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BrumNotes

@brumhistory.bsky.social

An occasional history of day to day living in Birmingham's past. https://birminghamhistoryblog.wordpress.com/

27 Followers | 19 Following | 11 Posts | Joined: 15.11.2023 | 1.6934

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“Looking Backwards” as the century came to a close Elijah Walton, St Martin's Church by Night (1850-1888), Birmingham Museums Trust. The last day of the nineteenth-century fell on a Sunday. It marked the end of a remarkable period in Birmingham's hist...

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Best wishes for the next year. May 2024 bring all your hearts' desires.

31.12.2023 22:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More prizes from @sshmedicine.bsky.social.

28.12.2023 16:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This ad from a 1954 copy of the Birmingham Daily Gazette. Queueing up the back stairs at Lewis's to see Father Christmas in his grotto with Uncle Holly a highlight of the season for many. I hope that you all get your heart's desires this Christmas.

23.12.2023 19:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Comfort and Joy: an institutional Christmas Life in early Victorian Birmingham was hard for the majority of the community, but as the post on the visit of Charles Dickens showed, there was a great deal of hope that life for the working classes ...

What was Christmas like in a 19th century institution?
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22.12.2023 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sample of a telegraph cable manufactured by Webster and Horsfell - 1600 tons of wire was drawn at a special engine shed in Hay Mills, Birmingham, in 1865 for the transatlantic telegraph cable from Europe to America. On display at Thinktank, Birmingham.

21.12.2023 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christmas in the Louse Hole Birmingham prison was opened in 1849, prior to that criminals were sent to Warwick to suffer their punishment. Issues of debt could be settled at the town's Court of Requests, where local businessmen ...

In the first half of the 19th century, Birmingham's debtor's prison was popularly known as 'the louse hole', for good reason. birminghamhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/c...

21.12.2023 09:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anyone relate to this feeling during the run up to Christmas? This little finial was found at Weoley Castle and is part of the collection managed by Birmingham Museums' Trust.

19.12.2023 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

We are pleased to share our CFP for our PGR/ECR conference on ✨‘Age and Health, 1500-1800’✨
Please share far and wide! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions!
🗓️ CFP closes 31 Jan 2024 #EarlyModern

19.12.2023 07:48 — 👍 20 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 4

Prizes 2023 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION 2023-roy-porter-entry-formDownload Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2023 Roy Porter Studen...

📢PhDs and Brand New Career Researchers📢

There's still time! Submit an essay for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's Roy Porter Prize by 5pm 1 Feb for chance to win cash prizes, mentoring for publication, and conference plenary sshm.org/portfolio/pr... #HistSTM #DisHist #HistNursing #HistPsych #Skystorians

18.12.2023 09:17 — 👍 9 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1

Crescent Cycles Catalogue, 1900. Printed in Birmingham by Percival Jones Ltd. It's a lovely image and the sentiment of 'Free Wheels' must have appeared highly liberating for women wanting to shrug off the constraints of the 19th century.

18.12.2023 15:24 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

A couple of recipes, in case of necessity.

17.12.2023 23:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In 1945 people were looking forward to a post-war Christmas. Times were still tough, but the Birmingham Daily Post carried some top festive tips.

17.12.2023 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A Christmas Carol for Birmingham’s working men On Tuesday, December 27th, 1853, Charles Dickens famously gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol in Birmingham's Town Hall. The event was organised as a fund raiser for the proposed Birm...

A little post on Charles Dickens readings of his Christmas Carol at Birmingham Town Hall in the mid-19th century. tinyurl.com/4bxwh86d

17.12.2023 23:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much for the code Elaine!

16.11.2023 19:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@brumhistory is following 19 prominent accounts

History of Parliament
@histparl

Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day. You can find us at other places, here: https://linktr.ee/historyofparliament

Peter Mandler
@petermandler

Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Chris Callow
@chriscallow

Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things

Journal of Women's History
@jwomenshistory

The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100

Harry Smith
@bhamhistory

Social and economic historian

Tim Hitchcock
@timhitchcock

Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.

Helen Fisher
@helenxfisher

HE archivist working with large cataloguing backlogs, attempting digital preservation, & using university archives for research and engagement. Own views

Rachel MacGregor
@anoldhand

Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Interested in digital preservation, archives and public engagement. Also random public transport content. Views my own unless a repost. She/her.

Victoria County History
@vch-home

Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people. https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history

Justine Pick
@justinepick

Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/

Jonathan Willis
@drjpw

Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham (UK): English Reformation; music; Decalogue; sin & salvation; puritans; parishes; emotion; archives; material culture. Gay husband & cat dad; choral singer; aspiring pianist; nerd.

Jennifer Aston
@drjenniferaston

Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC. York and Newcastle.

Victorian Commons
@victoriancommons

The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our website: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/

Nigel Slater
@nigelslater

A cook who writes. Observer columnist. Author. Gardener. Books: The Kitchen Diaries, The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book, A Thousand Feasts. Instagram.com/nigelslater

Donna Taylor PhD
@drdtaylor

Nan, Brummie, researcher with interests in the social history of the long 19th century. Formerly University of Birmingham.

Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
@sshmedicine

The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/ #histmed

BSECS
@bsecs

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/

Rebecca Wynter
@rebeccawynter

Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Golestan Fellow NIAS-KNAW https://nias.knaw.nl/fellow/rebecca-wynter/ Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #Skystorian

Elaine Mitchell
@elaineamitchell

PhD’er UniBirmingham. Unearthing gardening and horticulture in 18thC Birmingham. Book 📣 Gardens and Green Spaces in West Midlands since 1700, UniHertsPress.