British History Online

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The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Guides: What's currently available: Introduction This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.

What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library

https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available

I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...

Important piece of contemporary #LGBT #History:

Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'!

There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.

#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex

Kentish fields

Kent Maps Online is an interactive Digital Humanities project exploring the county’s rich heritage, using multi-disciplinary lenses to research and present historic, literary & geographical records. Travel through the site to find answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet.
www.kent-maps.online

#Wikidata really needs to be better known - and more widely used - by historians.

#DigitalHistory

This is the sort of development-led archaeology that both informs our work, and which can draw on it to provide historical context for archaeological discoveries.

In this case, we have the whole area covered in our Somerset volumes 3 and 11.

Vol. 3 is available @bho.bsky.social. #Skystorians

Domesday at the IHR - On History IHR Fellow, Chris Lewis, writes about new publication, 'Making Domesday'.

New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR.
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...

This is a great piece of c20th youth / social history:

#History

Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade… How our grandparents and their parents found romance.

New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.

davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...

Spotlight on London’s open spaces: St George’s Fields Swamps, huge and inundate St George’s Fields was a large open space lying between Southwark and Lambeth, lying between modern Newington Causeway/Borough High Street to the east, and Kennington Rod/Baylis Road to the west. Of old it stretched as far as the village of Newington in the south (around modern Elephant & Castle), and as late as the mid-18th century as far north as modern Marshalsea Road, though the Fields shrank over time as building encroached on its edges. Part of the land had once belonged to the wealthy and powerful Brandon family, the Dukes of Suffolk, who swapped it with king Henry VIII who at one point intended to create a new royal hunting park there.

Spotlight on London’s open spaces: St George’s Fields

Swamps, huge and inundate St George’s Fields was a large open space lying between Southwark and Lambeth, lying between modern Newington Causeway/Borough High Street to the east, and Kennington Rod/Baylis Road to the west. Of old it stretched as…

Martock is a really interesting place - and the church especially so), we touch on some of that interest in our Somerset volume 4 (available @bho.bsky.social).

The vault and chest tomb reflect a period of concentrated prosperity for the village/townlet very obvious in its streetscape. [cont.]

Devon’s elite attempts to “police” patriotism during World War One had limited success, research shows Rich and powerful Devonians attempted to “police” patriotism during World War One because they were dismayed by an indifferent response to the European crisis by some in the county, research shows. Th...

Devon’s elite attempts to “police” patriotism during World War One had limited success, research shows
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A remarkable work (and it is ongoing):

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

Description:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Site:
itiner-e.org

#History #DigitalHistory

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.

Over 20,000 item descriptions have been added to REQ 2 (Court of Requests proceedings) since March 2024. An absolute treasure trove for Tudor historians. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society - University of London Press Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society is an ambitious and innovative study of the social, political and religious histories of medieval England and Wales. Using the Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow as a...

Today we're excited to publish the 25th #OABook in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series w/ @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org, Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society.

Congratulations @latemedievalist.bsky.social!

Read it online, download or purchase it here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/forging...

Can you send me an example via our contact form please:

www.british-history.ac.uk/contact-us

Rent Strikes Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...

New #OpenAccess #History from @uclpress.bsky.social

Rent Strikes
A history of collective tenant actions across the world

uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...

We're constantly working on it. What specific problems are you having?

No. It ran on now outdated software, which was why we had to upgrade.

Looking at the case of 'Joseph Bastard'
www.british-history.ac.uk/advanced_sea...
I think expedited would fit.

In theory, all these petitions should be traceable through the volumes of the Journals of the Houses of Parliament.

A question for #EarlyModern #skystorians: What does 'exped' mean as a response to a petition, in this case to the 17th-century House of Lords?

I'd assumed 'expedite', but that doesn't quite make sense in some contexts. 🗃️ Examples here:
www.british-history.ac.uk/petitions/ho...

Along with Old Bailey Online,
www.oldbaileyonline.org
London Lives is an absolutely exemplary #DigitalHistory project:
www.londonlives.org

#History #LondonHistory

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

1605: 3 James 1 c.1: An act for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God every year on the fifth day of November.

statutes.org.uk/site/the-sta...

#LegalHistory