History in the making… 25th February marks 68 years since the founding of the Vic Soc. #onthisday in 1958, Lady Rosse, John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were amongst the founding members of the Society for the preservation and appreciation of Victorian & Edwardian heritage, architecture and arts.

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

📣Bookings now open! 👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor 📅 24 Apr 2026 💷 from £10 for members All welcome! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

We’ve published a new collection of case studies showcasing the value and impact of charity archives: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... Includes contributions from practitioners and organisations working across the archive and voluntary sectors! (1/2) 📷British Red Cross Museum and Archive

📣Apply for Small Grants Funding! Are you looking to conduct research into social or cultural history? Do you need support with archival visits, organising a conference, or buying specialist equipment? ⏰Our next funding deadline is 1 March socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...

The Heritage Centre recently received this donations envelope from the 1946 Self-Denial fundraising appeal. It was found in someone's house and still has a coin inside (we haven't opened it!), so the donation clearly never made it to us. Better late than never!

📢 Our newest exhibition, Primate of All England: The Archbishop of Canterbury Through Time, is now officially open! Come along and find out more about the historic role and responsibilities of the Archbishop of Canterbury through rarely-seen artefacts and archive material.

Working with records of traumatic histories Wed, 25 Feb | 13:00 GMT | Online 🎤 Eliza McKee, @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy 🎤 Hari Jonkers, @holocaustnorth.bsky.social 🎤 Gillian Boll and Malcolm Mathieson, @amnestyuk.bsky.social Info and registration here: shorturl.at/jAfJO

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This collection of architectural plans is still bringing up some treasures: Edinburgh Women's Hostel, 1912 East Dereham corps hall, 1929 Hillingdon corps hall, 1966

Good story about UK temperance here, featuring the ever-brilliant Dr Annemarie McAllister, plus Fran Robinson of the Livesey Collection at the University of Central Lancashire, the most important British temperance collection... (h/t @addiebabe.bsky.social) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (1/3)

It's great to see so much media coverage around Andrew Davison's new book on the built heritage of the temperance movement. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Temperance is often treated as a footnote, but in Victorian Britain it was a mass movement. Millions pledged abstinence and reshaped London with alcohol-free spaces - a hidden history still standing today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You wait several years for a book on British temperance history and two come along almost at once! I'm a big fan of Andrew Davison's work, so I'm pleased to see his book on temperance buildings published by Liverpool University Press. Looking forward to reading it heritagecalling.com/2026/01/08/t...

Reminder to anyone who's interested that the deadline for our collaborative PhD with @qubhistory.bsky.social, on the Salvation Army Rescue Home in Belfast, is this coming Tuesday.

@capelicymru.bsky.social is the Royal Commission’s exciting new project to understand, document, and respond to the growing loss of Wales’ Nonconformist heritage. Follow their Bluesky page for project updates.

20 days to go to send us your abstracts on coal, community, health and welfare! Join us in June for a one day event at the University of Warwick, including NUM archive content. #CfP

Researching for a Christmas walk in Spitalfields led me to discover that in the early 1900s via a @mirror.co.uk charity appeal a men’s hostel in Quaker St was known as The Palace of Pudding. Thanks to @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social and #BritishNewspaperArchive westminsterwalks.london/the-palace-o...

This 👇 fascinating blog post from @lucybrewer.bsky.social is about our women's social work records. Lucy was an intern from the excellent MA in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck.

Today's featured title: “Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism,” by Rebecca Carter-Chand, University of Wisconsin Press, 2025 @uwiscpress.bsky.social uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chri...

Reminder that there's still a month to apply for our collaborative PhD on the Belfast rescue home with @qubhistory.bsky.social and @elainefarrell.bsky.social . www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

#CfP Call for Papers Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick: Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026 Submit to [email protected]

And the deadline for our next round of By-Fellowship applications is 31st December. We offer 3 Archives By-Fellowships each year for researchers engaged in academic projects at a post-doctoral level or above. ➡️ Find out more and apply, click here: buff.ly/HbNqCbd

Victorian teetotalers, life insurance & health: Dr @jameskneale.bsky.social’s Temperance Lives shows how insurers shaped drinking habits 🏛️💼🍷. Read more 👇 tinyurl.com/ucl-temp #UCLGeography #VictorianBritain #Temperance #LifeAssurance #History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary! We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands. 📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe... #CFP 🗃️

Please note that the International Heritage Centre will be closed on the following dates. Tues 2 December 2025 Tues 9 December 2025 20 December 2025-5 January 2026 We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve... #histmed #histnursing join us

Do you work on #domesticabuse #divorce #economicabuse #childcustody in the third sector/policy? Then we have the workshop for you! 'Archives to Action' is a free 1-day workshop exploring the important role archival research can play in policy reform. Details 👇 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

#HistNursing next week's event! Looking forward to seeing people inperson

📣Calling archivists, researchers & heritage professionals! Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)

You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.

We're very excited to announce our collaborative PhD with @qubhistory.bsky.social on the residents of The Salvation Army's Bethel Rescue Home in Belfast in the C19th. Supervised by @elainefarrell.bsky.social (@badbridgetbook.bsky.social) Applications by 13 Jan 2026. www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

I have been trying to trace the parents of an exploited girl from 1885. She was born in Dublin and I had some info thanks to @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social I was just about to give up, as the Irish records are so patchy, when I had a breakthrough! Both #researchthrills and #sadstory. #academicsky

"Remember Trafalgar Square" Exactly a week later, on 20 November 1887, a second protest took place in London - with fatal consequences William Morris & Walter Crane combined to publish 'A Death Song', a fundraiser in aid of the children of young clerk Alfred Linnell

Out today (ebook version)! jameskneale.com/2025/11/13/t...

We're very excited to see this new book about W T Stead from Philip March that arrived in the post today! It draws on research including archives and publication about Stead that we hold.

If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

We know that we're a bit late in promoting this, but we had a new blog for #BlackHistoryMonth that looked at some early black British Salvationists. www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

The @britrecs.bsky.social conference, on Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk is next week.

On 28 October, Dr Mari Takayanagi will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where she will be presenting on 'The Speakers and the Suffragettes'. Find out more about the paper and how to attend below: historyofparliament.com/2025/10/21/t...

Please note that the International Heritage Centre will be closed on the following dates. 21 October 2025 20 December 2025-5 January 2026 We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Read our latest guest blog by Dr Gordon Cox on Brigadier Richard Slater: The Salvation Army's ‘Song Writer Number One’ www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions. 📅What's on📅 👤Chat with staff! 📚Book a Library tour! 🕰Enjoy our collections! 🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector! 🎶Explore our current exhibition

Happy National Sporting Heritage Day - we hold the National Cycling Archive - a treasure trove of resources on the history of cycling, including the pioneering women cyclists of the late nineteenth century explore more here: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #NSHD #cycling #sport 🚴‍♀️

Read our new blog post on Salvation Army District Midwives in east London (and beyond). #histnursing www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

There is just a week left to book your place for this year’s Religious Archives Group conference on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief The one-day in-person conference will take place on 2 October at The London Archives To book, please visit: ticketlab.app/event/31944-...

And also the hall at Harlow New Town, William Charles, Salvation Army Architects Department, 1962

We've had a huge accession of Salvation Army architectural plans covering the whole of the UK. Here are some lovely plans from the new hall at Hendon, designed in 1957 by C Wycliffe Noble

Our friends at the British Library have asked us to share details of this year's Panizzi Lectures: events.bl.uk/events/books...