We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

#SpeakerSaturday and we are highlighting @joesaunders1.bsky.social @pharostutors.bsky.social are sponsoring Joe's presentation 'Migration and early modern England'. Remaining conference places are limited, pay a deposit now to secure a place www.devonfhs.org.uk/devon-fhs-co...

UK PUBLICATION DAY 🇬🇧 A year ago I went to London to visit some grand, old, complicated museums, and track down some big pieces of the puzzle that become my second book #TheButterflyThief 🦋 A year later, pretty much to the day, it’s out now: scribepublications.co.uk/books/the-butterfly-thief

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

The Price of purchasing a copy of a will will increase from £1.50 to £16 this month. What will this mean for family historians? #genealogy www.family-tree.co.uk/news/probate...

Never say the English aren't inventive with our placenames. Gardeners Garden, Shoreditch, London (Ogilby & Morgan map, 1676). 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...

Monsters, by Thomas Wood. Sharing an old post on All Hallows Eve! 'Wherever they appear, monsters act as embodiments of those things that humanity should fear'. how-to-history.com/2024/10/30/m...

Title Deeds, by Joe Saunders. Deeds are legal documents concerning the ownership or possession of property, usually regarding the transfer of land or a house from one person to another. how-to-history.com/2025/10/29/t...

Many thanks to the Tools & Trades History Society for granting me a Salaman Award in support of my PhD studies. Do check out this great organisation. www.taths.org.uk

To reiterate Joe’s post: the value of yesterday evening was really demonstrated by speaking with people interested in the map from different disciplinary backgrounds - helped to underpin its wide potential applications and alerted us to uses we hadn’t yet considered #Skystorians 🗺️

Great event yesterday with the Historic Town's Trust talking about our research work on an atlas of London on the Eve of the Great Fire. So pleased to be helping this fantastic project. @historictownstrust.bsky.social

Excited to be teaching two online short courses starting next week; one on local history and the other on using manorial records. Spaces still available on both! #LocalHistory #FamilyHistory 🗃️ www.pharostutors.com/progressing-... www.pharostutors.com/manorial-rec...

Excited to be teaching two online short courses starting next week; one on local history and the other on using manorial records. Spaces still available on both! #LocalHistory #FamilyHistory 🗃️ www.pharostutors.com/progressing-... www.pharostutors.com/manorial-rec...

#ICYMI: Join us on 4 November at 7pm to learn how LiDAR technology is transforming local history, as high-resolution aerial data from the Beacons of the Past project is uncovering hidden traces of human activity across the Chilterns. Book your place: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-a...

The City of London in a picture. The medieval church tower of All Hallows Staining. An historic island amidst skyscrapers and construction. 🗃️

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

Progressing Your Local History Research. Students will be encouraged to work on a local history project of their choosing during this course. www.pharostutors.com/progressing-...

Only available on microfilm

New on CollectionsCaptured is a wonderfully illustrated set of 17 proof copies of early 17th Century maps, later included in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'. All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll... [Ref. Freinds/JSM]

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Another post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' - a reminder that work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was very much a family affair... manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/09/t...

Fun little culinary history about kofta kebabs in 1660 in England. Making me quite hungry. Also not a bad recipe! Veal, nutmeg, onion, fried in patties.

Brilliant to see this continuing to get coverage and hopefully momentum will continue to real change. Exciting also to see the brilliant @willbaileywatson.bsky.social's amazing Meanwhile Elsewhere being used - it absolutely revolutionized History homework for me. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Look what we have here then.

Who did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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!

I'm hugely honoured and very excited to be giving this year's Historical Research #Lecture at @ihr.bsky.social, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the #public'. Tuesday 4 November, all welcome. More info in AltText. Book here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants. Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Unique And Curious: A Visit To Dennis Severs’ House on the Living London History website provides a richly illustrated account of a fascinating property dating back to 1724 and described as “somewhere between a house museum and an immersive experience”. #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚 www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

THIS is a fabulous website The #Chester Consistory Court Archive of cause papers from the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in #England Find out more about this amazing free database 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk To search 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk/directory #Cheshire

Nice to see the 1579 Godolphin Report on the Isles of Scilly, which I transcribed for a client, used in his Poetry Nation Review article. My favourite part, 'The auncient rents I know not but if any were paid they were but puffyns or like small value'. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/writ...

Looking forward to a second weekend of heritage exploration through the excellent Heritage Open Days / Open House Festival for those in London. 🗃️ www.heritageopendays.org.uk / programme.openhouse.org.uk

National Ploughing Championships, 16th century style! From Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographiae Universalis', printed in 1554.

Wampum beads excavated this summer season at Ferryland, a very early 17thC settlement under an hour drive along coast west of St John’s. Amazing site for preservation of stone structures and evidence of wide Atlantic trade networks. #EarlyModern #Archaeology

In the next few days we'll be circulating our Autumn 2025 project newsletter! 🍂✉️ To receive a copy and find out what we've been up to over the last few months, make sure you're signed up to our mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social #history

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 across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome!

Card reader to 'tap & donate' installed at Bootham Bar, York to encourage the public to donate towards the maintenance of the city walls which cost £600,000 per year. 👇 BBC News - York city walls launches 'tap and donate' scheme for upkeep - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do you have a #LocalHistory you'd like to tell? Why not Share it through the BALH's website! We have a range of ways of sharing your stories. Find out more, here: buff.ly/nNMGMM0 #WeAreLocalHistory

Research has shown that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT can lead to poorer critical thinking, problem solving and reasoning skills among its users. Read my new report with @smfthinktank.bsky.social on the risks posed by AI in education: bit.ly/4g7EKUR

Learn how to read early modern Secretary Hand, with me in this online short course this month. 🗃️

1620 will of John Sargeant of Grubstreet in the City of London, Translator. A fleeting snapshot of a surely fascinating Life. [Peculiar of St Paul's register wills. TLA, CLC/313/K/C/003/MS25626] #EarlyModern

Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online). Letter's wording is in the .alt element. #waccampaign

AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."

CfP for maritimebritain.org Maritime Britain Project c.1550-1750 (led by Prof Craig Lambert, University of Southampton) end of project conference is live. See poster below & register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b... #maritimehistory

Corpse Roads, by Anna Cusack. Corpse roads, sometimes known as burial roads or coffin roads were used for exactly what it sounds like, transporting a corpse. Often found in rural areas these paths lead from remote dwellings to the parish churchyard. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads

Are you a community group or organisation with a passion for heritage? Why not look at the Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub for support! Find out more: ow.ly/kQHe50WK8Tw #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840? The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners! #SwitchingTheLens

"the new AHRC funded Community Hub, which will support inclusive, community-led research across the UK GLAM and heritage sectors ... The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub will offer three grant schemes - Seed Corn Grants, Skills Bursaries, and Project Grants" tinyurl.com/tnacommunity...