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The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally. https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
History in the making…
25th February marks 68 years since the founding of the Vic Soc. #onthisday in 1958, Lady Rosse, John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were amongst the founding members of the Society for the preservation and appreciation of Victorian & Edwardian heritage, architecture and arts.
The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.
Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.
Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements
📣Bookings now open!
👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social
Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor
📅 24 Apr 2026
💷 from £10 for members
All welcome!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...
Four Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses carrying an injured person on a stretcher during the Blitz in 1941
We’ve published a new collection of case studies showcasing the value and impact of charity archives: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Includes contributions from practitioners and organisations working across the archive and voluntary sectors! (1/2)
📷British Red Cross Museum and Archive
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Are you looking to conduct research into social or cultural history? Do you need support with archival visits, organising a conference, or buying specialist equipment?
⏰Our next funding deadline is 1 March
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The Heritage Centre recently received this donations envelope from the 1946 Self-Denial fundraising appeal. It was found in someone's house and still has a coin inside (we haven't opened it!), so the donation clearly never made it to us. Better late than never!
04.02.2026 10:27 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Hello Frances, thanks for your query. Can you email us on heritage@salvationarmy.org.uk and one of us can look into this?
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📢 Our newest exhibition, Primate of All England: The Archbishop of Canterbury Through Time, is now officially open!
Come along and find out more about the historic role and responsibilities of the Archbishop of Canterbury through rarely-seen artefacts and archive material.
Working with records of traumatic histories
Wed, 25 Feb | 13:00 GMT | Online
🎤 Eliza McKee, @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
🎤 Hari Jonkers, @holocaustnorth.bsky.social
🎤 Gillian Boll and Malcolm Mathieson, @amnestyuk.bsky.social
Info and registration here: shorturl.at/jAfJO
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social
22.01.2026 14:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Indeed! 👇
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This collection of architectural plans is still bringing up some treasures:
Edinburgh Women's Hostel, 1912
East Dereham corps hall, 1929
Hillingdon corps hall, 1966
Good story about UK temperance here, featuring the ever-brilliant Dr Annemarie McAllister, plus Fran Robinson of the Livesey Collection at the University of Central Lancashire, the most important British temperance collection... (h/t @addiebabe.bsky.social)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (1/3)
It's great to see so much media coverage around Andrew Davison's new book on the built heritage of the temperance movement.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Temperance is often treated as a footnote, but in Victorian Britain it was a mass movement.
Millions pledged abstinence and reshaped London with alcohol-free spaces - a hidden history still standing today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You wait several years for a book on British temperance history and two come along almost at once! I'm a big fan of Andrew Davison's work, so I'm pleased to see his book on temperance buildings published by Liverpool University Press. Looking forward to reading it
heritagecalling.com/2026/01/08/t...
Reminder to anyone who's interested that the deadline for our collaborative PhD with @qubhistory.bsky.social, on the Salvation Army Rescue Home in Belfast, is this coming Tuesday.
08.01.2026 13:43 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@capelicymru.bsky.social is the Royal Commission’s exciting new project to understand, document, and respond to the growing loss of Wales’ Nonconformist heritage. Follow their Bluesky page for project updates.
07.01.2026 14:12 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
20 days to go to send us your abstracts on coal, community, health and welfare!
Join us in June for a one day event at the University of Warwick, including NUM archive content.
#CfP
Researching for a Christmas walk in Spitalfields led me to discover that in the early 1900s via a @mirror.co.uk charity appeal a men’s hostel in Quaker St was known as The Palace of Pudding. Thanks to @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social and #BritishNewspaperArchive westminsterwalks.london/the-palace-o...
28.12.2025 10:23 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This 👇 fascinating blog post from @lucybrewer.bsky.social is about our women's social work records. Lucy was an intern from the excellent MA in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck.
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“Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism,” by Rebecca Carter-Chand, University of Wisconsin Press, 2025
Today's featured title:
“Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism,” by Rebecca Carter-Chand, University of Wisconsin Press, 2025
@uwiscpress.bsky.social
uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chri...
Reminder that there's still a month to apply for our collaborative PhD on the Belfast rescue home with @qubhistory.bsky.social and @elainefarrell.bsky.social .
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today We invite papers for a workshop entitled “Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History Today”, to be held at the University of Warwick on 26-27 June 2026. This workshop will seek to bring together historians of labour to collectively reflect on a large historiographical shift that has taken place over the last two decades, from the social history of labour (in national contexts) to global and trans-national labour history. The social history of labour “from below” is a tradition initiated by E.P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963), and extended over several decades by a robust tradition of politically engaged left-wing historical studies of the working classes: a tradition most powerfully entrenched in British historiography (but with many imprints elsewhere, ranging from the United States to Brazil to South Africa to India). The global history of labour, which revised and questioned many of the features of “Thompsonian” history-writing, has sought to overcome “methodological nationalism” in the writing of labour history, to investigate specific labour histories within a global frame, and to enable trans-national histories of workers and work. It has emerged as an increasingly dominant frame of reference for contemporary studies of labour around the world. This workshop seeks to place these two historiographical traditions in conversation with each other, to examine the stakes of the passage from the older, “Thompsonian” tradition to the “global turn”, and to think about the changed meanings of “doing labour history” today. Participants are urged to explicitly reflect on the methodological and conceptual issues at stake in the practice of labour history.
We would like to invite submissions that address (but are not necessarily limited to) the following themes: 1. To what extent has the global labour history tradition that has flourished over the last 20 years drawn upon or rejected the methodological and conceptual approaches of Thompsonian social/labour history? What other methodologies and concepts have been deployed and proven fruitful? 2. How do we address the burgeoning critique of Thompsonian social/labour history as parochial and Anglocentric (Bressey, 2015; Satia, 2020), and how have historians responded to this challenge and reshaped British labour history accordingly? What can historians of British labour learn from broader global trajectories of workforce formation and labour movements? 3. How might integrating histories of consumption, environment, and reproduction enrich our understanding of labour and its global entanglements? 4. In what ways can collaboration between historians of Britain and the global south generate new analytical frameworks or unsettle established narratives of class, race, and empire? 5. What kinds of politically-engaged global social and labour history can best respond to the contemporary challenges of rising global inequality and the appropriation of class politics by some sections of the populist right? 6. The legitimacy of 'radical' forms of labour-history writing initially arose from politics, from the apparently established centrality of the industrial working class both in society and in projects of social emancipation. That centrality has now been in precipitous decline for a long time. In this context, how might we think about what the ‘politics of doing labour history’ actually implies today? 7. What has been gained and what has been lost in the shift from a labour history dominated by “history from below” to one dominated by global history? Please send abstracts to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk
#CfP Call for Papers
Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick:
Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today
Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick
Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026
Submit to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk
And the deadline for our next round of By-Fellowship applications is 31st December. We offer 3 Archives By-Fellowships each year for researchers engaged in academic projects at a post-doctoral level or above. ➡️ Find out more and apply, click here: buff.ly/HbNqCbd
05.12.2025 12:27 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Victorian teetotalers, life insurance & health: Dr @jameskneale.bsky.social’s Temperance Lives shows how insurers shaped drinking habits 🏛️💼🍷.
Read more 👇 tinyurl.com/ucl-temp
#UCLGeography #VictorianBritain #Temperance #LifeAssurance #History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
We hadn't realised that the Sunderland Citadel had been demolished 🙁. There were only four citadels listed in England, so now that's down to three!
28.11.2025 13:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hello 👋. Thanks for highlighting Salvation Army Citadels in the north-east. We think they're very interesting too!
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🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!
We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.
📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
#CFP 🗃️
Please note that the International Heritage Centre will be closed on the following dates.
Tues 2 December 2025
Tues 9 December 2025
20 December 2025-5 January 2026
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.