Chaired a great panel at #SSHM2026 on Global Health and Documentation. @alexandra-ward.bsky.social and silences in ship voyage health reports @jdnott.bsky.social explored the East African Medical Survey And Yue Cui - documented but untreated medical exclusion in colonial Manchuria #histmed

Sweet Heritage! A history of sweets and chocolates in the West Midlands with Emma Barran-Scott. Free to attend. Booking is essential so email [email protected] or call 01922 652212.

Still time to register for @midlandhistory.bsky.social online session 📆Thurs 25 June 🕰️1:00-2:00pm (BST) Quiz the editorial team and learn more about submitting your research: what makes a good article; and how to enter the annual essay prize with a prize of £400 (closing date 31 October 🎃)

Free #online session 'A Brief Introduction to AI for Archive Services' Open to any staff member or volunteer of #ArchivesWM member services 📆Weds 16 September 🕰️9:30am-12:30pm @mrcwarwick.bsky.social To book place 👇

✨ Just over a week to go until our online Quiz the Editorial Board event ✨ Join us next Thursday 25th June at 13:00BST to learn more about the journal publishing process Everyone welcome, even if you're not a Midlands specialist Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing...

📣 Midland History is now on LinkedIn 📣 Come follow us here 👇 www.linkedin.com/company/midl...

This week’s blog looks at our ongoing commitment to addressing the topic of archaic and misleading language in our collections. We compiled a reading list for institutions caring for children and young adults: theironroom.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/b... #LibraryofBham

At Cambridge for a great programme for Faecal-oral diseases and ‘Sanitary Revolutions’ - the long view A workshop as part of the WaSH in the First Industrial Society 1780-1930 project #histmed

Out today! 🥳 The King's Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin.... My book with Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social & @adamcrymble.bsky.social. It is #openaccess so come take a look! cc @uclpress.bsky.social #skystorians #foodhistory

Don't miss the Keynote Lecture by Professor Bertrand Taithe on 26 June at AUAC's hybrid conference "Who is Responsible for the Archives?" - details here www.aston.ac.uk/research/bss...

... from violence in the workhouse to Lichfield's public health, from Eleanor Davies' political activism to unmarried mothers in the Black Country, culminating in our keynote lecture on the Civil Wars in 100 Objects. Our thanks also to the National Civil War Centre for being such wonderful hosts.

✨ Conference round up! ✨ Thank you to everyone who attended our New Voices conference on Saturday and made the day so thoroughly enjoyable. It was great to see the variety of topics, perspectives, and time periods being investigated and the questions being asked of our region's history ...

In Newark on Trent for @midlandhistory.bsky.social New Voices conference at the National Civil War Centre. It’s a great museum and there’s town and riverside walking trails too. Looking forward to learning more fascinating history of the Midlands!

Still time to book for the 49th Palaeography Summer School in Birmingham this July! #Skystorians #SkillsForHistory

🎊 New issue online now 🎊 Including original research on liberal governmentality in Loughborough, cotton mill workers in Nottinghamshire, and Birmingham's campaigns against the copper monopoly, plus book reviews and the second place entry in our 2025 Essay Prize www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/5...

📣 Applications open for @historylabplus.bsky.social & HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow 2026-7, to action UK-wide survey of support & access to resources available to historical researchers post-PhD 📍 Remote 💰 Honorarium of £800 🕰️ 23:59, 14 June #Skystorians #ECRs @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

Food allergy has a profound impact on individuals and their loved ones. Families live in constant fear of life-threatening allergic reactions and hospitalisations. Today the launch of Natasha’s Prize - a £10 million global prize opportunity to create a future without #allergy

Join @fcelh.bsky.social for Hoskins Day, the University of Leicester's annual celebration of local and landscape history. 📆Saturday 27 June 🕰️12:00-4:00pm This is a free event open to all. For booking and further details: www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2026/03/1...

For the arts and humanities more widely, the Arts and Humanities Alliance (@artsandhums.bsky.social) is a network of 50+ national disciplinary associations, including @royalhistsoc.org and other history groups: www.artsandhumanitiesalliance.org #Skystorians

📢Call for papers for our 2026 conference ‘All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives’ on Tuesday 24th November 2026. Abstracts submission deadline 5pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026. For more information: www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/news/call-fo...

Join esteemed historian, Norman Bartlam, this Saturday, for a talk on his new book marking twenty years since the last edition of the Birmingham Sports Argus. Book your ticket at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sports-arg... #LibraryofBham #Birmingham #Football

My new blog for the Social History Society on the loss of adult education centres in universities, with particular focus on history and the closure of the Centre for Lifelong Learning at York. 🗃️

🤔 Want to submit your research for publication but don't know where to start? Ever wondered what actually makes a good journal article? 🤔 Join our 'Quiz the Editorial Board' event on Thursday 25th June at 13:00BST on Zoom to find out these and more Email [email protected] to register your place

Interesting conference organised by #ArchivesWM member service @astonunarchives.bsky.social Who is Responsible for the Archives 📆Friday 26 June 2026 (9:00- 5:45) Hybrid: 🏛️In person at Aston University, Birmingham and 💻online Registration now open!

#LocalHistoryMonth highlights resources to assist your local history research. This week - what lies beneath us. The Birmingham Burials Record with over 1.5 million entries birminghamburialrecords.co.uk Cemetery indexes are free to view in the library #LibraryofBham @histassoc.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow (Fri 8th) 8pm, at Wade Street church in Lichfield when Nadia Awal joins us to talk about the Black Country Living Museum's ambitious Forging Ahead project which saw the museum transformed with the addition of a 1940s-60s Black Country town. £3 on the door for non-Member visitors.

Excited to be delivering the keynote at this years @midlandhistory.bsky.social conference at Newark Civil War Centre on 6th June!

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians

🌟Public event 🌟 at Dudley Archives The Linguistic Heritage of the Black Country – How Do We Make a Dialect Dictionary? 📆Tues 26 May 2 sessions available 10:00-12:30 or 1:30-4:00 All welcome! @estherinwolves.bsky.social @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social

Looking forward to giving my second talk for the Lichfield Waterworks Trust - this time looking at the development of urban waste management systems and better sanitation to address public health issues Mon 11 May

We've got a very old fire engine and a riveting machine if that sweetens the deal

#BMAG Birmingham Media Archive Project: The First Decade 1982–1992 explores the city’s neglected media heritage through the work of the organisations who were active in that period - www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/exhibitions/... #LibraryofBham #BM_AG

For this week’s blog, John Townley from FoBAH explains what the organisation does to support us in making the documents held here more accessible to you. theironroom.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/w... Do get in touch if you’re thinking of joining: [email protected] #LibraryofBham #FoBAH_Org

This month's Walk Midlands Newsletter was sent to subscribers this morning Ft. new walking routes in Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire Check it out and subscribe👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/walk-midla...

Join us for the inaugural Malcolm Dick OBE Annual Lecture in Midlands History ⚔️ Warwick Castle During the English Civil War by Professor Andrew Hopper ⚔️ When: 21 May, 16:30 (followed by drinks reception) Where: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Alan Walters Building, Room G11 Everyone welcome!

Joined a packed house for @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social first ever Hustings #Birmingham Yes the bins but questions/topics from audience included flags, addressing 18-24 year old unemployment (particularly those with disabilities), council tax increases & seeking refund of overpaid pension funds

2 #FoxofTheDay showing teamwork (one to keep watch to see when breakfast is coming while the other has a nice nap on the patio) 🦊🦊

Enjoyed a visit to @nationaltrust.org.uk Coventry Charterhouse - site of Carthusian priory of St Anne founded in 1381 - only a few buildings remain with wall painting finished in 1417 -learnt so much from the volunteer guides

Happy Earth Day! 🌍 Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 to demonstrate worldwide support for environmental protection. The HA supports the teaching of climate histories and you can explore the environmental themed editions of our journals on our website. www.history.org.uk/primary/cate...

The Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at University of Birmingham is looking to appoint a full-time teaching fellow Fixed term until June 2027

Dr Caroline Archer–Parre explores eighteenth-century typeface punches and how a three-year funded project by BCU and Cambridge scholars is reshaping our understanding: theironroom.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/t... Ref: WK/B11/1140 #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social @Baskerville1707

Today we also open the call for applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians

The event is open to everyone and it is free to attend, but you must register on Eventbrite. Tickets are going fast, so please sign up asap to avoid disappointment www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/every-monu...

Birmingham-based peeps, there are still tickets available for this in-person event organised by BRIHC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! A unique opportunity to hear @profdanhicks.bsky.social reflect on his work on heritage, memory and conflict in conversation with @corinnefowler.bsky.social

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

#Birmingham Market Hall was a municipal hall based on the design of Charles Edge from 1835 until 1940 - the interior and roof were destroyed by bombing. The shell of the hall was occupied until demolition in the 1960s. Ref – WK/B11/3493 #LibraryofBham #bhamwsmkt

Francis thinks this sort of bold revamp sets the standard for Station Street, that they don't need to settle for faceless blocks of housing. We got experts to appraise the plans - they approved. But to succeed, Francis needs momentum from the public, or Glenbrook to agree. Can he do it?