Religious Archives Group

First woman appointed to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has been announced as the next Primate of All England

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post

#archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

What a great day @thelondonarchives.bsky.social for our #RAG2025 conference. Thanks to all the speakers and to everyone who came along.

If you're coming to our annual conference on archives digitisation today, you'll also get a chance to see this exhibition @thelondonarchives.bsky.social!

#RAG2025

To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs! Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Religious Archives Group Conference 2025 . Booking is now open for this year’s Religious Archives Group conference on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief.We will hear about three recent digitisation projects:Th...

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 our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

I cannot rate this exhibit highly enough. The St. Gallen manuscripts themselves are incredible, but the objects (the Lough Kinale Book-Shrine!) really contextualise the exhibit. And then there are interactive for children to learn more, which is such a brilliant touch. Truly something for everyone.

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

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Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk Join the BRA as we examine past, present and future risk to UK archives and discuss preservation strategies for the 21st century

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...

Join us to celebrate the launch of the essay volume ‘The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity’ at this free event on 4th August! For further info see: royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-l...
@aucpress.bsky.social

We're pleased to be joined by speakers from:
@thefreethinkermag.bsky.social
@uoyborthwick.bsky.social
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
and
the National Institute for Newman Studies

Religious Archives Group Conference 2025 . Booking is now open for this year’s Religious Archives Group conference on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief.We will hear about three recent digitisation projects:Th...

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-...

Books and museum items in a display case.

It's install week for #MagnaCarta1225 and an array of manuscripts, books and museum items are being readied ahead of next week's opening on Wednesday!

Every year the background for the EHS Committee group pic gets more impressive!
📍Edinburgh
#EHSCon25

On Tuesday join us on a massive monasticism fest on the #IMC2025. Four sessions packed with monastic goodness from South Asia to Gaul and from Nubia to Rome. Thirteen papers, four moderators, two organisers: it is the place to be for early medieval monasticism fans at the IMC!

A poster advertising the 'Wills Project Transcribathon' on Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter, and on zoom. The poster features black text on green and yellow backgrounds, and three images - a box of folded will manuscripts, an unfolded will manuscript, and the painting Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, Abbot Hall, 1607. Photo: Lakeland Arts.

Wow - so many people already signed up for our Wills Project Transcribathon later this month! 🙏

If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all.

In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography

Old St Paul’s cathedral, LPL MS 1106 f.96v

📢Attention Cathedrals!📢

Lambeth is opening a new programme to offer free cathedrals visits from our expert collections care team, to advise on a range of preservation issues.📚

More details here:

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/cathedral-li...

@englishcathedrals.co.uk

Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921 Sarah Roddy’s Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921, which is out in e-book format now and will be released imminently in hard copy by Cambridge University Press, examin…

I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

Our 'Creeds, Councils and Canons' conference is coming up soon and we welcome everyone to our final plenary lecture at New College, University of Edinburgh with Prof David Fergusson (Cambridge).

Register for the event here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/eccle...

In pictures: St Paul’s marks 350th anniversary with rare glimpse of its inner sanctum FT chief photographer was allowed unprecedented access to Wren masterpiece for a year to reveal unsung heroes who make the cathedral tick

Look at meeeee
www.ft.com/content/4d19...

A happy team at the end of #CALCA2025 conference in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social

Before travelling back to @westminsterabbey.bsky.social @salisburycathedral.bsky.social@durhamcathedral.bsky.social @lampallib.bsky.social @chestercathedral.bsky.social #Hereford #norwich #rochester #Windsor #Lismore

Promotional image advertising 'Wills Project Transcribathon, Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, Digital Humanities Lab University of Exeter and on Zoom. The image also features a portrait of a man making his will, a photo of a box of wills and a page of a will.

📢WILLS TRANSCRIBATHON KLAXON📢

Join us on Thursday 24 July to transcribe wills and go behind the scenes of the wills project!

In person and on Zoom - full details & registration here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #transcription @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

Today, as #InternationalPortraitDay, is a perfect opportunity to highlight our remarkable set of portraits of Deans from the 16th century onwards. 🎨🖌️

Learn more in this article by Cressida Williams, Archives and Library Manager: artuk.org/discover/sto...

Image © Canterbury Cathedral

I'm doing a webinar with @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social in July called "Atheism and Vegetarianism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Match Made in Heaven?"

Check it out!

Details here: freethinker.co.uk/2025/05/free...

The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee!

One of the longest running IHR seminars, we are also one of the few ECR-led.

If you are a PGR or ECR based in London, working on anything medieval, please do get in touch!

@ihr.bsky.social

It's the last week to grab tickets for our Summer Conference, 15-17 July in Edinburgh! Make sure to register for your spot before 20 June: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/25-26-summer...

Radical Writers: The Radical Hymns of Isaac Watts with Dr Daniel Johnson — Abney Park Isaac Watts (1674-1748) is remembered as one of Abney Park’s most famous connections, for his hymns – which are still sung to this day. In his lifetime, Watts’ hymns were highly controversial, marking...

abneypark.org/upcoming-eve...

June 26th, I’m speaking at Abney Park on the radical* aspects of Isaac Watts’ work

Tickets are on sale now, and if you’ve got time for a drink before or after, let me know

*in the fact that he was innovative and controversial, not radical in a technical sense

#ICYMI - this book, the latest from @vchlondon.bsky.social's successful Herefordshire project is out now!

Featuring eccentric Victorian churchmen, fornicating 14th century churchmen, complex and varied agriculture, scores of footnotes and Black Sabbath.

#NewBook #LocalHistory

This was a brilliant session. I learnt so much about how Catholic archives have(n’t) been curated & where to look for documents for place-based research. Hugely grateful to @catholicrs.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social & #LawrenceGregory for sharing their wisdom.