10 January (online)! Deadline: 31 October 2025 Don’t miss the chance to connect, share ideas, and kick off 2026 with fresh inspiration. Apply now 👉 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me... #Skystorians

Lambeth Palace Library will be holding a careers open day for anyone considering their future career trajectory. This is your chance to find out what the staff do in their day-to-day work, and how to enter these professions. www.lambethpalacelibrary.info

In this month's blogpost, Dr Emily Betz writes about anti-Quaker propaganda. Using the language of #medicine, opponents of #Quaker beliefs attempted to paint them as mentally unstable, their understandings of faith less spiritual revelations than medical complications. wp.me/p7o0HV-qm #medhist

Just tried the free Transkribus site with poor results. Is the paid subscription any better for 17th century handwriting? What about 19th century wills?

Our new website is live!! Hurrah! 🎉 we will share all upcoming COST action events, calls for papers for relevant events, and news about available grants and opportunities. Do share widely with any Prayer Studies scholars/ Historians of Religion who might be interested! prayticipate.eu

Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@churchmonuments.bsky.social might know….

The country seems angry and full of hatred, the sky is dark and full of rain, so I think I’ll pop on some jazz, have an ale and read about the fascinating archaeology of Cranborne Chase this evening.

Exhibition link for people interested in visiting www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...

Trying to convince my large adult son to take a bath today

An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

Please enjoy 2 minutes and 12 seconds of Jeremy enjoying a prickly pear. (Note: it switches from delightful ASMR to lots of dog panting at about the one minute mark, when Octopus Moonshine finds us.)

Hiyee!

Update on the All Hallows series of FREE online lectures - all titles now available at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/all-h...

Our latest podcast episode dropped this morning 🎙️ Listen to us talk to Prof Andrew Holmes (QUB), an expert in the history of religion in Ireland from c. 1660 to the present, as we talk Presbyterianism and his best advice on co-editing academic volumes: open.spotify.com/episode/6gqI... #skystorians

Call for Papers | Church Archaeology The editors welcome research articles, news pieces, and book reviews about ecclesiastical places of worship, burial grounds & material culture. Deadline: 20/2/2026 Submissions to: [email protected] @dcrb.bsky.social @theologyontheweb.org.uk

You can tell it's "autumn" when York's feral geese fly between the city centre and the fields to the west every day (volume up) #evening #UKBirding @yorkbirding.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

(Our) Lady’s bedstraw. Appropriate for St Mary’s churchyard. N Leics. #wildflowerhour

The Society is pleased to announce the short list for our 2025 Book Prize! 📚 The winner will be announced at the Society’s Winter Meeting in January 2026. #EHSCon25 #BookPrize #ChurchHistory

This is happening in 1 week's time - including talks from the project team, and an opportunity to transcribe alongside like-minded volunteers 📜✍️ Sign up for free below 👇 #history #skystorians #earlymodern #citizenscience @zooniverse.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social

In Edinburgh at the @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social conference. Weather = wet, papers = very good. Theme = Nicaea and other councils.

It’s a harebell year in Wymeswold churchyard N Leics. They only emerge in drought summers. The last one was 2022. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Overheard today: "I'm vegan." "Oh aye? Actually we don't always have meat with things anymore ourselves." "So you're flexetarian?" "We are not! We're CofE, always have been." Reinforcing my assertion that it's more Victoria Wood than Vicar of Dibley round here 😂

It’s tomorrow!

Enjoyed putting together this H-France Forum on Paul-Alexis Mellet's *Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion* – reviews and response available here: h-france.net/hfrance-foru... @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

We’re getting ready to welcome visitors on 26 July This isn’t just a refresh but a major transformation with interactive technology, brand-new exhibits, and a modern, immersive experience that’s a world away from what was here before - book your tickets www.jewrywall.com/visit/ticket...

The No Kings protest at The Beer Garden is getting a little spicy

Relief depicting three spirits wearing hooded cloaks (genii cucullati) from a building that formed part of the vicus at Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. The relief is on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain

« Monsieur, désolé, je n’ai pas mon devoir, il a accidentellement été dévoré par un ours ! »

Loughborough Lammas meadows today, much meadow buttercup, some pignut and many grasses. The burnett and knapweeds were just starting. #wildflowerhour

This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it. Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.

Whissendine church, Rutland. Late medieval church held up by men (instead of angels, as in E Anglia). 12 in all, possible apostles. Unfinished font - not the original, methinks. Some instability of building hence the buttress chapel. Excellent rhubarb jam for sale.

A vigorous #Roman carving of a wild boar 🐗 - long a symbol of power & virility - found at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall & displayed in the museum at Chesters Roman fort 📷 My own, last week

Looking for a PhD candidate to study how first names convey information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (circa 1750-1950). Please share the info with potential candidates: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (deadline for applying: June 1st)

Sound or place? Or both, the word heard here? Goadby Marwood church (Leic), part of a former pulpit tester.

Our tiny orchard is coming on well for #nomowmay It’s almost elfin. There are already more butterflies this year because of the sunshine. @robcarlyle.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/ky2i

🎉 Pack your sunnies—tickets are now live for the EHS Summer Conference in Edinburgh, 15–17 July! ☀️📚 Don’t miss our fantastic speakers and the chance to meet friends from all over the world. Grab your spot now! 🏴📅 #EHS2025 #EdinburghBound www.tickettailor.com/events/eccle...

📸 New on the blog! PhD student Aayushi Gupta (Cambridge) explores how evolving camera technology shaped the way women missionary societies in India documented—and constructed—daily life, faith, and colonial narratives: eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/p...

🚨 Not a member of the Ecclesiastical History Society yet? Time to fix that! 💥 Join a vibrant community of scholars and enthusiasts 🎓 Apply for conference bursaries 📚 Get access to Studies in Church History—our leading academic journal & more! ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/membership/a...

The EHS is now accepting project endorsement requests for new and ongoing #churchhistory projects! 🔍 Endorsed projects receive EHS support through visibility, collaboration opportunities, and a platform within our network. Learn more here: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/ehs-project-...

We need EVERYONE to see this advert for a Head of Operations at the Palace (£40-45k). Otherwise we might get some kind of numpty in charge. Please share. If we get 50 shares we'll post a video of #CuratorRob playing a hoover like a didgeridoo. hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/...

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A transcribathon! Friday 25 April Join for all or part of the day to help transcribe #18thCentury #letters @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social project, University of Birmingham 👇

Black Country Society talk - The West Midlands, the Slave Trade & Anti-slavery. by Malcolm Dick. Bilston Town Hall. Wednesday 30th April 2025 – 7.30pm (£3 for members and £5 non-members). Details at www.blackcountrysociety.com/events

Je continue mes cartes postales ottomane de Tirana avec ce pont du XVIIIe siècle dit des Tanneurs qui enjambait la Lana jusqu'à sa canalisation au XXe s. Enserré entre les immeubles, on a du mal à l'imaginer, mais il permettait de relier Tirana, encore loin d'être une capitale, à sa montagne 1/5

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀