Born #OnThisDay 1799 Joseph Pease, Liberal MP for Durham South 1832-41, and the first Quaker to sit in the Commons. This post looks at the difficulties he encountered in taking his seat at Westminster. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2023/10/23/q...

It's Festival of Libraries this week, we’re running curator tours of the Forgotten Library exhibition. Join curator Dr Elizabeth Gow to explore the personal book collection of Enriqueta Rylands, founder of The John Rylands Library. 📅Tours at 11am and 1.30pm. No booking required, free to attend.

There's still time to book your tickets for #ROYS26! If Yorkshire's past is your thing, join us for our FREE two day conference on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th June, at the York Explore Library. You can view the programme, and book tickets, here: ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk/event/regist...

Open access article! Mary Ann Lund’s article ‘The Pickled Parson of Sedgefield’ is available on our website. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Northern History is supporting this workshop on environmental history, which will take place in Leeds on 10 Sept. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 17 July - see below for more information. We’re planning to publish a special issue on the topic too. Please repost!

We've been asked to share a CfP for a workshop organised by a group of historians at Leeds. Papers on a variety of topics related to the Environmental History of Northern England are invited: the orgnaisers hope to develop some papers presented into a special issue of @northernhistory.bsky.social

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

It's here! A Radical Re-imagining launches today, exploring the Left Theatre movement on Merseyside LJMU SCA, Mount Pleasant Campus Library Open 14 May - 28 Jun, Mon-Fri 08:45-19:00 & Sat 10:00-16:00 #archive #exhibit #exhibition #theatre #theatrehistory #liverpool #liverpoolhistory #history #museum

🚨 Looking for something to break those back to work bank holiday blues? 🎫 Tickets for #ROYS26 are now available! You can view our programme, and register, here: ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk/event/regist... #Yorkshire #Skystorians #History #Culture #Arts #Humanities #York #Heritage #Literature

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

The deadline is coming up in a few weeks. Essays should be submitted on or before 1 May. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In a new blog, Reader Services Assistant Bruce Wilkinson uses 18th- and 19th-century ledgers to trace the global connections of merchants from Blackburn. With the help of books and online resources, he has learned more than he was expecting. First in a four-part series: https://ow.ly/zp2Z50YH5bT

Are you a historian of the 1926 General Strike? If so, we need your help updating the strike's bibliography to mark its centenary. sslh.org.uk/2026/04/02/h...

Calling all #ECR #skystorians! Follow HistoryLab+ here & sign up to become a member there (👇) to discover job & training opportunities, resources, & a community as you find your feet #postdoc! @ihr.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

Our penultimate entry for our #1832AtoZ is Y for York. This post uses York to explore the structure of our constituency articles and discusses the city’s 19th century elections. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/07/30/y...

We're now just THREE DAYS from our CfP closing. If you're working on Yorkshire's past, we'd love to hear from you! Find details in the post below: #Yorkshire #SkyStorians #Heritage #EnglishLit #History #Culture #York

Cobden was MP for three different constituencies: Stockport, the West Riding and Rochdale. Find out more about his relationship with his constituents in this guest article from Prof. Simon Morgan: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2024/01/24/c...

1 April: exactly 52 years since Humberside was created. 30 years since it was abolished. Free exhibition and events this spring! Starting with talks @northlincsmuseum.bsky.social 13 Apr & @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social 14 Apr. All welcome! @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @tricksterprince.bsky.social

One month until the 1 May deadline for the Gordon Forster Essay Prize. Open to postgraduate students & ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should be between 7000-10000 words inc. footnotes. Please repost! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We’re pleased to announce that the new issue of Northern History is now online, with print issues to follow soon. It contains 7 articles (4 of which are open access) and 18 book reviews. www.tandfonline.com/toc/ynhi20/c...

Yesterday I was in York, and popped into Minster Gate bookshop. Scanning the British History shelves, I slowly realised that there were many books on the same themes - radicalism, Chartism, trade unionism, 19th century economy and society, clearly part of a curated collection 1/n

There's now ONE MONTH to go until our Call for Papers closes! If you're working on Yorkshire, we'd love to hear from you! Send your abstracts to [email protected]

Race, Obsolescence and the Management of ‘Surplus’ Populations in Postwar Liverpool Free talk, all welcome, Wed 11 March, 2pm, after the society's annual general meeting, Liverpool Central Library, Fourth Floor Meeting Room by Dr Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social, University of York 1/5

'Hammond’s meticulous study uncovers the important role that the northern nobles played in trying to change the course of religious and political affairs'. Review by @eilishgregory.bsky.social in @northernhistory.bsky.social of the third volume in the series. #history #skystorians #CathHist

New (open access) article online - Mustafa Özgür Elmacıoğlu’s article ‘The Grelleys in the Thirteenth Century: Robert Grelley (D. 1230) and Thomas Grelley (D. 1262)’ is available to read for free on our website. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There’s under 2 months until the deadline for the Gordon Forster Essay Prize (1 May). Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner gets £200 & the essay will be considered for publication. Essays should be 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes). Please repost! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hello, fellow historians, especially those in the north of the UK! Booking is open for the second of our events on Second Projects, organised by me and Tracey Loughran and supported by History UK - details of speakers and registration link below! ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

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...