Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

This is a great thread and I’m not sure I have anything to add to the excellent contributions already - but I am mulling it over now in my head and might be seeing what it means to my #MidiPres colleagues 🤔 #digipres

Also looking forward to meeting @astonuniversity.bsky.social students at their annual Meet the Archivist event - love a chance to promote the rich resources @mrcwarwick.bsky.social

Just had the nicest email from @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy which has got me all excited for #WDPD2025 - what are you planning?

Happy International Coffee Day! A German word that describes a coffee substitute, usually made from barley malt, is Muckefuck. It essentially means "rotting wood mulch" and can also describe any weak coffee. So next time someone makes you a bad coffee feel free to say "What the Muckefuck is this?"

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We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

As we celebrate the Red Roses' victory, we're hailing some of the sport's pioneers! Founder members of the Women's Rugby Football Union, the University of Warwick's team first scrummed down in 1980/1, making the cover of the Student Union handbook a year later #Warwick60 #WRWC2025

Found a secret door in the back of my washing machine. Behind it a tiny room with rows of mice fast asleep in odd-sock sleeping bags.

If #Railway200 has sparked or rekindled your interest in #RailwayHistory, and you fancy study at Masters or PhD level - then come & study with Dr Mike Esbester at the University of Portsmouth! An expert in railway, transport & mobility history: www.port.ac.uk/about-us/str...

Eating a Sterchi’s chocolate and wishing I was back in Filey

We’ve just moved into an old house where the carpet underlay seems to consist entirely of copies of the Times 1965-1970, and it’s kind of reassuring to find the headlines (arms sales to Israel, teachers’ strike, rows about some MP calling another MP a drunken buffoon) are so utterly relatable

A new season of talks from the Centre for Midlands History & Cultures begins next month! We begin with a house history - Winterbourne, Edgbaston, #Birmingham 📅Thurs 16 October 🕰️7:00-8:00pm Online via Zoom All Welcome @archivewhg.bsky.social

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff follow Friday. This week let me recommend @legionofllama.bsky.social recently mived to newish role at Warwick University Press always doing interesting things and #digipres is in the mix.

There is just a week left to book your place for this year’s Religious Archives Group conference on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief The one-day in-person conference will take place on 2 October at The London Archives To book, please visit: ticketlab.app/event/31944-...

I have to go to Rotherham.

Academic tour dates

Ah, we're here at last. #Roman Roads having a bit of an explore in the new place. Just finding our way so help appreciated for good #history #archaeology feeds to follow and interact with

Producer from BBC Radio Scotland, prior to an interview about Trump's state visit: "Are you still 'Professor of American History' at the University of Edinburgh?" Me: "I think so. The proper question is: Will I still be after this interview?"

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Flintshire Historical Society has invited me to talk about "The Belgian Refugee Monks at Talacre." If you'd like to come along, we'll be at Talacre Community Centre, Gamfa Wen, Talacre, CH8 9RT, on Saturday, September 27th at 2.40pm. All welcome! #BelgianRefugees

Ugh software that sends you "motivational" phrases. No Clipchamp - I have not "outdone myself", I have hastily recorded a clip which will do for my purpose, not created a Hollywood epic.

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

🚨 CLOSING SOON! 🚨 The 2025 John Scholes Prize! For the best paper based on original research into any aspect of #TransportHistory or #MobilityHistory. Serious prizes & kudos await - yours for the taking! Deadline 30 September 2025 - more here: journals.sagepub.com/page/jth/joh...

#PerryBarr #BirminghamHistory A three-bedroom property for sale in Birmingham for £440 – a steal! Hold on, those are February 1939 prices. Ref - Modern House & Home, LF 41.8 #LibraryofBham

Coming soon: the Only in Birmingham podcast.

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!

Tonight we are going to see Rollerball. Tomorrow we are going to Brent Cross the new shopping centre.

Delivered of a child with the head of a cat ...

Who's excited for #HeritageOpenDays ? We know we are - we've already got a display and some merch at the ready - just ready to welcome our visitors. We still have places left for next Wednesday if you want to take part warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... 🥰

Tremendous job title. One for the Fink-Nottles of this world.

Our friends at VCH Herefordshire are pleased to advertise two consultant editorial and research roles which will contribute to the completion of existing work around Ledbury and the Malvern Hills. The roles combine editing & primary research. For more details, see below. #Skystorians #HistoryJob

The Campus Kin project is celebrating the wonderful green spaces we have @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social campus - gathering our experiences of nature on our beautiful campus reflecting the changes over the years. Share your stories here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

It would be more of a paddle in Birmingham...

I had the embarrassing experience of sitting alone in the dining room eating an expensive and mediocre meal.

Happy Broad Street pump handle day to those who celebrate!

National Trust Members. It’s time to vote to keep the Faragists out. Best not to split the vote. Use the QUICK VOTE” link both for people and for motions.

#BHeritageWeek Don’t forget to join us on Tuesday 16 September with guest speaker, Colin Hyde to explore how sound archives preserve our audio heritage and expand local history research - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/listening-... #LibraryofBham @BHeritageWeek

#BHeritageWeek makes a very welcome return this month for its 11th appearance, taking place from the 12th to the 21st of September. Birmingham Archives and Collections will be hosting more events than ever. Find out more - theironroom.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/b... #BHeritageWeek #LibraryofBham

Join us at our annual conference 'Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk'. Tuesday, November 4 10am – 4:30pm GMT at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6EL. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguardi...

This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this: I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.

[library] hi do you have any books about when a guy is really mad at one specific whale

UCU member Will Nelson and his partner Kayleigh were among those who tragically lost their lives in Lisbon this week. Will was popular and much loved by all who knew him. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this awful time.

As the #TourOfBritain hits Warwickshire, we're checking our routes... In 1675 John Ogilby published the first road atlas for England & Wales. A landscape of common fields, coal pits, mills & brooks, the route from Oxford to Coventry features Atherstone, starting point for today's tour stage

Women marched from Cardiff to RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire to protest against the storage of nuclear missiles in the UK. Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was established on 5 September 1981. #GreenhamCommon mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/BRE/3

Looking forward to #HeritageOpenDays later this month! Join us at the Miners' Hall, Barnsley, on 16-17 September - a fantastic opportunity to see inside the NUM & Yorkshire Miners' Association's historic home & find out more about the union archives www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-e...

On Saturday I treated myself to some delicious beetroot slaw and today I discovered where it had leaked into my bag… 😭

Job 📢Project Officer: Balsall Heath in Changing Times: balsallheathhistory.co.uk/index.php/20... 10 hours pw/60 week project Midlands based #histjobs #BalsallHeath

Meanwhile - 4 quid well spent on this Fisher Price tape machine