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Liberation 1945 – As it Happened Channel Islands

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Liberation 1945 – As it Happened
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Liberation 1945 – As it Happened Channel Islands

Liberation 1945 – As it Happened. Could you imagine how the events leading up to, and the eventual Liberation of Jersey and Guernsey in May 1945 would have been ‘reported’ on social media? Liberation 1945 – As It Happened showed how it might have been. howtohistory.substack.com/p/liberation...

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. The poster text reads: ' - Transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers, - Learn more about English wills from 1540-1790 during talks from the experts, - Share & discuss interesting discoveries, - Attend for all or part of the event, - Contribute to academic research & help make these remarkable documents more accessible for all'. Details of the event can be found at this address: https://willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

There's still time to sign up for our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon, this Thurs 24 July, 1-4pm BST:
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 📅🕐

Join us online or in person in Exeter & help us transcribe early modern wills 📜✍️

We'll email registered attendees with joining info in the next 2 days 💻

Recent articles on How-to History are on Trade Tokens, Leases, Pub Signs and Lascars. Read these and all our posts for free: howtohistory.substack.com

Recent articles on How-to History are on Trade Tokens, Leases, Pub Signs and Lascars. Read these and all our posts for free: howtohistory.substack.com

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Lascars, by Shagnick Bhattacharya. A lascar was a seaman of mostly South Asian origin. Described as the first proper ‘globalised workforce’, lascars made the inter-oceanic commerce of the British Empire possible. howtohistory.substack.com/p/lascars

Lascars, by Shagnick Bhattacharya. A lascar was a seaman of mostly South Asian origin. Described as the first proper ‘globalised workforce’, lascars made the inter-oceanic commerce of the British Empire possible. howtohistory.substack.com/p/lascars

Thank you to everyone who has read and shared How-to History. We are now at around 100 posts and over 2,500 followers. We want to continue delivering in a manageable way, given time constraints on the editors, and so are moving to monthly publication. howtohistory.substack.com/p/moving-mon...

How-to History explains events, concepts, sources and share thoughts on researching, writing and teaching history. Each ‘How-to’ is a short guide which directs you to further resources. howtohistory.substack.com

How-to History explains events, concepts, sources and share thoughts on researching, writing and teaching history. Each ‘How-to’ is a short guide which directs you to further resources. howtohistory.substack.com

Images of six Camden Society volumes published by the Royal Historical Society.

The Society's Camden series is a collection of 385 volumes of primary sources, edited by specialist historians.

Forthcoming volumes, published this summer, include the 'Papers of Admiral George Grey' and the 'Holograph Letters Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots' bit.ly/4jUHWnF #Skystorians

Pub names and signs Britain

Pub names and signs, by Joe Saunders. In more illiterate times tradesmen advertised their business by hanging a sign outside their premises. Pubs names and hanging signs continue to enable identification and differentiation. howtohistory.substack.com/p/pub-names-...

Recent How-to posts are on the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, Microfilm, the History of Parliament project, and Rate Books. Read all our posts here: howtohistory.substack.com

Railway 200, by Joe Saunders. A year-long, nationwide campaign to celebrate two centuries of the modern railway. A wide variety of activities and events are planned to celebrate the history of rail. #Railway200 howtohistory.substack.com/p/railway-200

Railway 200, by Joe Saunders. A year-long, nationwide campaign to celebrate two centuries of the modern railway. A wide variety of activities and events are planned to celebrate the history of rail. #Railway200 howtohistory.substack.com/p/railway-200

Trade Tokens, by Anna Cusack, ‘Between about 1648 and 1673, almost no small-value coins were minted by the government’. The wealthy could use credit but everyone else who needed to do business began to rely on trade tokens. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens

Trade Tokens England

A few years ago Baltimore, Md., merchants launched Bnotes -- currency for buying from local shops and restaurants. @howtohistory.bsky.social @annacusack.bsky.social show how local trade tokens have substituted for sovereign currency for a long time. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens

Oh very interesting to see the regional differences.

Wrote a very brief rough info piece about trade tokens. #earlymodern

Trade Tokens, by Anna Cusack, ‘Between about 1648 and 1673, almost no small-value coins were minted by the government’. The wealthy could use credit but everyone else who needed to do business began to rely on trade tokens. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens

Pub names and signs Britain

Pub names and signs, by Joe Saunders. In more illiterate times tradesmen advertised their business by hanging a sign outside their premises. Pubs names and hanging signs continue to enable identification and differentiation. howtohistory.substack.com/p/pub-names-...

Recent How-to posts are on the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, Microfilm, the History of Parliament project, and Rate Books. Read all our posts here: howtohistory.substack.com

Black and white photo of a two-storey, four-bay farmhouse with lime-washed walls, a tiled roof, and single large chimney stack. It is set back from a wide opening in a stone wall. Parts of other buildings can be seen on both left and right.

Preserving a photograph collection for the future🔗 on the #Essex Record Office blog describes how a collection of photos of local churches and buildings, taken between 1920 and 1950, has been re-housed and listed to item level. A great resource for #LocalHistory and #HouseHistory! #OnePlaceWednesday

1920s photograph, showing an old track worker, holding a shovel, stood between two railway lines, with hut and signals in the background. Caption reads ‘A veteran permanent-way man’.

200 for #Railway200 - a new thread!

We're 200 days out from the 200th anniversary of the 1st passenger journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway, on 27 September 1825.

To mark it, we'll post a person a day from the Railway Work, Life & Death project's research.

Sharing this for #GenHour in case anyone is interested to check out our blog.

Happening this week! Resources for Researchers with @histparl.bsky.social #Online
Although a focus on the Midlands it will be useful for all researchers. Everyone Welcome!
Please share @sslh.bsky.social @bho.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social

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'Leases'

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