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British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 28d
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Two new #OpenAccess histories from @uclpress.bsky.social:

Student London
A new history of higher education in the capital

uclpress.co.uk/book/student...

Survey of London:
University College London, The Bloomsbury Campus

uclpress.co.uk/book/univers...

#History #LondonHistory
Student London
Students have formed a significant part of London’s population since the foundation of its first university in 1826, and Student London centres their experiences in the city’s history. To tell the 200...
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February 12, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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lsangha.bsky.social
#EarlyModern 🗃️

Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think.

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February 11, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in London petitioning history, 1723: The residents of the Southwark Mint rookery petition Parliament against the recent closure of their sanctuary, a stronghold against bailiffs chasing debtors.

An article on this petition on the Alsatia blog: alsatia.org.uk/site/2012/02...
The Minters petition Parliament
So far, most of the texts I have found concerning the debtor sanctuaries of London have been written by their opponents: laws and indictments, and also the last dying words transmitted via the Ordi…
alsatia.org.uk
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
“Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it?
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We all find our own way, and notice different things as we go.”

@markhailwood.bsky.social

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Is Walking Research? A Methodological Ramble
Mark HailwoodI needed to try something to get me writing again. Blessed with a period of research leave to resume work on my book – Everyday Life in the Seventeenth Century English Village &#…
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February 10, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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ihr.bsky.social
Date for your diary - join us Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions
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Researching the History of Emotions
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February 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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rhiggitt.bsky.social
Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering
Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…
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February 6, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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socialhistsoc.bsky.social
📣Bookings now open!

👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social

Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor

📅 24 Apr 2026
💷 from £10 for members

All welcome!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...
Festival of Social History
To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion pan…
socialhistory.org.uk
February 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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statutes.bsky.social
#OTD in 1918:

The Representation of the People Act is passed, extending the vote to men over 21 and some women over 30.

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

#History #LegalHistory
1918: 7 & 8 George 5 c.64: Representation of the People Act
1918: 7 & 8 George 5 c. 64: An Act to amend the Law with respect to Parliamentary, and Local Government Franchises, and the Registration of Parliamentary and Local Government Electors, and the …
statutes.org.uk
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Bill Turkel and I have just published an article in DHQ. It is about the emergence of Manslaughter as a charge at the Old Bailey, and the working methods we used to analyse the data. dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... Thanks to Gabor Toth for shepherding it through peer review.
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Making Sense of the Emergence of Manslaughter in British Criminal Justice
dhq.digitalhumanities.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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ihrscb.bsky.social
Our first event of this term is taking place very soon, on Thursday 5 February! Holly Fletcher (UCL) will be speaking on 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'. You can sign-up to attend in person and online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
This provides an update on the two events coming up – the first, Holly Fletcher's 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World' (5 Feb, 5.30 pm, IHR Wolfson Room NB02 and online via Zoom), the second Brodie Waddell's 'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England (5 March, IHR Wolfson Room NB02 and online via Zoom). The background image is a yellow-toned image by Bruegel of people working crops.
January 26, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social talking about The Ship Bedford and the Atlantic Slave Trade next Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome, either online or in person, but please register www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade
www.history.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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anterotesis.bsky.social
Free to download until Feb 17th:

The Five Ages of Antifascism
by Joseph Fronczak

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

#History #AntiFascism
The Five Ages of Antifascism
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Five Ages of Antifascism
www.cambridge.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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long18thsem.bsky.social
Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30
www.history.ac.uk
February 4, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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vch-home.bsky.social
Our history also includes the precursor to St Agatha's, Christchurch, Colmore Row, built in 1805 and sold (and demolished), to fund the building of St Agatha's.

Our volume on Birmingham is one of several on English cities published after the Second World War. For more, see @bho.bsky.social.
Religious History: Churches built since 1800 | British History Online
A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7, the City of Birmingham. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1964.
www.british-history.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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historicaljnl.bsky.social
📣Out now on #firstview!

Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) (@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) on 'George Wallace and Britain’s First Abolitionist Publication (1760)'

#Abolition #Slavery #Law #Scotland 18thc 🗃️

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 2, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Ooh look! @sharonhoward.bsky.social has updated and expanded the visualisations for the #PowerOfPetitioning material that we transcribed and published on @bho.bsky.social a few years ago. 🗃️📜

Very pretty pictures! 👀 the-power-of-petitioning.github.io
Screenshot of Exploring the Power of Petitioning website. Visualising the power of early modern petitioning This a website by Sharon Howard for exploring and visualising data created by and for the Power of Petitioning in the 17th Century (TPOP). Most pieces are likely to be quite short, with commentary focusing on explanation of the visuals rather than discussion of findings. In the first instance, because I’m writing a case study on Cheshire petitioning, I’m focusing on Cheshire petitions, followed by other Quarter Sessions petitions, and particularly on exploring themes that I want to think about in the study.
February 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
bho.bsky.social
Some good #DigitalHistory funding news:
londonstagedb.bsky.social The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social · 16d
Attention all fans of The London Stage Database! 📣

Thanks to a new, internal grant, the LSDB is officially able to resume active development! Read our blog post about the news here:

blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...

#digitalhumanities #c18 #18thc #humanities #theaterhistory
Funding news – Extending the London Stage Database
blogs.uoregon.edu
February 2, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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londonmedieval.bsky.social
LSMS winter programme 2025/26 ft. researchers across the 🌎 speaking on medieval art/environment/medicine/architecture

Tuesdays, 17:30 (GMT) at the @ihr.bsky.social in Bloomsbury or on Zoom.

All welcome, register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval

#medievalsky #skystorians
Grey poster with the details of this term’s LSMS seminar. There is an image on the right hand side of a fragment of an early medieval Iraqi wall painting (OA+.10621) from the British Museum with a male face in black pigment looking right Text is as follows: LONDON SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES Winter 2026 Curating Medieval Islamic Art: Re-presenting Medieval 03 Islamicate Worlds Feb Anushka Hosain (Museum of Fine Art, Houston) & Helena Lahoz Kopiske (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid) Online 'Out of the Mouths of Babes': 17 Reassessing the Lost Miracle Statue Feb of Saint Rumwald at Boxley Abbey Lucy Beall Lott (St Andrews) The Castle in Fourteenth 03 Century Scotland: A Sociological Mar Study of Masculine Identity Isobel Barnard (King's College London) 17 Transforming Medical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Hildegard of Mar Bingen's Physica Lauren Cole (Northwestern University) 31 Harvesting water: traditional ecological knowledge Mar from Medieval Spain in practice and in research Camila Marcone (Yale) ALL WELCOME! Please book via bit.ly/londonmedieval INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Tuesdays, 17.30 Institute of Historical Research
January 19, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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vch-home.bsky.social
NEW *draft text* from our friends and colleagues @vchgloucester.bsky.social.

The parish of Preston near #Cirencester will form part of volume 16 for Gloucestershire.

All comments, additional information and corrections greatly appreciated. #Skystorians #LocalHistory
Gloucestershire vol. XVI - Cirencester and District
The research for the accounts of the prehistory of the area, the Abbey of Cirencester, the town and parish of Cirencester, Bagendon, Baunton, Daglingworth and Stratton.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:14 AM
bho.bsky.social
Really interesting interview on doing research into historic periodicals from @rs4vp.org

(2 parts of 3 so far published)

rs4vp.org/introducing-...
rs4vp.org/getting-star...

#History
"Always Keep Turning the Page" – RSVP
This is Part 2 of our conversation with Patrick Leary on "Getting Started in Periodicals Research," part of our ongoing Interview Series.
rs4vp.org
February 2, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
Between 1485 & 1603 Devon and Cornwall experienced 5 major rebellions: how were they remembered regionally, over time and across social divisions? And how are they being commemorated today?

'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West': bit.ly/3YXxbbz: a new TRHS article by Prof Mark Stoyle 1/2
First page of Transactions article, 'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West', by Mark Stoyle. Full abstract: "This article explores how the five major rebellions which took place in Devon and Cornwall between 1485 and 1603 were subsequently remembered by the region’s inhabitants. It begins by demonstrating that – although early modern elites generally preferred to say as little as possible about episodes of popular protest once they had been safely suppressed – the revolts which had occurred under the Tudor monarchs went on to be officially memorialised in several South Western communities. The article then moves on to discuss how local gentlefolk looked back on the rebellions, and argues that such individuals tended, in their retrospective accounts, to exaggerate the degree of social radicalism which had been exhibited by the insurgents. Next, the article considers the few scraps of evidence which have survived about popular memories of the protests, and suggests that, while the specific grievances which had motivated the rebels may well have been quite quickly forgotten, the desperate courage with which they had fought – particularly during the Western Rising of 1549 – had continued to be remembered by the ordinary people of the region for decades to come. The fourth and last part of the article looks at ‘modern’ commemoration of the revolts and draws out some general conclusions."
January 27, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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brookenewman.bsky.social
Here's a sneak peek at a tiny slice of the research included in my new book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (available for pre-order now and out tomorrow, 1/27)!!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky #slaveryarchive
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
The British Crown Enslaved Thousands at the Height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. New Research Reveals Their Stories
A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and sanctioned its cruelties
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in London anti-military history, 1916: A meeting against forced conscription into the army during World War 1 is held in Victoria Park, 1916.

A post on the East London Federation of Suffragettes, the ‘Woman’s Dreadnought’ and East End opposition to the war
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Today in London radical herstory, 1914: International Womens Day march sees launch of newspaper the Woman’s Dreadnought
“The first part of the procession, which was headed by boys and young men , dressed in a sort of cowboy dress, had just entered the square when Miss Sylvia Pankhurst got off the bus…her arrest was …
wp.me
January 26, 2026 at 8:32 AM
bho.bsky.social
Interview with @brookenewman.bsky.social on her new book 'The Crown’s Silence':

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

#History #EnslavedHistory
British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals
Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
New free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
All of the information in the image is available via the web link.
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM