CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social Deadline: 6 February 2026 More details: @sslh.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c... sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u... Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk #GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.

🎥 We're excited to share that footage from Amber Films features in "The Iron Ladies", a new documentary on the women who organised and led during the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike. Want to see on the big screen? The doc is screening at Tyneside Cinema on 16 Oct 🎟 tynesidecinema.co.uk/event/...

Join us for a roundtable on 'The Modern British City' in January at Senate House, London, with Simon Gunn, Erika Hanna, Owen Hatherley, Peter Mandler, Otto Saumarez Smith and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, followed by wine! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Delighted to be hosting the @histchild.bsky.social conference next year at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Calling for papers right now! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

This sounds great.

‘During the first 10 years of the spending cuts that began in 2010, councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%. By 2023, about 1,200 publicly run youth centres had closed, and more than 4,500 youth workers had lost their jobs.’

We’re at the @balhnews.bsky.social Herts. Beds. and Bucks. conference today. Do come and say hello!

This is such a huge compliment to get from of the best urban historians of Britain My article is the first from my second project on race, empire and post war housing in Britain! It’s in a Special Issue on State Effects in Grey Room edited by Zeynep Celik Alexander with Lucia Allais.

Always proud to have something published in the North East Labour History Society Journal. @salawatson.bsky.social

I have a set of hand-drawn comics/gossip sheets/newspapers donated alongside our aluminium foundry at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social, dating from (I think) late 1940s. Does anyone know any lit that will help me explore this as a source? I've found work on company mags but this is very different.

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25. @gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

“An example of the town of the future is Coventry.... Traffic and pedestrians are kept apart and the roads are planned to let traffic flow smoothly” (Our Land in the Making, 1966) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

I'm excited to finally share a short video overview of my low-carbon, human-powered research adventure - cycling 2000 miles across England for my PhD fieldwork! Do let me know what you think! youtu.be/iDPS9EYVxHY #PhDbyBike

Happy National Sporting Heritage Day - we hold the National Cycling Archive - a treasure trove of resources on the history of cycling, including the pioneering women cyclists of the late nineteenth century explore more here: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #NSHD #cycling #sport 🚴‍♀️

In the UK, meanwhile, motor industry bosses topped the list of Starmer's biggest donors. Then we got a declaration that Labour is "on the side of drivers," housing policy visions designed for car owners, billions for new motorways, and a crackdown on green protest. More study very much needed!

A short post about the Modern British City, out in November: www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...

More than 20 play streets in Dublin today! Any other big play street action for #worldcarfreeday? @playingout.bsky.social

My dad of course whips out his phone and finds a photo of me with Sir Nigel Gresley in Manchester 45 years ago. Must have been after the time I tried to cut my own hair. Only time I ever had a fringe I think.

Took my dad and the oldest to see the trains at Heaton Depot today.

I visited a brand-new mile-long stretch of rural path last week nr Shepton Mallet as volunteers and contractors did the final touches. An incredible community effort to help complete the 76-mile Somerset Circle, with John Grimshaw (pictured) and Caroline Levett helping lead it (sound is poor, sorry)

Join us this Saturday at the South Square Centre — 1pm for our free Heritage Open Day talk on mapping Bradford's history!

Over 1,600 people have been arrested since Labour banned Palestine Action — the first time a non-violent direct action group has ever been proscribed in Britain. The UN has condemned it as “disproportionate” and “unnecessary”. Opposing genocide isn’t a crime, it’s a moral duty.

Destruction and Pillage of Palestinian Cultural Heritage, archives and libraries since 1948 blogs.library.columbia.edu/global-studi...

There’s a webinar coming up to launch Spaces, Places & Belonging! Learn about the new AHRC funded Community Hub, which will support inclusive, community led research across the UK GLAM and heritage sectors. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spaces-pla...

Building ‘Homes for Tomorrow’: Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980 - this week's new blog post looks at the exhibition celebrating the social ideals and path-breaking design of the borough's housing in its heyday: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

Did you know, the government stopped collecting data on how children travel to school in 2011?

Who cares? It's all just the provinces. The priority is a Reform UK government who will deliver deep spending cuts and tax cuts.

Passed on to us by some dear friends. Be there if you can! Help us spread the word 🏴

🚨Today's blog post is on the new exhibition 'Building "Homes for Tomorrow": Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980' at @lambetharchives.bsky.social. The images below (a nursery school and a housing scheme for elderly people) capture the era's ideals. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

Really excited to see the program of the program of the online ‘Women Architects under State Socialism Symposium’ organised in collaboration with the @eahn2005.bsky.social Women and Gender in Architecture and Urban Design Interest Group! Have a look and register to join us! eahn.org/2025/09/wome...

In response to a question about roads outside schools: ‘The Government treats road safety with the utmost seriousness and is committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads.’ Yet no pavement parking ban or national 20mph limit in urban areas for England.

Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage are now open. This innovative public engagement programme allows UK-based researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Application deadline is 15 Oct. Learn more: https://bit.ly/47XA41y

What have been the best/most effective/meaningful environmental changes in 20thC Britain, in your view? I'm writing a new unit & have lots of disasters, decline, and conflicts; but I don't think it's been all bad. Some egs. of positive changes - intro of National Parks; rise of green politics...

Have you ever wanted to do historical research, but not been sure how to go about it? Join our heritage researchers @rach-anderson.bsky.social and @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social in Oct for a specially curated course on finding your way through the archival maze: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introdu...

Come to hear @dbornat.bsky.social discuss her book ‘All to Play for: How to Design Child-Friendly Housing’ at Newcastle’s Farrell Centre at 6pm on 11th Sept with @alisonstenning.bsky.social and Rosie Parnell. It’s a free event and you can sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-playful-...

Yesterday we launched the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Play (@appgonplay.bsky.social) 🎉 We're already 40 MPs and Peers strong, working together to: ✅ Push for a National Play Strategy ✅ Champion play sufficiency law ✅ Put play back at the heart of childhood

Really chuffed to be in this, with an essay about @nenature.bsky.social in the 19th and early 20th century, field naturalism, imperial science, museums, civic identity and lads with big muttonchop whiskers and giant watch chains dissecting sea slugs

It's time 🎉 The 2025 edition of the North East History Compendium is available for pre-order. See below for a taster of what you can expect. Authentic and fresh perspectives of why we are who we are from the best writers in the region. Pre-Order: www.northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk/category/all...

NEW: The installation and removal of a failed cycle lane scheme in Middlesbrough has cost taxpayers £4m.

If you would like to review my book for a publication, get in touch! The book is a history of wind energy and I’m trying to get it out to as wide an audience as possible. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Trigger Warning for Road Violence. I found out last night that this video forms part of the induction for new students at Jesmond Park Academy. Accompanied by a warning to pupils to look both ways, even when the green man / red light is on, because drivers can't be trusted to stop🚦. Cont.

🚲 Kidical Mass is growing fast – now 50+ groups across the UK! We’ve launched a crowdfunder to continue to provide public liability & volunteer insurance for all KM groups in the UK. Target: £2,522. Please donate! 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/km-insurance #KidicalMass #SafeStreetsNow

Interesting to read this after visiting Switzerland recently. Are the days of the elite country club over? My guess is probably not. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"What isn't at the V&A?" — new from me in @artreview.bsky.social on enduring colonialism, art-washing working class heritage, and a museum without labels artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

Signs for rollerskating routes in Switzerland too! We saw a big group of girl tweens enjoying one of these.

Cycle streets in Austria and Germany in and near Bregenz. Huge painted bike signs here.

Lots of relatively light touch (and maybe recent?) pedestrianisation in Germany. Lindau again.