Our latest story map for the Trailblazers project is out! Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Kirkgate Market fire, you can read about 3 firefighters who attended the call and are members of the Leeds Fire Heritage Group. The story map is here: space2.org.uk/heritage-rec... @lbu-rae.bsky.social

Excellent performance of Trailblazers: Women Have Always Been Firefighters, tonight at Chapel FM in Seacroft. Audience v appreciative of the interlinked stories and a lively Q&A to end.

Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

📣 We're looking for a new Bibliographer to join the #UrbanHistory team! This is a great opportunity to get involved with a world-leading academic journal and find out about the latest urban history publications. Apply by 5pm on Friday 6 November. Contact Roey Sweet for more details.

Please read and help @justicesummerland.bsky.social to overturn a 50-year long miscarriage of justice, if you can www.crowdjustice.com/case/summerl...

Nice to receive author copies of the new 3-volume Cambridge Urban History of Europe today. I have a chapter in vol. 3 on the growth and internationalisation of the field. Let me know if you use it in teaching #urbanhistory

Blue plaque’s up at Gipton Old Fire Station! With thanks to @leedscivictrust.bsky.social

Very pleased that my piece 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' has been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096... Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums

Latest version of What is Urban History?, published in Korean! A true transnational volume,

So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.

Published today: 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales', by Andrew McTominey bit.ly/4n4LkxB 'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2

Women have always been firefighters. A story of 3 firefighters, all women, all wanting to make a difference, all ahead of their time, all facing challenges beyond fire. The premiere is on 20th Sept. Book your tickets here: lnkd.in/eW663jW6

Today is #HiroshimaDay, marking 80 years since the devastating atomic bombing. My song Paper Cranes documents an emotional visit to the peace museum and an encounter with a survivor. Today and every Aug 6, I’ll donate any profits to a Hibakusha charity. sitenonsite.bandcamp.com/album/hirosh...

It’s here! Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/objects-o...

New publication! “Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700” is edited by Joe Harley & Vicky Holmes. Our chapter is on the fireguard - a consistent absence in the archival record - and the campaign to introduce it into working-class homes. Order the book here: lnkd.in/eMz2kfkd

📣 Registration is now open for #UHG2025! We're excited to welcome you to our first conference organised with the Pre-Modern Towns Group. The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 🗓️ 4-5 September 2025 📍 University of Leicester

My university is looking to appoint 3 Research Officers (1Yr Fixed) to help develop research impact and engagement projects in the following areas Social Sciences English & Creative Writing History Closing date: Friday 25 July 2025 Link: vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...

We're delighted to announce the publication of our historical map of Bradford — UK City of Culture 2025. This multi-layered map shows the development of an industrial city which was constantly rebuilding. Grab a copy of the map from our online shop: shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/hist...

Shared a room with peace campaigner Bill Laithwaite today.

Spent the evening at Bradford City Hall for the launch of the @historictownstrust.bsky.social map of Bradford, with a series of fascinating talks in conjunction with the Bradford Literature Festival. Get your copy of this beautifully crafted map here: www.historictownstrust.uk/maps-nop/an-...

Good to see all the misfits out in Manchester last night: second set bangers aplenty from Pulp

Join us for the official launch of the Bradford Map. A beautifully crafted historical map developed by @historictownstrust.bsky.social‬ ‬ 📅 - Monday 30 June 🏛️ - City Hall Book your tickets here: 🔗 www.bradfordlitfest.... #Bradford #BradfordMap #HistoricTownsTrust #BradfordLitFest

Two @historictownstrust.bsky.social events in Bradford marking the launch of another historical map 😍 this time for Bradford itself as UK City of Culture, what's more @jerrybrotton.bsky.social is speaking too about his book, sounds great www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/bradfo...

🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨 CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... [typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution] #HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed

I’ve attended my School’s PGR Conference today. Great to hear such eclectic research. V proud supervisor as two of my students presented. One of these, Will Sanders, was also one of the core organisers. Here he is pictured chairing a session before speaking abt aerial threat in c.20th urban Britain

My brilliant third year students researched and created the following StoryMaps, sharing the stories of trailblazing women volunteers for the #Leeds Auxiliary Fire Service in the Second World War. Do check them out! #publichistory #urbanhistory #womenshistory space2.org.uk/trailblazers/

NEW DATASET - OUT NOW! A massive 69,000 records added to the Railway Work, Life & Death project, covering English & Welsh railways, 1855-1929. Download our free database from our website - & please spread the word! #Railway200

Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:

How did the definition of the 'urban' and the 'suburban' affect the lives of residents? Antoni Porayski-Pomsta (@camhistory.bsky.social) addresses this important question through his research on early twentieth century Warsaw

In the wake of LA's 2025 fires, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social explores "the fallacious supposition that new technologies and better design will prevent the next fire, the next flood, or the next degree of global heating" and how highway construction/landscape manipulation contributed to it all:

📢 In association with the University of Chester, we're delighted to announce the publication of our historical map of Chester which charts the city's development from Roman fortress to mercantile centre and cathedral city. Get your copy now! shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/hist...

This is the best piece I’ve read all week about the Bradford fire and its legacy. Helped by the fact that Rick Broadbent is a football fan and Yorkshireman. I was happy to discuss our research with him for Forged by Fire. It’s behind a paywall but IFYKYK. www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...

🕺 Tea Dance at The Old Fire Station! 💃 Join us on Sat 10th May, 2–5pm for an afternoon of music, cake & history at The Old Fire Station Leeds 🪩 Dance workshops at 2:30pm & 3:30pm 🫖 Tea and cake 🔥 Discover the stories of Leeds' women firefighters during WW2 This is a free event open to all ages!

A great project to be involved with - collaboration with a really engaged local community, families and schoolchildren 👏🏻 www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

Tomorrow we will unveil a red plaque at West Primary School in Paisley in dedication to David Wilson, aged 30, & John Sydney Farrow, aged 16, who died when a landmine bomb was dropped on the school in 1941. @reinarz.bsky.social & I worked with Scottish FRS & P6a pupils to honour both. All welcome.

"Placemaking and place-shaping initiatives which look to urban history and people’s connections to it are thus becoming ever more important to the contemporary city" Charlotte Tomlinson on placemaking, #UrbanHistory, and stories of post-industrial #Hull

Register now! A workshop for early career urban historians on preparing article manuscripts for journal submission + seeking funding for turning a thesis into a book. Free & open to all scholars in the field. globalurbanhistory.org/content.aspx?page_id=331&club_id=803980&item_id=37685

📢 We're delighted to announce the publication of our multi-layered historical map of Ipswich, which charts the development of England's (possibly) oldest settlement going all the way back to the 8th century. Get your copy now from the Trust Shop! shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/hist...

Join us at Leeds Minster for this commemorative concert in memory of VE Day!

Do you like tea? ☕️ Do you like dancing? 💃 Are you interested in social history? Join us at Old Fire Station in Gipton on Sat 10th May from 3PM for our Tea Dance to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day. And see what our Leeds Beckett History students have been doing. @lbu-rae.bsky.social

‘The city had, by virtue of aerial threat and the suffering of bombardments between 1914 and 1918, been transformed into a new battlefront. From this point onwards, the protection of the city and its inhabitants was included in the list of defensive concerns to Britain at war’ New, by Will Sanders

Listen as we learn about life as a Land Girl, a firefighter in Leeds as bombs rained down on the city and hear what life was like and how Loiners celebrated in 1945. my.leedstickethub.co.uk/29884?queuei...

Am attending the NFCC ACER Fire Related Research Conference for the next two days. Currently listening to a frank & refreshing keynote from Justin Johnston, former CFO at Lancashire FRS. Will be speaking about storied-learning as community engagement tomorrow. Say hello if you’re here.

Do give @justicesummerland.bsky.social a follow and support their important campaign for a fresh inquest and for justice for the survivors and families

Wonderfully exhausting but inspiring few days at West Park Primary School in Paisley with @reinarz.bsky.social for Forged by Fire. Great group of creative P6 10 year olds. Back to the grind tomorrow.

Hunting wartime memorials and sites of remembrance in a sunny Paisley for a forthcoming FBU Red Plaque

Got the proofs for our upcoming book back today. #academicsky #historysky