Dr David Barton

The final sunset of 2025 ✨

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✨ As we approach the shortest day, the skies seem to become all the more spectacular - a reminder that the light remains, and the light in all its fullness will return.

It might be nearly Christmas, but whatever the time of year, it’s always a season for chocolate brownies - even more so if they are decadently gooey and fudgy in the middle!

Do you agree?

We are ready 🎶
The soloists are ready 🎤
The wine and mince pies are ready 🍷🥧
Are you ready to come and join us on Saturday for a celebration of Saint Nicholas? If so, get your tickets using the link below!
www.cbcplatform.org/dbpage.php?p...

Why not buy a gift of membership for someone interested in the Huguenots this year? Just go to our website

www.huguenotsociety.org.uk

to download a form from the ‘About the Society’ page and submit it for someone on your gift list.
#skystorians #huguenots

A very worthy and long overdue recipient; congratulations, Sir John Rutter! 🥂

I’d love to say we came to welcome HM King to Lichfield, but in truth, we’d just come for the 10:39 to Sutton Coldfield 😂 Well timed! 🙌 He gave us a wave and a smile too - not bad considering we probably look like we’ve been through a hedge backwards 💨😂

Sheet Music Downloads from Carl Fischer & Theodore Presser are now available!

🔎 Explore here:
https://tinyurl.com/3e4v6ur3

IHGS has shaped my own #genealogy journey, if you’re at The Family History Show in London on 4th October, make sure to stop by their stand! #OnePlaceWednesday

A collage showing an array of vibrant images from recent RPS Awards, including: violinist Nicola Benedetti and Ashby Mayes take a selfie; Jasdeep Singh Degun playing sitar; tenor Nicky Spence performing; 2025 hosts Jess Gillam and Tom McKinney; a diverse range of guests and shortlistees interacting and enjoying themselves dressed in celebratory style.

Nominations for the 2026 #RPSAwards have now closed. Huge thanks to RPS Members and colleagues across the classical music profession who have shared their favourites with us! Stay tuned for shortlists, and join us at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social on 12 March to discover the winners!

Image of 'Trust me, I'm a Historian' badges and text: 'Postgraduate Membership of the Royal Historical Society. Applications invited for next closing dates of 13 October and 15 December 2025'.

If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck

Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

Campaigners get green light for legal challenge against Barbican demolition Campaigners get green light for legal challenge against Barbican demolition

Campaigners fighting Sheppard Robson and Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s plans to redevelop an area on the edge of the Barbican Estate have won permission to proceed with a legal challenge that claims alternatives to demolition were overlooked

The Lovell Health House, Los Angeles - Richard Neutra (1927-30) Image © Zachary Gray

EVENT: Join C20 for the launch of a major new book
on Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House in Los Angeles (1927-30); a masterpiece of the international modernist movement and cinematic star of ‘L.A. Confidential’.

🗓️ Wed 15 Oct 2025, 6.30pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ c20society.org.uk/events

Photo of a large group of people in waterproof clothing gathered around a speaker at an outdoor archaeological site

For over 240 years, our Fellows have used the post-nominals FSAScot to identify themselves as part of Scotland's oldest antiquarian society.

If you would like to become a Fellow in 2025 and help play an active role in safeguarding Scotland’s past, apply before 30 September: www.socantscot.org/join/

Victorian and Edwardian Childhood and Education 1820-1920. This course will explore childhood and education throughout the Victorian and Edwardian eras in England and Wales, a period spanning one hundred years of considerable social change. www.pharostutors.com/details.php?...

🌳 Have you traced your family tree as far back as the 17th century? Few records survive from that period - but some do remain, and can even be found online. Find out more with our guide:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Image of badges with caption: 'I know the value of history', plus text: We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship. Fellowship recognises the scholarly contribution of historians working in all sectors of professional history or as independent scholars. Next closing dates: 13 October and 15 December 2025

Fellows of the Society are recognised for their contribution to historical understanding and knowledge.

We welcome invitations to join the Fellowship at any time from historians working in Higher Education and other sectors, as well as independent researchers bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

All About That Place. Day 1: Introduction. Day 2: Health & Medicine. Day 3: Military and War. Day 4: Leisure and Entertainment. Day 5: Town and Country. Day 6: Innovation. Day 7: Politics and Rights. Day 8: Tools. Day 9: Collections & Archives. Day 10: Sharing Your Findings. Images: Logos of the Society of Genealogists, the Society for One-Place Studies, Project Kin, and the British Association for Local History. #AATP25. 24 September to 3 October 2025.

#AATP25 is very much *not* the event in its usual format, more a look back at some of the fab things from the two events held so far—with a theme for each day. 👇🏻 However, @projectkin.bsky.social and ourselves will be contributing new material: keep your eyes peeled for details! #OnePlaceWednesday

Feeling scattered with your DNA results?
Skip random videos—join the DNA Study Group:
✔️ 2 live expert sessions/month
✔️ Supportive community
✔️ Core lessons + handouts

Enroll by Sept 30 for bonus planner + welcome party!

Make your research organized + supported—join today! hubs.la/Q03K2tvf0

18th-century ships with full sails anchored near a shore where men unload barrels and greet each other by a cliffside fort. In the bottom right of the image, the purchase of an enslaved person can be seen.

Join us on 15th October for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall.' The work uses the story of the Drax family's history as enslavers in Barbados as a microcosm of Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...

First page of new TRHS article: 'Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography' Abstract in full ‘Us and Them’ is a community history project and artistic collaboration exploring physical and intellectual disability and mental illness, in the past and present. It is part of a broader initiative to open out wider conversations about the history of psychiatric care in Epsom (Surrey, UK) and to explore ways in which medical histories, creative engagement strategies and oral history praxis can illuminate the instability of contemporary understandings of ‘healthy minds’ and ‘normative bodies’. This article charts our recent reuse of asylum photography and the restaging of wet-plate collodion portrait making, opening out key ethical questions about our complicity as consumers of historical sources, the role of re-enactment and empathy, and the place of the haptic and the ludic in exposing the porous and precarious boundaries between ableism and disability. Exploring our own vulnerabilities and solidarities in co-producing a public history project with our disabled artist collaborators, it offers insight into our evolving ‘micro ethics’, foregrounds lived experience perspectives, and offers some initial thoughts on ways to rethink critically some core tenets of oral history methodology.

New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

"Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f

#Skystorians 1/2

Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum

The report featured in the Guardian today on the inclusion of women in hustory lessons is really important - lets make women’s voices heard and their actions remembered. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

A celebratory evening marking the publication of the 250th Big Red Book of #local & #place based #history from @vch-home.bsky.social: Westmorland vol 1, from VCH Cumbria (Cumbria County History Trust). Many congratulations to Sarah Rose and her colleagues, and to all the local contributors involved.

Promotional image for an online book talk titled 'After Disruption.' Left side shows portraits of Trevor Owens and Shannon Mattern with text: 'After Disruption Book Talk, with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.' Center panel reads: 'September 25th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, Online. Join us for a book talk with Trevor Owens, author of After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, in conversation with Shannon Mattern, as they explore how libraries, archives, and museums can reclaim their role in shaping a just and sustainable digital present.' Logos of Internet Archive and Authors Alliance appear at the bottom. Right side shows the book cover for 'After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory' by Trevor Owens, featuring a photo of a grand library entrance.

We’re not just planning for a digital future: we’re living in a digital present. How do we make a sustainable cultural memory?

@TJOwens.bsky.social & @ShannonMattern.bsky.social discuss in the #booktalk AFTER DISRUPTION.

🗓 Thurs Sept 25
🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...

On the #AATP25 Day 1 theme of introductions, welcomes, and getting started with #OnePlaceStudies and place-based #FamilyHistory, be sure to check out on our website:

✦ About us (the Society for One-Place Studies)
✦ What is a One-Place Study?
✦ A guide to one-place studies (PDF)

#OnePlaceWednesday

A map, in colour, depicting a town with its streets and buildings, church, moated castle, rivers and surrounding field. Superimposed are the words "Maps for Genealogists, with expert speaker."

A course from the Society of Genealogists that may be of interest to #OnePlaceStudy people is Maps for Genealogists. Four 1-hour sessions over four weeks, on Monday evenings from 20th October. £50, with a discount for SoG members. #OnePlaceWednesday

All About That Place. Image: The title slide for a YouTube video presentation, "One-Place Studies" by Liz Craig. youtube.com/@oneplacestudies/videos Images: logos of the Society of Genealogists, the Society for One-Place Studies, Project Kin, and the British Association for Local History. #AATP25

We promised some new material from us for #AATP25, and the first video is now live on our #OnePlaceStudies YouTube channel! Check out Mini-AATP - Welcome and getting started presented by @willsmanonename.bsky.social Liz Craig on this wonderful #OnePlaceWednesday

Exciting times! We have now sold 62% of our tickets for this concert & there’s still just over 7 weeks to go…so the message is:

Don’t delay, get YOUR tickets today!

We’d love you to experience this tribal-choral masterpiece encompassing a thrilling setting of the Latin Mass.

Floella Benjamin is 76 today, Happy Birthday Floella, I hope you are having a wonderful day 🎁🎂