Does anyone know of a list of early modern and c18th English spellings of words? i.e. a list of alternative spellings, such as 'publick' for publick, 'Wyllyam' for William, and so on? Surely such a thing must have been compiled? #History #LinguisticHistory 🗃️

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Another plug for my piece on Trinity’s forgotten tenants in Kerry, Armagh and Donegal and many places in between. Connecting colonial legacies, family history and institutional selective remembering. drb.ie/tcds-forgott... @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social

#OtD 18 Sep 1884 Dan Chatterton, the eccentric radical pamphleteer, slum dweller, birth control advocate and public ranter published the first issue of his journal the "Atheistic Communistic Scorcher" in London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9053...

If you are on the TPUSA list of professors or are an otherwise visible left academic, I strongly recommend reviewing your digital footprint. Is your address public information? What about your family members? crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...

I support the Library workers demands: they deserve better! #libraryworkers #solidarity

Met has received the Bluff Collection of #Dada and #Surrelaist works: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b... and set up a research centre into Dada & Surrealism: www.metmuseum.org/research-cen...

Starting next week at the Met, New York: Man Ray: When Objects Dream www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/... #Dada #Surrealism #ManRay

Good news: The Runaways database is up and running again. runaways.gla.ac.uk/database/tab... #History #EnslavedHistory 🗃️

Bruce Loose of Flipper, RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

I would be interested to hear a discussion w/ historians of slavery & maritime historians about this. No damage to the argument to note, but 'picking oakum' was also by-word for unproductive busywork at sea, more akin to the treadmill than substantive labour contributions to seafaring-qua-seafaring.

Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... The #OpenAccess paper itself onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... and orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/17... #History #EnslavedHistory

Next Sunday: all roads lead to Wapping! Radical History Factions's 2025 offensive continues with a FREE walk around East London. 2pm Wapping Green. radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...

This is awful news for everybody from Crystal Palace.

My local bookseller, and a real character. RIP.

In the UK as in the USA: 29 days in detention and banned from working for a man who has been in Britain since he was a child. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Every day is #GingerCatAppreciationDay in our house

Nice piece on Crossbones graveyard, and what it means to people today, from @londonermag.bsky.social "Honouring London’s outcast dead" www.the-londoner.co.uk/honouring-lo... (I hold a fancy that debtors from the Clink prison may have been buried here, but have no evidence.)

At last, some proper British vandalism. (source - www.facebook.com/share/p/1MeV...)

Chicago keeping art alive:

Anyone else getting 500 Internal Server Error for the Runaways database? Been down for me since yesterday. Anyone know what's happening? runaways.gla.ac.uk/database/

It does feel like a tragedy/farce retreading of the Historikerstreit: whereas Nolte blamed the Gulag for Auschwitz now we have the ascendancy of far right authoritarianism blamed on the horrors of the existence of gender studies.

Fucking awesome. With a few blasts of red spray paint you can turn the English flag into the Dead Kennedys logo As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!

If you share a stage with Curtis Yarvin for any reason other than bundling him off it you're a dupe or a fascist

Review of Faustus in Africa, by Handspring Puppet Co & William #Kentridge: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a... Coming to London in November: www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/fau...

Is Weiss aware, and if she is does she care, that Holocaust Deniers have made *exactly* this same argument about how the death tolls in the camps are inflated?

Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal

Updated: bibliograpy of statutes of the Irish Parliament to 1800. The Virtual Treasury has made the two last volumes ofthe IRO Early Statutes series freely available online statutes.org.uk/site/collect... #History #LegalHistory #IrishHistory 🗃️

New research reveals King George IV profited from slavery in Grenada Experts say finding heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #History #EnslavedHistory 🗃️

General question: what sort of infrastructure would people like to see for individual historians sharing materials? #History 🗃️

Got this simply because it was published by Rixdorf, and was greatly impressed, by the work, the edition and the translation.

New bibliographic resource: Links to the Journals of the Houses of Commons and Lords of Ireland, to 1800. Plus where to find the parliamentary debates, circa 1776 - 1797. anterotesis.com/wordpress/hi... #History #IrishHistory 🗃️

Some good news: Caribbean LGBTQ+ activists celebrate as court strikes down colonial-era laws ‘Stride in the right direction’ as Eastern Caribbean supreme court rules St Lucia’s laws on gay sex unconstitutional www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #LegalHistory #LGBTHistory

#OTD 1st August 1834, the act 3 & 4 William 4 c.73, 'for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies' came into force, turning the enslaved into apprentices and compensating the slave-owners. statutes.org.uk/site/the-sta... #LegalHistory #EnslavedHistory

"Instead of reviewing all the submissions, AI will determine whether people’s stories will be heard." It might seem to be beside the point, but what this entails - what AI machine they are using, how they are prompting it - absolutely needs to be disclosed. #AI #Transphobia

📢 Hello everyone! The 2nd announcement for the Third International Congress on the History of Prisons and Punitive Institutions is now available (in Spanish, Euskera, English, and Portuguese). It includes the programme, guidelines for submitting papers, and more info👇 www.unavarra.es/congreso-his...

Update: no one can identify a single person as belonging to a group that The Times says has 130 academic staff. Totally unnamed and likely fictitious academics being quoted by the Daily Express, The Times, the BBC & the Times Higher.

Brand New from Past Tense: “Green Beneath the Skies” How Rioting Saved Hackney Downs In 1875, common land at Hackney Downs, East London was fenced off for development. Rioting, sabotage & campaigning saved the open space Buy online here: pasttensehistories.bigcartel.com/product/gree...

New release from British History Online: A high resolution tif of the Agas Woodcut Map of London, circa 1562. Licensed as Creative Commons Zero and available to download from our Github Repository: github.com/ihr-digital/... #History #DigitalHistory #London #Map

Full league table of university repression here: si4j.org/universityre...

'The Social Innovators for Justice has released the UK University Repression League Table, ranking universities according to their attacks on students, with suspensions, monitoring and investment in genocide' A worthy initiative. @anilsghost.bsky.social updates.techforpalestine.org/announcing-t...

UKRI renews contract with Researchfish, despite the government last year urging the funder to consider alternatives to the impact-tracking service. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

A reminder of the #ResearchFish scandal: "Researchfish accused of ‘intimidating’ academics" www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

'In February 2024, in response to an independent review of research bureaucracy, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology urged UKRI to consider alternative options on the collection of research impact data, “including no longer using Researchfish, from 2025 onwards”.' 1/3

Proof at last! Dostoevsky really did meet Dickens! And Edgar Allan Poe as well! H/t @anterotesis.bsky.social www.openculture.com/2025/03/pupp...

This is a genuinely mental thing for someone who thinks he understands history to say

New (to me at least) #EnslavedHistory website: Locating Slavery's Legacies The Locating Slavery's Legacies database locates and documents these remnants of slavery’s legacies, yielding insight into their influence on American higher education. locatinglegacies.org/s/hub/page/h... #History 🗃️

This painting by Hogarth is set where, today, Euston Road meets Tottenham Court Road. It's full of intriguing details, which we dig into in today's Time Machine article londonist.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

Another highlight of today at the @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool: my colleague John Levin, Editor of @bho.bsky.social, giving a brilliant lunchtime talk on debtors' prisons and sanctuaries in early modern London.

"Schools should not teach about" is beyond absurd, more the epitomy of today's hypocritical bigotry.