Public History Prize
The Pamela Cox Public History Prize recognises activities that enhance public understanding of social and cultural history. It was established as a mark of gratitude to our outgoing chair Professor…
📣Applications to our Public History Prize are open!
The Pamela Cox Public History Prize (open to PGRs and ECRs) recognises activities that enhance public understanding of social and cultural history✨
👉More info & apply here: socialhistory.org.uk/prizes/publi...
⏰Deadline 24 March 2025 🗃️
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Circular card showing a line drawing of the front of a workhouse and National Trust logo, and text Southwell Workhouse, 200, 1824-2024.
Last year, I was invited to the Southwell Workhouse Bicentennial Event, and enjoyed seeing how staff and volunteers at this The National Trust site look after and present the workhouse to the public.
12.02.2025 16:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Colour photograph of the front of Southwell Workhouse from garden.
Built in 1824, Southwell Workhouse (Nottinghamshire) inspired many of the deterrent, harsh, and punitive elements of the New Poor Law.
#workhousewednesdays
#workhouselegacies
#poorlaw #workhouse #welfareheritage #history #nationaltrust #nationaltrustmidlands
12.02.2025 16:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
#OtD 10 Feb 1913 suffragettes in the UK smashed windows at the Reform, Carlton, Junior Carlton, Oxford, and Cambridge Clubs, and also at the residence of Prince Christian. Exhibition cases at the Royal Scottish Museum were also broken stories.workingclasshistory.c...
10.02.2025 15:55 — 👍 82 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
Built in the late-eighteenth century, the Cleveland Street Workhouse was used by the parish of St Paul in Covent Garden #London to house the poor.
Did this workhouse inspire the work of Charles Dickens? He lived on the same road in 1815-16 & 1828-31.
#workhousewednesdays #workhouselegacies #history
05.02.2025 15:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Feathers McGraw (a penguin with a rubber glove for a hat, or a chicken depending on who you ask) stands outside the entrance of The Museum of English Rural Life.
we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience
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The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of historians: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Historian of protest, political movements and public space. Preorder my new book, Contested Commons: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
Croydon/Rochdale
UCU Herts branch secretary
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
♦️ Sharing Art Collections held at the University of Reading
🔷 Current exhibition: '10 Artworks for 10 Years' (until 25 Jan 2026)
https://linktr.ee/uorartcollection
Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc.
https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
Farm boy at @themerl.bsky.social (at Uni of Reading). Looks after old rural stuff in a big shed. On committee of British Agricultural History Society. Active in AIMA, RMN, and Folklore Society. Views own. “Iconic”.
▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
Historian, Memory Scholar and Professor
Historian • author • speaker • TV consultant • presenter. Specialist in researching the history of houses. Otherwise known as Mel Backe-Hansen. Books incl. #AHouseThroughTime and #HouseHistories Rep #PastPreservers http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
Starting a tour guide business in London. Reach out for a trial tour to help me get started
Love to share the wonderful history of West London (and often other parts of the city!)
Was Back in Time west london on X
HOLT restores London's historic buildings and monuments ✨ heritageoflondon.org
Find out more about our youth engagement programme: proudplaces.org 🌟
More about us:
https://linktr.ee/heritageoflondon
Organisers of sector events, Museums + Heritage Show and Awards, and publishers of Museums + Heritage Advisor. Known simply as M+H, we are at the centre of connecting the world of museums, galleries and heritage attractions
https://museumsandheritage.com
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Bluesky page for the international Dickens Society. dickenssociety.org
The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading. We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
