The winner of the 2025 Midland History Essay Prize is 🥁🥁🥁🥁 Rosalind Edden (@rozedden.bsky.social) for her exploration of Gloucester's District Nurses during the 1896 smallpox epidemic. In second is Eleanor Deakin's paper on Francis Wise's legacy in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire.

The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)

What an interesting PhD project here! Glasshouses, botany and technology. Nothing not to like here.

An exciting fully #funded #PhD opportunity at Nottingham Trent University in partnership with Birmingham Botanical Gardens and National Trust, that will explore the co-productive and decolonial potential of photogrammetry and extended reality (XR) in botanical #heritage. For more details 👇

An exciting fully #funded #PhD opportunity at Nottingham Trent University in partnership with Birmingham Botanical Gardens and National Trust, that will explore the co-productive and decolonial potential of photogrammetry and extended reality (XR) in botanical #heritage. For more details 👇

We're proud to be a member of the #GeneralStrike100 national partnership Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-... Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!

#Disability History Month runs from 20 November until 20 December. Chance to look at Birmingham institutions such as the Birmingham Royal Institute for the Blind started in 1846. Ref - WK/E1/481 #LibraryofBham

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research? The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)

If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm. For further details & tickets: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin... @midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social

The latest issue from Midland History includes the earliest Charter of King Edward I; a scrivener tale of Coventry Priory 1532; the office of the escheator in the counties of Warwick & Leicester 1351-1500; and Birmingham's burial ground dispute of 1806-31 plus book reviews 2 articles #OpenAcess

📣Exciting Opportunity✨ to join the Library & Archives senior management team at University of Warwick. To lead @mrcwarwick.bsky.social, including the University Archives and Special Collections. Closing date: 7 Dec #Archives #ArchivesWM @uknatarcsector.bsky.social

Finally got my review of @kieranconnell.bsky.social's Multicultural Britain together for @midlandhistory.bsky.social - spoiler alert, I thought it was fab. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

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

#Historians, mark your calendars! Our 2026 Summer Conference will be held on 13-15 July at @royalholloway.bsky.social. The Call for Papers will open in January 2026. #churchhistory #Skystorians #cfp

Job Opportunity! @mrcwarwick.bsky.social 👇 #Archives #ArchivesWM

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

On Friday 21 November we host the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture given this year by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): bit.ly/48NJHR5 ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘ 6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians

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

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

A new season of talks from the Centre for Midlands History & Cultures begins next month! We begin with a house history - Winterbourne, Edgbaston, #Birmingham 📅Thurs 16 October 🕰️7:00-8:00pm Online via Zoom All Welcome @archivewhg.bsky.social

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

#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

📣Job Opportunity📣 Stoke-on-Trent City Council seeks innovative & experienced Archive Services Manager to lead the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives team, following recent relocation to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery(PMAG) Closing date for applications: 7 October #Archives #ArchivesWM

Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Black Country Society History Day 8/11/2025. After Agenoria: Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country. Organised in cooperation with the Black Country Living Museum. The programme for the day and booking details can be downloaded from tickets.bclm.com/127979/127980

The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub is a new national programme to support inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s galleries, libraries, #archives, and museums (GLAM) and heritage sectors. Launch Webinar: Weds 17th Sept 2025. On offer three grant schemes - to find out more 👇

Interested in starting a #OnePlaceStudy? Already engaged in OPS research but in need of guidance and inspiration? Here’s the course for you! Society members can claim a 10% discount on the course fee, while non-members taking the course are offered a year's free membership of our Society.

You can now fully search Exchequer depositions for the reign of Victoria [1837-1841] online. Plaintiffs, defendants, subject, county, dates of commission, the whole shebang. Enjoy! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

The Midland History Essay Prize of £400 is offered for the best essay submitted on an historical subject relating to midland England. ⏱️Deadline for entries 31 Oct 2025 See webpage for some #OpenAccess examples of previous winning essays More details about how to enter below (1/2)

An #exhibition of John Louis Petit ( 1801-1868) East Midlands #paintings Rutland County Museum, Oakham 23 August to 4 October 2025 during museum opening times Based in Lichfield, Petit painted many places across the region. #art

Event Sharing 📰 Heritage Talk with Professor Catherine Hindson at Selly Manor Discover the story of early 20th century theatre at the Cadbury factory | Thursday 17th July 2025 | 7pm £7 per person. To book please call 0121 472 0199 or visit:

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

#ICYMI our new blog post is out! We look at the possibilities the Railway Work, Life & Death project offers heritage railways. We explore work we're doing with the Severn Valley Railway, to look at its past staff & to share it with the public! www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/revisiting-d...

Exhibition News! Visit Sandwell Archives to celebrate 40 years of the West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre Monday 4 August– Friday 29 August 2025 #ArchivesWM

My annual reminder to people thinking about applying for these or @leverhulme.ac.uk ECFs: you do NOT have to go to Oxbridge or Russell Gp unis to make a successful application. I went to Edge Hill with my Leverhulme and moved it to Staffordshire when I was offered a permanent job. 1/?

Our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon is happening in 2 weeks' time! 📜✍️ 📅 Thurs 24 July 🕐 1-4pm BST Join us online or in person in Exeter: transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers & help transcribe as many wills as possible! Sign up here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

📢JOBS: 2 postdoc research associate positions📢 On AHRC project 'Informing contemporary land use policy through sustainability assessment of farming systems' in pre-modern periods🗃️ - FT from 01/10/25 - #Medieval history (3 years) - #EarlyModern history (28 months) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Loved @socialhistsoc.bsky.social #SHSConf2025? Or - worse - missed out on being part of it this year? Our CfP for next year's 50th Anniversary Conference, which will be at Lancaster University in July 2026, goes live in the Autumn 🍂 so you have time to decide what might be a nice paper to submit.. 🤔

Glad to see the our Bursary Scheme is now advertised on the @royalhistsoc.org website!

Are you fascinated by the origins of sports & notable figures? Sun 13 July, Discover the story of Major Harry Gem, co-founder of lawn tennis, during a B'ham tour @ 12 noon. @tennisupdates.bsky.social @wimbledonltc.bsky.social @midlandhistory.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-baske...

The National Archives are looking for two Records Specialists to join their Collections Expertise & Engagement department #jobs

Do you have ancestors from Shropshire? Or do you live in Shropshire with an interest in family history/genealogy? If so Shropshire Family History Society can offer support and have resources available to help you in your research. Take a look at their new website 👇

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY! @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies. 🖊️ Apply by 14 July

An #exhibition of John Louis Petit ( 1801-1868) East Midlands #paintings Rutland County Museum, Oakham 23 August to 4 October 2025 during museum opening times Based in Lichfield, Petit painted many places across the region. #art

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

#Shakespeare Guest bloggers from the Friends of the Shakespeare Collection (FoSC), highlight their exhibition on love in the bard’s plays being rarely uncomplicated- theironroom.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/l.... Ref: S 601/12/1951. #LibraryofBham ‪@shakespearebtrust.bsky.social‬ @efernie.bsky.social‬

People interested in this might also like to know that the archives of Dorothy Thompson, historian of Chartism and related movements and wife of E.P., is at the University of Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent: libstaff.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/co...

The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors. Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians