Ruth Slatter
@ruthslatter.bsky.social
Material & participatory approaches to everyday histories of faith | Lecturer in Historic Environment at @ihr.bsky.social | Member of @chppc.bsky.social | Co-General Editor @vch-home.bsky.social | https://www.history.ac.uk/people/ruth-slatter
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Ruth Slatter
@ruthslatter.bsky.social
· Oct 6
1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
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If you’re in the London and love the study of local histories, this looks very cool
Have you researched a place’s history? Would you like support to turn your research material into a video? Check out these 2 free events in @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @ihr.bsky.social & @vch-home.bsky.social www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
Digital Storytelling for Local History (London)
Are you interested in local history? Do you have photographs, stories, archival material, memories about somewhere - perhaps a local pub, church, school, or area. In this workshop you will be taught h...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If you’re in the London and love the study of local histories, this looks very cool
Have you researched a place’s history? Would you like support to turn your research material into a video? Check out these 2 free events in @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @ihr.bsky.social & @vch-home.bsky.social www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
Digital Storytelling for Local History (London)
Are you interested in local history? Do you have photographs, stories, archival material, memories about somewhere - perhaps a local pub, church, school, or area. In this workshop you will be taught h...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Have you researched a place’s history? Would you like support to turn your research material into a video? Check out these 2 free events in @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @ihr.bsky.social & @vch-home.bsky.social www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
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Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English-language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The p...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)
1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
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Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research.
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research.
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
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New #OnHistory blog post fro @ruthslatter.bsky.social updating us on progress of the @vchlondon.bsky.social and @bho.bsky.social digitisation project. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/digi...
Digitising the Victoria County History: first new volume added to British History Online - On History
In this blog post, Dr Ruth Slatter (Co-General Editor of the Victoria County History and the VCH Digitisation Project Manager) celebrates the publication of new digitised VCH material on British…
blog.history.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New #OnHistory blog post fro @ruthslatter.bsky.social updating us on progress of the @vchlondon.bsky.social and @bho.bsky.social digitisation project. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/digi...
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A new VCH volume available @bho.bsky.social - for more detail, please have a read of this blog from our co-General Editor, @ruthslatter.bsky.social:
July 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A new VCH volume available @bho.bsky.social - for more detail, please have a read of this blog from our co-General Editor, @ruthslatter.bsky.social:
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#Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on @vchlondon.bsky.social projects & more. Closing date 29 August. Please share!
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Lecturer in Historic Environment:London Senate House
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
July 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on @vchlondon.bsky.social projects & more. Closing date 29 August. Please share!
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Brilliant news as my exceptional colleague, @ihr.bsky.social Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, is made Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social. It's a privilege to work with Claire as she ensures the IHR is a supportive, inspiring & inclusive home for all #historians
www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...
Professor Claire Langhamer confirmed as new British Academy Fellow
IHR Professor Claire Langhamer has been appointed a British Academy Fellow
www.london.ac.uk
July 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Brilliant news as my exceptional colleague, @ihr.bsky.social Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, is made Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social. It's a privilege to work with Claire as she ensures the IHR is a supportive, inspiring & inclusive home for all #historians
www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...
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We're very pleased to welcome @themakingofmaidstone.org, a Victoria County History project working on the development of Maidstone in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Led by @jack-newman.com, this three-year project restarts our work in the county. For more:
#Skystorians #LocalHistory
Led by @jack-newman.com, this three-year project restarts our work in the county. For more:
#Skystorians #LocalHistory
Kent
Learn about the Victoria County History of Kent.
www.history.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
We're very pleased to welcome @themakingofmaidstone.org, a Victoria County History project working on the development of Maidstone in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Led by @jack-newman.com, this three-year project restarts our work in the county. For more:
#Skystorians #LocalHistory
Led by @jack-newman.com, this three-year project restarts our work in the county. For more:
#Skystorians #LocalHistory
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It was brilliant to host Tre Ventour-Griffiths in our seminar series earlier this term, talking about the ways in which adaptations of #Austen novels have overlooked her female characters’ role as (absentee) enslavers. The recording is now available here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
"You Can't Sit With Us": Austen's Lady Karens and the British Slave Trade
CHPPC Layers of London Map
www.history.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It was brilliant to host Tre Ventour-Griffiths in our seminar series earlier this term, talking about the ways in which adaptations of #Austen novels have overlooked her female characters’ role as (absentee) enslavers. The recording is now available here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Are you interested in the history of #London? #Francisboorman from #VCH London will be giving a lecture on the development of #Mayfair as a London Suburb on 15.07.25 for the Residents’ Society of Mayfair & St James’s. More info here www.rsmsj.com/events
RSMSJ events in Mayfair & St James, London, UK
Events | RSMSJ events in Mayfair & St James, London, UK
www.rsmsj.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Are you interested in the history of #London? #Francisboorman from #VCH London will be giving a lecture on the development of #Mayfair as a London Suburb on 15.07.25 for the Residents’ Society of Mayfair & St James’s. More info here www.rsmsj.com/events
This was a really warm & collaborative event, which highlighted the value of historians working in all sectors coming together & sharing their experiences of the joys & challenges of collaborative research. Thank you to everyone who came along & generously engaged in the workshop in this spirit!
It was a pleasure to collaborate with @uhihistory.bsky.social colleagues in April to run a workshop on place-based public history & share our ongoing research into public history in the Highlands & Islands. You can now read more about this here blog.history.ac.uk/2025/06/plac...
Place-Based Public and Community History - On History
In this blog post, Ruth Slatter (from the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community) and Iain Robertson (from the University of Highlands and Islands’ Centre for History) reflect on ...
blog.history.ac.uk
June 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This was a really warm & collaborative event, which highlighted the value of historians working in all sectors coming together & sharing their experiences of the joys & challenges of collaborative research. Thank you to everyone who came along & generously engaged in the workshop in this spirit!
Reposted by Ruth Slatter
Great to see this blog post mention several members of the #VCH community who attended the workshop & shared their practical experiences of engaging in #placebased #publichistory
It was a pleasure to collaborate with @uhihistory.bsky.social colleagues in April to run a workshop on place-based public history & share our ongoing research into public history in the Highlands & Islands. You can now read more about this here blog.history.ac.uk/2025/06/plac...
Place-Based Public and Community History - On History
In this blog post, Ruth Slatter (from the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community) and Iain Robertson (from the University of Highlands and Islands’ Centre for History) reflect on ...
blog.history.ac.uk
June 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Great to see this blog post mention several members of the #VCH community who attended the workshop & shared their practical experiences of engaging in #placebased #publichistory
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*NEW BOOK* (yes, the second in a fortnight).
Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre is the latest in our 'Partnership Publications' series, this title in collaboration with @hobnobpress.bsky.social.
#LocalHistory #Skystorians
Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre is the latest in our 'Partnership Publications' series, this title in collaboration with @hobnobpress.bsky.social.
#LocalHistory #Skystorians
Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre, edited by Jean Morrin — Hobnob Press
Basingstoke is frequently seen as a modern town, the product of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long, rich and prosperous history dating from the medieval period. This study ...
www.hobnobpress.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
*NEW BOOK* (yes, the second in a fortnight).
Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre is the latest in our 'Partnership Publications' series, this title in collaboration with @hobnobpress.bsky.social.
#LocalHistory #Skystorians
Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre is the latest in our 'Partnership Publications' series, this title in collaboration with @hobnobpress.bsky.social.
#LocalHistory #Skystorians
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You can buy Cradley online from @uolpress.bsky.social:
uolpress.co.uk/book/the-vic...
But not only from there! [cont.]
uolpress.co.uk/book/the-vic...
But not only from there! [cont.]
The Victoria History of Herefordshire: Cradley - University of London Press
Scenic and rural, the parish of Cradley stretches down westwards from the Malvern Hills, bordered by Worcestershire to the north and east. It is one of the largest parishes in Herefordshire, and from ...
uolpress.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
You can buy Cradley online from @uolpress.bsky.social:
uolpress.co.uk/book/the-vic...
But not only from there! [cont.]
uolpress.co.uk/book/the-vic...
But not only from there! [cont.]
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Our latest book from #Herefordshire, Cradley, was launched last night on a beautiful summer evening.
The authors, Anastasia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes and our director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social joined an appreciative audience.
We sold plenty of copies, but if you would like one [cont.]
The authors, Anastasia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes and our director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social joined an appreciative audience.
We sold plenty of copies, but if you would like one [cont.]
June 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Our latest book from #Herefordshire, Cradley, was launched last night on a beautiful summer evening.
The authors, Anastasia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes and our director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social joined an appreciative audience.
We sold plenty of copies, but if you would like one [cont.]
The authors, Anastasia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes and our director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social joined an appreciative audience.
We sold plenty of copies, but if you would like one [cont.]
Many thanks to Tre for sharing in such an open & personal way in this seminar last night. So much food for thought in his reflections on how the representation of white women in Austen screen adaptations is another way of dismissing the violence & trauma of enslavement. Recording coming soon.
The next event in our summer events series will take place 11.06.25, 5.30-7pm (BST), online only. Tre Ventour-Griffiths will explore female absentee enslavers in #JaneAusten ‘s novels. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇
11.06.25 Tre Ventour-Griffiths will share his research into the often overlooked place of the #slavetrade in #JaneAustens novels. This is another online only event www.history.ac.uk/events/you-c...
June 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Many thanks to Tre for sharing in such an open & personal way in this seminar last night. So much food for thought in his reflections on how the representation of white women in Austen screen adaptations is another way of dismissing the violence & trauma of enslavement. Recording coming soon.
Reposted by Ruth Slatter
In Herefordshire, like all out VCH counties, work is dependent on the support of volunteers and donations. To learn more about the project and how to support it, please see our website. #Skystorians
Herefordshire
Learn about the Victoria County History of Herefordshire.
www.history.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In Herefordshire, like all out VCH counties, work is dependent on the support of volunteers and donations. To learn more about the project and how to support it, please see our website. #Skystorians
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NEW BOOK! We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest book from our colleagues in Herefordshire - Cradley is a large parish beneath the Malvern hills, joining VCH Shorts on Eastnor, Colwall, and Bosbury.
Buy direct from @uolpress.bsky.social, or (soon!) from bookshops in #Ledbury. 🗃️
Buy direct from @uolpress.bsky.social, or (soon!) from bookshops in #Ledbury. 🗃️
June 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
NEW BOOK! We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest book from our colleagues in Herefordshire - Cradley is a large parish beneath the Malvern hills, joining VCH Shorts on Eastnor, Colwall, and Bosbury.
Buy direct from @uolpress.bsky.social, or (soon!) from bookshops in #Ledbury. 🗃️
Buy direct from @uolpress.bsky.social, or (soon!) from bookshops in #Ledbury. 🗃️
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For all you locals, the archivist at the Diocese of Cleveland is really nice and has been extremely helpful for my grad students doing research on old Irish history in Cleveland and the like.
This was a brilliant session. I learnt so much about how Catholic archives have(n’t) been curated & where to look for documents for place-based research. Hugely grateful to @catholicrs.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social & #LawrenceGregory for sharing their wisdom.
Are you interested in researching the histories of #Catholicism in particular villages, towns & cities in the UK? This recording of a training session we recently ran in collaboration with @catholicrs.bsky.social is for you www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/res...
June 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For all you locals, the archivist at the Diocese of Cleveland is really nice and has been extremely helpful for my grad students doing research on old Irish history in Cleveland and the like.
This was a brilliant session. I learnt so much about how Catholic archives have(n’t) been curated & where to look for documents for place-based research. Hugely grateful to @catholicrs.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social & #LawrenceGregory for sharing their wisdom.
Are you interested in researching the histories of #Catholicism in particular villages, towns & cities in the UK? This recording of a training session we recently ran in collaboration with @catholicrs.bsky.social is for you www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/res...
Researching Place-Based Religious Histories Beyond the Parish Church (2) – Catholicism
www.history.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This was a brilliant session. I learnt so much about how Catholic archives have(n’t) been curated & where to look for documents for place-based research. Hugely grateful to @catholicrs.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social & #LawrenceGregory for sharing their wisdom.
Reposted by Ruth Slatter
The next event in our summer events series will take place 11.06.25, 5.30-7pm (BST), online only. Tre Ventour-Griffiths will explore female absentee enslavers in #JaneAusten ‘s novels. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇
11.06.25 Tre Ventour-Griffiths will share his research into the often overlooked place of the #slavetrade in #JaneAustens novels. This is another online only event www.history.ac.uk/events/you-c...
"You Can't Sit With Us": Austen's Lady Karens and the British Slave Trade
www.history.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The next event in our summer events series will take place 11.06.25, 5.30-7pm (BST), online only. Tre Ventour-Griffiths will explore female absentee enslavers in #JaneAusten ‘s novels. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇
Reposted by Ruth Slatter
My @vchlondon.bsky.social #PartnershipPublication on the history of Langley Burrell, Wilts has been called ‘excellent’ by the reviewer!!! Out July.
It threw me so many great anecdotes, not least the lust loving c17 church minister who I absolutely loved writing about (maybe a bit too much). 😁
It threw me so many great anecdotes, not least the lust loving c17 church minister who I absolutely loved writing about (maybe a bit too much). 😁
From the c17 ‘lust loving parson’ for whom only his mother was off limits to the c19 riot that ended in murder. From the Great Fire of London to the squire ‘who made the world’. From an c13 argument over a dog to the impact of American GIs. My #oneplacestudy on Langley Burrell is 😱 Out soon!
June 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My @vchlondon.bsky.social #PartnershipPublication on the history of Langley Burrell, Wilts has been called ‘excellent’ by the reviewer!!! Out July.
It threw me so many great anecdotes, not least the lust loving c17 church minister who I absolutely loved writing about (maybe a bit too much). 😁
It threw me so many great anecdotes, not least the lust loving c17 church minister who I absolutely loved writing about (maybe a bit too much). 😁
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A little window into a distant past courtesy of a bit of editing I'm doing on a book for @vchlondon.bsky.social on #Loughborough.
Women's internationals were played at Loughborough for five years ending in 2013. A lot of familiar names, some still playing today, but what a different context.
Women's internationals were played at Loughborough for five years ending in 2013. A lot of familiar names, some still playing today, but what a different context.
ENG-W vs PAK-W Cricket Scorecard, 2nd ODI at Loughborough, July 03, 2013
Get cricket scorecard of 2nd ODI, ENG-W vs PAK-W, Pakistan Women tour of England 2013 at Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough dated July 03, 2013.
www.espncricinfo.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A little window into a distant past courtesy of a bit of editing I'm doing on a book for @vchlondon.bsky.social on #Loughborough.
Women's internationals were played at Loughborough for five years ending in 2013. A lot of familiar names, some still playing today, but what a different context.
Women's internationals were played at Loughborough for five years ending in 2013. A lot of familiar names, some still playing today, but what a different context.