Craig Spence

The Bills of Mortality & Sudden Violent Death A critically curious reflection on occurrences of sudden violent death in early modern London

New Bills of Mortality blog post - 'I am "fully persuaded that many lives would be saved": Children falling from windows then and now' billsofmortality.org
With some comparative historical thoughts on the recently published report from the UK's National Child Mortality Database

The ‘Sinners’ Movie Syllabus - AAIHS The 'Sinners' Movie Syllabus is a curated educational resource inspired by the 2025 film 'Sinners,' directed by Ryan Coogler. This syllabus delves into the multifaceted historical, cultural, and socia...

Wow! #Sinners www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-...

Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...

If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense) then please sign this open letter I and others have put together to UK Archaeological associations to urge overt and resolute solidarity with trans archaeologists, and the wider trans community

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Explosion at West Cannock No. 5 A display case in the mining gallery contains an unassuming little letter. It was sent to Percy Stanley by the management of West Cannock Colliery Company in 1933, thanking him for his rescue durin…

I was cataloguing and found this great backstory about an object and wrote a quick blog.

The museum is up for closure, so I want to get some of the stories out there.

It’s not just a piece of paper, it tells the story of our community.

museumofcannockchaseblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/e...

Ben Aaronovitch has tackled 'Black Mould' in a Rivers of London comic-book, you are not alone

Hi, certainly has been, but we keep on keeping on!

Welcome aboard Mike!

It's just a mention really but I couldn't resist the opportunity to 'copy' and reprint it, I suppose that makes it a reuse, of a reuse, of a reuse ...

I used that very pamphlet image in my chapter in Ferlier & Miyamoto's 'Forms, Formats & Circulation of Knowledge' volume (Brill, 2020) as an example of the copying/piracy question, my main focus was reuse of the Bills of Mortality

Happy to be added into this, thanks

Happy to be added in, thanks

I think that would help but not solve the problem as with each increase landlords simply increase their rents to match. Some form of rent control is I think the only answer.

On an archaeological dig in Lincoln in 2012 we found a Tazzos promotional crisp packet from the backfill of a previous excavation that took place in 1995. It's now on display in the uni with others from an even earlier dig on the same site in the 1970s!

Trouble was the dealer in question was at the other end of the country. So yes currently in storage and costing us money. And dont even get me started on his paintings...

Exactly that, even coming up with a broad estimate so I could sensibly talk to dealers took significant time. Yes one or two have some real value, but they are still not super rare so the time needed to sell them, well I simply don't have it.

It's a difficult thing. I've tried to sell my father's books, he was an artist. I estimate they are worth at least 2-3k but the only dealer interested offered £250, if I delivered them. We've decided to put book plates in them & randomly leave them in cafes etc rather than skip them