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Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…

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It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

Festival of Social History To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion pan…

📣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!
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1918: 7 & 8 George 5 c.64: Representation of the People Act 1918: 7 & 8 George 5 c. 64: An Act to amend the Law with respect to Parliamentary, and Local Government Franchises, and the Registration of Parliamentary and Local Government Electors, and the …

#OTD in 1918:

The Representation of the People Act is passed, extending the vote to men over 21 and some women over 30.

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#History #LegalHistory

Bill Turkel and I have just published an article in DHQ. It is about the emergence of Manslaughter as a charge at the Old Bailey, and the working methods we used to analyse the data. dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... Thanks to Gabor Toth for shepherding it through peer review.

This provides an update on the two events coming up – the first, Holly Fletcher's 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World' (5 Feb, 5.30 pm, IHR Wolfson Room NB02 and online via Zoom), the second Brodie Waddell's 'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England (5 March, IHR Wolfson Room NB02 and online via Zoom). The background image is a yellow-toned image by Bruegel of people working crops.

Our first event of this term is taking place very soon, on Thursday 5 February! Holly Fletcher (UCL) will be speaking on 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'. You can sign-up to attend in person and online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade

Very much looking forward to @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social talking about The Ship Bedford and the Atlantic Slave Trade next Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome, either online or in person, but please register www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Five Ages of Antifascism Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Five Ages of Antifascism

Free to download until Feb 17th:

The Five Ages of Antifascism
by Joseph Fronczak

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#History #AntiFascism

Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30

Our history also includes the precursor to St Agatha's, Christchurch, Colmore Row, built in 1805 and sold (and demolished), to fund the building of St Agatha's.

Our volume on Birmingham is one of several on English cities published after the Second World War. For more, see @bho.bsky.social.

📣Out now on #firstview!

Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) (@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) on 'George Wallace and Britain’s First Abolitionist Publication (1760)'

#Abolition #Slavery #Law #Scotland 18thc 🗃️

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Screenshot of Exploring the Power of Petitioning website. Visualising the power of early modern petitioning This a website by Sharon Howard for exploring and visualising data created by and for the Power of Petitioning in the 17th Century (TPOP). Most pieces are likely to be quite short, with commentary focusing on explanation of the visuals rather than discussion of findings. In the first instance, because I’m writing a case study on Cheshire petitioning, I’m focusing on Cheshire petitions, followed by other Quarter Sessions petitions, and particularly on exploring themes that I want to think about in the study.

Ooh look! @sharonhoward.bsky.social has updated and expanded the visualisations for the #PowerOfPetitioning material that we transcribed and published on @bho.bsky.social a few years ago. 🗃️📜

Very pretty pictures! 👀 the-power-of-petitioning.github.io

Some good #DigitalHistory funding news:

Grey poster with the details of this term’s LSMS seminar. There is an image on the right hand side of a fragment of an early medieval Iraqi wall painting (OA+.10621) from the British Museum with a male face in black pigment looking right Text is as follows: LONDON SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES Winter 2026 Curating Medieval Islamic Art: Re-presenting Medieval 03 Islamicate Worlds Feb Anushka Hosain (Museum of Fine Art, Houston) & Helena Lahoz Kopiske (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid) Online 'Out of the Mouths of Babes': 17 Reassessing the Lost Miracle Statue Feb of Saint Rumwald at Boxley Abbey Lucy Beall Lott (St Andrews) The Castle in Fourteenth 03 Century Scotland: A Sociological Mar Study of Masculine Identity Isobel Barnard (King's College London) 17 Transforming Medical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Hildegard of Mar Bingen's Physica Lauren Cole (Northwestern University) 31 Harvesting water: traditional ecological knowledge Mar from Medieval Spain in practice and in research Camila Marcone (Yale) ALL WELCOME! Please book via bit.ly/londonmedieval INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Tuesdays, 17.30 Institute of Historical Research

LSMS winter programme 2025/26 ft. researchers across the 🌎 speaking on medieval art/environment/medicine/architecture

Tuesdays, 17:30 (GMT) at the @ihr.bsky.social in Bloomsbury or on Zoom.

All welcome, register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval

#medievalsky #skystorians

Gloucestershire vol. XVI - Cirencester and District The research for the accounts of the prehistory of the area, the Abbey of Cirencester, the town and parish of Cirencester, Bagendon, Baunton, Daglingworth and Stratton.

NEW *draft text* from our friends and colleagues @vchgloucester.bsky.social.

The parish of Preston near #Cirencester will form part of volume 16 for Gloucestershire.

All comments, additional information and corrections greatly appreciated. #Skystorians #LocalHistory

"Always Keep Turning the Page" – RSVP This is Part 2 of our conversation with Patrick Leary on "Getting Started in Periodicals Research," part of our ongoing Interview Series.

Really interesting interview on doing research into historic periodicals from @rs4vp.org

(2 parts of 3 so far published)

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First page of Transactions article, 'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West', by Mark Stoyle. Full abstract: "This article explores how the five major rebellions which took place in Devon and Cornwall between 1485 and 1603 were subsequently remembered by the region’s inhabitants. It begins by demonstrating that – although early modern elites generally preferred to say as little as possible about episodes of popular protest once they had been safely suppressed – the revolts which had occurred under the Tudor monarchs went on to be officially memorialised in several South Western communities. The article then moves on to discuss how local gentlefolk looked back on the rebellions, and argues that such individuals tended, in their retrospective accounts, to exaggerate the degree of social radicalism which had been exhibited by the insurgents. Next, the article considers the few scraps of evidence which have survived about popular memories of the protests, and suggests that, while the specific grievances which had motivated the rebels may well have been quite quickly forgotten, the desperate courage with which they had fought – particularly during the Western Rising of 1549 – had continued to be remembered by the ordinary people of the region for decades to come. The fourth and last part of the article looks at ‘modern’ commemoration of the revolts and draws out some general conclusions."

Between 1485 & 1603 Devon and Cornwall experienced 5 major rebellions: how were they remembered regionally, over time and across social divisions? And how are they being commemorated today?

'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West': bit.ly/3YXxbbz: a new TRHS article by Prof Mark Stoyle 1/2

The British Crown Enslaved Thousands at the Height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. New Research Reveals Their Stories A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and sanctioned its cruelties

Here's a sneak peek at a tiny slice of the research included in my new book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (available for pre-order now and out tomorrow, 1/27)!!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky #slaveryarchive
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Today in London radical herstory, 1914: International Womens Day march sees launch of newspaper the Woman’s Dreadnought “The first part of the procession, which was headed by boys and young men , dressed in a sort of cowboy dress, had just entered the square when Miss Sylvia Pankhurst got off the bus…her arrest was …

#OnThisDay in London anti-military history, 1916: A meeting against forced conscription into the army during World War 1 is held in Victoria Park, 1916.

A post on the East London Federation of Suffragettes, the ‘Woman’s Dreadnought’ and East End opposition to the war
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British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years

Interview with @brookenewman.bsky.social on her new book 'The Crown’s Silence':

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals

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#History #EnslavedHistory

All of the information in the image is available via the web link.

New free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian.

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London

7th in thread of #PublicDomain books I've got Google to make fully available:

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in #London

2: West London: books.google.co.uk/books?id=OXU...

3: Roman London: books.google.co.uk/books?id=4GX...

4: The City: books.google.co.uk/books?id=amb...

Law and Justice in the 1950s - University of London Press The 1950s was a decade of considerable legal development in England and Wales, despite often being regarded as very conservative in contrast to the more radical 1960s and 1970s. This collection illust...

New #OpenAccess #LegalHistory from @uolpress.bsky.social

Law and Justice in the 1950s
Case Studies From a Neglected Decade

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A new @exeter.ac.uk project, Past Harvests, will use 600 years of data to explore how historic farming systems coped with change. The team will assess sustainability from 1250 to 1850, offering insights to inform future land-use decisions. More info: sites.exeter.ac.uk/pastharvests/ #FoodStudies

Subscribe to the IHR Bulletin The IHR Bulletin is a monthly e-newsletter with updates on recent activities and what's coming up at the Institute. It's a good way to keep in touch online.

The IHR’s January bulletin is out now! Read about events, training, fellowships, jobs, workshops, and other news. To subscribe visit www.history.ac.uk/about-instit...

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YouTube video by IHR Digital History Seminar Smits & Wevers: Orientalist pixels - revealing the colonial color palette of early photography

#dhist If you missed @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History on Orientalist pixels, colonial colour palettes, and machine learning - plus the fab discussion that followed - the recording is now on our youtube channel youtu.be/kDTJToRCEHQ

Always great to see digitisations made freely available online! I scanned the HLHS back run of newsletters and journals a few years ago: www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk/publications...

And Bristol Record Society's full collection on @archive.org : 391 items!

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#OpenAccess #History

Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade : Kenneth Morgan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Kenneth Morgan (ed.), Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade (Bristol Record Society publications, Vol. 80, 2025)A collection of transcribed documents relating...

New from Bristol Record Society:

Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade
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Really great to see BRS publish #OpenAccess on @archive.org !

#History #EnslavedHistory

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Entry from @vch-home.bsky.social for Ilmington, which included Compton Scorpion, here, @bho.bsky.social: