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

Just over a month to go until our annual conference! Have you booked your ticket yet? For more details and to secure your place, please use the link below. We can't wait to see you there! www.history.ac.uk/events/histo... #skystorians #history #postgrad

Super excited to share the CFP for the 'Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' conference. Organised by Tash Jenman (Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and myself (Lincoln/OCHJS) this will be held in Oxford 20-21 April 2026. All welcome, please share!

Our latest book from #Herefordshire, Cradley, was launched last night on a beautiful summer evening. The authors, Anastasia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes and our director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social joined an appreciative audience. We sold plenty of copies, but if you would like one [cont.]

Researching any aspect of history of the midlands? Then this is for you 🫵 The Midland History essay prize offers a first prize of £400.00 and opportunity for your research to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Deadline for entries 31 October 2025 🎃 #skystorians #PhD

The Society welcomes applications to join at any time from historians of all backgrounds and career stages. This includes the many who practice outside #History depts / HE or work independently bit.ly/43Y2u8g For these historians, we hope to offer community, support and collegiality #Skystorians

We're hiring a Commissioning Editor / Senior Commissioning Editor (dependent on experience) for a one-year maternity cover. The full job description and details about applying are at the link below. Applications close on Monday 30th June. bit.ly/JobVacSCE #PublishingJobs #JobsInPublishing

Our event today with heads of selected UK #History societies is a reminder of the dedication, expertise, civic sense, dynamism and, yes, value of these subject societies. If you'd like to keep in touch with them, we've a Starter Pack bit.ly/4jKumCE which now lists 125 such groups #Skystorians 1/2

#DementiaActionWeek is taking place until Sunday. Your local #Library will be involved in the conversation around dementia with a display like this one at Harrow Libraries. Why not see what information is on offer? www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-involved...

I am doing an online talk today on the topic of a Tudor witchcraft case 👇 There are a few tickets left apparently. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blood-magi...

Only a week now until the first of our spring online lecture series. Four top historians over successive weeks on aspects of the 1600s, this time covering subjects from radical republicans, religious groups and the outbreak of the civil war... cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Did all go to plan financing the ambitious Elan Valley Water Scheme? Find out more about #Birmingham’s water supply from Wales Thurs 15 May 7:00-8:00pm online All welcome @midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social

#VCH 'Victoria County History' is celebrating over 125 years of creating an encyclopaedic history of English counties. They’ve just announced new projects - blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four... #LibraryofBham @vchlondon.bsky.social

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Did you know that many of our articles are available to view on open access? Over the next few weeks we'll be highlighting some articles from our archive which can be read entirely free of charge via our website: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ymd... #openaccess #historyjournal #publication

'The fragment was preserved by accident in the binding of a book in Hereford Cathedral’s library.' www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Become a Documentation Detective! Explore and transcribe #Birmingham Museums collection records online New uploads released every three weeks - new uploads today!

Our new job advert is now listed on www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ031/a... If you have experience and research interests in archaeological materials science and can also teach #archaeology, check it out!

Don't forget A Time for Letters: Workshop, Mon, Apr 14 at 2:00 PM. Get close to original 18th-century letters from our archive. Explore their uses as sources and try transcription exercises. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-time-for... Ref: MS 3219/4/23 #LibraryofBham @unibirmingham.bsky.social

News | @artscouncilengland.bsky.social announces £20m funding for English civic museums – ‘urgent intervention’ funding will support access to collections and upgrade facilities

Just one day to go to the @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social -funded symposium on military welfare history and the First World War. What a great line up! #milwelfhist #WW1 #histmed #histnursing #veteran #care #pensions

Join us and @brepols.bsky.social for a webinar introducing the new Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) interface. Date: Monday 28 April 2025 Time: 17:00 (Brussels) / 11:00 (Eastern Time, USA) / 16:00 (London, UK) Duration: 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A More info: bit.ly/BBIHwebinar