Our 2026 publication, "The A-Z of Georgian London and Its Environs – John Rocque’s Maps, 1746- 1747", is now available. John Montague’s introduction tells the complex story of the development of the maps, incorporating new information on Rocque’s early life. londontopsoc.org/product/the-...

This looks like a fascinating talk for anyone interested in the history of Soho, London, technology, or TV! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broadcasti...

A fantastic VCH Day yesterday, bringing together our @vch-home.bsky.social community from right across England: from Durham to Somerset, Herefordshire to Essex. News, training, networking, rounded off with a brilliant lecture from Andrew Ziminski. Thanks to all who contribute to our amazing project!

Our next meeting is our AGM, followed by a presentation by Dr Francis Boorman on the Huguenots in Soho at the French Protestant Church of London, 8-9 Soho Square, London W1D 3QD, on 13 May 2026. For more information and to register interest in attending, contact [email protected]

A look back on what happened in Streatham on 1st May in a previous year #streathamhistory #mayday

'A Morning Ride, Bloomsbury Square' by Nick Grove www.nickgrove-artworks.co.uk

There's still space on my Summer course. I promise a week of highway robbery, pickpockets, pirates, burglary, murder, execution, & more. It'll be great fun! Crime & Punishment in Early Modern London & the Home Counties | Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford share.google/sEp55JVrpBtZ...

Celebrate 120 years of the Piccadilly line with @ltmuseum Heritage Train Journeys running on Saturday 2, Sunday 3 and Monday 4 May 2026. Immerse yourself in transport history with our friendly and knowledgeable volunteers. More information and tickets: www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/her...

Tuesday 👇 #Dulwich #LocalHistory #Online

Another fantastic history walk last weekend with RSMSJ and the Lord Mayor of Westminster. Honoured to have been briefly hijacked by designer Paul Smith too! www.rsmsj.com/rsmsj-walk-w...

Good afternoon! This week's theme is Cats of London 🐈‍⬛️ ----- 'Milton's House, Petty France, Westminster' (1845) by John Wykeham Archer

As our #OnePlaceStudies blogging and social media prompt this month is #OnePlaceClothing, here’s a #OnePlaceWednesday plug for @sarahmurden.bsky.social‬ Sarah Murden’s latest All Things Georgian blog post, The fashion for Spring 1826 featuring Urling’s lace.

'Londoners on Trial' - our new FREE exhibition, now open! Explore the history of law and order in London, uncovering the stories of London’s criminals, victims and law enforcers from the medieval period to modern times. Book your ticket now! 👇 buff.ly/X40WtmV

#Bursary applications for the 2026 @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool are open until 26 March! Join us this June to explore 'Sickness and Health' in London #history: from the Black Death to the Covid-19 pandemic, with lectures, trips and visits. All welcome. See www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Another figure we want to shed light on this #WomensHistoryMonth is Harriet Grote. In a series of articles, Dr Martin Spychal explores how she was able to establish herself as one of Westminster’s leading radical politicians. @martinspychal.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social

Artist Timothy Yufit’s In Place project uses Layers of London to document displaced headstones embedded within London’s parks and public spaces. These fragmented historical traces remain present within the contemporary urban landscape. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...

Join Ian McInnes for this online #Dulwich #LocalHistory talk, 8pm, Tuesday 7 April, about the many food and drink entrepreneurs in Dulwich over the past 200 years. including Bovril, Vestey and many others. Tickets £5, proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

Some notes on one of London's early women professional historians, in particular, @ihrlibrary.bsky.social's early Libririan, and contributor to @vch-london.bsky.social, Eliza Jeffries Davis, or 'EJD'. 🗃️ #IWD2026

Community open day - 28th March As an independent charity that receives no public funding, we rely on our entry fee to keep the doors open. However, we believe that London’s rich waterways history should be accessible to everyone in our community, regardless of circumstance. 🧵1/2

We're not always locked up in the archives. Last weekend, VCH London hit the streets with the Lord Mayor of Westminster and local residents to guide a tour of Mayfair with the brilliant blue badge guide Sophie Campbell.

A #OnePlaceWednesday reminder that Shopping is Never Done, a #LocalHistory conference focused on West London High Streets, takes place on Saturday 11th April at Duke Street Church in Richmond. Tickets £15. Sure to be of interest to #OnePlaceStudies researchers!

Join us next month for a talk on The Questioning of Eleanor Rykener and hear about the oldest document in our collection that speaks directly to LGBTQ+ history. 📅 Wed 11 March 🕑️ 1pm 📍 The London Archives 🎟️ Tickets via Eventbrite 👇 #LGBTQHistory #MedievalHistory

In 1820, a small group of radicals met in a hayloft on Cato Street, with a plan to assassinate the Prime Minister and his cabinet. However, as @alfiesteer.bsky.social explores, the Cato Street Conspiracy was doomed to fail from the start.

Two new #OpenAccess histories from @uclpress.bsky.social: Student London A new history of higher education in the capital uclpress.co.uk/book/student... Survey of London: University College London, The Bloomsbury Campus uclpress.co.uk/book/univers... #History #LondonHistory

John the Fox. Joyce Edwards' squatter portraits are now being shown publicly for the first time at Four Corners in Bethnal Green in an exhibition entitled, 'Joyce Edwards: A Story Of Squatters', which opens on 13th February and runs until Saturday 20th March.

If your #OnePlaceStudy Place has an urban setting, this event may be right up your street! A short course focussing on the development of Bloomsbury, from green fields to the present day, and providing insights on how to ‘read’ a townscape. #OnePlaceWednesday

Catching an Uber, #Bridgerton style? This remarkable 1783 pocket #map of #London, in the collection of @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, shows the Hackney Coach fare between key destinations in the city. A great guide to getting around - and avoiding getting ripped off! More info in AltText.

With the release of #Bridgerton, why not find out what was really going on in Regency #Mayfair? Our short book is a bit less steamy, but much more informative about local government in the area: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-vic...

Join us tomorrow to learn about how an Atlas of London in 1666 has been researched! This webinar is in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-r... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Our next online #LocalHistory talk is Tuesday 3 February, 8pm-9pm. 'Lamps on the Corner: 250 Years of Medicine in Dulwich'. £5, proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

Check out this fun event from @strawbhillhouse.bsky.social where you can be an Art Detective on 31 January! www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/art-detective/

The call for the @londontopsoc.bsky.social Ann Saunders prize is now open. londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann...

Shopping is Never Done: the 45th West London Local History Conference, on Saturday 11th April 2026, at Duke Street Church in Richmond, is a one-day #LocalHistory conference focussed on West London High Streets. Tickets £15. Sure to be of interest to #OnePlaceStudies researchers too!

@britishmuseum.bsky.social opened its doors #OnThisDay 1759. Based in the former Montagu House, London seat of the dukes of Montagu, the old building was demolished in 1823 and replaced with the current grand structure, designed by Sir Robert Smirke.

Our next online #LocalHistory talk is 'Lamps on the Corner: 250 Years of Medicine in Dulwich'. Ian McInnes explores the everyday history of medicine in Dulwich. £5, proceeds to St Christopher's Hospice. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

On Tuesday March 3rd, 8 to 9pm, via Zoom: Not All the Same: Victorian Housing in East Dulwich. This talk looks at the houses in a small area of East #Dulwich, how they have been lived in, why and how they have survived, and what is happening to them now. Tickets £5. #OnePlaceWednesday

Died #OTD 1776, Edward Cornwallis. MP for Eye and Westminster, Cornwallis was a military officer involved in the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. He also served as lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia and then Gibraltar, from 1762 until his death.

The Derek Keene #London #Lecture 2026 is open for (free) booking! Join us on Weds 24 June to hear Thomas Asbridge on the #BlackDeath in London, drawing on his new book. The lecture forms a focal point of our annual @ihr.bsky.social #SummerSchool, this year focused on #London 'Sickness & Health'.

New #OnHistory blog from IHR Fellow @maxinebeuret.bsky.social reflecting on the Digital Storytelling for Local Historians that she ran as part of @sas-news.bsky.social @beinghumanfest.bsky.social blog.history.ac.uk/2026/01/shar...

Died #OTD 1720, William Ashhurst, Lord Mayor of London 1693-4. As well as Lord Mayor, Ashhurst was an MP for London on numerous occassions between 1689-1708. He was also supporter of the 'Glorious Revolution':

Congratulations to our @ihr.bsky.social MA student Amy Walker @amywalkerhist.bsky.social, who completed the course this autumn, on this blog post - giving an insight into her fascinating research into social history and ordinary lives in #Greenwich. globalmaritimehistory.com/windows_maps...

In case you missed it on Friday afternoon, why not start the week with 18th century #Soho? Daisy Mansfield has written a brilliant blog on social commentary in Hogarth, brought to you by VCH London: blog.history.ac.uk/2026/01/soho...

VCH London begins 2026 with a fantastic blog by Daisy Mansfield on Hogarth and Soho: blog.history.ac.uk/2026/01/soho...

I couldn't agree more with @mirror.co.uk that it's a good time to investigate Agatha Christie's London. Especially because there's 40% off Songs of Seven Dials in the @manchesterup.bsky.social sale. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/ #sevendials #20s30s

#ICYMI: Join us on 27 January to learn about how an Atlas of London in 1666 has been researched! This webinar is in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-r... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Thanks to everyone who has supported VCH London this year, buying books, attending events, making donations, volunteering time, and the rest.

"Maps are a way of organising wonder." ~ Peter Steinhart Visuals from the Agas Map over on @layersoflondon.bsky.social , courtesy of The London Archives www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #WednesdayWisdom #Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps

VCH London is researching the history of #soho. It makes for great reading, but you can see it in the streets too. What an amazing new map! www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fro...