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Justine Pick
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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/
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Lots to look forward to in 2026 for #UnlockingtheVaults at The Exchange
📆Sat 7 Feb 11-3: Heritage Unlocked - come and meet me and members of the volunteer research group to learn more about what we have uncovered.
📆July -November: Unlocking the Vaults Exhibition
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/herit...
Front of promotional flyer for Unlocking the Vaults with images of people opening a vault and safety deposit boxes. Text: Discover the remarkable story of Birmingham Municipal Bank. Join us as we open the doors to its past and celebrate its lasting impact on the city. Reverse of promotional flyer detailing events throughout 2026 for Unlocking the Vaults project. Black and white background with text and images of building and children in vault.
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Our next ‘Meet the Vendors’ session offers the opportunity to meet with commercial suppliers. This time providers of Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS).

📆25 Feb 10:00 AM - 12:15 PM [Online]

Free to #ArchivesWM members
Open to non-members £10 per person
For more info & booking 👇
Meet the Vendors – Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS)
AWM is holding its next ‘Meet the Vendors’ session to enable AWM members to meet with commercial suppliers.  This time we’ll be talking to providers of Digital Asset Management Systems DAMS .
www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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From enamel to iron, printing to interior design, 1430 to present, the latest special issue of Midland History all about the Midlands Metal Trades is available online now.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/5...
Midland History
Midlands Metal Trades. Volume 50, Issue 3 of Midland History
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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archiveswm.bsky.social
Happy New Year!
A reminder for #ArchivesWM members that our free online course in carbon literacy takes place later this month!
#archives @mrcwarwick.bsky.social
archiveswm.bsky.social Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · Dec 8
📣Calling #ArchiveWM members 📣
A free #online course for services in carbon literacy.
Mon 26th Jan (9.30- 1pm) & Tues 27th Jan (1 - 4.30pm).
Attendees should attend both days of the course.
Each member service may send as many staff and/or volunteers as they wish
For details and how to register👇
A free course to help you and your colleagues become carbon literate
AWM is offering its members are free one day course in carbon literacy.  The course aims to improve awareness of the carbon emissions with regards to archives, records management and special collectio...
www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk
January 5, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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This includes the @sshmedicine.bsky.social book series, Social Histories of Medicine. Good stuff here! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/socia...
January 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
As we welcome in the New Year 🎉 and things to look forward to in 2026……
A reminder of the deadline for proposals for #SSHM2026 (University of Leeds, 30 June- 3 July 2026)
Deadline for abstracts: 11 January
SSHM 2026: In/Out
Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawlin…
sshm.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Calling all BALH members! Join us on 29 January 2026 to have your say at our Special General Meeting.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-b...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
On a blue background in white writing, there is the BALH logo and the words "Special General Meeting, January 2026"
December 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
justinepick.bsky.social
Check out Walk Midlands latest newsletter for walks on the English midlands boundaries and borderlands; plus get to know The Derwent Press and learn about the lost Lapal Canal Tunnel 👇
Walk Midlands Newsletter | Substack
Walk Midland's monthly round-up of new day walks in the English Midlands accessible without a car, for walkers interested in all aspects of the region’s people, landscape and history and other content...
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December 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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📣Opportunity for consultants and freelancers

The National Archives & @araukie.bsky.social are seeking a supplier with leadership training experience to present at & chair an event for recordkeepers focused on leadership skills!

Apply here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... (1/2)
15-20 people gathered around a long table in a large library/study space, listening to a presentation being delivered. A large pull-up screen displays a presentation.
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The winner of the 2025 Midland History Essay Prize is 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Rosalind Edden (@rozedden.bsky.social) for her exploration of Gloucester's District Nurses during the 1896 smallpox epidemic.

In second is Eleanor Deakin's paper on Francis Wise's legacy in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire.
the word congratulations is surrounded by multicolored confetti
ALT: the word congratulations is surrounded by multicolored confetti
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December 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
SSHM invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Essay Prize for the best original and unpublished essay in #histmed
🏆£500 first prize
Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025).
For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇
#histmed
Roy Porter Prize 2025-2026
Deadline for entries is 1 February 2026. Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition. Downl…
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December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December!

doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
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December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#BirminghamHistory See the exhibition at the Metro Town Hall stop dedicated to photography pioneer, George Shaw credited with the first photograph of Birmingham. More info: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here’s one of our earliest photos c. 1865 of New Street. Ref: New Street 136 #LibraryofBham
Photograph looking down onto a street with properties of the Victorian period on either side – the majority on the far left of the photo have canopies outside of the premises. Horse and carts on both sides of the street and pedestrians at certain points on the highway. The photograph is faded in parts which reflects its age.
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
Still time for mid-career SSHM members to sign up for the Wellcome funded Online Writing Retreat - deadline 17 December 📝💻
sshmedicine.bsky.social Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Dec 5
✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome
Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026
10am-5.30pm GMT
This event is for SSHM members.
To sign up and for more details see website

Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT)
#histmed
UPCOMING SSHM EVENTS
SSHM Mid-Career Writing Retreat funded by Wellcome Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT Deadline for applications: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) Led by Professor Rowena Murra…
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December 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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theironroom.bsky.social
A blue plaque will be awarded to the Town Hall on Monday 15 December to mark the first public reading of A Christmas Carol by Dickens in December 1853: bmusic.co.uk/news/birming... Ref – Town Hall 77A #LibraryofBham @bmusicltd.bsky.social #BirminghamCivic
A colour illustration of Birmingham Town Hall which is in the left background. A street scene in the foreground consisting of vehicles and pedestrians. A row of buildings in the far right of the illustration.
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome
Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026
10am-5.30pm GMT
This event is for SSHM members.
To sign up and for more details see website

Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT)
#histmed
UPCOMING SSHM EVENTS
SSHM Mid-Career Writing Retreat funded by Wellcome Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT Deadline for applications: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) Led by Professor Rowena Murra…
sshm.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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#CfP Call for Papers

Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick:

Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today

Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026

Submit to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk
Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today We invite papers for a workshop entitled “Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History Today”, to be held at the University of Warwick on 26-27 June 2026. This workshop will seek to bring together historians of labour to collectively reflect on a large historiographical shift that has taken place over the last two decades, from the social history of labour (in national contexts) to global and trans-national labour history. The social history of labour “from below” is a tradition initiated by E.P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963), and extended over several decades by a robust tradition of politically engaged left-wing historical studies of the working classes: a tradition most powerfully entrenched in British historiography (but with many imprints elsewhere, ranging from the United States to Brazil to South Africa to India). The global history of labour, which revised and questioned many of the features of “Thompsonian” history-writing, has sought to overcome “methodological nationalism” in the writing of labour history, to investigate specific labour histories within a global frame, and to enable trans-national histories of workers and work. It has emerged as an increasingly dominant frame of reference for contemporary studies of labour around the world. This workshop seeks to place these two historiographical traditions in conversation with each other, to examine the stakes of the passage from the older, “Thompsonian” tradition to the “global turn”, and to think about the changed meanings of “doing labour history” today. Participants are urged to explicitly reflect on the methodological and conceptual issues at stake in the practice of labour history. We would like to invite submissions that address (but are not necessarily limited to) the following themes: 1. To what extent has the global labour history tradition that has flourished over the last 20 years drawn upon or rejected the methodological and conceptual approaches of Thompsonian social/labour history? What other methodologies and concepts have been deployed and proven fruitful? 2. How do we address the burgeoning critique of Thompsonian social/labour history as parochial and Anglocentric (Bressey, 2015; Satia, 2020), and how have historians responded to this challenge and reshaped British labour history accordingly? What can historians of British labour learn from broader global trajectories of workforce formation and labour movements? 3. How might integrating histories of consumption, environment, and reproduction enrich our understanding of labour and its global entanglements? 4. In what ways can collaboration between historians of Britain and the global south generate new analytical frameworks or unsettle established narratives of class, race, and empire? 5. What kinds of politically-engaged global social and labour history can best respond to the contemporary challenges of rising global inequality and the appropriation of class politics by some sections of the populist right? 6. The legitimacy of 'radical' forms of labour-history writing initially arose from politics, from the apparently established centrality of the industrial working class both in society and in projects of social emancipation. That centrality has now been in precipitous decline for a long time. In this context, how might we think about what the ‘politics of doing labour history’ actually implies today? 7. What has been gained and what has been lost in the shift from a labour history dominated by “history from below” to one dominated by global history? Please send abstracts to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Call for papers #CFP

Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition

Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present When and where: University of Warwick, Coventry, on Thursday 18 June 2026. Conference summary: This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Held jointly by the University of Warwick's Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, and Modern Records Centre, the event will run alongside an exhibition which will explore some of the themes covered by the speakers through the National Union of Mineworkers' archives. We welcome contributions from new and established researchers, working inside and outside higher education. Confirmed participants include: - Jörg Arnold (University of Augsburg / Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin), author of The British Miner in the Age of DeIndustrialization - Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Principal Investigator on research project On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 and former miner - Quentin Outram (University of Leeds), Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History and co-editor of Coal in Victorian Britain Conference themes: Subjects that could be addressed include but are not limited to: The human cost of coal, including: - Mining disasters, their contemporary impacts and later memorialisation. - Industrial accidents, industrial diseases and workers’ compensation. - Mine safety and the improvement of conditions. - Mining and mental health. Industrial health and welfare, including: - Pre-nationalisation provision in and beyond the colliery. - National Coal Board provision, including the NCB Medical Service, housing and the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation. - Trade union campaigns and benefit schemes. - Sport and social provision as mining welfare. Coal and community, including: - Environmental impact. - Mining families and the intergenerational effects of the mining industry. - Impacts of the industry with particular reference to gender, race and ethnicity. - Coalfield communities after coal: the effects of deindustrialisation. Submission guidelines We wish to make space for dialogue between academic and community-based researchers, and welcome involvement from mining heritage and local history groups / researchers from former coalfield communities. We welcome and encourage alternative presentational styles. Possible formats for contributions could include: - 15-20 minute papers. - 5 minute lightning papers (for example showcasing a particular object or archival source, or highlighting a particular place, event, individual or experience). - Round table discussions. - Posters or displays. Submission deadline: 25 January 2026. Limited funding for travel support will be available, with priority given to early career researchers or participants who cannot draw upon institutional funding. For additional enquiries, please contact the conference organisers at archives@warwick.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Inspired by the industrial heritage of Cornwall, the theme of the 2026 CPHC/Print Networks Conference is Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage. It will be held at Kresen Kernow, Cornwall 10-11 June 2026. Deadline for abstracts is 31 January. More here: www.cphc.org.uk/updates/2025...
Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage — CPHC
Call for papers
www.cphc.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Already written your paper for #BSECS2026? Then you might think about applying for the BSECS-BECC fellowship: £400 to support a researcher to use numerous #18thC resources housed in & around Birmingham
Details of all our awards here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
***DEADLINE 1 FEBRUARY 2026***
Prizes and awards Archive - BSECS
www.bsecs.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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midlandhistory.bsky.social
An exciting fully #funded #PhD opportunity at Nottingham Trent University in partnership with Birmingham Botanical Gardens and National Trust, that will explore the co-productive and decolonial potential of photogrammetry and extended reality (XR) in botanical #heritage.
For more details 👇
Reimagining the Glasshouse: Diversifying Narratives with Extended Reality at Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Fully funded PhD studentship opportunity.
www.ntu.ac.uk
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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#Disability History Month runs from 20 November until 20 December. Chance to look at Birmingham institutions such as the Birmingham Royal Institute for the Blind started in 1846. Ref - WK/E1/481 #LibraryofBham
Illustration of a two-tiered Victorian institution with a domed clock tower in its centre. The building is in the grounds of a park and figures are stood outside the entrance.
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This event is the first of a series of free online events (running to January to June 2026) exploring how archives can engage with difficult records through people-centred and trauma-informed practices (2/2)
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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📣Calling archivists, researchers & heritage professionals!

Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work.

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... (1/2)
A young man sits at a table with a laptop and dozens of toned paper documents in front of him. He holds up one particular document and points to it while another archivist stands over him to offer advice.
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM