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... AND: @WarwickHistory also offers a Teaching Fellowship in Medieval and Early Modern History on a full-time basis for a fixed-term period of 36 months from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2029. For full details, please see warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

How can birdwatching help protect our planet? Join us on 11 March (12:30–1:30pm) for our next online lunchtime lecture with Dr Debankur Saha. Learn simple bird ID tips, discover citizen science tools, and see how watching birds can make a real conservation impact:

Live a good trade directory and Bisset’s one of my favourites.

Another archaeology and nature job. Looks like a great opportunity www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...

Farewell Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust. First site visit I made when began my MA in West Midlands History.

Gum arabic. Been looking at its importance for fixing colours in the eighteenth century. Still shaping the world.

Ok, so I’m finding this recuperation business tedious now. However, as grateful as last time that there are people who come from around the globe to operate on me, nurse me, care for me and help me along the way. Especially the no-nonsense women!

A #OnePlaceWednesday reminder that Shopping is Never Done, a #LocalHistory conference focused on West London High Streets, takes place on Saturday 11th April at Duke Street Church in Richmond. Tickets £15. Sure to be of interest to #OnePlaceStudies researchers!

#BirminghamHistory 2026 is the centenary of ICI. The Metals Division (IMI) was based at the Kynoch Works, Witton. Amongst many things, the company made boiler tubes for the Queen Elizabeth steam ship. Ref: MS 1422/28/7/4/4 #LibraryofBham

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! My new book The Secrets of Painting is out this spring. Have you ever wondered how you paint a masterpiece? I tell the hidden story of 20 masterpieces, unveiling the material magic lying beneath the surface of history's greatest paintings @thamesandhudson.bsky.social l

Just look at these fabulous seedlings from @pepperpotherbs.bsky.social.

A reminder that I do freelance work: transcription, archival visits and more. My rates are here (subject to surcharges or discounts): joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

A bit of a long shot, but I’m looking to pay someone to photograph some archival documents for me in Amsterdam in the next 6 months. If you know any PhD students based there etc who might be interested pls do send me a message. #historians #paidresearcher

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering two short-term research fellowships of between 1 week and 1 month between Jun and Nov 2026 to encourage research relevant to its collection of c. 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Dublin physician Edward Worth (1676-1733). #histmed

No cover yet, but my new book, Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them, has appeared on the @uchicagopress.bsky.social website! Out in October…👻 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Anyone know of any museums, libraries, professional bodies or societies that have made the decision to delete their Twitter accounts?

Looking forward to talking #BlackTudors at the @harvingtonhall.bsky.social History Festival with @jodurrant.co.uk in July! harvingtonhall.digitickets.co.uk/category/69554

Did you know you can choose to publish #openaccess with Midland History 📖 Read open access articles on early modern printing by Caroline Archer-Parré and Victorian furniture trends by Roseanna Romaine Smith in our latest special issue on the Midlands Metal Trades 👇 tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/50/3

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Privileged to be working with the archives of the Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution, charting its history from 1849 to the present. Such organisations provided critical financial and social support recorded through a rich bureaucracy. 🗃️ how-to-history.com/2025/12/31/f...

#MapOnATuesday today is this 1913 City of Birmingham Surveyor's Office proposed housing map for East Birmingham revised in 1926. Ref – MAP/327863 #LibraryofBham

Left these little ones behind in the garden this morning. 😊

It’s over! New hip in there somewhere and a digestive never tasted so good! Astonishing what can be done in 90 minutes. Going to treat myself to new pair of walking boots as soon as.

We love our gardens but don’t actually know them.

Really looking forward to speaking @linneansociety.bsky.social on Wednesday 4 February - do come along if you are free!

Gorgeous things.

Went to department store for first time in about 2 years as need STUFF for hospital next week and left it late as usual. Tip top marks to staff who helped me make choices and saved me doing all the running around. They really knew their stock. And their stuff! #johnlewis

The list of my publications on my wordpress site has been now updated - many are freely downloadable from the site. 💐 profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com

Call for Papers: The Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2026 celebrates 100 years of The Women’s Library and a century of women’s history. Details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHN2026 #CFP Image LSE Flickr: Meeting of WSPU leaders, c.1906.

Oh no, not more AI searching in this Merthyr programme. No, we can't see this that or the other!

One to note from @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social coming up in March.

Being asked how to recharge the Henry turns out to have been a question too far for me this morning. 😤

#HistSTM #HistMed #UrbanHist folks, this one's for you 🗃️👇

Another van full of our peat free herb plants is leaving the nursery this morning 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #allotment

If you know any young people (13–19 years old) please encourage them to do this — it's a great programme. I'm one of the judges and those shortlisted will come to the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social for a day of workshops!

The JCB is hiring two Research Associates who will work collaboratively on designated topics relevant to the library’s collections and mission, conducting research and producing both general audience and scholarly publications. 1/3

Deadline end of this week for MBS2026!

Bought this recently. Looking forward to getting stuck in.

Grey January. Brown borders. Enough! Year-round colour isn't luck – it's planting design. Thirty years of testing in my own garden, now in a book. 'A Year of Colour' – out 5th Feb. https://www.ann-mariepowell.com/a-year-of-colour/

Residency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library. Details in link. Please share :)

Just submitted my #BigGardenBirdwatch results. A couple of hours of daylight left to get your watch done. 🌱

Oh let joy be unconfined. Another man in black.

Now 2026 really starts! Rare Plant Fairs programme for the year out. www.rareplantfair.co.uk

New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist

From the current issue: “Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525” by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Today I’m celebrating explaining my thesis to someone and its shape suddenly appeared. And it’s the shape I already have for it. Just didn’t recognise it.

Look what I came home with! Special issue of Midlands History on Midlands Metal Trades. Guest-edited by @typetweets.bsky.social and #Ann-MarieCarey. Plenty to keep me going here.

💕 It’s my once a year opportunity to promote this special greeting card, which contains a delightful illustration that maybe only a hungry peregrine would approve of. katiefullerart.etsy.com/listing/1169... I have other, prettier cards, if you prefer.

Engaged in community heritage work and looking to develop your skills? These £1,000 training grants from the National Archives are well worth a look...