Thank you to Victoria Yuskaitis for a fascinating talk on leper squints last night. Details of our next talk is on the link below: www.sahs.uk.net/event-sahs-p...

Wonderful listening to Ted Rowlands (Baron Rowlands) on his 1966 election victory in Cardiff North

Update on Lichfield clock tower

What a wonderful opportunity- bequeathed by Ian Roy who was external examiner for my PhD

Free #event from #Lichfield Waterworks Trust at Sandfields Pumping Station Learn more about the history of #water supply and engineering efforts to get the fabulous beam engine moving again 🗓️ Sat 14 March 🕰️ 10:00-4:00

Happy St David's Day! To mark the celebration, why not revisit Dr Stephen Roberts' overview of relations between the Westminster Parliament and the Welsh language, translated into Welsh.

Register now for a fascinating virtual discussion with Frank Bremer, @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Rachel Adcock, and @emersonwbaker.bsky.social about the new “Oxford Handbook of Puritanism” at 1 pm EDT on March 19th.

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 4000+ new references. Discover further details about this update in this On History blog buff.ly/eWSMfuT @brepols.net

The Lichfield and Burntwood Independent newspaper celebrates 50th edition

Fellowship Opportunity! Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...

Labour is delivering for Lichfield despite the difficult Tory legacy. ita01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Christmas pudding!

Learnt a lot about Jacobites in words and music from Splinter at Ashbourne town hall, including that date on plaque wrong

www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/product/the-... published today, a fantastic teaching resource and a super Xmas present. With contributions from @annlaurahughes.bsky.social @isminipells.bsky.social @waseemahmed98.bsky.social @denisegreany.bsky.social Richard Cust, Andy Hopper (Ed.) Oh, and me.

In a guest article for #HistParl, Dr Sophie Aldred explores the library of Lord Robartes and what it tells us of his political position during the revolutionary years of the 1640s. 📚 historyofparliament.com/2025/10/27/j...

Wonderful tour of Iceland with intrepid. A foss everyday for a week

Hey! Want to get my book with FREE SHIPPING? And not from The Behemoth? For the next 31 hours, you can get it from Bookshop.org !! And any any other book they carry! bookshop.org/p/books/push...

CfP due 15 July! On 4–6 September, @kyamamoto.bsky.social and I will co-host "Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynote speakers: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, and Peter Lake. See poetsutokyo.wixsite.com/conference20...

🎙️More podcasts 🎙️ added to the The World Turned Upside Down A unique free open access resource for everyone interested in the people, events and ideas of the British Civil Wars - explored and explained by leading historians Take a look👇

Very excited to be involved with this!

Lichfield City FC winning the league!!

Brilliant night launching our Camden volume. Thanks to @royalhistsoc.org and Warwick Castle

Come and see your local Labour councillors

We had a lovely time at @sandfieldsps.bsky.social - very appropriate for #WorldWaterDay Lots of people came to talk to us, and a lot of them joined as members to support us. 👍 #Lichfield #WeDigCanals #Staffordshire

Wonderful to hear @maryfissell.bsky.social on woman’s hour

A timely piece from Alice Cust Hughes in latest edition of Impact journal @collegeofteaching.bsky.social Very proud!

A book launch!

Wow! A Camden volume. Such a pleasure to be involved

After 50 years my Kenwood mixer has finally given up - catching fire after mixing too heavy a batter. RIP

Blue skies and ducks enjoying the ice. #Lichfield #DarwinPark

Brilliant present!!!

Tree from places of welcome

Wonderful light show at @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social and inside trees decorated by schools, businesses and charities

Looking forward to seeing this in print - great fun contributing to it

Storm Bert couldn’t stop us campaigning in Stowe!

Fabulous paper by @angelamcshane.bsky.social on the wonderful 100 ballads website

Well worth braving the cold night for launch of excellent volume from Bucks Record Society - first of series edited by Rosemary O’Day

Launched today, this British Academy's pilot project maps changes in provision of UK undergraduate courses in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. 'Cold spots in SHAPE subject access matter. These subjects play a vital and vibrant role in university life, developing critical thinking'. 1/3 #UKHE

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

I won an Italian food hamper at the fundraiser for Dr Milleys’s hospital Lichfield! Great night with the rock choir

Good to be in the vanguard for once

First message on this platform inspired by all friends and colleagues abandoning the other one- now to remove all that…