King and conqueror is really awful bullshit isn’t it?

@britishlibrary.bsky.social all gathering for the Big Event @thursdaymurderclub.bsky.social

'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' @enghistrev.bsky.social

The new Journal of Historical Criminology looks great! Looking forward to reading its contents and using with students.

Just adding alt-text to make sure this much-needed PSA reaches a wider audience

Right, I think, as I revise the book for which I consulted original material from nine different archives and fifteen museum/gallery collections

@sophiemhistory.bsky.social where can I read your article? X

Nous avons pluie a la Vendee. Zut!

With thanks to @lizgloyn.bsky.social for tracking down and sharing the publicly available update and @themedievaldrk.bsky.social for flagging it on BlueSky, confirmation that "non print legal deposit" sources are gone for foreseeable future at the British Library 😐 bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...

Calling all #History departments of #Universities I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.

What’s amazing is how many of us say pfft to Eurovision yet still have a lingering need to ‘enjoy’ it. Love our British sense of the ridiculous and kitsch.

Historians turned crafters 😂😂recreate a historic site - can you see what it is yet? @histassoc.bsky.social

Libraries and archives are not neutral spaces but political players of what is collected for social memory- Professor Walsham #HAConf25 @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Archives of prayer- primers cemented the ties between family and friends. The primers are gifted to family members down the generations, with different status and values. Presidential lecture at #HAconf25

@histassoc.bsky.social #HAConf25 begins with Alex Walsham presenting a fascinating range of religious texts which, as family heirlooms, acted as vehicles of intergenerational transmission of Christian culture and doctrine.

Visiting Vancouver for the first time on our way home. Horrified and saddened by last night’s incident- such a friendly and welcoming place. Please accept my condolences from this Brit. 💕

I am in Hawaii (I know but it was booked BT) however to settle discussions I have seen here - last night I had a pizza with PINEAPPLE 🍍 on it, with pulled pork - definitive Hawaiian pizza 🍕

My great great grandfather Samuel McCartney born Comber, N Ireland in 1825, died Hokitika, NZ 1914. Arrived in NZ in c1880 and ended up as a gold miner in Rimu. Yesterday,we were amazed to find there, a small Heritage Site re its gold rush. Strange feeling to stand where he did over 125 years ago.

Am I allowed to have a niggle @anncleeves.bsky.social ? Thoroughly enjoying The Raging Storm BUT Hoylake and the Wirral were Cheshire before they were Merseyside not because they didn’t want to be associated with Liverpool. Not a snob thing.

@franquinn.bsky.social about to start - excited. Thanks @bertsbooks.bsky.social x

@jbhist.bsky.social @katieebarclay.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social I know this is on Open Access but there is still somethings very exciting about having the physical copy. Thank you

Welcome to the Victorian Hand project, funded by @ukri.org (2024-2028) & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & @medhistoryman.bsky.social with more team members to announce very soon! Stay tuned for updates about our research and engagement activities, as well as multimedia fun! Please follow and share!

This is such an exciting & innovative book involving so many wonderful people. It's particularly apt that it's Open Access as it's one of those rare works that genuinely bridges the worlds of academic and popular history. It deserves the widest possible audience. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Hello! We've just joined BlueSky! For those who don't know us, we are the Archives of the Royal County of Berkshire & we hold historical records going back nearly 900 years! Discover more about us on our website: www.royalberkshirearchives.org.uk

@julialaite.bsky.social just watching Lucy Worsley and up you pop with @hallierubenhold.bsky.social . Great to see you both x

I’m blown away by Dr Steven Taylor’s review- thank you.

@emmadavenport.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @clareclarke.bsky.social @aliped.bsky.social @nathankhensley.bsky.social @taliaschaffer.bsky.social @christopherpittard.bsky.social @dbenjw.bsky.social @susannegruss.bsky.social @c19qmul.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social

Symposium - Institutional Care or Control: Past & Present #CareorControl @buxiduan.bsky.social

Today I have been at a great symposium at Birmingham organised by @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social @buxiduan.bsky.social and Dr Emma Watkins. All great papers and reconnecting with friends old and new. What a fantastic day - so pleased to be able to revisit ‘my’ Broadmoor ladies

50 years ago yesterday I had my interview at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with Dr Pat Tuck. Who’d have believed that I’d now be a Dr of History. How life can change …

Really lovely to be at @ihrwomen.bsky.social’s seminar this evening and to hear @drjenniferaston.bsky.social’s presentation on her new book co-authored with the late Olive Anderson. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

This should be a superb day despite the fact I’m speaking 😂😂

I have deactivated my Tw*X*ter account not that Him over there cares two hoots. Makes me feel better! I think I have still the ability to interact with those who I did with over there, here. Let's keep it a pleasant place to be

Dear Mr Blue Sky - is there anyway I can stop the crappy follows apart block the accounts? I am not interested in aged lotharios/requests for help ie money/ finding new love (quite ok with the one I’ve got). And I am mostly definitely not interested in MAGA nor the orange blimp. Help me

@kardomah.bsky.social were you also Kirklands? Why go back to Kardomah? Have you been Kardashianized? Or an obsession with the letter K? 😂

Fantastic panel on the extent and limits of Gendered Homicide in England & Wales -Sophie Michell, StephEmmaBrown & DrAlexaNeale @sophiemhistory.bsky.social

BCHS, Manchester 2024 sooo good to be back

Tell when I’m back in the north west- the tea tastes sooo much better here - 😘I’m home even though it’s Manchester 😂😂

Hello Manchester 😂

It’s on its way 😃

👋😘

Looks like more people are abandoning Twitter & giving Bluesky a whirl. Congratulations! Delighted to see you! My top tip is follow loads of people - there’s no algorithm here, so if you don’t follow loads it’ll look a bit dead. Look through who people you like follow & there’s a great starter list

Coming back with a pretty picture of my French garden. Please say hi! I’m totally hacked off with that other place.

4th July? I’ll be at Wimbledon what will you be doing?

In the words of the bard - Merry Bloody Christmas to all x

London 9/12/23 St Paul’s looking ethereal through the mist.

Well here’s a thing - I had posted 30secs of video on FB in 2022, sweet first dance to Dream a Little Dream. Today Sony Music have muted it copyright infringement. I’m shocked they can do it to a private post & why? Big Brother society? 😧😡

@ihr.bsky.social looking forward to this - so near home and a fascinating subject

Looking forward to a lecture at Reading