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An early Christmas present for all you Court of Requests fans. *All* the calendared Elizabethan proceedings [TNA REQ 2/26-294], over 20,000 items in total, are now searchable on The National Archives' online catalogue. Ho ho ho 🎄 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

Sources for Co-operative History in the UK Click to download. The Society for the Study of Labour History has created a guide to sources for co-operative history in the UK. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the gui…

We have a new guide to archive sources for #co-operative #history on the website. You can download the 35-page PDF here
sslh.org.uk/2025/12/07/s...

reminder of the days when a women only meeting didn't attract a mob of angry entitled men...

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I've had a varied year in 2025 so I'm now rolling out my independent research and heritage consultancy site.

If you have any teaching or speaking needs, whether in an academic or museums setting, I may be your guy: get in touch at WDGreen.Research@gmail.com 🙂

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This auction is just what the doctor didn’t order The Royal Society of Medicine is putting some of its rarest books and photographs up for auction at Christie’s this month. Phillip Prodger argues that it’s a case of medical negligence

Spectacular anatomical atlases, landmark works in the history of medicine, irreplaceable manuscripts and rare early photographs from the Royal Society of Medicine’s collection are being auctioned at Christie’s London this month.

Phillip Prodger explains why these items are too important to be sold

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More things we paid for, even though they'd been damaged by finder...

"It was rolled up when it was found and the finder unrolled it to see what it was. During the unrolling, one end became detached leaving the object in two pieces"

#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting

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Who ‘owns’ Torcs? These papers look at who owns, or believes they own, our shared national heritage – be that the artefacts themselves or the research that stems from them. In these blogs, I look at some of th…

If you want to know more, it's all here: detecting, Treasure, ownership etc etc etc...

bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...

We HAVE to start calling these things out.

I get it, we're scared if we say anything then detectorists will stop reporting, more will be lost. But honestly, we can't carry on like this...

I've read so many 'we're so grateful to have' media reports recently. It's stomach churning.

#Archaeology 🏺

Moss packets attached to a page of the moss herbarium of William Henry Fox Talbot

One of the packets in the herbarium opened to reveal a specimen of Andraea rupestris collected by Lewis Weston Dillwyn on Ben Nevis

Specimens of Bartramia ithyphylla from Uscoed Fendry collected by Jane Talbot

Specimens of ‘Bryum compactum’ from Crymlyn Bog, Glamorganshire, supplied by Jane Talbot to her cousin

Moss specimens from the 1810s in the herbarium of William Henry Fox Talbot, the photography pioneer, at the British Library, including some supplied by his cousin Jane Talbot (1796–1874)

You can read about the family and their moss interests in BJHS: dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000... #bryology #bryophytes

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Owen Davies
Place-naming heritage. Interesting new research from the RSPB.

Modern developers are enthusiastically adopting certain birds for their street names for a bit of "eco calming," but they are all species in terrible decline. Skylarks, Starlings, Swifts ...

www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

More of Dorset’s archaeological heritage lost. @tessmachling.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

A formal portrait of a group of men and women all wearing ceremonial collars / sashes.

Does anyone know about either Friendly Societies or Temperance Societies in England? This photo was shared on a Facebook group relating to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. My hazy knowledge of clothing and hairstyles for the women made me guess c.1900 +/– ten years.

Arthur thought up several plots set in the Lake District including fire, storm, plague, snow and ice but never this one!
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...

I am *begging* documentary makers to learn just the basics about the early modern City of London. Watching Empire and cringing as an EIC investor who was a Grocer is treated like he spent his days weighing things in a shop rather than being a member of the wealthy and influential Grocers' Company.

Senate House viewed from the Russell Square side, looking up at the central stone tower. Grey sky, some lights glowing in windows.

Senate House first thing this morning, Thursday 4 December. #SenateHouse #London #Bloomsbury

📰 The baffling listing rejection of Stansted Airport featured in the latest issue of @privateeyenews.bsky.social; "a seminal piece of aviation architeture" and a building that even the late Piloti (C20’s own Gavin Stamp) admired as "an elegant shed".

Join us next week for this roundtable dicussion with Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur.

'Myanmar: The Invisible Crisis' Tuesday 9 December, 10:30am-12:00pm, Room 261, Second Floor, Senate House

commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#UN #Myanmar #HumanRights #HumanitarianCrisis #London

OS VectorMap District extract from the November 2025 data for the Newcastle and Gateshead central areas, showing (or rather not showing) the recently removed Gateshead Flyover.

We like to mention sometimes that we have the world's largest freely available repository of relevant Ordnance Survey OpenData #maps - and there's still future plans to bring more. However, as we also periodically ask, we are missing some mapping from our archive.

All kinds of the stresses on heritage in this post:
- if the detectorist hadn't found it, would it ever have been found? vs. but what was lost in that random dig/washing bowl???
- local heritage scraping the barrel to buy back their own? and then more begging to have the infrastructure to display??

Compare and contrast bsky.app/profile/tess...

Oh look, if you excavate coin hoards properly you can get a better result than just folks salivating over money

Somerset museum gets almost £1m to display Norman treasure The Chew Valley hoard is thought to be be the highest value find in English history.

Most expensive treasure find ever - cost us all £4.3 million last year & now an extra £1 million to display it.

Dug without archaeological supervision & taken to the British Museum in a washing up bowl:

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#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure

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Yet another example of how we are all having to pay to see our shared heritage.

Just look at the outrageous financial figures and ask where its coming from!

A narrow strip of parchment on which is written the names of the armed men, archers, mariners serving on the Magdaleyn of Ipswich in 1374.

Naval records too - here, a crew list for the Magdaleyn of Ipswich from 1374.
TNA, E 101/32/29, no. 2.
I wrote about it in Anne Curry's Festschrift, published by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
boydellandbrewer.com/book/documen...

Today my brain was boggled to think that not only do military records exist from the 14th century, but they're even available on the internet.

Repost with #naval #maritime hashtags. Late medieval English naval history is abundantly documented and deserves to emerge from the shadows.

It comes to something when that little feeble unturn in 2023-2024 for woodland birds is cause for minor optimism, but we've been there before: a little upturn in 2010 came before an even deeper slump from 2015-2021. For the woodland specialists driving this trend, it's still relentlessly grim.