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An occasional history of day to day living in Birmingham's past.
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Best wishes for the next year. May 2024 bring all your hearts' desires.
Best wishes for the next year. May 2024 bring all your hearts' desires.
“Looking Backwards” as the century came to a close
Elijah Walton, St Martin's Church by Night (1850-1888), Birmingham Museums Trust. The last day of the nineteenth-century fell on a Sunday. It marked the end of a remarkable period in Birmingham's hist...
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December 31, 2023 at 10:09 PM
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Best wishes for the next year. May 2024 bring all your hearts' desires.
Best wishes for the next year. May 2024 bring all your hearts' desires.
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More prizes from @sshmedicine.bsky.social.
2023 Book Development Award Competition. Two awards of £2000.00 each will be given to proposals contracted in the book series, Social Histories of Medicine, published by
Manchester University Press for the SSHM. 1/
Manchester University Press for the SSHM. 1/
December 28, 2023 at 4:20 PM
More prizes from @sshmedicine.bsky.social.
This ad from a 1954 copy of the Birmingham Daily Gazette. Queueing up the back stairs at Lewis's to see Father Christmas in his grotto with Uncle Holly a highlight of the season for many. I hope that you all get your heart's desires this Christmas.
December 23, 2023 at 7:16 PM
This ad from a 1954 copy of the Birmingham Daily Gazette. Queueing up the back stairs at Lewis's to see Father Christmas in his grotto with Uncle Holly a highlight of the season for many. I hope that you all get your heart's desires this Christmas.
What was Christmas like in a 19th century institution?
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Comfort and Joy: an institutional Christmas
Life in early Victorian Birmingham was hard for the majority of the community, but as the post on the visit of Charles Dickens showed, there was a great deal of hope that life for the working classes ...
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December 22, 2023 at 8:39 PM
What was Christmas like in a 19th century institution?
birminghamhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/c...
birminghamhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/c...
Sample of a telegraph cable manufactured by Webster and Horsfell - 1600 tons of wire was drawn at a special engine shed in Hay Mills, Birmingham, in 1865 for the transatlantic telegraph cable from Europe to America. On display at Thinktank, Birmingham.
December 21, 2023 at 2:47 PM
Sample of a telegraph cable manufactured by Webster and Horsfell - 1600 tons of wire was drawn at a special engine shed in Hay Mills, Birmingham, in 1865 for the transatlantic telegraph cable from Europe to America. On display at Thinktank, Birmingham.
In the first half of the 19th century, Birmingham's debtor's prison was popularly known as 'the louse hole', for good reason. birminghamhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/c...
Christmas in the Louse Hole
Birmingham prison was opened in 1849, prior to that criminals were sent to Warwick to suffer their punishment. Issues of debt could be settled at the town's Court of Requests, where local businessmen ...
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December 21, 2023 at 9:39 AM
In the first half of the 19th century, Birmingham's debtor's prison was popularly known as 'the louse hole', for good reason. birminghamhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/c...
Anyone relate to this feeling during the run up to Christmas? This little finial was found at Weoley Castle and is part of the collection managed by Birmingham Museums' Trust.
December 19, 2023 at 6:08 PM
Anyone relate to this feeling during the run up to Christmas? This little finial was found at Weoley Castle and is part of the collection managed by Birmingham Museums' Trust.
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We are pleased to share our CFP for our PGR/ECR conference on ✨‘Age and Health, 1500-1800’✨
Please share far and wide! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions!
🗓️ CFP closes 31 Jan 2024 #EarlyModern
Please share far and wide! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions!
🗓️ CFP closes 31 Jan 2024 #EarlyModern
December 19, 2023 at 7:48 AM
We are pleased to share our CFP for our PGR/ECR conference on ✨‘Age and Health, 1500-1800’✨
Please share far and wide! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions!
🗓️ CFP closes 31 Jan 2024 #EarlyModern
Please share far and wide! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions!
🗓️ CFP closes 31 Jan 2024 #EarlyModern
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📢PhDs and Brand New Career Researchers📢
There's still time! Submit an essay for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's Roy Porter Prize by 5pm 1 Feb for chance to win cash prizes, mentoring for publication, and conference plenary sshm.org/portfolio/pr... #HistSTM #DisHist #HistNursing #HistPsych #Skystorians
There's still time! Submit an essay for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's Roy Porter Prize by 5pm 1 Feb for chance to win cash prizes, mentoring for publication, and conference plenary sshm.org/portfolio/pr... #HistSTM #DisHist #HistNursing #HistPsych #Skystorians
Prizes
2023 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION 2023-roy-porter-entry-formDownload Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2023 Roy Porter Studen...
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December 18, 2023 at 9:17 AM
📢PhDs and Brand New Career Researchers📢
There's still time! Submit an essay for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's Roy Porter Prize by 5pm 1 Feb for chance to win cash prizes, mentoring for publication, and conference plenary sshm.org/portfolio/pr... #HistSTM #DisHist #HistNursing #HistPsych #Skystorians
There's still time! Submit an essay for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's Roy Porter Prize by 5pm 1 Feb for chance to win cash prizes, mentoring for publication, and conference plenary sshm.org/portfolio/pr... #HistSTM #DisHist #HistNursing #HistPsych #Skystorians
Crescent Cycles Catalogue, 1900. Printed in Birmingham by Percival Jones Ltd. It's a lovely image and the sentiment of 'Free Wheels' must have appeared highly liberating for women wanting to shrug off the constraints of the 19th century.
December 18, 2023 at 3:24 PM
Crescent Cycles Catalogue, 1900. Printed in Birmingham by Percival Jones Ltd. It's a lovely image and the sentiment of 'Free Wheels' must have appeared highly liberating for women wanting to shrug off the constraints of the 19th century.
In 1945 people were looking forward to a post-war Christmas. Times were still tough, but the Birmingham Daily Post carried some top festive tips.
December 17, 2023 at 11:29 PM
In 1945 people were looking forward to a post-war Christmas. Times were still tough, but the Birmingham Daily Post carried some top festive tips.
A little post on Charles Dickens readings of his Christmas Carol at Birmingham Town Hall in the mid-19th century. tinyurl.com/4bxwh86d
A Christmas Carol for Birmingham’s working men
On Tuesday, December 27th, 1853, Charles Dickens famously gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol in Birmingham's Town Hall. The event was organised as a fund raiser for the proposed Birm...
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December 17, 2023 at 11:16 PM
A little post on Charles Dickens readings of his Christmas Carol at Birmingham Town Hall in the mid-19th century. tinyurl.com/4bxwh86d