Memorial to 72 victims of Grenfell fire to be funded by new legislation

Scotland & Medicine are hosting a special online event on Tuesday 10th March at 3pm which will bring together anyone interested in medical collections to hear an introduction to the holdings of 15 museums, archives and libraries across Scotland. Free to attend! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotland-m...

📢In partnership with St Andrews University, we're looking for a 'Joseph Bell Writer in Residence at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh' to pursue a writing project drawing on our archives. Stipend of up to £15,000. Closing date 6 March 2026. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Join a relaxed & creative evening event celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth. Artist & doctoral research Catherine James will introduce the history of women’s book ownership in the stunning @rcphysicians.bsky.social heritage library. 🗓️10 March, 6pm - 8pm 👉 her_book_rcp_library.eventbrite.co.uk

I just got off the phone with the council, as they didn't bother contacting me. They've resealed the vault. The woman on the phone was a bit rude, but I'm glad it's sorted.

In a change from our usual office, the History of Parliament team met today at the Foundling Museum. We of course spotted a 19thC item. Here is the 1857 Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace. The Hallelujah chorus could apparently be heard half a mile away.

I spotted the wonderful @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social in the 'staff recommended' section at Richard Booth's Bookshop (Hay on Wye) 📚 THE FACEMAKER 🧠 "A gripping read - vivid, fascinating, harrowing yet utterly redemptive and inspiring. Highly recommended." #History

Hezekiah Moscow und Ich. Groß in Deutschland! Me and my fella are in Der Spiegel online. Might make it to print too! Vielen Dank Der Spiegel, Frank Thadeusz, Ossi Piispanen 🙏🏻 I feel sick and my heart might explode. And I only look and sound SLIGHTLY like an obsessed crazy woman, right? 😆

#MementoMoriMonday 💀 This beautiful legerstone marks the burial place of Thomas Rrice Esq (d.1691) 🪦 The stone features angels, and a skeleton awaiting the call of resurrection 💀 'Arise I shall when Christ do call' 🎺 📍St Michael's Church • Myddfai ⛪️ #Wales #History

#MementoMoriMonday 💀 This beautiful legerstone marks the burial place of Thomas Rrice Esq (d.1691) 🪦 The stone features angels, and a skeleton awaiting the call of resurrection 💀 'Arise I shall when Christ do call' 🎺 📍St Michael's Church • Myddfai ⛪️ #Wales #History

#OTD 1959, following lengthy campaigns, the flag of Wales was officially recognised by the United Kingdom Parliament and recognised as the national flag of the Welsh people. The flag was inspired by the battle standard created by Henry VII in 1485.

Happy Shropshire Day! I am so proud to share the history and folklore of this county. There's a lot more in store for nearlyknowledgeable this year as we celebrate 6 years (and all will be Shropshire related) 💚 Nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com #history #Shropshire #Shropshireday #folklore

So, I went for a walk in a cemetery this afternoon and noticed a disturbed vault and quickly realised I could see a full human skeleton. I did my best to cover the entrance into the vault, because I didn't want anyone else to see it.

Cwrdd â ti fan hyn Meet you here

Porth mynwent Blagdon yng Gwlad Yr Haf, y tiroedd a gollwyd

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You can read the whole story here. sophiemhistory.substack.com/p/cruel-and-...

It's Friday and this week's murder is horrible. They're all horrible, but this one is staggeringly violent. I will limit the gory details, but this is your content warning for TODDLER MURDER. In Sheffield in the 1850s.

The Totentanz - or Dance of Death - in Bleibach, Germany dates to 1723, and still has all 34 scenes presents. There are 33 figures and their encounter with an anthropomorphised Death plus a skeletal band. In this scene, Death is coming for the cardinal.

One of my undergrads messaged me to say that the same teacher is the reason he is at university studying Plant Biology. Sounds like a remarkable chap. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Review | Criminal records: 150 years of the Crime Museum 🚓 This sensitively curated exhibition at London's Metropolitan Police Museum shines a light on the work of those who expose murderers and fraudsters

The AI "caricature" trend has been very distressing to genuine caricaturists like my husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social. We've been discussing how to reconnect with people & remind them what human-made art looks like. He just started a YT channel. Please subscribe, share & delight in real caricature!

Can't help thinking this is the sort of thing a 12th-century chronicler would record as an unheard-of prodigy, just before something really bad happens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Belated #WallsOnWednesday 🧱 I adore the walls of this church 😍 📍St Michael's Church • Myddfai ⛪️ #Wales #History

#AdoorableThursday 🚪 📍St David and St Cyfelach Church • Llangyfelach ⛪️ #Wales #History

#AdoorableThursday 🚪 📍St David and St Cyfelach Church • Llangyfelach ⛪️ #Wales #History

It's gorgeous 😍

The Bone Chapel Beneath Holy Trinity Church at Rothwell (Northamptonshire) lies one of England's strange medieval survivals - a charnel chapel packed with thousands of human skulls and bones, stacked four feet high along the walls.

Belated #WallsOnWednesday 🧱 I adore the walls of this church 😍 📍St Michael's Church • Myddfai ⛪️ #Wales #History

Guest post by @kaycrosby.bsky.social: 'Identifying Women Jurors and Institutionalising Women's Citizenship' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/02/19/i...

what's up everyone welcome back to the channel, today we're going to do a special ash wednesday smoky eye tutorial

At St Andrew the Apostle's, Beifil (Bayvil) is a gorgeous Georgian triple-decker pulpit. 1/8

It’s Valentine’s Day - so here’s an illustration from McLaren’s Atlas of Venereal Disease from 1889

It's #NationalToothacheDay so just going to leave this here.

Anatomical illustration of the heart with flaps raised to expose the left and right ventricles, in René Descartes ‘De Homine’. Published posthumously in 1662 due to fear of the Roman Inquisition, it is believed to be the first European textbook on physiology

The funeral of Joseph Lister, father of antiseptic surgery was held #OTD in 1912 at Westminster Abbey. This card was kept by Murdoch Cameron, a supporter of Lister's theories and a pioneer in caesarean section under antiseptic conditions.

One like = historical opinion ⚔️👑⚔️

I expanded on my bit a little here, talking about how Victorians saw death and how inquests compromised that sophiemhistory.substack.com/p/studying-d...

Last month, @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social, @saramackian.bsky.social and I recorded a podcast on what it's like to study death. We're all from very different disciplines but we found a lot of common ground. You can listen to it here www.open.edu/openlearn/he...

#MementoMoriMonday 💀 📍Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery 🪦 #Wales #History

*Academic sells history off to the highest bidder* There, BBC, we sorted that headline for you If he truly feels *a connection* to the find, as the article claims, would he not have donated it to a museum? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reminder that I have a starter pack of cat accounts run by real people who post original content with meaningful ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

'Lust' 💘 📍St Cadoc's Church • Llancarfan ⛪ #Wales #History

#ValentinesDay 💘 The story of a love letter from the Amgueddfa Cymru collections 💌 Sarah was 20 years old when she received the letter. She fell in love with a butcher and they kept a public house together 🍻 hellohistoria.substack.com/p/my-dearest... #Wales #History

Happy Valentine's Day! #ICYMI our Valentine's Day podcast episode covering syphilis is now available! You can find Beyond the Knife wherever you get your podcasts. shows.acast.com/beyond-the-k...

Syphilis has a long history and has often been accompanied by social stigma. In this post, Honorary Research Fellow Professor Ken Donaldson explores how city officials in Edinburgh attempted to banish people with syphilis to Inchkeith Island. surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/t...

#ValentinesDay 💖 Roses are red, Water comes in litres, Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres. ❤️