Salvation Army International Heritage Centre

Research Grants & By-Fellowships - Churchill Archives Centre Find out available research grants and Archives By-Fellowships, including eligibility and the application process.

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

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!

Hello 👋. Thanks for highlighting Salvation Army Citadels in the north-east. We think they're very interesting too!

SHS Annual Conference 2026 Our 50th anniversary conference will be held at Lancaster University, the academic home of the Social History Society. A Significant Milestone The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster Un…

🚨 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
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#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.

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Do you work on #domesticabuse #divorce #economicabuse #childcustody in the third sector/policy? Then we have the workshop for you! 'Archives to Action' is a free 1-day workshop exploring the important role archival research can play in policy reform. Details 👇
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#HistNursing next week's event! Looking forward to seeing people inperson

A young man sits at a table with a laptop and dozens of toned paper documents in front of him. He holds up one particular document and points to it while another archivist stands over him to offer advice.

📣Calling archivists, researchers & heritage professionals!

Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work.

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)

You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.

We're very excited to announce our collaborative PhD with @qubhistory.bsky.social on the residents of The Salvation Army's Bethel Rescue Home in Belfast in the C19th. Supervised by @elainefarrell.bsky.social (@badbridgetbook.bsky.social)
Applications by 13 Jan 2026.
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I have been trying to trace the parents of an exploited girl from 1885. She was born in Dublin and I had some info thanks to @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social I was just about to give up, as the Irish records are so patchy, when I had a breakthrough! Both #researchthrills and #sadstory. #academicsky

"Remember Trafalgar Square"

Exactly a week later, on 20 November 1887, a second protest took place in London - with fatal consequences

William Morris & Walter Crane combined to publish 'A Death Song', a fundraiser in aid of the children of young clerk Alfred Linnell

Temperance Lives – published today My book – Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine 1840-1918 – is published by Bloomsbury Academic today, as an ebook anyway. Think of it as a soft launch – the hardba…

Out today (ebook version)! jameskneale.com/2025/11/13/t...

Book cover of W T Stead as New Journalist and Nonconformist 1870-1912, showing a bearded Stead in prison uniform.

We're very excited to see this new book about W T Stead from Philip March that arrived in the post today! It draws on research including archives and publication about Stead that we hold.

The cover of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury Academic)

If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

Guest blog: Black History Month 2025 This month our guest blog by Winette Field looks at the origins of Black History Month and some of the complexities of historical research

We know that we're a bit late in promoting this, but we had a new blog for #BlackHistoryMonth that looked at some early black British Salvationists.

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The @britrecs.bsky.social conference, on Safeguarding Future History: Meeting the Challenge of Records at Risk is next week.

The Speakers and the Suffragettes - The History of Parliament At the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on Tuesday 28 October, Dr Mari Takayanagi will be discussing ‘The Speakers and the Suffragettes’.

On 28 October, Dr Mari Takayanagi will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where she will be presenting on 'The Speakers and the Suffragettes'.

Find out more about the paper and how to attend below:
historyofparliament.com/2025/10/21/t...

Please note that the International Heritage Centre will be closed on the following dates.

21 October 2025

20 December 2025-5 January 2026

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Richard Slater: The Army's ‘Song Writer Number One’ Our latest guest blog by Dr Gordon Cox is an introduction to Slater and his songs.

Read our latest guest blog by Dr Gordon Cox on Brigadier Richard Slater: The Salvation Army's ‘Song Writer Number One’

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Picture of the reading room with yellow text over the top, reading Lambeth Palace Library Career Open Day, for ages 16-18 plus undergrads and career changers, 30th October opening times 10am-4pm, 15 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7JT

🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.

📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition

Black and white photograph of a woman wearing a black Edwardian outfit (possibly bloomers) balancing on a bicycle with the caption "Miss Harwood - second in six days' race at Royal Aquarium" Photo by H R Gibbs.

Black and white photograph of a woman standing next to a bicycle, holding it by the handlebars, wearing a dark blouse and bloomers and a pale cummerbund and sash with ribbons at her elbows and kneesand a posy of. flowers at her collar. The photograph is captioned "Miss Gambley - Lady Rider at Olympia"

A double portrait black and white photograpgh. On the left is a woman seated on her bicycle wearing a dark blouse and breeches with black stockings and a brooch at her neck. The photograph is captioned Mdlle Lisette, French Lady Champion. On the right is a woman also seated on her bicycle wearing a pale jacket and matching breeches or bloomers with a white short underneath. She also has black stockings and wears a small straw boater on her head. This photograph is captioned "Miss Grace, English Lady Champion". Both photographs are captioned "Professional Lady Cyclists"

Black and white photograph of a woman seated on her bicycle wearing a dark bouse or jacket with white sleeves and a white sailor collar. She is also wearing a medal in the shape of a cross. the photograph is captioned "Miss Frankie Nelson Professional Lady Champion of America"

Happy National Sporting Heritage Day - we hold the National Cycling Archive - a treasure trove of resources on the history of cycling, including the pioneering women cyclists of the late nineteenth century explore more here: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #NSHD #cycling #sport 🚴‍♀️

Call the (Salvation Army) Midwife In 1894, Salvation Army midwives began providing maternity services to mothers in their own homes in the East End of London

Read our new blog post on Salvation Army District Midwives in east London (and beyond). #histnursing

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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 also the hall at Harlow New Town, William Charles, Salvation Army Architects Department, 1962

Wycliffe Noble, as well as an architect, was also the drummer with the Salvation Army pop group The Joy Strings. Shown here in Hendon hall in 1973 (The hall was demolished in 2017).

We've had a huge accession of Salvation Army architectural plans covering the whole of the UK. Here are some lovely plans from the new hall at Hendon, designed in 1957 by C Wycliffe Noble

Books in their Elements: Print Culture in the Age of Climate Change | British Library The Panizzi Lectures are a series of annual lectures based on original research by an eminent scholar of the book. The lecture series is named after Anthon

Our friends at the British Library have asked us to share details of this year's Panizzi Lectures: events.bl.uk/events/books...