I am so honoured to be on @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social 's beguiling podcast series Uncanny Landscapes uncannylandscapes.podbean.com as part of an (unintentional?) trio of north-western English women discussing trespass, commoning and protest

New short article out now - Claire Cross, ‘Thomas Water’s Circles of Prayer in Early Tudor York’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chartism Day 2026 This year's event will take place in Warwick on 19 September 2026. For more info and to see the call for papers, click the link. #Chartism #ChartismDay #CfP sslh.org.uk/2026/02/12/c...

Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026 Deadline: 1 May 2026 Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes). Please repost.

New article online - Richard Sermon and Tom Lord, ‘The Malham Pipe: New Dating Evidence and Parallels’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're delighted to share details of this year's Ridings of Yorkshire Society Conference. ROYS will return to its traditional two day format, taking place on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th June at York Explore Library. See our Call for Papers below for details on how to participate. #Yorkshire

New book review online Eilish Gregory’s review of ‘Catholic Nobles and the Elizabethan State, 1558–1588: Northern Affinities and the Politics of Religion’ is available on our website. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#ICYMI: Join us for a one-day conference about the local history of the Yorkshire Dales on 2 May! Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/yorkshire26 #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

This coming Monday 26th January the Local and Family History Network at Wakefield Library will be 'Living with the Dead: stories, photos and what gets left behind' and will include a talk by Professor Laura King. All welcome, free event. 1.30 - 3pm.

Pleased to be doing the northern leg of my book launch at @wcmlibrary.bsky.social with Isaac Rose and the Greater Manchester Tenants' Union on 26 Feb. Northerners, book now!

Our first talk of the season, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN'S THRICE CHAMPIONS: 100 YEARS ON revisits the glory years of Huddersfield Town FC in the 1920s. Monday 26 January, Oastler building, Huddersfield University, 7.30pm. All welcome - more details here: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/event/hudder...

In February 2026 @senatehouselib.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence. This is to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the upcoming exhibition ‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, and to provide a contemporary response to it in print. 1/3

It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!

Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026 Deadline: 1 May 2026 Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes). Please repost.

If you're tuned in to BBC Radio York you might catch some discussion of the Yorkshire Historical Dictionary project by former Project Archivist Alexandra Medcalf. Alex will be discussing Yorkshire place names at 12.15pm today! You can find the dictionary here: yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk

Event: 'Votes for Women in Halifax and West Yorkshire' sslh.org.uk/2026/01/15/v...

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞? Don't miss this free @sogorg.bsky.social online event with experts from the local family history society and archives to discover the wealth of resources and help available for #Cheshire research Link to find out more and how to join 👉 portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...

✨ Call for Papers ✨ Are you a postgrad, ECR, independent scholar, or heritage professional researching any aspect of Midlands history? We'd love to hear about your work at our New Voices in Midland History Conference on Saturday 6 June at Newark Museum. CfP details below 👇 deadline 31 March.

As the cataloguing of the NUM archives nears its end, our Project Archivist writes on the Miners' Hall, Barnsley: The completed Yorkshire Miners' Association archive catalogue is at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/YMA NUM catalogue (work so far completed!) at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/NUM

The Editors are pleased to announce that Samuel Lane (Institute of Historical Research) is the winner of the 2025 Gordon Forster Essay Prize, for an essay entitled ‘Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham, his Palatinate, and the Crown, 1333-1345’.

Tomorrow! To celebrate Explore Your Archive week we will be hosting an exhibition of all things Clifton. We will be showcasing records offering an insight into life in Clifton and the stories of its people through the years. 📅Saturday 6th December  🕰️10:00am-12:30pm & 1:00-3:30pm 📍Clifton Explore.

It's publication day! My new article in Northern History builds on work by @millieqed.bsky.social to produce a study of the League of Hospital Friends in Halifax mostly using local newspapers. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New open access article - Robert Piggott, ‘A League of Their Own: Halifax Hospital League of Friends’ is free to access on our website. doi.org/10.1080/0078...

New exhibition ‘Cottonopolis: The origins of global Manchester’ is now open. Explore how 18th century Manchester was transformed into a manufacturing powerhouse and the centre of Britain’s booming cotton industry. 📅Visit Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm. Free entry.

North East England borehole data drive: share your data, shape the future We're asking for drillers, consultants, councils, housebuilders, and developers to share ground investigation (GI) data for the Newcastle and Gateshead area.

New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...

It was a privilege to talk about the radical C17th women in my book with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social for Not Just the Tudors. We had a brilliant and wide-ranging discussion about a Yorkshire maidservant who met the sultan of the Ottoman Empire … and much more! shows.acast.com/not-just-the...

Our next online seminar will be on Thursday 16th October! Join us for this interdisciplinary panel to discuss working in archives and methodologies! To book your place, please use this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can't wait to see you there!

I am absolutely delighted to be able to share the news about our next @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum which will be taking place in York on November 24th. We have a superb line up of workshops for #primary and #secondary #historyteachers and all for a bargain basement price ...

An inconspicuous Sheffield council house was the launchpad for artists that would go on to shape the sound of the 1980s. Jamie Taylor (@coldtapfilms.bsky.social), who has written a book about the place, speaks to Laura Reid at @yorkshirepost.co.uk here: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and...

You can sign up for Katrina's paper here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Manchester historians! @historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below! www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

If you're in London on 21 October there are still a few tickets available for the launch of my new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social about all things history.

Finally launched 'Remembering to Help, Helping to Remember' at the weekend - a new exhibition about #FWW civilian experience in Hartlepool following the Dec 1914 naval bombardment of the town (with a generous grant from @sslh.bsky.social). It covers the emergency response to the attack, including...

New Absolute Units drops tomorrow! This time we're bringing on the brilliant @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to explore the radical history of the commons: the shared resources that communities depended on, and the historical processes that governed their access. Live from 12pm UK time. Ish.

📢 Are you a new history PGR? Join us at @ihr.bsky.social workshop in London to hear more about History Lab as well as other fantastic organisations such as @royalhistsoc.org and @historyandpolicy.bsky.social! Attendance is free but booking is required! See you there! 📖⚔️📚

Are you starting a research degree in history and/or history-related fields in 2025? If so, please join us on 8 October to learn about the wide range of resources we have on offer to support postgraduate students. Meet our staff and fellow PhD students too. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Furniture history! Are you a postdoctoral researcher who'd like to explore and showcase an outstanding collection of 17th-20thC furniture history @universityofleeds.bsky.social by spending approx. 6 weeks (or longer part-time) in our Libraries? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/bedford-fell...

New article - Rowan Patel’s article “The Earliest Records of Glassmaking in Medieval England: Evidence from Vale Royal Abbey, Cheshire” is available on our website. #medievalsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us in Huddersfield this weekend for Chartism Day 2025. All welcome. Booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

September at The Common Room. 📖 4th – Book Launch: Tyneside’s Railway Heritage 🎸 6th – Edgar Jones live 📕 11th – NEIMME Book Launch: William Thomas & the S&D Railway 🏛 17th – General Admission Day + Railway 200 archive 🚋 18th – Talk: Newcastle Trams Full info & tix 👉 thecommonroom.org.uk/whats-on

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? If so, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Come and join us for Chartism Day 2025. All welcome; booking required. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

New book review online John Lamb reviews ‘The Simons of Manchester: How One Family Shaped a City and a Nation’ in Northern History. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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 right across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome

#MedievalSky #EarlyModern If you're working on any aspect of the life-cycle (eg birth, marriage, baptism, leaving home, death, childbearing, etc) and want to present at the Life Cycles Seminar at IHR I'd be keen to hear from you! Echo chambers are never good, so it's always worth casting the net.

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

A tour of some of the sources available to researchers in East Yorkshire.

200 years ago today 3 sailors and 4 onlookers were shot dead by troops in Sunderland. I've been working with local historians and David Gordon Scott (OU) to raise awareness of this little-known massacre. Today we gathered to mark the bicentenary with speeches and the naming of the dead. (1/2)

As part of the Joseph Rowntree Centenary we've partnered with The Rowntree Society to curate a display of original archival documents exploring Joseph's life and legacy & we'd love you to come and see it! Drop into The Yorkshire Room any time between 11-1 this Friday 8th August to find out more🍫