BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post #archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106 www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

What a great day @thelondonarchives.bsky.social for our #RAG2025 conference. Thanks to all the speakers and to everyone who came along.

If you're coming to our annual conference on archives digitisation today, you'll also get a chance to see this exhibition @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! #RAG2025

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

There is just a week left to book your place for this year’s Religious Archives Group conference on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief The one-day in-person conference will take place on 2 October at The London Archives To book, please visit: ticketlab.app/event/31944-...

And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

I cannot rate this exhibit highly enough. The St. Gallen manuscripts themselves are incredible, but the objects (the Lough Kinale Book-Shrine!) really contextualise the exhibit. And then there are interactive for children to learn more, which is such a brilliant touch. Truly something for everyone.

We now have the programme finalised for our conference in October Join us @thelondonarchives.bsky.social ‬to hear about #archives and #digitisation from @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social @uoyborthwick.bsky.social @wellcomecollection.bsky.social National Institute for Newman Studies t.co/Eu14sJM99C

Join us at our annual conference 'Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk'. Tuesday, November 4 10am – 4:30pm GMT at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6EL. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguardi...

Join us to celebrate the launch of the essay volume ‘The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity’ at this free event on 4th August! For further info see: royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-l... @aucpress.bsky.social

Our annual conference this year is on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief. It's at The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social on 2 October, booking details below: #RAG2025 ticketlab.app/event/31944-...

It's install week for #MagnaCarta1225 and an array of manuscripts, books and museum items are being readied ahead of next week's opening on Wednesday!

Every year the background for the EHS Committee group pic gets more impressive! 📍Edinburgh #EHSCon25

On Tuesday join us on a massive monasticism fest on the #IMC2025. Four sessions packed with monastic goodness from South Asia to Gaul and from Nubia to Rome. Thirteen papers, four moderators, two organisers: it is the place to be for early medieval monasticism fans at the IMC!

Wow - so many people already signed up for our Wills Project Transcribathon later this month! 🙏 If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all. In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com #EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography

📢Attention Cathedrals!📢 Lambeth is opening a new programme to offer free cathedrals visits from our expert collections care team, to advise on a range of preservation issues.📚 More details here: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/cathedral-li... @englishcathedrals.co.uk

I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

Our 'Creeds, Councils and Canons' conference is coming up soon and we welcome everyone to our final plenary lecture at New College, University of Edinburgh with Prof David Fergusson (Cambridge). Register for the event here: www.tickettailor.com/events/eccle...

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A happy team at the end of #CALCA2025 conference in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Before travelling back to @westminsterabbey.bsky.social @salisburycathedral.bsky.social@durhamcathedral.bsky.social @lampallib.bsky.social @chestercathedral.bsky.social #Hereford #norwich #rochester #Windsor #Lismore

📢WILLS TRANSCRIBATHON KLAXON📢 Join us on Thursday 24 July to transcribe wills and go behind the scenes of the wills project! In person and on Zoom - full details & registration here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com #EarlyModern 🗃️ #transcription @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

Today, as #InternationalPortraitDay, is a perfect opportunity to highlight our remarkable set of portraits of Deans from the 16th century onwards. 🎨🖌️ Learn more in this article by Cressida Williams, Archives and Library Manager: artuk.org/discover/sto... Image © Canterbury Cathedral

I'm doing a webinar with @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social in July called "Atheism and Vegetarianism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Match Made in Heaven?" Check it out! Details here: freethinker.co.uk/2025/05/free...

The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee! One of the longest running IHR seminars, we are also one of the few ECR-led. If you are a PGR or ECR based in London, working on anything medieval, please do get in touch! @ihr.bsky.social

It's the last week to grab tickets for our Summer Conference, 15-17 July in Edinburgh! Make sure to register for your spot before 20 June: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/25-26-summer...

abneypark.org/upcoming-eve... June 26th, I’m speaking at Abney Park on the radical* aspects of Isaac Watts’ work Tickets are on sale now, and if you’ve got time for a drink before or after, let me know *in the fact that he was innovative and controversial, not radical in a technical sense

#ICYMI - this book, the latest from @vchlondon.bsky.social's successful Herefordshire project is out now! Featuring eccentric Victorian churchmen, fornicating 14th century churchmen, complex and varied agriculture, scores of footnotes and Black Sabbath. #NewBook #LocalHistory

This was a brilliant session. I learnt so much about how Catholic archives have(n’t) been curated & where to look for documents for place-based research. Hugely grateful to @catholicrs.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social & #LawrenceGregory for sharing their wisdom.

📢 A Free 'Wills Project' event! 📢 Join us for an evening of stories & songs inspired by early modern wills, performed by Creative Fellow, musician Chris Hoban & project co-investigator, Laura Sangha. 📅 Wed 18 June 6.30pm, Devon & Exeter Institute Free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

Reminder! Freethought History Webinar #4, with Nathan Alexander, is on 8 July - register for free now! @nathgalexander.bsky.social us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our next Saturday opening is 7 June! Whilst we currently do not have an exhibition, the Reading Room is still open for anyone who would like to visit. If you would like to use the reading room, please send us your orders in advance as there will be no fetching service operating on the day.

CFP: Nonconformity and Revolutions. Join our 3rd summer conference. @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social #churchhistory #18thcen #nonconformity #ASCH #dissenters #AmericanRevolution #FrenchRevolution

I'm hiring to join our fantastic new team at Bevis Marks Synagogue Heritage Foundation!

For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/

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.

Our periodicals collection includes over 3,200 titles covering journals, newspapers, magazines and bulletins. They cover the Holocaust, fascist and anti-fascist press, Jewish studies, and the Nazi era Find newly digitised titles accessible worldwide via our online archive 🔗 buff.ly/cCBt9IU

Job alert: Project Archivist, St Paul's Cathedral www.stpauls.co.uk/vacancies/pr...

Did you know Francis Fry, heir to the chocolate company J.S Frys & Sons, amassed one of the largest Bible collections ever known?🍫 Hear about Fry's meticulous yet controversial collecting habits in @harryspillane.bsky.social upcoming research talk. Free to book: loom.ly/J8GHfCw

Medieval angel is up! Our Research Fellow curated summer-25 display in the Parker Library on 'Ordinary Encounters: Practical Books of Medieval Pastoral Care' Eventbrite tours organised once a week - book your place now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/parker-lib... #medievalsky #medievalMSS

An event for London-based historians interested in Catholic print! 👇

On a related theme, here's our editor Dr Philip Salmon's article on English Catholic MPs in the 1832-68 House of Commons. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/c...

⌛ Final Week ⌛ Time is running out to visit our current exhibition: 'Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar' – closing 15 May. 🕰️ 🔗Opening times + digital highlights: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/unfolding-time #UnfoldingTime #MedievalSky #BookHistory 📜

Our two-week online short courses are back! Invest in your archival research and study Early Modern and Latin scripts with our tutors from 16-27 June 2025. 📅💻 Scan the QR code or click here to apply: imemsdurhamlearn.com

This term's programme is now available! Come and join us if you are around Oxford! #OMMG #medievalsky #Oxford

Check out our latest Document of the Month! A 10th-century Jewish commentary on the Book of Isaiah. The one #JudeoArabic fragment in our corpus! Find out about the knowledge of Arabic among Jews in pre-Mongol Iran and Afghanistan: bit.ly/DotMApr25 #skystorian #medievalsky #Bamiyan #documents

The curator of our current exhibition, Dr Sarah Griffin, will be holding curators talks at 10:30am, 11:30am, 2 pm and 3:30pm. If you would like further information or would like to book a ticket, please follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exhibition...

For centuries, the kirk sessions of the Church of #Scotland served as local law courts — including disciplining people for "blasphemy, swearing and failure to observe the Sabbath". Find out more with our guide: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Last year we just launched our groundbreaking virtual tour of @conwayhall.bsky.social – one of only two surviving buildings in the UK built by and for the non-religious. Designed for schools, accessible to everyone, the interactive tour brings #HumanistHeritage to life. humanists.uk/2024/04/17/o...

Can’t visit our #UnfoldingTime exhibition before it closes on 15 May? No problem — you can now experience it in 3D online! 🧊🖥️ Wander through the gallery virtually and tap on the circular tags to discover more about the exhibits. 🟣🟢🔵 my.matterport.com/show/?m=gZHe... #MedievalSky #BookHistory📜