I met Neftalem at the weekend and was impressed with him and the importance of his research. Please help if you are able or encourage people you may know to help. (Reposts welcome.)

Ok so here’s the great thing - ANY of you can come and look at these. Yes they’re in York, but seriously, YOU can come and look at the script for your fave story, see how they were made into novels, dive in to how they came to be….for free! You can just come and do it! We need to do a list first tho

I should really go back and watch Time Team with my accumulated archive knowledge. Even as a kid the amount of times they seemed to ignore what people from the time had actually written down really bugged me. I bet it was all Mick's fault.

Really interesting meeting about healthcare records hosted by the DPC today. Going to take a while to digest all of it, but it seems that there's a totally different conception of how record keeping should work in relation to health out there.

@dannyheifetz.bsky.social @dannybkelly.bsky.social I think you guys will enjoy this...

Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'! There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too. #HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex

Begs the question of whether the Blues Brothers was actually a real-life story.

Not-dude readers of 1990s Amiga magazines. Did anyone primarily read a magazine that *wasn't* Amiga Power?

[Bond walks into casino] Villain: *gasp* But Meester Bond, I thought you were dead!?! Bond [picks up martini]: Sorry to disappoint you, Le Chiffre. You must be thinking of the other chap [winks at camera] INTRO SEQUENCE ROLLS

social media feeling truly dead these days, but a call out to the void: we want to play fests in 2026, message us if you can help ! (anticipating no response/no likes lol)

#RemembranceSunday In the summer of 1916, Bethlem Royal Hospital hosted a garden party for wounded WWI soldiers. Guests were treated to "good tea, a famous band, and a variety concert of the richest and best". Watch the full 12 minute silent film of the day here 📽️ youtu.be/1OneTOeunhY

Does anyone on here work with race and medicine in the southern US in the early 20th century? Niche, I know, but I came across something very weird in my late father's stuff that might be of interest. Feel free to share.

I didn’t know that Bluesky has automatic moderation that hides stuff you might not want/need hidden Go To Settings, Moderation, then click this purple Advanced button to make your own choices — some of this might be very welcome, but some of my settings were too prudish

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

1 week to go until History Day - don't forget to sign up! Read about why History Day is such a fantastic event in this blog by Claire Langhamer: buff.ly/ySfBuWR #HistDay25 @senatehouselib.bsky.social

Archives hive mind! Any ideas for remote online transcribing projects which would appeal to a retired archivist who loves palaeography and is coming to an end of their present project? Could be anything C16th-C20th, but I lean towards the earlier material unless it’s a topic I’m interested in.

What can you expect to find at #HistDay25 our celebration of history collections with @senatehouselib.bsky.social? Come along and find out on 4 Nov. Book your free space here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A reminder that this is happening THIS Wednesday! #DisHist

Consider this your sign to vote in our Annual General Meeting! Make a difference by letting us know what’s important to you. You have until midnight on 31 October: buff.ly/GGr65eT

Should you find yourself in the general Peterborough area, I'm giving a talk in aid of the John Clare Cottage appeal on Sat 15 Nov, 3pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inconvenie...

Today, people across the world remember one of the greatest tragedies in Welsh history - the 1966 Aberfan disaster - which left a small mining village robbed of an entire generation

Barbican all-dayer for One Battle After Another and now the Divine Comedy. We did have time to pop out for a quick drink at sunset though...

#FreeEvent on Tues 14 Oct, 2pm: "Plague Houses and Pandemics" talk by Alison Wall, Health Visitor & Researcher. Please book via: plaguehousestalk.eventbrite.co.uk (online & in-person event)

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

The only place of worship I regularly attend.

The Grade 1 listed North Wing of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London reopens after £9.5 million restoration with 2 William Hogarth masterpiece murals available for the public to see for the first time. 👇 BBC News - Hospital's Hogarth opens to public for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fantastic #openaccess article 📄 by @dralanagharris.bsky.social & Laura Mitchison in Transactions @royalhistsoc.org on disability, ethics, public history, photography & oral history: Essential read for any of us doing public engagement work on sensitive histories. 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yesterday we sent out this briefing to all UK MPs and our press list. It is our response to calls for digitisation of adoption and care records. We believe there is a better - & much needed - solution to make these records more accessible to those that need them. #LongLostFamilies bit.ly/4mBqsxo

This is sure to be a great evening!

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public. Starting this week:

Still time to see this great exhibition at Lambeth Archives, open until 8pm this evening too

I had an email enquiry the other day which cited a particular passage in a book. That passage doesn't appear to exist in any version of that book. I don't know what's happened there, but I do wonder if it's something similar to this.

If you’re a PGR student anywhere near London, it would be a mistake not to take advantage of the IHR offerings.

Still time to apply for the Operations & Finance Officer role with 50 Million Voices! Applications will close Sunday 21st September. Check out the thread below for more details 👇

Scaffolding up at what is simultaneously South East London's best and worst building, the mini-Crystal Palace Homebase on the Bellingham-Beckenham border. I fear we will not see the like again.

I'm so late on this, but I'm very sorry to hear this news, and hoping sharing encourages other donations.

A great disturbance in the historiography, as if a million archivists suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...

🚨With the Archives Revealed funding, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as Assistant Archivist on the project. This will be a great opportunity to make our archive more accessible to new audiences. #KewLA Closing: 21 Sept Find out more here: careers.kew.org/vacancy/assi...

Top tip: if you're planning a trip to London in the new year, Premier Inns are now offering rooms from *£42*!

So glad someone else caught this, I was shouting at the radio during both segments!

I spent a year living in England and this sort of wild embrace of flags was not really a thing. The only place where I saw a lot of Union Jacks were in parts of Northern Ireland, which were there to emphasize that the Protestant unionists wanted to maintain control over others.

Millennium of conspiracy! Play out classical!

We can't wait for another Saturday of Between Sleeping and Waking - the response has been amazing, thank you to everyone who has visited so far! We have the perfect cosy reading nook for visitors of all ages, make sure to stop by and read one of our bedtime stories ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 Open Wed-Sat 9:30-5pm.

Hello historians in the UK. I am standing for election to the Royal Historical Society's Council. For information on the role, check out the RHS page. If you're an RHS fellow and want a sense, beyond the short statements we write, of why I've chosen to stand, I'm going to set that out below.

Attention, anyone who's in North London on Sept 21st: my esteemed former colleague Ross MacFarlane is leading a walking tour in Southgate on that day as part of London Open House. Should be a corker... Details at www.linkedin.com/posts/ross-m...

Job klaxon!

I'm not sure how far anyone would get with asking any museum for 'an inventory of all permanent holdings'.

Just a quick reminder that I have a stall at the Byres Road Market today in Hillhead Library, with copies of Glasgiow Uncovered for sale as well as prints, cards and some framed replicas of Odell's Tenement Night Latch Keys which I make. #glasgow #glasgowtoday #byresroad #hilheadlibrary

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