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🍫

Happy Yorkshire Day! Our members have registered 37 #OnePlaceStudies in Yorkshire, including towns, villages, parishes, streets, cemeteries, a school, and an orphans’ home. They can be found via the following links: ✦ East Yorkshire ✦ North Yorkshire ✦ South Yorkshire ✦ West Yorkshire

The hottest ticket in Durham this September? Probably not this, but I'm still excited to be giving a talk on Keats's copy of Shakespeare at the Palace Green Library, inspired by the current exhibit of Durham's First Folio📖 @ksaacomm.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twilight-t...

It's the 1st August AND Yorkshire Day so double the reason to share what we've been up to via our brand new Borthwick Newsletter. This month we feature a new podcast, writer and actress Yvonne Mitchell, a forthcoming Joseph Rowntree display & some Borthwick lore! www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...

It's #YorkshireDay! Did you know that there will be another opportunity to catch a performance of 'Remarkable Deliverances' in Thornton's home territory, North Yorkshire? @debsca.bsky.social's acclaimed one-women play is part of this year's Helmsley Literary Festival in September. 1/2

Lancastic news, everyone. Over 800 items for the Lancaster Court of Duchy Chamber pleadings [DL 1/3-15] are now searchable in Discovery. The project, when complete, will describe the c.12,000 items for the court up to the end of Elizabeth I's reign. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

Please join us on 9 September for this exciting #event, and to celebrate the #launch of my new #book, A #History of England in 25 Poems. A conversation with award-winning poet Hannah Lowe, chaired by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, then wine reception. All welcome! Book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book review: Christopher Donaldson reviews ‘Cumbria: 1,000 Years of Maps’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new book review: S.J Connolly reviews ‘The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain: 1819 to the Early Twentieth Century’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#SkyStorians Question for you: Anyone recently/currently researching the British General Strike of 1926? It's not my field, but thinking of organising a small event in May 2026 to mark the centenary. If you'd be interested or know people who would be, then get in touch on here or by email. Thanks!

Today we launched the North East Funerary Heritage Group at Newcastle Cathedral to explore, preserve & promote regional funerary heritage. Great panel & workshops mapped knowledge, skills & burial sites. Grateful to Anna Walsh, Ray Hayes & Myra Giesen. Visit: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nefhg/

Book your ticket today for Chartism Day 2025 Saturday, 6 September, Huddersfield www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

There's still time to sign up for our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon - it's happening 1 week from today! 📜✍️ 📅 Thurs 24 July 🕐 1-4pm BST Join us online or in person in Exeter: transcribe on Zooniverse & help transcribe as many wills as possible! Sign up: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

Event Sharing 📰 Heritage Talk with Professor Catherine Hindson at Selly Manor Discover the story of early 20th century theatre at the Cadbury factory | Thursday 17th July 2025 | 7pm £7 per person. To book please call 0121 472 0199 or visit:

Lovely historians, please do share this opportunity with MA students interested in contemporary British history :) @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @conteurohistory.bsky.social

Our #OpenAccess collection on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern Britain has only been out for a year and amazingly it's been downloaded over 4,000 times from @uclpress.bsky.social. So pleased to see all the interest in petitioning! Get your free copy here: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...

Today is publication day for my new history of England’s remarkable winter revolution of 1641-2. I’m really proud of how it turned out and I hope you enjoy it! Do keep an eye out for signed copies in independent bookshops around the country. www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Winter...

We are looking for an archivist to work alongside a great team on the Champs Camp archive in Moss Side, Manchester - the UK’s 1st major black led boxing club. 18 months, full time - funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Please share! www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/manches...

Celebrate the publication of our historical map of Chester at this free virtual event on 16 June at 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-histori... with talks from @profkdlilley.bsky.social Dr Katherine Wilson and Dr Tom Pickles. Registration is open now!