Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!
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Hannah in a green jacket and pink top, with Carla Denyer MP to her right and Ellie Chowns MP on the left. All v colourful.
Hannah Spencer being sworn in as a Green Party MP this afternoon, after winning the Gorton & Denton by-election last week. Photo: House of Commons
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I’m finishing today my posting of recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain - in this 100th anniversary year - with Nos. 27-35. Hope you’ve liked the overall series over recent weeks?!!
@strikemap.org @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
Catalogue description, typed text describing the Spanish Inquisition in the Court of Requests catalogue
Nobody ever expects them, but the Spanish Inquisition turn up a couple of times in the Court of Requests catalogue [TNA REQ 2] discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
24.02.2026 07:36 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026
(Please share widely)
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Big up to the National Archives for their reasonably priced canteen where you can get a big curry for £6.50 at lunchtime.
18.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 64 🔁 2 💬 7 📌 1
CfP 📢 "Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (c.1500 - 1850)", Aberystwyth University
📆11-12 June 2026 | 🌍 Aberystwyth (Galles)
⏰Deadline: 27 February 2026
All info👇
#EarlyModern #CfP
Died #OTD 1835, Henry Hunt.
MP for Preston 1830-32, Hunt is most famed as a radical orator, and for his involvement in the 60,000 strong rally at St. Peter's Field, Manchester in 1819.
Find out more about the unfolding events, dubbed the 'Peterloo Massacre':
This week in Scribble Book, #HistParl Director @jhdavey.bsky.social explores the history of the History of Parliament, beginning in the 1930s with Josiah Wedgwood's questionnaire of former MPs who sat between 1885 and 1918.
Read and subscribe via the link below!
Really interesting read by @joecozens.bsky.social.
Particularly for me, as I wrote my undergrad dissertation about Weymouth elections!
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support for conferences and public events with a focus on labour history, broadly defined. Applications, for a maximum of £850 per event, are welcome at any time of year.
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The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries for up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers (MA and doctoral) and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history
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The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries of up to £500 to students on BA and Taught Masters programmes to support archival, library and online research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history topic
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Our latest exhibition, Love Letters, is now open at The National Archives, revealing 500 years of love. From paupers, monarchs, queer networks & quiet acts of affection found in government records.
Very proud to have been lead curator on this one, working with so many wonderful people! 💌
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
Northern History, 1-13 Check far updates MALCOLM CHASE: A ROUNDTABLE TRiBUTE MATTHEW ROBERTS Sheffield Hallam University RoBERT POoLe University of Lancashire KATRINA NAVICKAS C University of Hertfordshire This paper brings together the reflections by three historians who knew Malcolm Chase, presented at the Northern History memorial conference in Leeds on 29 November 2024. It shows how integral Malcolm Chase's work was to nineteenth- century political and labour history of Britain. It explains his impact and legacy on the study of history, especially in and of northern England, and ends with a call for more work on regional and working-class history Keywords: labour history; Chartism; Malcolm Chase; northern history
Our roundtable tribute to Malcolm Chase is now published in Northern History.
@northernhistory.bsky.social
(Open access version will be available soon).
A reminder of this month's new post from our senior research fellow @martinspychal.bsky.social, who continues his series on Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP, with research into McLagan's father: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
12.12.2025 14:04 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1this is one of my very favourite eebo pages, and I will never forget the shock of "discovering it" in the collection. (there is also a very good description of what turns out to be an octopus arriving near cornwall, I believe, in there too)
27.05.2025 16:31 — 👍 45 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 3
A poster with the details for five talks, the date and location are on the left, and the names of speakers and titles on the right
Great to see the programme for the @long18thsem.bsky.social for next term @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . You can register to attend either in person or online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar resumes on 14 January 2026, in person at the Institute of Historical Research and online via Zoom. (Kate Gibson, speaking on Fostering in 18th-century Britain).
Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.
The National Archives are hiring a Poor Law Research Assistant (39k for 2 years) working on Paul Carter's AHRC project on poverty/welfare in Wales, 1834-1930. Deadline 16 Dec.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.
02.12.2025 13:16 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Join us tomorrow (Wednesday) either in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London or on Zoom from wherever you are. Free and open to the public. Registration information in the link below.
02.12.2025 13:22 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Depiction of rioters at Saints Philip and James, Edgeley. SOURCE: Illustrated London News, 10 July 1852
THUMBING: a Nottingham phrase, used to describe that species of intimidation practised by masters on their servants when the latter are compelled to vote as their employers please.
(Halliwell'd Dictionary, 1847)
#politics #history #Elections #England
A woman standing at a podium delivering a lecture. A power point is on the right
Helen Esfandiary giving a great paper on elite maternal authority over the care of children in the context of the professional medical market place in the 18th c. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
19.11.2025 18:17 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
04.11.2025 07:13 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
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