Jane Skelding

A few interesting things from #histday25. New home for the Music Hall Society in Lambeth Archives. NUWT archives @ucl.ac.uk. Port of London archive is open at Museum of Docklands. HIV Story Trust is preserving the story of HIV and AIDS. And it’s the best spot in London for postcards and bookmarks!

#OtD 1 Nov 1936 the Jarrow marchers arrived in London. They had marched all the way from Jarrow in North-East England to protest hunger and unemployment as a result of the closure of the town's shipyard, which was the main employer in the area stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8136...

Infographic reads 'How People Celebrate Halloween in England' and includes illustrations for various statistics, such as the percentage of people carving pumpkins, dressing up or holding parties.

@nfsengland.bsky.social's released their first tranche of results at The Folklore Society HQ on Monday. Here are some of their findings about how people celebrate Halloween in England. Happy Halloween, however and wherever you're celebrating! 👻🎃🐈‍⬛ Image illustration: Jonny Ford

Three-storey stone terrace rising uphill

Front view of section of three-storey stone terrace rising uphill

Three-storey stone terrace rusing uphill and with stone sett street

Long Row, Belper: housing built by William Strutt, 1794-1797 for the workers of his new cotton mill - one of the world's first factories and some of its earliest industrial housing.

Adventures in Close Reading Poetry with A History of England in 25 Poems This webinar explores new ways into poetry analysis and ‘unseen poetry’

I'm delighted to be doing this #free #online #event with @englishassociation.bsky.social on Tuesday 9 December. What can we do with a poem, and where can close reading take us? Please share! #poetry #teaching #English #closereading #unseenpoetry #poem #teachers
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures...

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English Notre-Dame hosts rare wedding for carpenter who helped rebuild it • FRANCE 24 English

I interrupt your doomscrolling for a heartwarming update: Notre Dame, which is generally unavailable for private events, is hosting a wedding...for one of the carpenters who helped rebuilt it after the fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...

How have people of African descent been represented in art, travel literature and visual culture?

Join our 3-day course (25–27 Nov) on the Image of the Black archive, including a screening, exhibition tour and curator talk.

📍 Warburg Institute, London

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Have you seen Black Atlas yet?

Described as “powerful and thought-provoking,” this new exhibition by artist Edward George explores the Image of the Black archive — 30,000+ images documenting representations of people of African descent across history.

warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #ArtHistory

Teaching Slavery This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?

Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

I never went to university but I’d love to do a mad PhD ‘I always thought students spent three years getting stoned, lying that they were into jazz — then got their parents’ mates to give them a job’

You know those "mad", "woke" PhDs that the press go nuts over every so often? I think they sound great: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Oh, I’ll look forward to that…saw a Boots Christmas one from the 1930s that has made me happy this morning

Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage – Semester One 2025/26 PHRC is pleased to announce the launch of Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a new, free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with pol…

We're also happy to announce the Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, which start on 30 October, 5.30 pm with none other than Martha Langford! The seminars are all free and online, and you can register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r... #photohist

I’ve spent so much research time distracted by the ads in newspapers…now I’ve found an account that will serve it up to me, what can go wrong?

Zoinks! The Spooky Folklore Behind Scooby-Doo (Zoom), 10/28 @ 7 PM For over half a century, a gang of teens – Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy – and their dog, Scooby, have captivated audiences with their supernatural sleuthing, operating under the banner o…

Just a quick reminder that I'm giving a FREE talk online for Warner Library, serving the town of Sleepy Hollow in the US, tomorrow night at 7pm EST / 11pm UK

I'll be discussing Scooby-Doo and folklore with a particular slant on the gothic and folk horror

Join me!

warnerlibrary.org/2025/09/29/z...

Another excellent and evocative will of the month post from @emilymayvine.bsky.social - doubly unusual in that it is the nuncupative will (spoken) of a married woman.

#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜
@leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

So good to see #LavLang32 being shared so widely! Join us for the annual Queer Linguistics conference, which in 2026 travels to Scotland for the first time thanks to @christianilbury.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

Screenshot of the Viabundus website.

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.

#medievalsky

www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

📣 The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is currently open to applicants!
We want to hear from anyone researching the First World War as part of their doctoral thesis, no matter what the topic!
#fwwhist
Full details and application form can be found below ⬇️
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...

We are excited to be hiring for a Community and Advocacy Manager! The role, based in the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, will lead on developing and delivering a programme of community engagement and advocacy for the Association. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Happy to make it to Grayson Perry at the Wallace Collection just before it finished. Good to see this fresh response to such a classic collection - and Newham artist Madge Gill featured too!

What can you expect to find at #HistDay25 our celebration of history collections with @senatehouselib.bsky.social? Come along and find out on 4 Nov. Book your free space here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Are you coming along to #HistDay25 on Tuesday 4 November 2025? Why not stay at Senate House for my #lecture in the evening, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the public'. Book your free place: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Bibliography of British and Irish History October 2025 update  - On History What’s new in BBIH?   The October 2025 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds over 5,000 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters and…

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 5000+ new references. Discover further details about this update in this On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/bibl... @brepols.net

On a university nostalgia weekend in Bristol and whilst wandering around Clifton spotted a couple of plaques commemorating suffragettes Annie Kenney and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. The visit also gave me a good reason to read this great book on Bristol women by @janeduffus.bsky.social

#OtD 13 Oct 1970 famous Black activist Angela Davis was arrested by the FBI in NYC. She had fled California after a warrant for her arrest was issued in connection with an attempted jailbreak. Davis was later acquitted. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research

Free workshop (two afternoons) on ‘Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research’, 6-7 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

This blog from @lrylandepton.bsky.social draws together the participatory elements in @vch-home.bsky.social's work. Producing high-quality, primary-sourced, peer-reviewed texts which speak to, and drawn on, the communities they describe is no mean feat!

Using historic UK census data for research

I will be running an intro session on using open source census data at Senate House on 23rd October…sign up at the link below. It’s in person so limited spaces available www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

#Free Talk next Saturday 11 October. Find out more about the life of author and photographer James Arthur Brimble with Gary Stone
📍The View, Ranger’s Rd #Chingford
🗓️ Saturday 11th October
🕰️ 12-1
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-life-a...