Coming up this Thursday The 2026 Malcolm Dick Lecture in Midlands History 'Warwick Castle During the English Civil War' by Prof. Andrew Hopper Details below 👇

📢 JOB ALERT! The DH Lab is hiring a GBP Digital Humanities Assistant Technician 🎓 Open to recent grads 🛠️ Training in photogrammetry, RTI, A/V & 3D printing 🏛️ Great foundation for Heritage, Archives, or Research admin careers 📅 Apply by 4 June 2026! 👇Apply here careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/84...

What, no pork scratchings? heritagecalling.com/2026/05/14/8...

News | Site of first smallpox vaccinations to reopen after restoration work Temple of Vaccinia at Dr Jenner's House museum was added to the Heritage at Risk Register last year

Next week's Work in Progress is by first year PhD student Dan Meldon, presenting his research on early modern Warwickshire!

Thank you to everyone who submitted abstracts for our New Voices in Midland History Conference. We had a fantastic response and are delighted to share the final programme 👇 Join us on 6 June at the National Civil War Centre for what promises to be a fascinating day of all things Midland History

A Fictionalised Account from the Diary of a Young Apprentice, by Megan Kelleher. Megan completed a placement with us and The Infirmary Museum as part of her MA in International Heritage Management at the University of Birmingham. medicalmuseum.org.uk/newsletters/...

My latest LL post on a lost country house in the Midlands and its infamous curse. Read here >> lichfieldlore.co.uk/2026/05/05/c...

A familiar and impressive sight at the top of Steep Hill in #Lincoln bit.ly/49qVp3i

Unique #archives held at member service @mrcwarwick.bsky.social University of Warwick, help to tell the story of the largest industrial dispute in Britain's history @worsted.bsky.social #ArchivesWM

🚨VACANCY: The Archives team is hiring a new Graduate Trainee for a 2-year role. They will be working in the Archives and Records Management team, gaining valuable experience pre-qualification. Deadline: 17 May 2026 Start date: 1 Sep 2026 Salary: £29,692 pa careers.kew.org/vacancy/arch... #KewLA

Tomorrow, the Society's Council visits the University of Warwick to meet with historians from the region. The day ends with a public lecture by Prof Sasha Handley: 'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives' bit.ly/3Qv3n4X and followed by a reception. All are very welcome 1/2

#TheAlexBham this year the Alexandra Theatre celebrates its 125th anniversary, launching a year of celebrations on May 2nd with a free open day: theatreinbirmingham.co.uk/uncategorize... Ref – WK/B11/5791 #LibraryofBham #thealexbham

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!

The deadline to apply is today! 🚨

ICYMI: First keynote announced for MA Conference 2026 🎙️ Casey Bailey is an award‑winning writer, performer and educator. He served as the Birmingham Poet Laureate from 2020 to 2022, and has published multiple poetry collections as well as a cultural history of Birmingham’s grime and hip-hop scene.

If this whets your appetite for #LesbianHistory, I've got two fun open access pieces for you to dive into: A chapter on British lesbian safer-sex activism www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK616... And an article on queer women's health activism in 90s Birmingham! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today is Local History Day 2026. Schools across the UK are exploring local people, places and stories through classroom work, assemblies and links with heritage sites. Taking part today or in the coming weeks? Use #LocalHistoryDay and tag us so we can share. #LocalHistory #TeacherLed

The Society would like to remind our PhD and ECR members that we are accepting proposals for New Voices in First World War Studies, a virtual conference that we are hosting on 17 June. drive.google.com/file/d/12DLx...

Available online now 🏆 second place in our 2025 Midland History essay prize by Eleanor Deakin 🏆 Read about Oxford antiquarian Francis Wise's imagined history of the Uffington White Horse and how its legacy has endured to the present day doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2026.2656866

📍Heritage in High Places: Happy 90th to the beloved British Trig Point! C20 has submitted listing applications for the two most historically important examples: the first, at Cold Ashby in Nottinghamshire (1936) and the last, at Thorny Gale in Cumbria (1962). ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/heritag...

#BirminghamWomen Marie Bethell Beauclerc (1845–1897), innovator in journalism and education, credited as England's first female reporter and contemporary of George Dawson: tinyurl.com/MarieBeauclerc Ref: Birmingham Faces & Places vol.5 opp. p.74. L08.2 #LibraryofBham

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-...

Calling all #ECR #skystorians! Follow HistoryLab+ here & sign up to become a member there (👇) to discover job & training opportunities, resources, & a community as you find your feet #postdoc! @ihr.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park, designated #otd 13 April 1951. Originally 555 square miles of moor and valley, the 'great north roof of England.' It would never have happened but for one woman... 1/4

🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨 Was Offa of Mercia really the villain we’re told? ⚔️ @rorynaismith.bsky.social digs deeper 👇 🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

📣New SHS PGR Work-in-Progress sessions launched by our PGR reps @louisebell.bsky.social & @aayushigupta.bsky.social! Informal, supportive space to share research & test ideas. Open to all history PGRs & ECRs working in and around social history. More info here! socialhistory.org.uk/2026/04/09/s...

The inaugural Cambridge Amplify Grant will support early-career scholars in History and Area Studies in publishing their first book, providing financial and editorial support over 12 months. ⏰ The closing date for submissions is 13 April 2026. Find out more 🔗 https://cup.org/3NJAd1a

Northleach today, maybe the ultimate wool church, the nave rebuilt in mid15thC by John Fortey in big, unrepentent Perpendicular. The church is celebrated for its collection of brasses to woolmen, some of whom (as Thomas Adynet here) stand on wool sacks, instead of lions or grassy mounds.

⚔️ What happened at the Battle of Birmingham? ⚔️

🚨 CFP: Disastrous Pasts And Sustainable Futures. Urban disasters and resilience in historical and social scientific perspectives. 🗓️ 29-30 June 2026 An interdisciplinary and international conference organised at the University of Warwick For more details, see warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... 🗃️

#Archive30 starts today! Use the hashtag throughout April to find posts of varying levels of tenuousness on the themes of the day For #YourArchive we're introducing ourselves with the MRC in 58 documents (should have been 50 but we got overexcited) warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

One month until the 1 May deadline for the Gordon Forster Essay Prize. Open to postgraduate students & ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should be between 7000-10000 words inc. footnotes. Please repost! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have found the best fence in Lichfield, if not Staffordshire.

⚠️ Deadline tomorrow ⚠️ Final call for our New Voices in Midland History Conference, for postgraduates, early careers researchers, independent scholars, and heritage, museum, and archive professionals. Saturday 6 June at the National Civil War Centre in Newark. More details below 👇

The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...

#BritishAsianHistory Home Away From Home looks at women's journeys from Mirpur, Pakistan to Birmingham. Interviews tell the stories of the women making new lives in the city. Women’s Lives in the Archives: tinyurl.com/JourneysFrom... Ref: MS 4760/35 #LibraryofBham #raqsartstudio

🚨1 week left!🚨

This week, Wednesday 25th March at 7.30pm, Dudley Canal and Caverns. AGM followed by Ways of Seeing: Paintings, Prints and Drawings of the Black Country, c1700 to 1900. Presented by Malcolm Dick, Chairman of the BCS.

There's just over a week left to submit your abstract for the New Voices in Midland History Conference before the 31 March deadline. Join us on Saturday 6 June at the National Civil War Centre in Newark to share your research about the history of our region. More details 👇

We're hiring! We’re looking for a Research Assistant (0.4FTE, 12 month FTC) to join us and work with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social. Role can be held flexibly (though not remote); centres around outreach + engagement, archival + oral history work in Worcestershire jobs.worcester.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Reporting the General Strike We're looking ahead to May! As the centenary of Britain's 'Great Hold-Up' approaches, we've added more sources to our General Strike digitised collection 550+ strike bulletins, leaflets, reports, radio transcripts and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

In addition to today's guide to national history societies in the UK and Ireland, we also have listings of c.100 Record Societies. These societies are central to our research culture, with a focus on regional history / primary source publications. Here is England: bit.ly/4sPSwk3 1/2 #Skystorians

Physician and botanist, William Withering was born #OnThisDay 1741. He was the first to undertake clinical assessment of digitalis as a treatment for dropsy. His book "An account of the foxglove" was published in 1785 #histmed

"In an era of perennial short-termism, reminding ourselves of the sheer lifespan of cathedrals ... is certainly food for thought" - Benjamin Phillips on Richard Newsholme's new study of Worcester Cathedral Read more of our latest book reviews online today 👇 www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...

The stonking great font at St. Andrew's, #Wroxeter - made from an upturned Roman column base. One of many pieces of re-used stone in a remarkable church. (A look around it adds a lot to a visit to the nearby 'Roman City' site.) #FontsOnFriday #Shropshire #ChurchCrawling #RomanBritain 📷 My own

This #NewAccession is a little more complicated to catalogue than most. Our archivists will be getting out their university training notes to catalogue the oldest of these deeds and identifying their connection to each other might be even harder! #archives #17thCentury

Would you or one of your service users/stakeholders relish the opportunity to join an ambitious, friendly network, helping to shape the future direction of #ArchivesWM, supporting #archive services across the West Midlands? The Board has 3 trustee vacancies from September 2026 - to learn more 👇

Tickets are selling nicely - 8 weeks to go if you're able to get to Coventry on the 3rd May for my first public history lecture! 🙂 stmarysguildhall-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

#InternationalWomensDay may have come and gone in 2026, but you can read about some of our extraordinary ancestresses in Midlands History all year round... ... like Anna Muggeridge's article on women's experiences of local government in Worcester 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....