It’s time… 🌱🇬🇧 We’re potting up the Basil 🙌🏻 #herbs #flowers #horticulture #basil

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

Great research opportunity to work with the Welsh Political Archive. Please share with contacts. www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History has been launched, including my chapter 'Women and Divorce Law in England and Wales, 1537–2022'. I had great fun writing it and I'm proud to be published alongside so many amazing authors writing on such importantly and timely topics.

And here’s another freelance history job.

📣Freelance opportunity with @balhnews.bsky.social 📣

I've tried to make my garden full of homes & food for wildlife. A pond surrounded by guelder rose & dogwood. Loads of umbellifers. Teasels for finches. Bird feed boost in the winter hungry gap. More like your favourite community cafe for birds than a fast food hub. #FeedSafelyFeedSeasonally

Who can resist a plant fair!

The BBS is a phenomenal achievement. But trends for 'my' main study species are all very bleak for 1995-2024 population change: Marsh Tit: 53% decline Willow Tit: 92% decline(!!) Wood Warbler: 82% decline Wood Warbler is already generally considered irrecoverable in England. #ornithology

24 hours left! If you’ve been thinking about applying for the BSPP Undergraduate Vacation Bursary, now is the time. You don’t need a perfect application, just a submitted one. This could be the experience that shapes your future in science. Deadline: 10 April www.bspp.org.uk/funds/underg...

💥Not one, but four great studentships with @britishlibrary.bsky.social here. One with UniBirmingham.💥

"What I value more and more is the sheer physicality of cooking. Here we all are, our minds fizzing and popping, our lives spent on screens. Cooking is a way of establishing ourselves as bodies in the world." Really, really love this from @nigella.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4819...

The Society is an international organisation of 7000 historians with representatives in more than 60 countries worldwide: bit.ly/4dHQI8g Applications to join the Society are welcome at anytime from researchers of any subject area / any country 2/2

Every reading room should have one.

To mark the publication of 'The Secrets of Painting' by @thamesandhudson 2 April 2026, I have written a series of short films directed and edited by the wonderful John O’Rourke. The opening film in the series explores the origins of the first paints and pigments in human history.

Looking to nurture your passion for gardening? Applications for our horticultural apprenticeships are now open 🌱 Positivity, eagerness, and a love for horticulture are all you need! Find out more details about our apprenticeship program and apply, here 🔽

📣 Museum/heritage education consultant needed.

If you know of early career scholars who are working on 18th and 19th century labour history, point them to Minster Gate bookshop in York.

Explore Colonial Virginia Portraits, an interactive database of pre-1776 Virginia oil portraits. Browse by sitter, artist, location, and more to uncover the stories behind these images. Explore: 🔗 colonialvirginiaportraits.org Portrait: Warner Lewis II & Rebecca Lewis by John Wollaston

Garden party to help support restoration of the Lichfield Canal

I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

#MoseleySociety wish to appoint an Archivist to re-catalogue their collections. If you are interested please email them at [email protected] for further details #LibraryofBham @themoseleysociety.bsky.social

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🍂 Plant knowledge becoming more popular! Cambridge Uni botanic garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social joins UK others offering short courses plant vocabulary & ID. Also BSBI @bsbibotany.bsky.social Identiplant (enrol December), Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social , Field Studies Council #BUC2026

This botany course at Cambridge sounds heavenly. When I have another life it will be more plant-based!

Do you know of someone who might be interested in doing a #PhD on the urban, architectural and environmental history of the University of Liverpool? If so could you point them in my direction?

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Might be able to drive again from tomorrow post hip replacement.🥳 Beginning to pall number of people who look surprised I don’t have automatic car. Pride myself on my gear management and hill starts.🚗

It's true! I got my statement today, and it's more than pennies. All academics should sign up to the ALCS and get an annual payment for the work we've done anyway - and it doesn't cost anything to sign up!

That's touching. Sarah Mullaly's nursing buckle, bought for her by her father, transfers to her cope.

‘Tornado of piffle’.

Help needed! I am on a quest to find the least safe station in the UK and I need your recommendations of the worst out there, in particular for women and girls. This is for a THING that will help change them, and I am coming to visit the three worst, so fire away. 1/2

Get your abstracts in! Midland History Conference always a good forum.

‘Fragile things can have hidden superpowers’. This is indeed a column worth the read.

Well, that’s very nice. Thank you @alcs.co.uk. 😍

Thames and Hudson. What you get when you let immigrants into the country. Walter and Eva Neurath decided to call their company after the rivers of London and New York, rather than themselves.

Great resource here for historians.

Oh, that’s very nice - PhD on migrant labour and craft in the 18th century

This is why you tend to plant Mint in pots. It will die off over winter but then you can split it and/or pot it up to give it space to grow on, and a feed as it’s obviously very vigorous. Worth doing mid season too, along with cutting it back - if it’s looking spindly and starved 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers

Great evening at The Exchange for public launch of the amazing Helios by @lukejerram.bsky.social and ‘Seeing the Sun’ exhibition. Informative Q&A with the artist and Prof. Bill Chaplin chaired by @profaliceroberts.bsky.social If in #Birmingham do visit and experience art and science until 1 Nov 🌅

🚨 We're looking for a new Project Archivist 🚨The main objective of the project is to catalogue the papers of Harriet Harman. [Full time, 2 years fixed contract] The deadline for applications is 3 April 2026 with interviews planning to be on the 14 April 2026 buff.ly/mhMCz8E

Two of @greenleejw.bsky.social ‘s excellent maps will be in my new book, Beer Ghosts! He had the wisdom to add Manhattan to a map that was ostensibly of the Great Lakes and the Erie Canal. It’s all connected… ⚓️🍻👻✍️🌃

The bursary of £1,700 will be awarded to a mid-career historian working on 17th-century British history who wishes to make use of the IHR’s library collections. #Skystorians

As spring approaches, Warwickshire County Council is encouraging residents to explore the wide range of volunteering opportunities available to them across the county.

Missed this yesterday. Wonderful action & words. Made me teary. @derekniemann.bsky.social ‘I can look all the way across the stick-sprouting field today & understand that all our hope & belief comes, not from what we see in the future, but what we won’t.’

It’s been out a while now, but Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thcentury British travel to Spain and Portugal that is free to download here! uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...

@profdanhicks.bsky.social coming to UniBirm 30 April with his Paperback Tour.

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This is why note taking is important. Such a great account.

🚨Summer Meeting ECR Bursary🚨 Want to attend our summer meeting? We have bursaries available to current doctoral researchers and post-doctoral researchers within 2 years of completion! 💵 up to £400 per applicant 📅 deadline: 10 April 2026 Find out how to apply below 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...