The stonking great font at St. Andrew's, #Wroxeter - made from an upturned Roman column base. One of many pieces of re-used stone in a remarkable church. (A look around it adds a lot to a visit to the nearby 'Roman City' site.)
#FontsOnFriday #Shropshire #ChurchCrawling #RomanBritain
📷 My own
This #NewAccession is a little more complicated to catalogue than most. Our archivists will be getting out their university training notes to catalogue the oldest of these deeds and identifying their connection to each other might be even harder!
#archives #17thCentury
Would you or one of your service users/stakeholders relish the opportunity to join an ambitious, friendly network, helping to shape the future direction of #ArchivesWM, supporting #archive services across the West Midlands? The Board has 3 trustee vacancies from September 2026 - to learn more 👇
Tickets are selling nicely - 8 weeks to go if you're able to get to Coventry on the 3rd May for my first public history lecture! 🙂
stmarysguildhall-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
... and in Jennifer Aston's prize winning essay on female business owners in late nineteenth-century Birmingham 👇
Check out our archive for these and many more histories of women in the Midlands.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
... in Diane Strange's work on how widows had to fight for custody of their children in the early 17th century 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#InternationalWomensDay may have come and gone in 2026, but you can read about some of our extraordinary ancestresses in Midlands History all year round...
... like Anna Muggeridge's article on women's experiences of local government in Worcester 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In March, the Society opens the following four calls for research funding - for historians in HE and related professional sectors across all career stages.
Further details on dates and eligibility are available here: bit.ly/46IGRuH #Skystorians
We're delighted to loan Matthew Paris's (d.1259) 'Chronica Majora' to Lincoln Castle exhibition
See the Siege of Lincoln in 1217 displayed along with Magna Carta - visit these two stars while you can!
www.lincolncastle.com/events/event...
CCCC MS 16ii, ff. 55v-56r
tinyurl.com/mre3xwp4
#MedievalMSS
Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June?
Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March!
clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Consider submitting a proposal for this upcoming hybrid conference on Archives and Ethics! Experts from all fields are welcome! padlet.com/dturner2_23/... @astonuniversity.bsky.social @astonpress.bsky.social
#Skystorians - New to medieval and early modern #Palaeography? Looking to improve your skills? Then the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School - to be held in #Birmingham (rather that Keele, as previously), might just be for you.
Please share widely.
History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’
with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela
18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury
More info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
@jessicareinisch.bsky.social
Dr. Nat Alcock will be discussing The Stratfire Project via Zoom for us on Friday. The project involves the combination of building recording, tree-ring dating and documentary research on historic buildings in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. More info here: www.sahs.uk.net/event-sahs-d...
For #ShropshireDay we are sharing some of research on MPs connected with Shropshire constituencies in the 19th century. First, we have the Wenlock MP Cecil Weld Forester, who became involved in the murky world of electoral corruption: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/t...
I've recently finished indexing 'Little Malvern Letters Vol. II' for @catholicrs.bsky.social (out in June), which was the last book edited by the late Michael Hodgetts boydellandbrewer.com/book/little-...
Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026
(Please share widely)
sslh.org.uk/2026/02/19/l...
#ICYMI: Join the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology for the Lincolnshire Churches Conference on Saturday 18 April!
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-l...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
We have planned an excursion on Thursday 5th March at 9:45am to the churches at Tong and Claverley in Shropshire. Led by Dr John Hunt our president, we will also have lunch in the Crown Inn at Claverley. The cost is £17.50 and includes tea/coffee/cake. For more info contact: richard.totty4@gmail.com
18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP
Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026.
Please see the poster for further information!
Did you know you can choose to publish #openaccess with Midland History 📖
Read open access articles on early modern printing by Caroline Archer-Parré and Victorian furniture trends by Roseanna Romaine Smith in our latest special issue on the Midlands Metal Trades 👇
tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/50/3
Fellowship Opportunity!
Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History
University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...
It's #DarwinDay!
We've oodles of things to explore all things Darwin:
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
But a great place to start, with all sorts of exciting extras, is the Darwin Correspondence Project:
darwinproject.ac.uk
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin! Looking good for 217!
We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up!
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
📍 The London Archives
📅 1 April + 3 June
🕛️ 1-4:30pm
#BirminghamHistory a new addition to Preservica Universal Access is a cine film of 1930s Moseley by Dr Colin Bradsworth - founder member of the Birmingham Clarion Singers who was a medical officer during the Spanish Civil War: tinyurl.com/MS-5210-Mose... Ref: MS 5210 #LibraryofBham
From Roman forts in Rutland to brutalism in Bedfordshire, nobility in Nottinghamshire to workers in Warwickshire
Whatever your interests in the English Midlands we want to hear from you
Submit an article to Midland History and bring your research to the world 👇
tandfonline.com/journals/ymdh20
Just one week left to apply for this fascinating PhD project combining botany, heritage, and technology 🪴
#ICYMI earlier this week, Robin Eagles posted the latest short piece for the Georgian Lords considering the unpleasant affair of Franklin, the college servant, who may have been murdered by one or more Oxford students, one of them later an active member of the House of Lords...
#HistParl
Call for Papers: Revolt of the Provinces? A Conference at the National Civil War Centre in Newark exploring the local impact and legacies of the ‘English’ Civil War(s). Organised by The Lincoln Record Society. Please share! #cfp #earlymodern royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the...
Research day at Staffordshire History Centre and enjoying their Twenties Takeover exhibit containing flapper fashions, Smethwick-based Ruskin Ware ceramics, and even a Charleston how-to guide.
