Louise Falcini
@louisefalcini.bsky.social
Interested in co-production, archives and public histories. Historian of 18thC poverty, marginal communities and cleanliness. Currently researching 19thC prisons. I did a thing here www.thomasturner.org.uk #18C
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I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
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Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
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I wonder if anyone on here can help? Attached is a section from a 1706 volume, with shorthand annotations that look like Brachygraphy to me. The assumption has to be that they represent the biblical passages in the nearby text, but I can't make the shorthand agree with the texts being referenced.
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I wonder if anyone on here can help? Attached is a section from a 1706 volume, with shorthand annotations that look like Brachygraphy to me. The assumption has to be that they represent the biblical passages in the nearby text, but I can't make the shorthand agree with the texts being referenced.
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EHRI-UK (@ehri-uk.bsky.social) are seeking to map the network of archives in the UK which have collections that relate to the Holocaust in their holdings.
Please contact info@ehri-uk.org by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
Please contact info@ehri-uk.org by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
EHRI-UK (@ehri-uk.bsky.social) are seeking to map the network of archives in the UK which have collections that relate to the Holocaust in their holdings.
Please contact info@ehri-uk.org by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
Please contact info@ehri-uk.org by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
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These catalogue updates allow me, a serious historian, to search for "fart" and find the case where the accused allegedly said he "cared not a fart for the Lord Mayor of London." What will you find? discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
These catalogue updates allow me, a serious historian, to search for "fart" and find the case where the accused allegedly said he "cared not a fart for the Lord Mayor of London." What will you find? discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
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To accompany her new book, Rachael also wrote for the RHS blog about the prominence of guilds in pre-Reformation society bit.ly/4oncsc1.
All 25 books in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series are available free Open Access. To learn more about NHP bit.ly/47rxWP3 2/2 #Skystorians
All 25 books in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series are available free Open Access. To learn more about NHP bit.ly/47rxWP3 2/2 #Skystorians
25th title published in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' Open Access book series - RHS
The Society is very pleased to announce publication, today, of the 25th title in its 'New Historical Perspectives' book series: Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlo...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
To accompany her new book, Rachael also wrote for the RHS blog about the prominence of guilds in pre-Reformation society bit.ly/4oncsc1.
All 25 books in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series are available free Open Access. To learn more about NHP bit.ly/47rxWP3 2/2 #Skystorians
All 25 books in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series are available free Open Access. To learn more about NHP bit.ly/47rxWP3 2/2 #Skystorians
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The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award!
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award!
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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Art of Laundry. Via FB/Junta Takao (with thanks to Clive Norris). Estendendo a roupa 1953 photo Ramón Dimas…
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Art of Laundry. Via FB/Junta Takao (with thanks to Clive Norris). Estendendo a roupa 1953 photo Ramón Dimas…
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Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October!
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
The Open University
Moments of Rupture Online 20-21 November 2025Some legal and social changes are so profound that they create what seem to be moments of rupture: breaks between the ‘before’ and ‘after’. These moments c...
law-school.open.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October!
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
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Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
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A great little 1777 King's Bench case. The defendants were accused of boiling "great quantities of soap lees, whale oil, and caput mortuum of aqua fortis", causing "unwholesome smokes, stenches, and smells" and corrupting and infecting the air. [TNA KB 28/304]
October 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A great little 1777 King's Bench case. The defendants were accused of boiling "great quantities of soap lees, whale oil, and caput mortuum of aqua fortis", causing "unwholesome smokes, stenches, and smells" and corrupting and infecting the air. [TNA KB 28/304]
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'Halcyon Days' by Anna Pugh, contemporary British folk artist #womensart
October 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
'Halcyon Days' by Anna Pugh, contemporary British folk artist #womensart
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I am one of the speakers at this literary event on Saturday: shorehamwordfest.com/events/susse...
Shoreham Wordfest
Shoreham Wordfest - Celebrating literature, arts, and culture in Shoreham-by-Sea
shorehamwordfest.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I am one of the speakers at this literary event on Saturday: shorehamwordfest.com/events/susse...
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Sex, lies, and the Chevalier d'Eon! You can now listen to my @long18thsem.bsky.social talk on Lord Mansfield and the Chevalier d'Eon on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Sex, lies, and the Chevalier d'Eon! You can now listen to my @long18thsem.bsky.social talk on Lord Mansfield and the Chevalier d'Eon on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Marie Petiet, The Laundresses, 1882, Oil on canvas. 113 x 170 cm (Limoux, Musée Petiet)
September 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Marie Petiet, The Laundresses, 1882, Oil on canvas. 113 x 170 cm (Limoux, Musée Petiet)
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🤗 Very proud of our staff members for having an article published in the latest issue of @learnedpublishing.bsky.social about the Living with Machines project on our @manifoldscholar.bsky.social platform!
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities
September 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🤗 Very proud of our staff members for having an article published in the latest issue of @learnedpublishing.bsky.social about the Living with Machines project on our @manifoldscholar.bsky.social platform!
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities
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If you needed another excuse to spend an evening at the lovely London Archives and enjoy the delights of Exmouth Street:
🚨 To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840 🚨
📅 Wednesday 3 September @ 5:30pm
📣 @kiranmehta.bsky.social discusses the diverse penal landscape of 18th century London. An incredible book using many TLA documents!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-detain-...
📅 Wednesday 3 September @ 5:30pm
📣 @kiranmehta.bsky.social discusses the diverse penal landscape of 18th century London. An incredible book using many TLA documents!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-detain-...
To Detain or To Punish
Join us at The London Archives as Dr Kiran Mehta introduces her new book exploring the penal landscape of 18th century London.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If you needed another excuse to spend an evening at the lovely London Archives and enjoy the delights of Exmouth Street:
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The First Lego League is a competition that schools from all over the place compete in. As part of the competition they need to consult with an expert. A lot of clubs use our program to make that connection.
This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.
This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.
This is an official Skype a Scientist HQ Mayday Alert to all Archaeologists.
We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38!
Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38!
Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
August 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Railway historians/enthusiasts - can anyone suggest how/where I can find photos of obscure railways and trains? I would like photos of the L&SWR Basingstoke-Alton branch - ideally of Herriard station, and the railmotors that ran on the line.
August 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Really pleased to see the Autumn programme for @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome - but please do register. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
British History in the Long 18th Century
Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns
www.history.ac.uk
August 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Really pleased to see the Autumn programme for @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome - but please do register. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Always crushed hard on Alan Cumming
"...just like superheroes, trans people are not new. They've been around forever and they're not going anywhere..."
"...just like superheroes, trans people are not new. They've been around forever and they're not going anywhere..."
July 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Always crushed hard on Alan Cumming
"...just like superheroes, trans people are not new. They've been around forever and they're not going anywhere..."
"...just like superheroes, trans people are not new. They've been around forever and they're not going anywhere..."
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New on advance access: "The purposeful workhouse of England's Old Poor Law"
by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
The purposeful workhouse of England’s Old Poor Law*
Abstract. It has long been recognized that the English workhouses of the Old Poor Law era (1601-1834) were important precursors to institutions of the mode
academic.oup.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
New on advance access: "The purposeful workhouse of England's Old Poor Law"
by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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Very sad news. A huge legacy, especially his Survey of London work (for me anyways).
Very sad to hear about the death of Andrew Saint, pictured here giving huge architectural history energy with Gavin Stamp at the NT. His books all written with tremendous style across a terrific range of topics. Towards a Social Architecture, his superb history of post-war schools my favourite.
July 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Very sad news. A huge legacy, especially his Survey of London work (for me anyways).
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Another highlight of today at the @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool: my colleague John Levin, Editor of @bho.bsky.social, giving a brilliant lunchtime talk on debtors' prisons and sanctuaries in early modern London.
July 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Another highlight of today at the @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool: my colleague John Levin, Editor of @bho.bsky.social, giving a brilliant lunchtime talk on debtors' prisons and sanctuaries in early modern London.