Hidden Treasures
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Celebrating archives across the UK telling the story of Jews and the Jewish community in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. https://linktr.ee/jewishhiddentreasures
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We are Hidden Treasures - a gateway to British archives with collections that explore the rich history of Jewish life in the UK and the Isle of Man, and the contribution of Jews to all regions and aspects of British life.
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We are Hidden Treasures - a gateway to British archives with collections that explore the rich history of Jewish life in the UK and the Isle of Man, and the contribution of Jews to all regions and aspects of British life.
Find out more about us here: linktr.ee/jewishhidden...
Now part of the Jewish Museum London collection, this is one of only two surviving Jewish union banners in Britain.
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London Jewish Bakers Union banner • The Jewish Museum, London
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November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Now part of the Jewish Museum London collection, this is one of only two surviving Jewish union banners in Britain.
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#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #JewishCommunity #WorkingClassHistory #Archives
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NEW Episode is live!
How did Jews feel about their persecutors during the Holocaust? How do we know? In this episode, I talked with Amy Shapiro Simon about her fascinating work on ghetto diaries and these questions.
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How did Jews feel about their persecutors during the Holocaust? How do we know? In this episode, I talked with Amy Shapiro Simon about her fascinating work on ghetto diaries and these questions.
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Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish DIaries with Amy Shapiro Simon - The Holocaust History Podcast
We often make the mistake of thinking that history is all about what happened and why. However, its also very much about how people felt about what was happening to them.In this episode, I talke...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
NEW Episode is live!
How did Jews feel about their persecutors during the Holocaust? How do we know? In this episode, I talked with Amy Shapiro Simon about her fascinating work on ghetto diaries and these questions.
thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
How did Jews feel about their persecutors during the Holocaust? How do we know? In this episode, I talked with Amy Shapiro Simon about her fascinating work on ghetto diaries and these questions.
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📢There is still time to apply for the EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships! Deadline 30 November 2025 📅 Please share within your networks. @ehri-project.eu @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @holocaustnorth.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
The Second Call for EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships is live 📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2025
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November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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'The diversity of Jewish life' - Dr @anikawalke.bsky.social her research into the Holocaust in Belorussia, in our 'Dialogues' podcast series - holocausteducation.org.uk/dialogues-in...
challenging a range of narratives, & reflecting on what this might mean for classroom practice.
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challenging a range of narratives, & reflecting on what this might mean for classroom practice.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
'The diversity of Jewish life' - Dr @anikawalke.bsky.social her research into the Holocaust in Belorussia, in our 'Dialogues' podcast series - holocausteducation.org.uk/dialogues-in...
challenging a range of narratives, & reflecting on what this might mean for classroom practice.
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challenging a range of narratives, & reflecting on what this might mean for classroom practice.
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Letters regarding loss of ship Lord Raglan, departed from Liverpool in 1863, & regarding a passenger, Mark Bernstein. Mrs Bernstein wished to remarry and the synagogue required proof of the death of her first husband
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November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Letters regarding loss of ship Lord Raglan, departed from Liverpool in 1863, & regarding a passenger, Mark Bernstein. Mrs Bernstein wished to remarry and the synagogue required proof of the death of her first husband
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@biajs.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
The next Archivist in the Spotlight blog is coming next week, so catch up on the first.
Join Project Archivist, Frankie Drummond Charig, to hear about a project cataloguing Jewish material in Sheffield: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#ICYMI #JewishHistory #LocalHistory #Archives
Join Project Archivist, Frankie Drummond Charig, to hear about a project cataloguing Jewish material in Sheffield: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#ICYMI #JewishHistory #LocalHistory #Archives
Archivist in the Spotlight: Cataloguing Jewish Sheffield with Frankie Drummond Charig - hiddentreasurenew
Welcome to the first in our new series of blogs highlighting some of the archivists, collections and projects that make up the […]
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The next Archivist in the Spotlight blog is coming next week, so catch up on the first.
Join Project Archivist, Frankie Drummond Charig, to hear about a project cataloguing Jewish material in Sheffield: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#ICYMI #JewishHistory #LocalHistory #Archives
Join Project Archivist, Frankie Drummond Charig, to hear about a project cataloguing Jewish material in Sheffield: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#ICYMI #JewishHistory #LocalHistory #Archives
Our friends Jewish History Association of South Wales are expanding their scope to the whole of Wales and have plenty of new projects celebrating Welsh Jewish heritage.
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#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Wales #NewBlogPost
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The Jewish History Association of Wales: From South Wales Roots to a National Vision - hiddentreasurenew
The Jewish History Association of South Wales turns eight this year. Laura Henley Harrison, project manager, tells us about how the organisation is changing to celebrate more of the Jewish heritage ac...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Our friends Jewish History Association of South Wales are expanding their scope to the whole of Wales and have plenty of new projects celebrating Welsh Jewish heritage.
Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/the-jew...
#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Wales #NewBlogPost
Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/the-jew...
#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Wales #NewBlogPost
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Some really interesting correspondence found among the papers of the West London Synagogue respecting Mosaic Law and the proposed marriage of Mr Drucquer and Miss de Meza in 1872.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Some really interesting correspondence found among the papers of the West London Synagogue respecting Mosaic Law and the proposed marriage of Mr Drucquer and Miss de Meza in 1872.
@biajs.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
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Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide’s Oldest Victims?
Our latest groundbreaking @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
Our latest groundbreaking @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide's Oldest Victims?
A new exhibition at London's Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II
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November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide’s Oldest Victims?
Our latest groundbreaking @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
Our latest groundbreaking @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
The National Register of Jewish Memorial Boards is a database of boards commemorating British Jews who served in World War 1. Some are still in synagogues and cemeteries but others are now lost.
Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/nat...
#RememberanceDay #JewishHistory #Archives
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National Register of Memorial Boards - hiddentreasurenew
The National Register of Jewish Memorial Boards is a digital collection by the British Jews in the First World War project. It is […]
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November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The National Register of Jewish Memorial Boards is a database of boards commemorating British Jews who served in World War 1. Some are still in synagogues and cemeteries but others are now lost.
Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/nat...
#RememberanceDay #JewishHistory #Archives
Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/nat...
#RememberanceDay #JewishHistory #Archives
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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Chayei Sarah (חַיֵּי שָׂרָה) with a bird wearing a golden crown.
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Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.18r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.18r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Chayei Sarah (חַיֵּי שָׂרָה) with a bird wearing a golden crown.
#ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.18r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
#ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.18r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
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Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
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📣 NGG WIP Seminar: Jews in Medieval Spain
Ana Roda Sánchez | Jews & converts in 15th-c Castile
Carmen Caballero Navas | Jewish women’s medical practice in medieval Iberia
Mon 17 Nov 2025, 19:00–20:00 (UK), online.
Info/Zoom: DM us or email jhse.ngg@gmail.com
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Ana Roda Sánchez | Jews & converts in 15th-c Castile
Carmen Caballero Navas | Jewish women’s medical practice in medieval Iberia
Mon 17 Nov 2025, 19:00–20:00 (UK), online.
Info/Zoom: DM us or email jhse.ngg@gmail.com
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November 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
📣 NGG WIP Seminar: Jews in Medieval Spain
Ana Roda Sánchez | Jews & converts in 15th-c Castile
Carmen Caballero Navas | Jewish women’s medical practice in medieval Iberia
Mon 17 Nov 2025, 19:00–20:00 (UK), online.
Info/Zoom: DM us or email jhse.ngg@gmail.com
@jewishhistorical.bsky.social
Ana Roda Sánchez | Jews & converts in 15th-c Castile
Carmen Caballero Navas | Jewish women’s medical practice in medieval Iberia
Mon 17 Nov 2025, 19:00–20:00 (UK), online.
Info/Zoom: DM us or email jhse.ngg@gmail.com
@jewishhistorical.bsky.social
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Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back!
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
PhD and a Cup of Tea - Spatial Research of Łódź's Jewish Middle and Upper-Class Before the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Part of our PhD and a Cup of Tea series of academic seminars. Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research exploring the spatial conduct of Łódź's Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back!
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.
Open for booking now:
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"Often people think about the experience of the camps and the ensuing liberation, but not as much about what it feels like to like to carry those memories through the years that followed." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Two Holocaust survivors wrote each other letters for decades. Now they're being shared with the world | CBC News
Jewish London is hosting an event Thursday, Nov. 13 featuring a Canadian woman who came across a collection of her mother's old letters. The correspondence, lasting decades, reveals the experiences of...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"Often people think about the experience of the camps and the ensuing liberation, but not as much about what it feels like to like to carry those memories through the years that followed." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
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📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
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November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe Jewish studies grants are now open.
The Collaborative Fellowships in Jewish Heritage supports universities and heritage institutions to jointly recruit a PhD or postdoctoral fellow.
Find out more: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
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The Collaborative Fellowships in Jewish Heritage supports universities and heritage institutions to jointly recruit a PhD or postdoctoral fellow.
Find out more: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
#Grants
Collaborative Fellowships in Jewish Heritage - Rothschild
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November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe Jewish studies grants are now open.
The Collaborative Fellowships in Jewish Heritage supports universities and heritage institutions to jointly recruit a PhD or postdoctoral fellow.
Find out more: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
#Grants
The Collaborative Fellowships in Jewish Heritage supports universities and heritage institutions to jointly recruit a PhD or postdoctoral fellow.
Find out more: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
#Grants
The day after the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht), Otto Deutsch walked to the centre of Vienna.
His interview with AJR Refugee Voices is a powerful remembrance of what he saw that day.
Watch it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/ot...
#JewishHistory #Archives #Holocaust #Kristallnacht
His interview with AJR Refugee Voices is a powerful remembrance of what he saw that day.
Watch it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/ot...
#JewishHistory #Archives #Holocaust #Kristallnacht
Otto Deutsch Remembers Kristallnacht - hiddentreasurenew
Kristallnacht in Vienna recalled by Otto Deutsch • AJR Refugee Voices
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November 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The day after the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht), Otto Deutsch walked to the centre of Vienna.
His interview with AJR Refugee Voices is a powerful remembrance of what he saw that day.
Watch it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/ot...
#JewishHistory #Archives #Holocaust #Kristallnacht
His interview with AJR Refugee Voices is a powerful remembrance of what he saw that day.
Watch it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/ot...
#JewishHistory #Archives #Holocaust #Kristallnacht
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#BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck
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#BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck
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Call for Papers: BIAJS Conference 2026 (13-15 July, Birkbeck, University of London)
CALL FOR PAPERS #BIAJS2026 Space and Place in Jewish Studies British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026 Birkbeck, University of London | July 2026 “there is…
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November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
As mentioned in the blog by Frankie Drummond Charig on her work with the Jewish archives in Sheffield, From Shtetl to Steel City: The Lost World of Sheffield Jewish Life has now been published.
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From Shtetl to Steel City
From Shtetl to Steel City explores the hidden history that lies buried in these records. It brings to life the world of impoverished immigrants, who fled from oppression to embrace an alien environ…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As mentioned in the blog by Frankie Drummond Charig on her work with the Jewish archives in Sheffield, From Shtetl to Steel City: The Lost World of Sheffield Jewish Life has now been published.
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#NewBookRelease #JewishHistory
“It’s about making sure these stories don’t just survive—they thrive.”
Last month, archivists and others from across the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland met in Sheffield.
Read about the event here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/connect...
#JewishHistory #Archives #Research
Last month, archivists and others from across the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland met in Sheffield.
Read about the event here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/connect...
#JewishHistory #Archives #Research
Connecting Collections: A Day for Archivists Working with Jewish Materials - hiddentreasurenew
On 17 September, Sheffield Central Library became a hub of ideas, stories, and collaboration as archivists, curators, and heritage professionals gathered for […]
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October 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“It’s about making sure these stories don’t just survive—they thrive.”
Last month, archivists and others from across the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland met in Sheffield.
Read about the event here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/connect...
#JewishHistory #Archives #Research
Last month, archivists and others from across the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland met in Sheffield.
Read about the event here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/connect...
#JewishHistory #Archives #Research
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Join us next week (4 Nov) for this year's Royal Historical Society Public History Lecture, with @greshamcollege.bsky.social:
'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd
6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians
'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd
6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians
Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother
This is the annual Royal Historical Society Lecture. In April 1945, British forces liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and arrested its commandant, Josef Kramer. What followed was the first...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Join us next week (4 Nov) for this year's Royal Historical Society Public History Lecture, with @greshamcollege.bsky.social:
'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd
6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians
'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd
6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians
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We are delighted to launch the 2026 Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize with the SMG Learning Centre! We are inviting entries from UK students in Years 10 and 11, with a First Prize of £400 and a Second Prize of £200. sirmartingilbertlearningcentre.org/smg-history-...
History Prize 2026
2020 saw the launch of the Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize, an annual competition to honour Sir Martin’s work and inspire the next generation of historians.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We are delighted to launch the 2026 Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize with the SMG Learning Centre! We are inviting entries from UK students in Years 10 and 11, with a First Prize of £400 and a Second Prize of £200. sirmartingilbertlearningcentre.org/smg-history-...
"That’s the magic of archival work — it layers history onto the everyday"
We spoke to Frankie Drummond Charig, who has just completed a project looking at Jewish Sheffield.
Read the first Archivist in the Spotlight blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#Archives #JewishHistory
We spoke to Frankie Drummond Charig, who has just completed a project looking at Jewish Sheffield.
Read the first Archivist in the Spotlight blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#Archives #JewishHistory
October 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"That’s the magic of archival work — it layers history onto the everyday"
We spoke to Frankie Drummond Charig, who has just completed a project looking at Jewish Sheffield.
Read the first Archivist in the Spotlight blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#Archives #JewishHistory
We spoke to Frankie Drummond Charig, who has just completed a project looking at Jewish Sheffield.
Read the first Archivist in the Spotlight blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#Archives #JewishHistory
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"Her harsh & nasal voice completely spoils the effect of the music..." Poor Miss Levy!
This 1895 letter from the West London Synagogue Archives made us smile and is old enough to share without causing embarrassment!
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This 1895 letter from the West London Synagogue Archives made us smile and is old enough to share without causing embarrassment!
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"Her harsh & nasal voice completely spoils the effect of the music..." Poor Miss Levy!
This 1895 letter from the West London Synagogue Archives made us smile and is old enough to share without causing embarrassment!
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social
This 1895 letter from the West London Synagogue Archives made us smile and is old enough to share without causing embarrassment!
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social