Craig Spence
@cspence.bsky.social
Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
New Bills of Mortality blog post - 'I am "fully persuaded that many lives would be saved": Children falling from windows then and now' billsofmortality.org
With some comparative historical thoughts on the recently published report from the UK's National Child Mortality Database
With some comparative historical thoughts on the recently published report from the UK's National Child Mortality Database
The Bills of Mortality & Sudden Violent Death
A critically curious reflection on occurrences of sudden violent death in early modern London
billsofmortality.org
August 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New Bills of Mortality blog post - 'I am "fully persuaded that many lives would be saved": Children falling from windows then and now' billsofmortality.org
With some comparative historical thoughts on the recently published report from the UK's National Child Mortality Database
With some comparative historical thoughts on the recently published report from the UK's National Child Mortality Database
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Reposted by Craig Spence
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense) then please sign this open letter I and others have put together to UK Archaeological associations to urge overt and resolute solidarity with trans archaeologists, and the wider trans community
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...
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May 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense) then please sign this open letter I and others have put together to UK Archaeological associations to urge overt and resolute solidarity with trans archaeologists, and the wider trans community
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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May 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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I was cataloguing and found this great backstory about an object and wrote a quick blog.
The museum is up for closure, so I want to get some of the stories out there.
It’s not just a piece of paper, it tells the story of our community.
museumofcannockchaseblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/e...
The museum is up for closure, so I want to get some of the stories out there.
It’s not just a piece of paper, it tells the story of our community.
museumofcannockchaseblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/e...
Explosion at West Cannock No. 5
A display case in the mining gallery contains an unassuming little letter. It was sent to Percy Stanley by the management of West Cannock Colliery Company in 1933, thanking him for his rescue durin…
museumofcannockchaseblog.wordpress.com
December 20, 2024 at 8:23 AM
I was cataloguing and found this great backstory about an object and wrote a quick blog.
The museum is up for closure, so I want to get some of the stories out there.
It’s not just a piece of paper, it tells the story of our community.
museumofcannockchaseblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/e...
The museum is up for closure, so I want to get some of the stories out there.
It’s not just a piece of paper, it tells the story of our community.
museumofcannockchaseblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/e...
On an archaeological dig in Lincoln in 2012 we found a Tazzos promotional crisp packet from the backfill of a previous excavation that took place in 1995. It's now on display in the uni with others from an even earlier dig on the same site in the 1970s!
I wonder if they want this from a 2018 archaeological dig I was on*
*removing a rockery, yes I kept it.
*removing a rockery, yes I kept it.
October 26, 2023 at 8:08 PM
On an archaeological dig in Lincoln in 2012 we found a Tazzos promotional crisp packet from the backfill of a previous excavation that took place in 1995. It's now on display in the uni with others from an even earlier dig on the same site in the 1970s!