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Emma Bashforth
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Livery company archivist • PhD student @ihr.bsky.social (apprenticeship in early modern London) • Pen and ink art www.instagram.com/ejb.ink
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ihr.bsky.social
The @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool 2026 is now booking on the theme of 'Sickness & Health'. From the Black Death to Covid-19. Use code HEALTH10 before 24th Jan to get 10% discount! Bursaries available www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social
Happy to say my new book, “Controlling Contagion”, comes out next month. 700 years of tackling pandemics. Not all bad news…

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Controlling Contagion
How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
press.princeton.edu
January 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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markhailwood.bsky.social
As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
manyheadedmonster.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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theguardian.com
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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royalhistsoc.org
RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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justincolson.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!
SAS and The London Archives: Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800
ies.sas.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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oldoptheatre.bsky.social
🩸 It's National Blood Week!🩸

In Victorian times, blood transfusions were rare, experimental and risky!
Fast forward to 2025 - the NHS is currently experiencing a critical shortage of blood.

If you are able, consider donating - it's quick, safe and saves lives.

www.blood.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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tracelarkhall.bsky.social
Hey folks, our lovely @lucyholehouse.bsky.social is doing a cool event at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social this Thursday and it's free! Come along if you're in London 😊
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May 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
NEW✨ In this extract from his new book @princetonupress.bsky.social, The Market for Skill @patrickwallis.bsky.social @lseechist.bsky.social explains how #apprenticeship transformed #England’s workforce in the Early Modern period, fostering human capital, innovation, urbanisation and economic growth.
Apprenticeship and economic growth in early modern England - LSE Review of Books
In this extract from the introduction to his new book, The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England, Patrick Wallis explains how apprenticeship transformed…
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April 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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samklai.bsky.social
Just discovered ROLLCO: http://bit.ly/MadMar - London livery company records online. Another cool resource! #digitisation #manuscripts
Livery Companies - home
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January 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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guildhalllibrary.bsky.social
'London's armory accuratly delineated in a graphical display of all the arms, crests.... of every company and corporate societie in the City of London' by Richard Wallis (1677) (GR 3.3.7)

A striking collection of the coats of arms for various City of London livery companies.
4 elaborate coats of arms for City of London livery companies - the Founders; the Embroiderers; the Poulters and the Cooks. (1677) 4 elaborate coats of arms for City of London livery companies - the Curriers; the Masons; the Plummers and the Innholders. (1677)
April 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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merchantshallyork.org
Too-too-toot!

Happy Easter! 🐣

(BL Royal 3 D VI)
We are looking at an illuminated manuscript of a rabbit sat on foliage playing a long horned like instrument.
April 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
5 Apr 1605: d. John Stow, 'father of #London history' #otd

Every 5 years the incumbent Lord Mayor gives him a new quill. Stow is buried in St Andrew Undershaft.
April 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Sir William Hewett was a founding member (1528) & later Master of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, Lord Mayor of London (1559) by Antonis Mor [Museum of #London]
January 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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scotsarchives.bsky.social
Are you thinking about a career in archives but not sure where to start?

Take a look at our dedicated webpage that talks about different roles, training, volunteering and finding a job!

Explore here:
Thinking About a Career in Archives - Scottish Council on Archives
Archives vary greatly in size and remit, so every archive needs people with a variety of different skills in order to run. Here are some of the main careers that you might find in archives:
www.scottisharchives.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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sharonhoward.bsky.social
Now, if you'd like to catch up on the latest research on #EarlyModern women's work...

- earlymodernwomenswork.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/t...
- formsoflabour.exeter.ac.uk/blog/
The Project’s Findings: What work did women and men do in early modern England?
Jane Whittle The project blog has been quiet for a while – I’ve been working away on a series of articles from the project, Mark has taken up a lectureship in History at Bristol University, and the…
earlymodernwomenswork.wordpress.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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romanceofbooks.bsky.social
Floral representation of the month of March from Robert Furber’s ‘The Flower-Garden displayd.’ London, 1732.

I saw this at @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social while taking a course with @ies-sas.bsky.social Art & Science: The Art of Natural History.

#naturalhistory #rarebooks #botanicalart #flowers
March 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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materialwills.bsky.social
📢 In Case You Missed It! 📢

Our February 'Will of the Month' post is now live on our blog 📜

@lsangha.bsky.social examines the will of a former convict in early Stuart London - telling a story of prisons, personal debts, and a magic ring 💍

#history #skystorians

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Woodcut showing a man dressed in 16th-century clothing (doublet, stockings, hat) holding a bible in one hand, his leg is chained to a wall next to him. Another person looks out from a barred window in the wall - it looks like a prison. Text reads: Lord bring my soul out of prison, Psalm 142.
February 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
Come and join our team!

Special Collections Project Cataloguer, Library and Archives.

🔎Based: South Kensington, London
🔎Fixed term contract (1 year)
🔎Part time
🔎Closing date: 12/03/2025

Full details: https://buff.ly/4keUxTm

#NaturalHistoryMuseum #ArchivesJobs #LibraryJobs #GLAMJobs
A person sits at a table writing in a notebook. In front of them is a bound volume of newspaper cuttings and a mounted pencil sketch on an upright support. A row of eleven books all with brightly coloured spines, published in the Victorian period. All relate to natural history. Two sketchbooks sit open on a table. They depict different types of caterpillar. Behind them, upright on the table is the storage box they came, which is bright red and a modern book titled 'Nature's Explorers'. A large open volume on a table. The camera is focused mainly on the image depicted on the right side, as the left is blank. The image is an original watercolour of a pangolin, shown landscape and facing towards the bottom left. On the right of the page is a sketch of just the head of a pangolin. In the background, standing upright, is a modern book titled 'Nature's Explorers'.
February 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social
A burst of springtime to brighten your Friday!

This illustration of daffodils, narcissi, snowdrops and summer snowflakes comes from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain' (1855) by Anne Pratt.

📷 Baring-Gould Library 0691

#FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday #Spring #RareBooks
An opened book showing a full page colour illustration of the plants daffodils, narcissi, snowdrops and summer snowflakes. The flowers are coloured in shades of white, yellow and red and the leaves are coloured in shades of green.
February 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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ihrscb.bsky.social
Our next event is on Thursday 27 February, 5.30-7.00 pm. Nicola Clarke (Birkbeck) will speak on seventeenth-century accuracy and news: '“I am told … but I know not of a certainty”: The value of accuracy in the multimedia world of news in England 1658-1685.'
www.history.ac.uk/events/i-am-...
“I am told … but I know not of a certainty”: The value of accuracy in the multimedia world of news in England 1658-1685
www.history.ac.uk
February 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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charlhopkins.bsky.social
New exhibition coming on 24 February…counting down! ‘London in the Second World War’ at The London Archives.

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London in the Second World War
In this exhibition at The London Archives explore the experiences of Londoners during the Second World War and the effect it had on the city they knew.
www.thelondonarchives.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM