Join us on Weds 1 October to re-discover the #history of #London - from Annus Mirabilis to Bum-Fodder and much more... The evening will also be an opportunity to learn about the work of @vchlondon.bsky.social in London and how you can get involved, with me & Dr Francis Boorman. Book via the QR code.

One more week to apply for this job, in our friendly CHPPC / IHR team. Please contact Professor Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social if you have any queries about the role. #job #history #lecturer

Join us online on 24 Sept to celebrate the 250th VCH Big Red Book! Founded in 1899, @vchlondon.bsky.social is writing the #history of every place in #England, with partners right across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome

Thanks to the City of Westminster Archives & to Dr Francis Boorman for this invite. Francis leads VCH Middlesex & is developing a new VCH project to cover all #London. He'll be there on 1 October to share more. #history @vchlondon.bsky.social @thelondonjournal.bsky.social @layersoflondon.bsky.social

I'm very happy to answer questions by email or chat to anyone who's interested in this job, in our brilliant, friendly @chppc.bsky.social team at @ihr.bsky.social. Send me a direct message or drop me an email via my IHR address. And please share! #job #history #Skystorians #HistoricEnvironment

Fabulous afternoon @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social with the @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool, exploring this year's theme of #Rebels ❤️

A packed house @ihr.bsky.social last night for the annual Derek Keene #London #Lecture (part of our London #SummerSchool week) from the brilliant Professor Matthew Worley (Reading) on #punk. Especially lovely to have lots of first-time visitors to the IHR - we hope to welcome you back!

Wonderful trip to Goldsmiths Hall, London, this afternoon as part of the @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool. Huge thanks to Eleni Bide (Head of Library & Archives) and colleagues for sharing treasures and stories of #rebels. And thanks to my IHR colleague @justincolson.bsky.social for leading.

Let's go! It's the @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool 2025 - this year on the theme of #Rebels. I'm standing by the amazing themed display created by my colleague @beccameriel.bsky.social (as every year). (Vintage #Playmobil my own 😊).

Fabulous themed displays for the @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool (2025 theme: #Rebels) from my brilliant colleagues @ihrlibrary.bsky.social. @miketownsend.bsky.social currently introducing participants to the collections before heading off to explore...

#Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on @vchlondon.bsky.social projects & more. Closing date 29 August. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

You're invited! Join us for the launch of my new #book and this amazing #event on Tues 9 Sept. I'll be in conversation with award-winning poet Hannah Lowe on 'Doing #History with #Poetry', chaired by @ihr.bsky.social Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social. Book free: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

It was brilliant to host Tre Ventour-Griffiths in our seminar series earlier this term, talking about the ways in which adaptations of #Austen novels have overlooked her female characters’ role as (absentee) enslavers. The recording is now available here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Last call for the @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool - bookings close this evening! Join us for lectures, workshops, special visits and a week exploring London's rich #history through its #Rebels. From medieval uprisings to punk & much, much more... www.history.ac.uk/ihr-london-r...

Lovely evening with the kindest and most generous of colleagues @linseyhunter.bsky.social, down for @themamoconf.bsky.social. Too busy chatting to take a photo, but I love my pin badge - as well as the care package of #Scottish treats Linsey brought for the whole @chppc.bsky.social team ❤️

Our Dr Iain Robertson, Dr Philippa Woodcock and @juliettedesportes.bsky.social all travelled to Newcastle in April for a workshop on place-based public history. Organised by our Dr Robertson and Dr Ruth Slatter from @chppc.bsky.social, you can read more about the event in the original post below ⬇️

Are you interested in the history of #London? #Francisboorman from #VCH London will be giving a lecture on the development of #Mayfair as a London Suburb on 15.07.25 for the Residents’ Society of Mayfair & St James’s. More info here www.rsmsj.com/events

Great to see this blog post mention several members of the #VCH community who attended the workshop & shared their practical experiences of engaging in #placebased #publichistory

This was a really warm & collaborative event, which highlighted the value of historians working in all sectors coming together & sharing their experiences of the joys & challenges of collaborative research. Thank you to everyone who came along & generously engaged in the workshop in this spirit!

It was a pleasure to collaborate with @uhihistory.bsky.social colleagues in April to run a workshop on place-based public history & share our ongoing research into public history in the Highlands & Islands. You can now read more about this here blog.history.ac.uk/2025/06/plac...

Many thanks to Tre for sharing in such an open & personal way in this seminar last night. So much food for thought in his reflections on how the representation of white women in Austen screen adaptations is another way of dismissing the violence & trauma of enslavement. Recording coming soon.

Are you interested in researching the histories of #Catholicism in particular villages, towns & cities in the UK? This recording of a training session we recently ran in collaboration with @catholicrs.bsky.social is for you www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/res...

The next event in our summer events series will take place 11.06.25, 5.30-7pm (BST), online only. Tre Ventour-Griffiths will explore female absentee enslavers in #JaneAusten ‘s novels. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇

The lengths our researchers go to…!

I’m really looking forward to chairing this session in a couple of weeks time. Tre is an innovative ECR who is asking important new questions across various aspects of his research into Black communities in the history of Britain’s rural spaces.

The next event in our summer events series will take place 11.06.25, 5.30-7pm (BST), online only. Tre Ventour-Griffiths will explore female absentee enslavers in #JaneAusten ‘s novels. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇

This is happening tomorrow 28.05.25. Online only. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇

So exciting to see @lrylandepton.bsky.social ‘s hard work collaborating with local communities to simultaneously produce @vchlondon.bsky.social red books & community focused publications recognised & celebrated last week.

Always amazing to celebrate the work of our @vchlondon.bsky.social network. Sarah’s hard work recruiting & training VCH volunteers & researching & writing VCH histories is just one of many examples of how the VCH increasing uses collaborative methods to produce authoritative & trusted histories.

Really looking forward to this online event. My PhD student #JustinMuchnick will be sharing brand new research into the classical curriculum at Phillips Andover & Exeter Academies in the late 18th & 19th centuries. Exciting discoveries with practical implications for those teaching classics today.

Our next event will be an online panel of post-graduate researchers sharing their research into place-based histories from 18th & 19th C America. Online. 5.30-7pm. 28.05.25. Everyone is welcome. www.history.ac.uk/events/place...

This looks like a super interesting PhD opportunity for an artist or historian engaged in creative practice-based research www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-... @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social #nationalmaritimemuseum @josiekane.bsky.social

"The rise and decline of mainstream churches in Cambridge since the 1800s" lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/t... I wrote this back in 2016 - a little piece of local 'town' history. #LostCambridge.

Inspired by the #ChurchofScotlands plans to sell 40-50% of its church buildings by 2027, this session brought together researchers & those at the front line of church closure across the UK to discuss how histories & stories of churches & their communities could/should be preserved. Worth a watch.

The closure of churches is such a difficult topic fraught with emotion. But when church closures are necessary how could/should their histories be preserved? This & much more was discussed in this round table 👇Recording now available!

The recording of our roundtable ‘Recording a Reformation: preserving the stories of closed churches’ is now available on the @ihr.bsky.social website www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/rec... A brilliant session highlighting the urgency with which this needs to happen & suggesting how it could be done.

We are greatly enjoying the latest @vchlondon.bsky.social training session! @catholicrs.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social) #skystorians #skyhistory #catholicism

Delighted to see our piece for Community Rail News out! We introduce the Railway Work, Life & Death project, and how it might help Community Rail Partnerships & station adopters! @communityrail.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social #Railway200 communityrail.org.uk/how-communit...

We’re really looking forward to the next FREE training session in our series about placed-based #religious #history beyond the parish church. Join us & the @catholicrs.bsky.social online next Wednesday 7th May 2-4pm. Sign up using the link below 👇

Fantastic day yesterday in #Newcastle with colleagues from @uhihistory.bsky.social, @newcastleuni.bsky.social, @vchlondon.bsky.social, public & community history groups from Scotland & England.

Very much looking forward to this residential workshop on The Parish #Church in #Medieval Smaland (Sweden). I've been invited to share comparative insights from my research on medieval England and Wales, including especially www.thomasway.ac.uk. Lots of interest to @chppc.bsky.social too!

Still time to sign up for this tomorrow - online round table discussion about what happens to churches’ histories & stories when buildings have to close. Sign up using the link below 👇

A fascinating in-person #lecture for anyone interested in the formation of #Humanities disciplines in the early 20th century, the role of early #women historians, and historical processes of research & #publishing. 15 May, free to all, book via link @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement". Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨

This is a bumper year for @vchlondon.bsky.social: Four new projects (each breaking new ground in counties where we haven't been actively researching for around a century. Many new books *including* our 250th Big Red Book (and that's in a county we haven't done before: Westmorland). #VCHRedBook250

We are thrilled that @vchlondon.bsky.social are starting a new project on London as a whole city building on the excellent work going in in Middlesex.

Despite being over 125 years old, one of our flagship projects @vchlondon.bsky.social continues to be a vibrant, growing national network of place-based historians. The network has very excitingly recently welcomed 4 new projects. Find out more in this @ihr.bsky.social blog post 👇

This looks like a very interesting PhD opportunity on #participatory #inclusive #heritage www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/cen...

One week before this online free @chppc.bsky.social event all about what happens to church’s histories & community stories when buildings have to close. All are welcome. Sign up using link below 👇

Every day's a @vchlondon.bsky.social research day! Spotted in Palace House on the #Beaulieu estate today - *the* celebrity #flamingo famous from its entry in the #VictoriaCountyHistory #NaturalHistory of #Hampshire (published 1901) - shot in 1883 at the mouth of the Beaulieu river.