It’s time for a new 🧵 about one of our editorial board’s choice of an article from the journal’s back catalogue that was influential on them. This time it’s our Board Chair Bob Shoemaker’s choice of Valerie Pearl’s 1979 article, ‘Change and Stability in Seventeenth-century London’.

We are looking for a new Joint Book Reviews Editor to join our editorial board. They would cover the period from 1800, working alongside Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval/early modern period. You can check out the full Call for Expressions of Interest here; and please do also share widely.

The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research. The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.

The second in our series of threads on the wonderful articles comprising our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today', is on Sam Waterman and Charlotte Grant's 'Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City' (available open access). 🧵

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Seeing the covers side-by-side shows just how much things have changed, but also how much they’ve stayed the same. I’m really proud of this special issue ❤️

Today’s the day! The 50th anniversary special issue of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social, which I co-edited with Bob Shoemaker, is published! It concludes with my rather personal reflection on the future of the humanities: I’d be very grateful if you gave it a read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really pleased that 2024 update of The Old Bailey Online was awarded the 2024 Mary Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize by the American Society for Legal History, for "a project that continues to break new ground in the field of digital legal history". www.oldbaileyonline.org

The London Journal is currently seeking EOIs (due 15/03/24) for the role of exhibitions, media, and arts reviews editor. The appointee will commission & edit reviews of creative works about London and be a member of the journal's editorial board. Full call here: thelondonjournal.org/LDN_EMARev_E...

Really pleased to announce the launch of a new version (9.0) of the Old Bailey Online oldbaileyonline.org. There is lots of new functionality, and a thoroughly redesigned front and back end.