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...

I'm writing a book about an 1885 scandal where young girls were exploited and sold to rich men. If you want to hear about my research, as well as @carolinederry.bsky.social work on the case, join us at the Women's Library in October. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-london...

We now have the programme finalised for our conference in October Join us @thelondonarchives.bsky.social ‬to hear about #archives and #digitisation from @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social @uoyborthwick.bsky.social @wellcomecollection.bsky.social National Institute for Newman Studies t.co/Eu14sJM99C

Join us at our annual conference 'Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk'. Tuesday, November 4 10am – 4:30pm GMT at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6EL. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguardi...

Looking forward to #HeritageOpenDays later this month! Join us at the Miners' Hall, Barnsley, on 16-17 September - a fantastic opportunity to see inside the NUM & Yorkshire Miners' Association's historic home & find out more about the union archives www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-e...

Spending today and tomorrow @womenshistnet.bsky.social annual conference Fantastic welcoming keynote from the Women's Archive Wales @amc-waw.bsky.social - only 10 minutes in & they've ticked my first line of WHN Bingo with the first #HistNursing reference! 👋 to anyone else online #WHN25

The National HIV Story Trust has an exciting opportunity for someone to join the HIVstory project based at #TheLondonArchives on a paid archives placement. Full details on the role and how to apply are below 👇 #NHST #HIVstory #Archives www.nhst.org.uk/archive-plac...

Our annual conference this year is on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief. It's at The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social on 2 October, booking details below: #RAG2025 ticketlab.app/event/31944-...

The workshop was wonderful today. Must've been good because of all the people who stayed until the end despite the heat! Speakers were all amazing. We have plans afoot. Super grateful to have met @carolinederry.bsky.social who is as obsessed with 1885 as I am!

We are delighted to say that #SHSConf2025 was an immense success! Please read more about it here - and stay tuned for more information and announcements from the conference!✨ socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/10/s...

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025. 🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. 🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h... #WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

We can't wait to welcome all our attendees at #SHSConf2025 (this is our official hashtag for the event, please feel free to use it when posting!) ⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July 🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July ⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July

Have just received hard copies of my book from Cambridge UP. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...

This Salvation Army drum is on display in our Sargent Gallery, on top of a display case. #Bexhill #SallyArmy

Two great new books coming out later this year: #2 @jameskneale.bsky.social on 'Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918.' We're really looking forward to this book on Temperance Life Assurance companies. #temperance www.waterstones.com/book/tempera...

Two great new books coming out later this year: #1 @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social & Vicky Holmes' Objects of Poverty has an essay on Salvation Army social work tokens by Flore Janssen and Vicky's essay includes Salvation Army reuse of egg boxes in homeless shelters www.bloomsbury.com/uk/objects-o...

JOIN US on an #AccidentalJourney! We're going to #Llanelli, for the Railway Work, Life & Death project #Wales data launch, courtesy of Transport for Wales! On our journey, we'll live-post some of the historic railway worker accidents in the project database. #Railway200 /1

Of course my favourite representation of the drunkard's progress is this cracker, from (I think) the US in 1887

“Get rid of fashion”: Our Archivist, Ruth Macdonald, has written this article with Dr Flore Janssen ‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬ in the 'Journal of Historical Research in Marketing' exploring the marketing and retailing of clothing and uniform by The Salvation Army. doi.org/10.1108/JHRM...

Entry to the 2025 @britrecs.bsky.social Janette Harley Prize is now open. £500 prize for the best/most original piece of work published or made publicly available which has promoted the preservation, understanding, accessibility or study of archives Deadline: 31 July 2025. More details 👇

We are advertising for a Public Engagement Fellow for our AHRC funded project: 'The Victorian hand: Emotion, Embodiment, and identity, past and present'. 1/2 ual.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews

Founded in 1896, the International Transport Workers' Association's members were themselves international Campaigns for workers' rights soon crossed borders, with the 1906 wave of dock strikes seeing organisation in multiple countries (& languages) to match the international nature of the trade...

Happy International Archives Day! Mental health was something not spoken about for hundreds of years. In our archives are what remains of the stories and voices of people who were not heard in their lifetime, like this page from one of our casebooks. #InternationalArchivesDay #mentalhealthhistory

📣Registration is still open for ‘Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future’. Check out our exciting programme below! Join us in person or online. Registration is FREE but essential. ⏰2-3 July 2025 🏛️University of Birmingham / online 👉Register here by Monday 2nd June: forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ

📢Job Alert!📢 Our AHRC-funded Victorian Hand project is looking for a 3-year, full-time Public Engagment Fellow, based at the London College of Fashion, to join our team & help deliver our programme of activities. This amazing opportunity closes on 24 June so please spread the word far & wide!

Join our Director at this online workshop on 11 July run by the Open University on the impact of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. Steven will be speaking about the politics of W T Stead’s 'Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon' articles. It looks like a great line up!

It's #WorldBicycleDay! Penny farthing race anyone? This is John Freeland Fergus (pictured on the bike), former president of our College, and his brother Edward Oswald, dental surgeon. The photo was taken c.1885. Both brothers represented Scotland in penny farthing cycling.

#WorldBicycleDay The Salvation Army saw the potential of bicycles to spread the gospel in the 1880s and set up the Iron Horse Artillery. Evangelical Cycle Brigades followed in the 1890s.

On #WorldBicycleDay we celebrate the many types of bicycles and cyclists. These cycling postcards and greetings cards from the 1870s-1930s form part of The National Cycle Archive. The NCA was established in 1990 and has over 7000 items and counting.... mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

Penny farthing cyclists in costume at The Woodford Meet, probably early 1900s. This was an annual cycle parade from 1882-c.1893 & 1898-1914, with cyclists in fancy dress from 1898. A very popular event, it raised funds for local hospitals. The parade route terminated in Chingford. #WorldBicycleDay

Between 2023 and 2025 a West Sussex Records Office project, funded by Annabels Foundation, surveyed HIV and AIDS archives in England and Wales; both those held by archival repositories and those still in private hands. The project report has been completed and is now available to view or download 👇

📯NEW BLOG POST📯 Read about the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland in 1914, the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history. 1,012 people lost their lives amongst them 171 Salvationists, bound for the fourth Salvation Army International Congress www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

Delighted to see @drinkingstudies.bsky.social stalwart David Beckingham explaining Victorian/Edwardian laws on licensing and drunkenness to Ross Kemp on 'Who Do You Think You Are?' Ross's story further strengthened my belief that drink runs through many family histories, not always in a good way..

We're making the most of being in Belgium #frites

Unfortunately, the Heritage Centre will be closed on Wednesday 28 May. We apologise for any inconvenience.

We're looking forward to going to Brussels for the event run by Daniel Laqua and @profginab.bsky.social with the Union of International Associations on “Preserving and Conserving the Documentary Heritage of International Associations”. It looks like they have some interesting sessions lined up!