The National Convention for the Defence of the Civic Rights of Women marked a pivotal moment in suffrage history - it took place in October 1903. Discover more by Dr. Maureen Wright: womenshistorynetwork.org/unreported-h...

#BlackHistoryMonth #HistNursing We often think of black nurses in Britain as being post-Windrush, but researchers are identifying earlier #women Like this amazing story of Sarah Woodbine #Victorian born #BuenosAires Trained Nurse #Croydon & #HitherGreen 💙 www.historycalroots.com/sarah-woodbi...

"It’s not just that this is mean-spirited: it's that it raises questions that ministers can't answer. One of the best arguments against inauthenticity in politics is that, if you say what you think, at least you can defend the government line."

Another of those things so obvious it shouldn't really need saying. And yet it really did: news.sky.com/story/top-co...

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

It is 20 years since Conor Gearty gave the Hamlyn Lectures on Can Human Rights Survive? As a mark of respect following the dreadful news of his, Cambridge University Press & Assessment has made these lectures Open Access for the remainder of the year. You can find them here: lnkd.in/e5Xrt2G5

On behalf of @vch-oxon.bsky.social : On 10 October Ditchley Park will host a fundraising lecture and reception exploring the rediscovery of a lost painting by Winston Churchill, with a rare opportunity to see one of Oxfordshire’s finest country houses. 🗃️ Tickets £50, further details below.

For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

@barristersecret.bsky.social @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social @joshuaerlich.bsky.social Dear Colleagues, if you feel able to share this attempt to part lawyers and their money, help kids and fill the world with pictures of animals dressed as attorneys, I’d be very grateful.

Born #OTD 1886, A. V. Hill, Independent Conservative MP for Cambridge University, 1940-5. Before his political career, Hill was a physiologist, and in 1922 shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on muscle physiology. He is the only MP to have won a Nobel Prize in the sciences.

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social. This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏 'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!' uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

To tie the last two reposts togetehr, Helen Macfarlane, born OTD in 1818 is discussed in @uclpress.bsky.social new #OpenAccess volume on working class writers: read.uolpress.co.uk/read/british... #History 🗃️

Next month @histparl.bsky.social will leave its home in Bloomsbury Square after almost 20 years. Robin Eagles used this as an opportunity to reflect on the history of the square, which witnessed one of the most violent episodes in London's history: historyofparliament.com/2025/06/05/b...

The BBC calls for access to Gaza. Please share if you want to.

I write a bit about the architecture of places that were Germany and are now Poland here lewisbaston.substack.com/p/building-a... - some writing on Gdańsk but there’s also the even more intriguing case of Elbląg (Elbing) where I think a genuinely new hybrid style developed.

Leo might be the only Pope to ever watch Entourage because he just pulled an Ari Gold

Enjoying #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on Radio 4? Join us on 1 October to discover #London #history through #poetry. You'll also be able to learn about the work of the Victoria County History in London - and support @vch-london.bsky.social by buying my book. www.westminster.gov.uk/event/author...

Explore the shadows of Clerkenwell’s past This year’s Local London Guiding Day is on Saturday 4th October, with free walking tours every hour from 10am to 4pm. www.ec1echo.co.uk/explore-the-...

If you've ever wanted to know what Jacob Rees-Mogg's house looks like, then I have just the video for you...

Fascinating data. There are three things here that really matter to people, and they think matter to everyone: Healthcare Economy Prices There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally: Immigration

This is incredibly sharp on TikTok, distraction and politics. Current UK government is communicating on terms that no longer exist

Viewing the remains of the Carey Street (RCJ) Banksy in person last night provoked me to write a short blog for the excellent Ideas Lab Substack (run by my friend and former parliamentary colleague @eliotwilson.bsky.social theideaslab.substack.com/p/guest-post...

We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.

This is actually really big and very welcome. Unannounced amidst yesterday’s Hillsborough Law are new provisions to upgrade the UK’s archaic misconduct in public office offence. Big win for @spotlightcorruption.org. Here’s our analysis @bricksilk.bsky.social @csc-barrington.bsky.social

Did you know that Keith Richards’ grandmother Eliza Richards was Mayor of #Walthamstow 1941-42? Keith’s father was born in Walthamstow but the family then moved to Dartford. Find out more about #WalthamForest Town Hall’s history this Saturday 20 September. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...

Come and do my Victorian London 'Lowlife' Novel course or 'Alf' might have to come round & 'ave a word... Starts 17 October! @citylit.bsky.social Full reading list here: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-...

Interesting though rather depressing thread here

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

For other countries, the effects of the governance calamity in the US has been mostly been about trade and security issues. But once Trump starts abusing their citizens, it becomes much more personal and will generate a different type of emotional response: anger. www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

A party leader says it! It can be done!

“Five parties getting 10 per cent of the vote in a two-party system is mind-blowing from a psephological point of view...What are we saying, that voters are wrong to want this many preferences? That they’re making mistakes?” www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...

This appears to be significant news. (Trump team restoring some/many Harvard research grants. After Harvard stood up, and won sweeping judgment in court.) Everything is day by day, but worth noting this development. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

What a wonderful evening organised by @ihr.bsky.social celebrating @cathamclarke.bsky.social’s newly published A History of England in 25 Poems, and hearing from her and poet Hannah Lowe about poetry, history, emotions and feeling 🥳

As dinner time approaches, we're hoping for something better than the offering for parliamentary reporters in the Commons in the 1860s: 'a bottle of whisky on tap, a loaf or two of stale bread, and a most nauseous-looking ham’. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/t...

New article today from @victoriancommons.bsky.social. Dr Kathryn Rix explores the creation of a dedicated reporters' gallery in the House of Commons after the fire of 1834, showing the growing importance of the press in reporting proceedings in the Commons in the 19th century: buff.ly/Y1uTIXt

‘People are so angry’: how wealth tax became a battleground in Norway’s election

I remember the months of constant anxiety attacks trying to complete a very simple property transaction. And no, our solicitors were no help. The thought of doing all that midway through a divorce, with a disabled child, whilst holding one of the most high-profile jobs in politics...

The full report by Sir Laurie Magnus, the Independent Advisor on Ministerial Standards, is well worth reading in full. It's available here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68bac5...

Timeline cleanse

Thinking that the solicitors who are doing your conveyancing are incompetent morons who stand a very real chance of completely ruining your life just makes Rayner more relateable imho.

Absolute gift for Badenoch this morning, who asks why Angela Rayner is in post. Starmer stands by her: “She’s gone over and above in setting out the details I am very proud to his alongside the Deputy PM…who has come from a working class background to become Deputy PM.” #PMQs

This is a brilliant profile of a man who sadly only has a walk-on part in my forthcoming book about temperance life assurance. Rotch's busy-ness and crankiness seem characteristic of some other mid-century teetotalers, reminding us that temperance could be radical--or just plain weird

As the government conducts a review of equal pay law, a special online seminar on Weds 17 September will reflect on what we can learn from the history of equal pay legislation, with the help of Sally Brett and Megan Fisher. Pleaae register below to join us. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

As the government conducts a review of equal pay law, a special online seminar on Weds 17 September will reflect on what we can learn from the history of equal pay legislation, with the help of Sally Brett and Megan Fisher. Pleaae register below to join us. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

For anyone interested in #c18th political or electoral history & for students researching EPQs, special subjects &/or final year dissertations, do check out the wealth of data & information available on our Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Bless Alf Dubs. 92 years old and still arguing for the rights of refugees, 86 years after he came to the UK. Wouldn’t it be nice if our politicians could regain some humanity and Alf Dubs could retire. Not looking likely, though, is it? #r4today

A sad week for @studyofparl.bsky.social with the death of two distinguished members who were also both kind and principled - Sir Roger Sands, former Clerk of the House of Commons and Professor Michael Rush of Exeter University. We will miss them greatly

Very sorry to hear of the death of Prof Michael Rush, formerly of Exeter University. He was both an excellent scholar and a lovely kind man, always supportive of his colleagues and fellow academics.