JOB ALERT: Early Career Fellow in Covid Commemoration Oral Histories (21 months, The British Library) ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

📣 Applications open for @historylabplus.bsky.social & HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow 2026-7, to action UK-wide survey of support & access to resources available to historical researchers post-PhD 📍 Remote 💰 Honorarium of £800 🕰️ 23:59, 14 June #Skystorians #ECRs @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

It’s 100 years since the first Birmingham School of Printing publication under the direction of typographer and printer, Leonard Jay. Kathyrn, one of our Archivists looks further: theironroom.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/l... Ref: E 094/BIR/1927 #LibraryofBham @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Quite the menu of papers coming up on 6 June @midlandhistory.bsky.social conference.

This week we're celebrating our many volunteers & their invaluable contributions. Amita Mehta has made several of our core records searchable; and listed the gorgeous pattern plates of William Swainson which he produced for "Zoological Illustrations". Read more here: bit.ly/4al5nnj #VolunteerWeek

This 3rd symposium in memory of Mark Girouard looks at women’s contributions to architectural history in Britain and Ireland. We are interested in women who were involved in the subject as academics, curators, journalists, photographers, writers and in the heritage sphere. sahgb.org.uk/gs-2026

As if this wasn't dangerous enough in its own right, this offer includes Pevsners.

Because Wye not?

All the hats you need for this weekend.

We need a nice shady walk, say about 5 miles, in #Shropshire or just over the border … any suggestions? 🚶‍♀️

Breakfast in the garden and first sighting of the house martins.😍

Senior Lecturer in History at Newman University. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO169/s...

History matters. Good to see Huddersfield celebrating and publicising its local history. I enjoyed my recent visit.

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/3R94V58 Closing Date: 9th June 2026 #WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience

Oh no. Lott and a Last Song. That’s me gone.😭

Plenty of asphalt around us I’d like to see dug up.

Historic England is looking for people who know and care about heritage as part of a recruitment of 7 new Commissioners to the Board. 12 days per annum. £4,133. Apply by 4th June apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9320

This looks wonderful.

Places, plants and people. New blog post.

We’re continuing to highlight resources to help your research as part of #LocalHistoryMonth. This week it’s the turn of electoral registers - useful if you want to look at changing population diversity in your locality #LibraryofBham @histassoc.bsky.social

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

Come all you rural changemakers, space & access creators & housing innovators; come all you quietly radical countryside champions, apply! Nominate! Let us shout about you! #CPRE100

So glad the chaps seem to be sorting things out amongst themselves.

‘Rocky shoreline on the Mediterranean’, Gouache on board, 25x33cm

At 6pm this evening @aberuni.bsky.social, we host Prof Miri Rubin (QMUL) as the guest lecturer for our visit to Aberystwyth and @librarywales.bsky.social. Miri's lecture, 'Black/Beautiful: Meanings of Blackness in a Biblical Verse', is open to all, in person/online bit.ly/4wxY99h #Skystorians 1/2

They’re mad. Think I’ll go and plant another hedge.

Should have said in repost that this looks excellent!

My book has a cover! 😍 Released Dec 26 and a reasonable £43 - please do buy or order for your library. Worth it, I promise. www.amazon.co.uk/Transactione...

Most folks know only one abolitionist's name, MP Wm Wilberforce, who sponsored a bill in parliament. But in order for it to pass decades later many others whose names are now omitted from history books worked tirelessly to change minds about fundamental values. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-century-...

Went on short walk round our attenuation pond last night. Three chatty boys on bikes delighted with themselves as they hurtled precariously down the hill, mother duck escorting five ducklings on pond, great clump of yellow flags blooming, assorted dog walkers. Everyone likes a late spring evening.

This was amazing from Sasha Handley. Recommend a catch up. Although you’ll miss the smart little tables in the lecture theatre.

Delighted to be speaking on this on Wednesday - do feel free to come along if you are around!

Fifteen years to breed a tulip. Fourteen years in, it can still get pulled if it doesn't make the grade. That stayed with our Landscape Architect Penny Walker after a specialist bulb day at @rhswisley with JUB Holland last week. 100,000 bulbs in the formal gardens. The scale alone is worth the trip.

Register now for the Future Ecologies of Clay project conference! London, 24-26 June. Keynotes include Florence Peake, Alun Graves, Keith Harrison, Daniel F. Herrmann, Deborah Smith, Phoebe Cummings, Emily Stone, Alexandra Hodby, Hanna B. Hölling, Clare Twomey and Linda Sormin.

We are in bbq season here. ☹️Give it up peeps. You don’t know how to manage it properly. My house is full of smoke and smells, my eyes are stinging and my garden is now a no-go area.😭

It has a cover! Looking forward to getting hold of the real thing later in the year. New book on William Morris by @drgavin.bsky.social from @yalebooks.bsky.social forthcoming.

Job Opportunity! Research Associate in Early Modern Global History The University of Manchester - School of Arts, Languages and Cultures www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH649/r...

As my LOA nears its end, plunging back into the thesis after 4 months off. Going to read the drafts but wondering what I’ll make of them.🤷

Looking forward to attending this at Warwick next week. My first @royalhistsoc.org event and first as a member.

‘Cultural and biological life are not separate domains when it comes to national survival. The simultaneous destruction of one domain amplifies the harm caused by the other.’ Eyal Weizman on the destruction of Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Current situation after PB on bike at physio this morning. An afternoon made for feet up.

#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30. Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm

This looks great accompaniment to the 1926 Irish census.

This conference we are supporting in Birmingham in June has an amazing mix of 40 panels - a veritable Choose your Own Adventure through modern British studies. It’s also the inaugural event of the Association of Modern British Studies! Great stuff here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Dr Caroline Archer–Parre explores eighteenth-century typeface punches and how a three-year funded project by BCU and Cambridge scholars is reshaping our understanding: theironroom.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/t... Ref: WK/B11/1140 #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social @Baskerville1707

Birmingham-based peeps, there are still tickets available for this in-person event organised by BRIHC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! A unique opportunity to hear @profdanhicks.bsky.social reflect on his work on heritage, memory and conflict in conversation with @corinnefowler.bsky.social

Doing the washing up and glancing up struck by the bank of fluffy little clouds over the wood in the distance. Joyful sight!

🌿 Learning botany at home 🔓️ In our latest BJHS issue, Brad Scott explores how the Talbot family studied mosses—by collecting, drawing, and naming—showing how botanical knowledge was shaped in domestic settings and through networks, even without formal structures. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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