Katie Hall

There is a female arm wearing a Victorian style sleeve in the top left hand corner and a hand in the bottom right hand corner wearing a surgical glove. Each hand is holding a white square with black text on it which reads "New Temporary Exhibition A Fair Field and No Favour: The History of Women in Surgery opens Saturday the 5th of April 2025". The background is dark blue.

There is just one week left to view our current temporary exhibition 'A Fair Field and No Favour: The History of Women in Surgery'.

If you can't see it in person, the exhibition is available on our free digital guide: guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/...

Today we are launching the 2026 SHP Summer Conference, which will be taking place July 10-12 at Leeds Trinity. This year, due to the huge increase in proposals for workshops, we have extended our offer to 46 wonderful workshops for primary and secondary teachers of history (see below for a taster!

What a treat 😉🤓

And relentless 🙃 but I bet you’re doing a better job than you think you are ☺️

Front page of Royal Historical Society blog post with image of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, photograph by Rudolph Simon, 2013, Wilkimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Text reads: "On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory' and abstract: In this post, Andy Pearce – Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL – considers the current levels of knowledge of the Holocaust among UK secondary school students. UCL studies, in 2016 and 2026, reveal a troubling and enduring divergence between popular understandings of the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe, in the 1930s and 1940s, and the findings of scholarly historical research. 27 January 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain. As Andy argues, prevalent and popular misperceptions risk being sustained if the Holocaust becomes a subject for remembrance and memory, rather than of history and historical scholarship. It is only though ‘more history’, shared widely and publicly, that we may seek to redress error, distortion and denial."

"On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory" bit.ly/4t6wPx6

Dr Andy Pearce, Director of @uclholocaust.bsky.social, writes today on the RHS blog.

#Skystorians

Stoke-on-Trent's railway staff - Railway Work, Life & Death A mini-project for Railway 200, working with New Vic Borderlines to bring Stoke-on-Trent's past railway workers into the present!

#ICYMI we've been doing some work on Stoke-on-Trent & surrounds!

#Staffordshire #LocalHistory #RailwayHistory

Part of New Vic Borderlines 'Tracks through Time' project, we've researched some railway staff life stories - read them here:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/stoke-on-tre...

You know who”stayed a little back” in VIetnam? DJT.

Key point from Fiona Hill at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk event this evening about the Trump presidency, both domestic and foreign: “This is not a normal time and we should not rationalise and analyse this into normalcy”

Reform have recruited which means they don’t get to murder tonight

Phew

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Dr Mike Esbester – People make the railway University of Portsmouth historian Dr Mike Esbester draws on the Railway Work, Life & Death project to look at the accidents railway workers had before the Second World War, and find out more about…

In case you need a final bit of #Railway200 listening in 2025, why not check our Railway Work, Life & Death project contribution to the Great Rail Tales podcast?

Hear co-lead Mike discuss the project & staff safety on the railway in the past:

We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

Perfect precision! 🤓

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Oh I need to go and get one of those totes 🤓

I’ve had another great year meeting AQA teachers and stakeholders across the country. Thanks for all that you do for History and Politics - see you in 2026 🥳

This is bloated for a social media post but fairly concise if you need a passage to explain to someone how to read between the lines of an unreliable narrator.

GCSE History 2050…

Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten

in 1st century Judea, the corners of every field had to be left for the poor to pick crops for themselves, every seventh year *all* of the crops from fields and vineyards and orchards belonged to the poor, and all debts of all types were cancelled every 50th year.

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

Why do we have an annual (at minimum) Finance Bill? This is why

Illustration of a man with his head resting on his arm. The scalp has been peeled back to reveal the brain

Born #OnThisDay 1774, Charles Bell, Scottish surgeon, anatomist and talented artist. This stunning illustration by Bell was based on his own dissection work. Bell is perhaps best remembered for describing "Bell's Palsy".
#OTD #anatomy #histmed

I reckon a reasonable test of someone’s patriotism might be if they want to see the end of an historic national institution that is trusted and respected worldwide because they don’t like everything that institution does.

Like seeing you’re teacher in a pub

This is tomorrow for anyone interested. Recordings of the others also available.

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

Are we getting one tonight for week 3???

Joseph Goebbels once explained that the long-term mission of the Nazis was to "erase 1789 from history".

And here we are.