📚 Now available! 📚 THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY, published by @blpublishing.bsky.social I’ve wanted to bring Violet Hunt’s supernatural fiction back for a while now, so am happy to see these stories reach a wide audience again. Please share!

In 1912 the British Museum began discussing the offer of Stonehenge as a gift for the nation from the estate of John Jacob Astor. Here is Charles Hercules Read corresponding with Sir Edmund Antrobus (then owner) & the BM’s Trustees on the matter. #britishmuseum #archives #stonehenge

Another powerful blog post and kudos @wadehistory.bsky.social I don’t think “ECR” works as a meaningful label any more E - “early” is based on an out of date PhD➡️ postdoc➡️ permanent timeline C - “career” is wildly optimistic for most of us R - how many of us in teaching jobs get paid to research?

Today a follow up to yesterday’s post on being an ECR in French History, by @wadehistory.bsky.social frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6744/ 🗃️ #FRHistory

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

Our brand new @folkloresociety.bsky.social website was launched today! Going strong since 1878. Keep a look out for new content and become a member! folklore-society.com

Love this from @ihr.bsky.social Bulletin in memory of Eliza Jeffries Davis (EJD): "she could write for and lecture to an unlearned public with lightness and charm. [...] she published a children's edition of Christina Rossetti's poems; and her 'conducted tours' of the City were deservedly popular"

Enjoyed attending Heba abd el Gawad 's exhibition All Eyes on Her! at the Horniman last week www.horniman.ac.uk/event/all-ey...

Important reports on Transatlantic Slavery & @porticolibrary.bsky.social www.theportico.org.uk/reunitedglob... inc tracing enslaved people in Grenada, where my mother grew up.

@mjpcuervo.bsky.social @kjsoar.bsky.social have you seen folk horror documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched?

HD Everett's The Crimson Blind and other Stories - one of the Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Paperbacks - has just arrived in the post! Looking forward to reading more of her work.

Late night library find: a pamphlet written by the archaeologist John Evans with a note on the front cover that appears to be in his hand, dedicating it to his son, Arthur Evans (of Knossos fame). Any experts on Evan's handwriting out there?

Shout out for our pop-up exhibition 'Women of Romano-British Archaeology' on display in the Hellenic and Roman Library at Senate House in London curated by Dr Tatiana Ivleva. the-past.com/feature/expa... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

With a few women in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database inc. Jessie Mothersole, MV Taylor, Elizabeth Hodgson, Jocelyn Toynbee

If you're in London this Thursday, Sept 4th, don't miss this evening at the Horniman Museum, a tie-in with the 'All Eyes on Her!' exhibition curated by Heba Abd el-Gawad. Artists, DJs, food, films, women-led marketplace, dabka classes and other workshops - celebrating the Middle East/SWANA. 📜🇵🇸🇪🇬🇮🇶🇲🇦

Looks great!

Not just applicable to medicine

This #ThoughtfulTuesday, we want you to be alert to archival silences. Records may not have been kept, or even existed, which may mean that there is always something left silent within these items. #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

We’re very sorry to share the sad news that former Vice-Chair and long-time supporter of the Society, John J Johnston, passed away this morning following a short illness. Aidan Dodson has kindly provided a short memorial to John here: www.ees.ac.uk/resource/joh...

Awful news about the great John J Johnston. Here he is on typically erudite form about the LGBT history of ancient Egypt and Sutekh’s chat-up lines and sex life: m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqb7...

Saw this in Bloomsbury this afternoon 😱 bsky.app/profile/thek...

Yep, true!

Interesting phenomena/discussion regarding changing relationships within and between academia and research support/management, and something I'm pondering re: knowledge production... Celia Whitchurch described it as the rise of 'Third Space Professionals' in HE: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Such a good story bsky.app/profile/meli...

Whoop whoop!

Cambridge University now has access to Latin American Newspapers Series 2, a comprehensive digital archive of historical newspapers published in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1822 and 1922. To find out more, check out this blog post! https://loom.ly/NK1xrc4

Fantastic line-up for our upcoming CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series @ilcs.bsky.social, School of Advanced Study, University of London starting Sept: shorturl.at/BQfAr Electricity & Electrification/ Education & Debt / Baseball / Afro-Asian Ecologies Supported by @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

Increasingly often, books I want to read are not coming up in the uni library catalogue but are nonetheless held electronically by the library, hidden away in a database. To find them, you have to search the particular database directly. What's the point of a system that hides its actual holdings?

Our Director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social, might have mentioned that she has a book out (we have had a sneak preview and we love it), but don't take our word for it, you can hear Catherine, this autumn, on BBC Radio 4.

New #OnHistory blog post fro @ruthslatter.bsky.social updating us on progress of the @vchlondon.bsky.social and @bho.bsky.social digitisation project. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/digi...

Exactly. Plus spellings. Also this blog post by @sharonhoward.bsky.social - especially the bit about the different ways Alice Thornton refers to her son Robin/Robert - should give pause for thought about why keyword searches alone are not satisfactory. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

When you look at Rhodes town, it seems unchanging with its castellations, its fortifications, its palaces, its cobbled streets . . . But of course, it isn’t. New post and film on Mary Severn Newton, Gertrude Jekyll & Rhodes. #womenartists #victorian www.debbiechallis.com/post/holiday...

This is why I bang on, whenever I can, about the value of having a browseable archive catalogue, and, you know, browsing through it: rather than thinking you can just zap into a specific target.

This is fantatic news to start the weekend @clairelanghamer.bsky.social!

Following this thread bsky.app/profile/step... but still not sure what to do.

Wir starten eine kleine Reihe mit Beiträgen von Gastautorinnen, die sich in universitären Lehrveranstaltungen mit der historisch-biografischen Forschung und der Vermittlung von Wissenschaftlerinnen-Biografien in der Public History auseinandergesetzt haben.

Last month, the Government announced they would be appointing a Freelance Champion to represent creative freelancers, something we have long campaigned for. While we wait to see the details, here's a reminder of why it is needed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgOC...

Wyrdlings! To celebrate the birthday of Desmond Dekker, born in St Andrew Parish, Jamaica, in 1941, for this week's #WyrdWednesday we shall celebrate the Caribbean with: "Sun, Soucouyants, and Sea Robber Stories!" Bring us tales & artwork, history & folklore, from Papa Bois to pirates!

Anticipating that this new @vchlondon.bsky.social project @themakingofmaidstone.org from @jack-newman.com bsky.app/profile/vchl... might be covering among other things Allington Castle, home of my long-time research subject Agnes Conway who researched & published on its history in the early 20thC.

A. E. Housman's letter bsky.app/profile/liam... is to his sister Katharine, who is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database - see beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...

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Calling storytellers in London! Free workshop on Biographical Storytelling tomorrow St John Waterloo facilitated by Danyah Miller. We have been running awesome free workshops for storytellers in London for two years now… Storytelling also teaches listening, builds empathy & brings people together.

Yes. AI cannot do historical research, in part because most archives aren't digitised, and it can't pick out the gaps and context and nuances of those archives that are digitised.

Two 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available at UCL for Black British candidates. One in History of the legacy of Transatlantic slavery and reparations; the other on reparations and the media/culture focusing on reparations and the media/culture. Here's the History one. 1/2

Been knocked out by Covid for past week & wfh when feel up to it. Now okish. Finally planned talk for PV on Holiday Sketches & Mary Severn Newton @porticolibrary.bsky.social. Even made a video on travel, Rhodes, people then, now & between. Made a few places publicly available. Link below.

Loving Ella Armitage's description of barrows in her 1901 article on "Non-Sepulchral Earthworks of Yorkshire": "Many barrows are protected by a wall of stones, or a bank or ditch, intended either to keep the public out or to keep the ghost in".

The more I think about it, the more impressed I am with DK Broster's ability to write a genuinely unsettling tale. Just really good. When's her Ghost Story for Christmas please?

So glad to see this @gabemoshenska.bsky.social congratulations to all!

#booksky went to take a fresh photo of this little sculpture of Amelia Edwards - Egyptologist - also went to visit her grave in St Mary’s Churchyard, Blaise. But the ankh is overgrown there are repairs and Harris Fencing so you can’t really see it. It’s listed Grade 2 monument. Blaise is old Bristol

History of geology archival find this week: an 1856 lyric tribute to William "Strata" Smith, to be sung to the tune of "The girl I left behind me:"