Time for our final 🧵of 2026 on one of the articles from our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today'. This one is on 'From Historical Fiction to Historical Praxis: Researching Long Eighteenth-Century London’s Black Lives' (available OA), by Montaz Marché & @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social.

New exhibition review: Catherine Barron's review of the @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social's 600th anniversary exhibition.

New research article: 'The Monarchs’ Bills of Mortality: A Geographical Analysis of Death in Seventeenth-Century London', by @jmotis.bsky.social and Katherine Kania: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Christmas shopping season is an apt time for our latest 🧵 on our editorial board's favourite past London Journal articles, as this one is on @jackhanlon.bsky.social's pick: Victoria Kelley's 2020 article, 'London's Street Markets: The Shifting interiors of Informal Architecture'.

Free downloads… www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZIHM8...

Nocturnal London - call for papers.

Can be early modern, Dekker and Webster fans!

Reminder: If you're a postgraduate student or early career researcher working on London as a scholarly subject, do submit an expression of interest! And even if not, do spread the word!

Christmas shopping season is an apt time for our latest 🧵 on our editorial board's favourite past London Journal articles, as this one is on @jackhanlon.bsky.social's pick: Victoria Kelley's 2020 article, 'London's Street Markets: The Shifting interiors of Informal Architecture'.

Reminder: If you're a postgraduate student or early career researcher working on London as a scholarly subject, do submit an expression of interest! And even if not, do spread the word!

Excited to be helping out at this workshop in January @aidannorrie.bsky.social For PhD students or ECR's working on London (any period or discipline) it will be great oppurtunity to think about publishing and get a chance to start developing an article for submmission EOI's due by 16th Jan

Our third and final issue of 2025 has now been published! A 🧵 on its contents...

It’s St Andrew’s day, which is a tenuous enough excuse to share my article on the early C16th rebuilding of the church of St Andrew Undershaft in #London, published in @thelondonjournal.bsky.social 😇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Skystorians #medievalSky #church

I am very excited for this workshop: please do submit an EOI or get in touch if you have any queries. Publishing a journal article doesn’t have to be a daunting experience, and we are very proud of our support for ECRs.

We hope to see you there! 👋

If you would like to know more about how Romani in history in Britain, how they had their own distinct cultural spaces and their relationship with the capital - @thelondonjournal.bsky.social have published the just the article.

Such a great article!

Our third and final issue of 2025 has now been published! A 🧵 on its contents...

We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)

It was a complete joy to work with my friend Andy on our special issue of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social in 2022, and I am very proud of the introductory essay we co-authored: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Rest in power, dear friend

Call for papers for our new special issue on 'Nocturnal London', edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and @mcmccluskey.bsky.social. Abstracts due in by 31 March 2026. All submissions and reposts much appreciated.

New research article: 'Capital Entertainment: The London Pantomimes of Nelson Lee, c.1830–1870', by Stephen Ridgwell: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Compiling an ongoing thread of threads that we have produced about the Viewpoint articles the journal has published this calendar year in conjunction with its 50th anniversary celebrations, for which we also published this special issue on 'London's Past Today'. 🧵

We've published another new Viewpoint article: 'The Survey of London Today: Reconciling the Granular with the Global' by Sarah A. Dowding, Emily Mann and Aileen Reid, which @tandfresearch.bsky.social are making freely available for all to read for a limited time period. A short 🧵on its contents...

Now open to PhD students and ECR folk outside the UK too ⬇️

If you're a PG student or an ECR working on any aspect of London's history, do consider submitting! And if you're not but you know of, or maybe even supervise, someone who does, encourage them to submit!

My livery company! Please do apply

A new viewpoint article, by the journal board's very own @mcmccluskey.bsky.social, entitled 'The City of Dreadful Night?' has been published online (and will soon be freely available to read for the next three months). A short 🧵on what it covers...

Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.

The second in our series of threads on the wonderful articles comprising our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today', is on Sam Waterman and Charlotte Grant's 'Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City' (available open access). 🧵

New book review: Global London on Screen: Visitors, Cosmopolitans and Migratory Cinematic Visions of a Superdiverse City, edited by Keith B. Wagner and the late Roland-François Lack, as reviewed by Melissa Oliver-Powell.

As a previous prize winner, I can hardly recommend this enough: it’s a force for good in the study of #London history, and publishing with @thelondonjournal.bsky.social (with the gentle support/encouragement of @aidannorrie.bsky.social!) was a delight. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award! Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize

New book review: Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s by @bencampkin.bsky.social, reviewed by Marisa Müsing.

Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social. A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.

Pleased to see my ‘viewpoint’ looking at the historiography of London’s crafts and guilds now available @thelondonjournal.bsky.social as part of the journal’s 50th birthday celebrations!

Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social. A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.

New book review: The Southwark Fire Court by Jay Tidmarsh, reviewed by Lydia M. Soo.

Keep an eye out for future classic selections from the journal's board - we'll have another recommendation in a few weeks' time! Thanks for reading. x

It deeply inspired her own doctoral research on eighteenth-century pleasure gardens and their literary representations, especially in thinking about the gardens’ visual qualities and the role of pleasure in urban history.

Dr Zhu stressed in particular how the article compellingly demonstrates how museum displays can intersect with the spatial and cultural history of London.

It compares the relative success of the Pleasure Gardens display with the less engaging coffee-house installation, arguing that the gardens’ strong visual appeal better aligned with the museum’s interpretative strategies.

The article explores how the Museum of London recreated the Pleasure Gardens as a defining urban space of sociability, entertainment, and spectacle.

The next in our series about standout articles from the journal's history, as chosen by members of of our editorial board, is Yihong Zhu's selection of Ellie Miles's 2013 article ‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London' as her particular favourite. 🧵

The next in our series about standout articles from the journal's history, as chosen by members of of our editorial board, is Yihong Zhu's selection of Ellie Miles's 2013 article ‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London' as her particular favourite. 🧵

Anyway, thanks for reading! Do check out the article in full if you’d like to learn more, and also keep your eyes peeled for another thread about an article from the 50th anniversary issue in the not-too-distant future.

As the article’s conclusion states: ‘Cockney may be an old concept, variably deemed historical, outdated, or even dead, but it is also a steadfast ingredient to many Londoners’ construction of local ways of speaking as well as local identity.’

This strength is also reflected in and underpinned by a number of successful cultural activities, including the continued performances and charity fundraising of Pearly Kings and Queens, artists like singer and pianist Tom Carradine and poet Chris Ross, and the ‘‘lCockney Cultures’ initiative.

Yet as @johannagerwin.bsky.social’s own interviews demonstrate, cockney remains a potent cultural identity a in the 2020s, both among those who speak in or whose parents spoke in a cockney dialect, as well as across a broader range of Londoners, including from minority backgrounds.

‘Cockney’ - as a descriptor for working-class Londoners, particularly East Enders, and their distinct dialect - was widely seen as in decline by the late 20th century owing to waves of population dispersal to London’s suburbs and beyond, supplanted in the city itself by Multicultural London English.