I have just finished my Cancer Research Uk Christmas jumper challenge…the sweater isn’t very Christmasy as you will see but Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. Please show your support if you can and help fund life-saving research by donating to my page.

I am doing the Cancer Research Knit a Christmas Jumper in December Challenge….mine is more autumnal than Christmas…but it’s still a good cause.

Graduation Day……thanks again to my brilliant and very patient supervisor…@brodiewaddell.bsky.social

Snowy journey to Quebec this morning.

Montreal ce soir! A little weather forecast for fellow Nacbs visitors.

New acquisition for the Cromwell Museum… this ‘pocket’ road map of Huntingdonshire by Thomas Jenner. In 1643 Jenner republished Matthew Simmon's book 'A Direction for the English Traveller' which had 37 county maps accompanied by a distance table.

A quick reminder that Dr Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social will be speaking TODAY on 'Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London' from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm in the Wolfson Room (NB02 at the IHR) and online, via Zoom! ✨ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

First practical use of AI in the Clarke household… it has just provided v good instructions on how to pair the new doorbell chimes!!!!

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person! I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

Interesting read for those of us in the Early Modern Pub Night gang.

Does anyone find the new BL website as irritating as I do?

What happens when students find their historical voice? HA competitions help pupils: Go beyond the textbook Think critically & speak with confidence Explore history far beyond exams Teachers – how have competitions inspired your students? #HAGreatDebate #HistoryCompetitions #StudentVoice

I really enjoyed discussing 'A Pamflyt compiled of cheese', a 400-year-old manuscript by a cheese enthusiast, with @neilbuttery.bsky.social on The British Food Podcast, available on all podcast apps including here (from 4 mins in) open.spotify.com/episode/1We5... @lulgalleries.bsky.social

Join us next Tuesday evening, 26 August, for one of our popular guided walks exploring 17th century Huntingdon, including royal visits, a Civil War battle, witch trials, Pepys and (of course) the Cromwell family. More details and bookings at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

As it's #WorldCalligraphyDay, our #ObjectOfTheWeek is this lovely letter from Cromwell's mother Elizabeth, written in July 1643. It's probably the only example of her handwriting and signature - which is lovely and clear (unlike the notation below it!)

We’re at Huntingdon Carnival today with our publicity stand - come and say hello, handle some replica artefacts and take part in our family craft activity! 😀

Our Civil War Soldiers are on Market Square in Huntingdon until 3pm today! Drop by to say hi, try on replica armour, and take part in training and craft activities before being recruited into the New Modelled Army.

Waiting for the Eurostar home, great trip thanks to lovely archives at the Arsenal, Jesuits and Le Havre ….signing off with one of the coolest bath room tiles I have ever had!

I hope Miss Kenworthy and Mr Hammond would be impressed I have just spent the day doing battle with 17thc Jesuit Latin armed only with an A level done in 1976 and it’s not been a disaster.

This paean to French archives could turn into a thread ….the Jesuits were lovely and super helpful as were the folk on email from Le Havre.

New addition to my top three friendliest archives…joining Friends and Kendal…the BnF Arsenal..wonderfully helpful with my imperfect French and my inquiries for things that were in actually in Le Havre!

Join us for the HA Conference 2026 in Newcastle Gateshead! We're seeking proposals for classroom innovations, research insights, and historical debates. Share your ideas and help shape the conversation. Call for papers: www.history.org.uk/go/CFP2026 #HAConference2026 #CallForPapers #HistoryMatters

Previous residents of my rather sweet hotel in Paris.

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar @ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

My maternity cover teaching role is coming to an end shortly. I've loved my year of teaching @bguhisarch.bsky.social & everything I've learnt, my colleagues, & students. I will miss them all. This means I am back on the job hunt😬 but also I have some space to take on new freelance work. 1/2

You have to be of a certain age…but its a delight that bbc iplayer is reshowing some episodes of the adorable Andy Pandy www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

And updated version of the Society Culture and Belief summer programme -do check out the room change for May 22 and do come and hear Tiéphaine Thomason on what can we learn from multilingual seditious posters in eighteenth-century Martinique?

This is the IHR Society Culture and Belief seminar programme for the summer term…starting with The Francophone speechscape in 18th c Martinique.

Glorious evening in Liverpool (Historical Association Conference starts tomorrow) including what I suspect is one of the best views in England from a Holiday Inn Express!

So lovely to hear the Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem…..awesome piece not performed often enough!

Beautiful evening in Bath…for Bath Minerva’s Fauré and Vaughan William’s concert.

We are looking for 1.500 word articles for our 'Doing History' feature of The Historian (magazine of The Historical Association). Please get in touch if you might like to share an aspect of historical practice with our members. 🗃️ @histassoc.bsky.social

Just a quick reminder that that Fara Dabhoiwala is presenting his work on Francis Williams at the Society Culture and Belief seminar at the IHR tomorrow at 1730 - you can book through the link below. www.history.ac.uk/events/searc...

Trundling back from the terrific Integrating the Image conference in Newcastle…a thousand thanks to Adam Morton for arranging such a great two days and to whoever at Network Rail sorted out the signalling between Peterborough and Stevenage!

Great day at the King’s Rethinking the State and Society and about to watch Simon Russell Beale do Houseman@Hampstead

Lovely rainbow brightening up the commute this morning.

Last chance to see our current exhibit, 'Cromwell's Huntingdon', looks at what our town was like during his early life here, including many royal visits and local political controversy. The display runs until 29 September. More details at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Our next exhibit opens on Saturday 4 May, looking at what #Huntingdon was like at the time Cromwell was born here 425 years ago, as well as his early life. More details at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw... #17thCentury

Join us on the afternoon of Sunday 28 April to meet some Civil War cavalry! Meet a couple of Cromwell's 'Ironsides' outside the museum on Huntingdon Town Square between 12.30pm and 3pm. More details at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/irons...

Join us for half term activities this week, themed around our 'Women of the Civil War exhibit. There's a family trail around the museum all week and FREE drop-in craft activities on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons! More details at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/febru...

Microhistories! I'm just finalising the sessions for my Summer Term MA Option at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and getting excited. Apparently there's still one place left for someone who's not a Birkbeck student to take it as a stand-alone credit-bearing module: www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/2023...

Any stitchers out there should make sure to get to Unravel barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/… unmissable for stitchers…but also just amazing for any one interest in material expressions of protest.

Our current exhibit looks at the fascinating & varied role that women played during the Civil Wars of the 1640s - as soldiers, spies, pamphleteers, preachers, all coping with the 'world turned upside down'. Open until 7 April, more details at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/the-w...

A lovely blustery Suffolk day perfect place for a post PhD submission chill.

We're a week away from the opening of our new exhibit, looking at the fascinating & varied role that women played during the Civil Wars of the 1640s - as soldiers, spies, pamphleteers, preachers, all coping with the 'world turned upside down'. Details at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/the-w...

Quick shout out to early modern pals a great conference ‘Integrating the Image’ coming up in Jan 2025 with a nice long submission deadline of June 30 next year. All the details in the link below.

@joesaunders1.bsky.social thanks for the code !