Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...

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!

This is a great model. Emily was kind enough to share it with our @vchlondon.bsky.social project and it has been so helpful. It allowed volunteers with no training to accurately transcribe Early Modern records. This would have been so much harder without her help

🔊 Today at midday UK time, join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar (on Zoom) to celebrate 'Tudor Networks of Power', the winning entry for the 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues... #dhist

This looks like a super interesting PhD opportunity for an artist or historian engaged in creative practice-based research www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-... @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social #nationalmaritimemuseum @josiekane.bsky.social

We're really looking forward to this: hope to see you there!

I love the juxtaposition here of @vchlondon.bsky.social #BigRedBooks with the (even bigger) volumes of Camden's Britannia (1695). People have been writing about place for a long, long time. For VCH online, see @bho.bsky.social, a full text of Camden here, btw: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B184....

#ICYMI - #Skystorians We are delighted to announce the launch of FOUR new VCH projects across England. We now have active projects in 22 of England's counties and two of the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire. Welcome to the fold, #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire and #London! More in the blog:

This is a bumper year for @vchlondon.bsky.social: Four new projects (each breaking new ground in counties where we haven't been actively researching for around a century. Many new books *including* our 250th Big Red Book (and that's in a county we haven't done before: Westmorland). #VCHRedBook250

Proud to be part of this. It's early days but feel very lucky to be able to do this important work.

Despite being over 125 years old, one of our flagship projects @vchlondon.bsky.social continues to be a vibrant, growing national network of place-based historians. The network has very excitingly recently welcomed 4 new projects. Find out more in this @ihr.bsky.social blog post 👇

Thrilled to see that this is now available online (for free)! academic.oup.com/book/59910 @mappingthemarch.bsky.social

Did you know that we give away free credits to students who want to use Transkribus for their Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis? Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇 www.transkribus.org/scholarship

Want to know what kind of ‘non-medical’ ailments a medieval medical practitioner might have been able to treat you for? Thrilled to share some of my research in the journal of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social - open access and everything! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

Our partners - large and small - together ensure we can continue to do what we do. If you value our open access, multilingual work, please consider becoming a partner.

Excited to run the annual @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives in June! Check out the CFP below, please share widely, and submit an abstract!

#medievalsky This is a very specific question, but I'm looking for manuscripts (pre-1200) that combine some sort of time reckoning (e.g. computus) with T-O maps. I know they exist, but until now it's like searching for a needle in a haystack. For instance: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/cca3...

I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

The Trust’s Study Abroad Studentship scheme is open until 7 January 2025. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/study-abroad-studentships In Indonesia, @botanicalotter.bsky.social is working on ornamental plant #conservation through this scheme: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/study-abroad-studentships/cook

Gave a talk to secondary school students on 'Is an Interdisciplinary degree right for you?' Very well attended, but only open to Private School students (they organised). If any state schools are hosting virtual events, and would like to hear more, please get in touch

My latest article ‘State of the Field: Digital Legal History’. Come check it out: doi.org/10.21825/dlh... #OpenAccess #DLH #DigitalHumanities #methodology #projects

For those who missed Colin Greenstreet discussing 'AI assistants and agents: A New Skill Set for Historians?' at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar last night, the talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALlu... and slides ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues... are now up. Enjoy! #dhist

The slides and video from my talk yesterday at the IHR Digital Seminar on ai and history ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues...

📢 TOMORROW: Wills Project Webinar 📢 We're hosting a webinar on Tuesday 12 November at 15.30 to mark the launch of our 'Zooniverse' site ✍️📃 Find out how to join us here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... @cemsexeter.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social #history #blueskystorians #skystorians

🏆Prize announcement! #CFP #History We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading... #OlivetteOtelePrize (1)

📢THE WILLS PROJECT IS NOW LIVE ON ZOONIVERSE 📢 And now we need your help! www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... Using cutting edge technology we've generated transcriptions of 25,000 wills, now we need participants to check & correct them 🧵1/ 🗃️ #skystorians #EarlyModern #CitizenScience

Realised I neglected to post the CFP for our Digital History Postgraduate Panels here (deadline is today!). If you are a postgraduate who uses digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena then please consider taking part: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/07/ihr-...

Digital History CFP! Please consider submitting a paper for our postgrad panels for the IHR digital history seminar 2024-5! #dh #dhistory👇 ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/07/ihr-...

A reminder: under 48 hours to go for the MA+ scholarship funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social . Drop us a line if you are interested and have a question.

The IHR digital history seminar might be over for 23-34 but you can still access all the recorded presentations via our Youtube channel 👇 www.youtube.com/@ihrdigitalh... Look out for next year's line-up coming out soon! #dhist #digitalhistory

If you work in research, higher education or the cultural heritage sector, I would be very grateful if you could spare 10-15 mins to complete this survey of ‘Attitudes towards Generative AI in research, cultural heritage and education’ forms.office.com/e/MjvHAUBTAG. Thank you very much in advance!

Word is getting around about our scholarships: www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships... Remember that to make a submission to us for funding, you need to have applied for a PhD place to one of the two partner institutions, @kcl.ac.uk or @memsunikent.bsky.social. Do contact us if you have questions.

Bursaries to study on our MA are still available! Support of either £10k or 50% of total fees. If you're interested in studying for a History MA it is DEFINITELY worth applying! www.history.ac.uk/funding/ma-s...

✨ Considering doing a MA or PhD with us? ✨ Join us March 23th for our online open event with Dr Rob Gallagher at 5pm GMT! Come ask all of your questions about #funding & our #postgrad programmes. ☺️ We look forward to meeting you! For more info & registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-and-phd...

Have historical data about places that you would like to map? This one day course covers recording historical data in ways that can be mapped, and practical issues of GIS map making with vectors. We still have spaces (in-person) @ihr_history in late May!

FUNDING AVAILABLE! Today, with the launch of the programme website, we open applications for not one, not two, not three, not four but FIVE doctoral scholarships on handwritten cultures PLUS a master's plus doctoral scholarship: www.komldsp.org.uk

We're keen to keep the Before Shakespeare site lively after its recent glow-up, so looking for guest posts for the site: works in progress, research insights, &c on EM theatre. Esp. eager to hear from doctoral and early career researchers! Do share the word. beforeshakespeare.com/2024/03/05/b...

An intriguing and richly detailed of the quire of Canterbury Cathedral in the 1650s, showing iconoclasts at work, has come into the cathedral's posession. Join us next Monday, 11th March, to discuss it and place it in context: www.canterbury-cathedral.org/whats-on/eve...

The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023. Nominate your work or a work that you 💜. Deadline 31 May. Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...

We are delighted to announce the introduction of The Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant.🧵 The aim is to enable postgraduate students to travel abroad for a potentially career-transforming international event or activity. Closing date: April 12th 2024 sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...

Delighted to see this new @leverhulme.bsky.social -funded Doctoral Scholarships Programme has made it onto here. KOM is an innovative partnership between @kcl.ac.uk and @memsunikent.bsky.social . Follow @komldsp.bsky.social - I know there is exciting news coming soon about funding and projects!

We're hiring Graduate Trainee Library Assistants for 2024 here @ihr.bsky.social, and we've just extended the deadline for applications to March 3rd. Please share with anyone that might be graduating from a history (related) degree with an interest in libraries! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/internal/Job...

This wonderful @publicdomainrev essay by Peter Keeling explains how there were plans to build a tunnel between England and France in the 1800s (!) A fascinating array of engineers likely had the technology but war and an army general's fear of invasion scuppered the plans. bit.ly/3UgIFFM

Have you started a history PhD recently? Want to tell us about it in 5 mins or less? @long18thsem we want to hear the best PGR research about 18th C Britain at our #LightningTalks event in March 2024

Please consider signing> Petition Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 years petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...

#historians hive mind: can anyone suggest primary sources for studying prisons in the (English) colonial Caribbean in the long 19th century?