If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person! I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

#WorldLetterWritingDay ✒️ Here's the story of love letters I discovered in the Amgueddfa Cymru collections 💌 Sarah was 20 years old when she received these letters. She fell in love with a butcher, and they kept a public house together 🍻 hellohistoria.substack.com/p/my-dearest... #Wales #History

Great to see the recording of Angela Muir's excellent paper on 'Forced Abortion in England and Wales in the Long Eighteenth-Century' to @long18thsem.bsky.social at @ihrlibrary.bsky.social is now available online. www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/for...

Join us next week for the @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture: Women Making History in the Early Twentieth Century: Working for the VCH ‘Big Red Books’ with @amalexathorn.bsky.social. Free to attend: www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

ICYMI: Our seminar recommences tomorrow night with @drangelamuir.bsky.social presenting her paper ‘Forced Abortion in England and Wales in the Long Eighteenth-century’. Join us in person at the IHR in our regular room or online from 17:30! www.history.ac.uk/events/force...

There’s still time to sign up online/in person for this important talk this weds @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social 👇

📣3 Funded MA Studentships! In partnership with the Black Cultural Archives, the Centre for Regional and Local History is offering 3 funded MA studentships in Black British local history in honour of Len Garrison. Click the link for details #skystorians le.ac.uk/english-loca...

Looking forward to Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social speaking about 'Forced Abortion in England and Wales in the Long Eighteenth-Century' to the @long18thsem.bsky.social at @ihrlibrary.bsky.social next Wed. All welcome in person or online, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/events/force...

I'm excited to be speaking at @long18thsem.bsky.social on 30 April at @ihr.bsky.social. It's a dark topic with a lot of modern relevance given the ongoing threat to women's reproductive rights. Join in person or online (it's free) #skystorians #history #AcademicSky www.history.ac.uk/events/force...

Always a nice treat when this time of year rolls around! If you're a writer publishing your work and haven't signed up, you're really missing out!

I think @themerl.bsky.social is my favourite account on Bluesky. Top tier socials, lads (and lasses?)!

Adam Walton gave one of our tracks a spin Saturday night! Hear 'Little Brain' by The Echo and the Always off of 'With Hearts Like These' at 2hr 50min in. It was part of his #internationalwomensday special Recorded by @toddhq.bsky.social #newmusic #welshmusic #iwd25 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

For any wine, history and true crime lovers in and around Cardiff we've just announced our next Wines & Crimes! This time we're doing a deep dive into sex work in 18th & 19th century Wales 🍷 📅21 May 📍Corp Market #truecrime #Wales #Welshhistory #wine #womenshistory vinvancymru.co.uk/collections/...

Great to see Sarah Inskip & my research reach wider audiences! Mudlarker Liz Anderson engages with 'Material Encounters' (Historical Research, 2023) in her blog post about tobacco pipe finds on the London foreshore amudlarksdiary.com/2023/06/25/b...

relatable.

📣For anyone in or near Cardiff, our next Wines & Crimes is coming up soon! Vin Van Cymru will pair some excellent wine with true crime stories from 18th and early 19th century Wales 🍷☠️🔪 📍The Corp Market, Cardiff 📅29 January, 6:30pm 🎟️Tickets and info 👇 vinvancymru.co.uk/products/win...

With the permission of her family we are devastated to announce the death of our dear friend, Nicola Verdon, who was killed in an accident while riding her bike on 29th December.

Please share this amazing opportunity widely! 3 funded MA studentships in Black British Local History for the coming academic year based at the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester in partnership with the Black Cultural Archives! le.ac.uk/english-loca...

'The evidence we have of most minority or marginalised groups in the past is always fragmentary...[that] does not mean we should relegate these histories to obscurity' *new* @drangelamuir.bsky.social on the history of the Jewish community in 18thC South Wales manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/28/l...

Anyone out there know what the uniform of the Anglesey militia might have looked like in the 1780s?

Many congratulations to the British Library staff for the return of the online catalogue. Welcome back!

I'll be part of the panel at the launch for Gender in Modern Welsh History, which is nice since I didn't even have a launch for my own book thanks to Covid. eventbrite.co.uk/e/lansiad-laun…

This project about the history of Tiger Bay in South Wales looks amazing... You can sign up to volunteer too! If only there was time to do everything History-related that comes across my desk. ☹️ www.tigerbay.org.uk

I'm only now learning that Natalie Zemon Davis died last month. Her approach to court records has profoundly shaped my own (and the work of countless other historians, too). She was absolutely discipline-defining. www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/in-m...

Coming soon(ish): the first major publication from our #PowerOfPetitioning project! #OpenAccess with UCL Press!! Contributors are me, Jason Peacey, @lloydbowen.bsky.social, Hannah Worthen, Karin Bowie, Imogen Peck, Elly Robson, @sharonhoward.bsky.social & Ann Hughes: uclpress.co.uk/collections/op…

Have already done this on Twitter but: looking for anti-slavery poems that use an explicitly "bardic"/historicized/antiquarian (Celtic/Saxonist) perspective (esp. Scottish/Irish). Trying to work out how much of an outlier Iolo Morganwg is here and checking if I've missed anything

The Editors of Northern History would like to invite submissions to the Gordon Forster Essay Prize (deadline: 1 March 2024). For full details about the prize, visit our website (tinyurl.com/3vvhjys4). Please repost! #MedievalSky #c19th #c18th #skystorians

6 month postdoc on most incredible letters project at Uni of Birmingham, well paid and starting in January. This is partly to replace me (!) so if you want to know more about the job, drop me an email or message! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDN285/r...

Next week we're kicking off our seminar series with Prof Corinne Fowler, ‘Transatlantic slavery, landownership and enclosure in England, 1738-1836.’ 12 Oct, Att 101, 12:30. If you can't attend in person, let me know as it will be hybrid. le.ac.uk/english-loca...

Medieval! Trans! Now! Micah Goodrich and I are soliciting abstracts and answering questions about the (long) medieval volume of the Cultural History of Trans Lives until the end of the month. Cfp here for more details: bit.ly/CHTLvol2

For anyone supervising or writing dissertations on family history (broadly defined) - consider submitting to our Phil Batman Prize! UG deadline is very soon (30 September). MA deadline is at the end of November.

Pickles and Tenny helping me figure out where the heck my study leave and summer went 🔍🤷🏻‍♀️

Have you just started a history PhD? Come to our FREE workshop on 5 October to learn about our library, seminars, conferences, publications, website and training in specialised research skills and how they can help you. Booking essential. www.history.ac.uk/events/new-r...

The existence of EP Thompson implies the existence of (an even longer, more expensive) LP Thompson 🗃️ #HistoryThoughts

By day, I'm an historian. By night, I am also an historian, but with wine. If you're going to be in or near Cardiff on 25 October, please join! vinvancymru.co.uk/collections/...

Thanks for the invite code @willtullett.bsky.social! Now to figure this whole thing out.