Enjoyable day at Black Country Day at the Black Country Living Museum Some content already available on @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social YouTube site #Railways200

A fab visit to the Cadbury archive for the #UnlockingtheVaults project (Bournville Works branch of Birmingham Municipal Bank). So much to see and learn with banking connections to Fry's and Bristol + Lovely childhood memories of chocolate and Xmas! Thank you to Sarah and Colin for the warm welcome.

📣 There's a new petition to Stop the Closure of Walsall Leather Museum. The building is the last example there of an early Victorian leatherworks in situ. The leather-working process is showcased, it's a much-loved local attraction. The Council has announced it will close in 2026. c.org/PKm6B7svFN

Enjoyable day at Aston University for the launch Aston University Archives Centre @astonunarchives.bsky.social and the 70th anniversary of the Main Building with keynote from Prof. Carl Chinn

#BirminghamHistory Don’t forget to Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Monday 3rd November, 5.30pm - tinyurl.com/UptonBaskerville Ref: MS 897,Volume II, Image 218 #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc

On LinkedIn as well as Bluesky? Why not follow SSHM's new LinkedIn page too! #histmed #histSTM

Looking forward to this #Birmingham #LocalHistory talk by fellow enthusiast @jfredt.bsky.social 📅Thurs 13 November 🕰️7:00-8:00pm 💻Online Free and open to all just register to receive link

Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the #histSTM Their 9th Essay Award is open to researchers from STM fields who have completed a postgrad degree within the last five years. A chance to win £500 and publication in the journal Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 #histmed

Join Walsall #Archives this Saturday for the Walsall Archives Local History Fair! Discover the borough’s fascinating past through displays and hands-on family activities, including talk by historian Ian Bott (12 noon, booking required) 📆 Sat 25 Oct ⏰11am–2.30pm 🎟️ Free

There is still time to enter the Midland History essay prize £400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃 #phd #ecr #postgrad

📢 call for papers update 📢 This conference has a very flexible approach to periodisation and historical understandings of ‘the modern’. We welcome all papers that engage with motherhood in the 19th, 20th and 21st century so make sure to send us your abstracts before 1 November!

On a trip to Spain my son's arm erupted in a huge swelling due to an insect bite. A quick trip to a pharmacy & some antihistamine did the trick. But allergies are rarely that simple. That's why we need historians & social scientists to try to figure them out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PowerAndPride2025 The Dyche Collection (MS 2912) is a photographic collection representing migration to Birmingham from Africa, the Caribbean, Indian Sub-Continent and Ireland after 1945 theironroom.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/e... #LibraryofBham @blackhistorymonth.org.uk

Alongside Simon, Dr Bill Bynum of the Wellcome Institute will detail his collaborative work with Roy and cast light on Roy’s major contributions to medical history research and teaching.

Hosted by the Christ's College Medical Alumni Association, join Professor Sir Simon Schama (m. 1963) as he reflects on his undergraduate and early academic training alongside Roy Porter at Christ’s College, Cambridge.

Upcoming Public Webinar: “Roy Porter Remembered” Hosted by the Christ's College Medical Alumni Association 6-7 pm, Tuesday, 21 October 2025 Register for free at royporterccmaa.eventbrite.co.uk

#Job opportunity Lecturer in early modern history Full time - permanent

#Job opportunity Assistant Professor in Modern History Full time - fixed term

Health is Wealth During the 1920s the Industrial Health Education Council toured the country, holding 'Heath Meetings' for millworkers, miners & other industrial workers. These posters and more are in our digitised sources on British healthcare, 1900-1948: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #HistMed

Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Mon 3rd November at 5.30pm tinyurl.com/UptonBaskerv... Professor Caroline Archer-Parré will be giving her talk: Inhuming and exhuming: John Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc

Photo exhibition at Dudley Archives. 14/10 to 20/12. From Agenoria to Beeching - The first and last days of steam in Dudley. Organised by the Dudley Local Archives and the Black Country Society as a contribution to Railways 200.. More details at www.blackcountrysociety.com/events

Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed

#jobs Permanent part-time departmental tutor in archaeology with Oxford Lifelong Learning

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/

Looking forward to this house history: home to 3 families, then given to university for multiple uses, now heritage attraction with beautiful gardens Winterbourne House and Gardens, Edgbaston, #Birmingham 🗓️Thurs 16 Oct 🕰️7:00-8:00 💻Online All welcome

Check out Dudley History Festival taking place 11-31 October #WeAreLocalHistory @balhnews.bsky.social

Handsworth legend Apache Indian is everything Robert Jenrick claims to want — he’s a symbol of the diversity of modern Britain. But instead of celebrating voices like his, our leaders cling to Union Jacks like toddlers at a funfair. My piece in today’s Observer👇 observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

From Historic England Curzon Street Station #Birmingham Past, Present and Future #Railway200

#Birmingham People's History Archive event Saturday 4 October from 10am (talk at 1.30pm) Please note the venue: All Saints Church, Kings Heath (not at the archive in Margaret Street)

Do you have a #LocalHistory you'd like to tell? Why not share it through the BALH's website! Whether it's a podcast, blog piece, 10-minute talk or other format, we have a range of ways of sharing your stories. Find out more, here: www.balh.org.uk/blog-ways-to... #WeAreLocalHistory

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

What timing @theironroom.bsky.social ! This morning I was listening to @historyextra.bsky.social Life of the Week podcast on Andrew Carnegie - from humble beginnings in Scotland, to American industrialist (robber baron) to philanthropist and anti-war campaigner!

Sign up now for our AGM next week and stay for the SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history. Oct 6th 4-5.30pm BST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-the-ss... #histmed #histSTM

Check out the calls for papers on our website with abstract deadlines throughout the month. sshm.org/portfolio/up...

After the #ArchivesWM AGM in September the annual review for 2024-2025 is now available via the website! Introduced by The National Archives it offers an overview of the work of the charity and includes 'Around the Archives' sharing news of the great projects taking place across the region #Archives

Find out more at this webinar about the revisions to the Archive Service Accreditation Standard, reflect on what this means for services, and how this will impact on applications. 📅Mon 6 October 🕰️11am-12.45pm (UK time) 💻Online #archives

Our call for papers deadline is a week today! #medhums #histmed #histpsych

One month to go until our abstracts submission deadline! Full details can be found on our website and please email us [[email protected]] with any questions.

As well as the #HistMed stories the site has some lovely #HistNursing tales! historywm.com/search

👇 Job! Plus, working with @hwaetspur.bsky.social is a pure delight

#Birmingham People's History Archive event Saturday 4 October from 10am (talk at 1.30pm) Please note the venue: All Saints Church, Kings Heath (not at the archive in Margaret Street)

📢New online event!💥 Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇 #histmed #histSTM #matcult

September 2025's Walk Midlands Newsletter went to subscribers this morning Ft. new walks in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and much, much more Check it out and subscribe👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/walk-midla...

Check out Dudley History Festival taking place 11-31 October #WeAreLocalHistory @balhnews.bsky.social

#ICYMI: Looking for ways to celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen's birth? Why not go to a study day, hosted at SeaCity Museum, on 18 October! Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-s... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

#histmed @sshmedicine.bsky.social

Really good article. “There are autisms, rather than just autism.” While it can be challenging, let’s try and celebrate diversity; let’s face it: it’s the thing that not only makes human culture fertile but is the root of all life on earth.

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Wolverhampton's interwar council housing ... open.substack.com/pub/municipa...

More podcasts from The World Turned Upside Down resource (see www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk) Historical fiction and the English Civil Wars👇