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Midland History Journal
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We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
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Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · Nov 14
The Midland History journal welcomes article submissions from professional and independent historians, and research students, working on any aspect of the history of the Midlands from Roman times to the 21st century. Visit our submissions site here:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ymd...
Midland History
Midland History publishes on the history of the English Midlands region and historical comparisons with other areas.
www.tandfonline.com
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justinepick.bsky.social
Looking forward to this #Birmingham #LocalHistory talk by fellow enthusiast @jfredt.bsky.social
📅Thurs 13 November
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
💻Online
Free and open to all just register to receive link
John Pigott Smith, Surveyor (1798-1861): Birmingham’s Answer to Bazalgette
John Townley explores the career of civil engineer John Pigott Smith, a man of many parts and Birmingham’s answer to Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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justinepick.bsky.social
Enjoyable day at Black Country Day at the Black Country Living Museum
Some content already available on @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social YouTube site
#Railways200
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A video of the presentation given by Chris Baker at the Black Country History Day on November 8th entitled "Agenoria, Aristocrats and Iron Masters – Railway Beginnings in the western Black Country 1820 to 1860 " is now available on the Society YouTube site youtu.be/mcyE57Dqdbw
Agenoria, Aristocrats and Iron Masters; Railway Beginnings in the western Black Country 1820 to 1860
A talk given at "After Agenoria; Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country, Black Country Living Museum, 8th November 2025". This talk considers the early development of the rail system…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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#Historians, mark your calendars!

Our 2026 Summer Conference will be held on 13-15 July at @royalholloway.bsky.social. The Call for Papers will open in January 2026.

#churchhistory #Skystorians #cfp
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Job Opportunity! @mrcwarwick.bsky.social 👇
#Archives #ArchivesWM
mrcwarwick.bsky.social Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 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...
Five photographs of the Modern Records Centre: Two students walking outside the main entrance. A view down the aisle of one of our strongrooms. A student looking through a photograph album in our seminar room. Digitisation Assistant at work scanning a volume. A view of our searchroom, with an Archive Assistant handing out a document to a researcher.
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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justinepick.bsky.social
There is still time to enter the Midland History essay prize
£400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal
Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃
#phd #ecr #postgrad
midlandhistory.bsky.social Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · Aug 12
To enter the Midland History Essay Prize, the essay must be a genuine work of original research, not published or accepted for publication as an article or a chapter in an edited collection book. Max. 10,000 words, including footnotes, tables and figure captions (2/2)
More Details 👇
Flyer advertising Midland History Essay Prize 2025. Black background with text in while and image of journal front cover. Email j.pick@bham.ac.uk for more details or enquiries.
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
On Friday 21 November we host the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture given this year by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): bit.ly/48NJHR5

‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘

6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘: In Person
The Royal Historical Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA, FBA (Trinity College Dublin): IN PERSON BOOKING
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October 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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theironroom.bsky.social
Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Mon 3rd November at 5.30pm tinyurl.com/UptonBaskerv... Professor Caroline Archer-Parré will be giving her talk: Inhuming and exhuming: John Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc
Image 1 : A book - front cover facing on. Cover is a reproduction of a painting depicting a male figure wearing the traditional eighteenth-century garb of a gentleman - wig with curled up sides and frock coat with neckerchief. Title of the book at the top of the page is John Baskerville: art and industry of the Enlightenment. Names of the editors beneath this on the left of the cover. Image 2 – Two books resting on a table, both front covers facing on. Title is A History of Birmingham in the top left of the front cover. An illustration of a bustling square – Georgian and early Victorian architecture. A group of people carrying a jardinière in the bottom left of the picture and a horse and carriage in the right. People populating the various corners of the illustration. A bookcase behind the table on which the books are resting.
October 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Our call for papers deadline is a week today! #medhums #histmed #histpsych
annafranjam.bsky.social Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · Sep 9
Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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justinepick.bsky.social
A new season of talks from the Centre for Midlands History & Cultures begins next month!
We begin with a house history - Winterbourne, Edgbaston, #Birmingham
📅Thurs 16 October
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
Online via Zoom
All Welcome
@archivewhg.bsky.social
Winterbourne, 1904-2025
Join Dr Sue Tungate for this house history on Winterbourne in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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justinepick.bsky.social
More podcasts from The World Turned Upside Down resource (see www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk)
Historical fiction and the English Civil Wars👇
Creating Memory - Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars - The World Turned Upside Down
Historical fiction is often a lens through which the memory of the Civil Wars has been shaped. Therefore, this is an important, but often forgotten topic
www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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balhnews.bsky.social
#ICYMI: Looking for ways to celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen's birth? Why not go to a study day, hosted at SeaCity Museum, on 18 October!

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-s...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
September 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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archiveswm.bsky.social
📣Job Opportunity📣
Stoke-on-Trent City Council seeks innovative & experienced Archive Services Manager to lead the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives team, following recent relocation to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery(PMAG)
Closing date for applications: 7 October
#Archives #ArchivesWM
Archive Services Manager - Stoke-on-Trent City Council
An exciting opportunity has come up for Archives Services Manager at Stoke-on-Trent City Archives. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking an innovative ...
www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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bsecs.bsky.social
Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
www.bsecs.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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blackcountrysoc.bsky.social
Black Country Society History Day 8/11/2025. After Agenoria: Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country. Organised in cooperation with the Black Country Living Museum. The programme for the day and booking details can be downloaded from tickets.bclm.com/127979/127980
August 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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archiveswm.bsky.social
The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub is a new national programme to support inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s galleries, libraries, #archives, and museums (GLAM) and heritage sectors.
Launch Webinar: Weds 17th Sept 2025.
On offer three grant schemes - to find out more 👇
Community Hub - Portals
The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub is a new national programme led by The National Archives in partnership with Leeds Museums & Galleries, the National Library of Wales, and the Communit...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
August 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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oneplacestudies.bsky.social
Interested in starting a #OnePlaceStudy? Already engaged in OPS research but in need of guidance and inspiration? Here’s the course for you!

Society members can claim a 10% discount on the course fee, while non-members taking the course are offered a year's free membership of our Society.
pharostutors.bsky.social Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · Sep 13
First Steps to a One-Place Study. One-place studies are a fascinating blend of local and family history. They are frequently undertaken by family historians wanting to create a context for their ancestors. www.pharostutors.com/first-steps-...
September 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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thegozfather.bsky.social
You can now fully search Exchequer depositions for the reign of Victoria [1837-1841] online. Plaintiffs, defendants, subject, county, dates of commission, the whole shebang. Enjoy! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...
Catalogue descriptions for E 134 Victoria
September 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
midlandhistory.bsky.social
The Midland History Essay Prize of £400 is offered for the best essay submitted on an historical subject relating to midland England.
⏱️Deadline for entries 31 Oct 2025
See webpage for some #OpenAccess examples of previous winning essays
More details about how to enter below (1/2)
Midland History Annual Essay Prize
Explore the article collection: Midland History Annual Essay Prize. Published in Midland History.
www.tandfonline.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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An #exhibition of John Louis Petit ( 1801-1868) East Midlands #paintings
Rutland County Museum, Oakham
23 August to 4 October 2025 during museum opening times
Based in Lichfield, Petit painted many places across the region.
#art
J.L.Petit – painter
An exhibition of Petit’s East Midlands paintings – Rutland County Museum, Oakham, August 23rd to October 4th, 2025 Oakham Buttercross Opening Times The Exhibition can be viewed during t…
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June 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
midlandhistory.bsky.social
Event Sharing 📰
Heritage Talk with Professor Catherine Hindson at Selly Manor
Discover the story of early 20th century theatre at the Cadbury factory | Thursday 17th July 2025 | 7pm
£7 per person. To book please call 0121 472 0199 or visit:
Theatre in (and around) the Chocolate Factory
Performing Work and Play at Bournville, 1900-1935
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July 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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#ICYMI our new blog post is out!

We look at the possibilities the Railway Work, Life & Death project offers heritage railways.

We explore work we're doing with the Severn Valley Railway, to look at its past staff & to share it with the public!

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/revisiting-d...
One side of a tri-fold leaflet, showing front and rear covers, plus inside page, with details of Railway Work, Life & Death project, and its research into railway workers & their accidents on the Severn Valley Railway route.
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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archiveswm.bsky.social
Exhibition News! Visit Sandwell Archives to celebrate 40 years of the West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre
Monday 4 August– Friday 29 August 2025
#ArchivesWM
'40 years of the West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre' Exhibition - Exhibition in Smethwick, West Midlands - Visit Sandwell
Visit our exhibition at Sandwell Archives and Smethwick Library to celebrate 40 years of the West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre.
www.visitsandwell.com
July 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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drtermagant.bsky.social
My annual reminder to people thinking about applying for these or @leverhulme.ac.uk ECFs: you do NOT have to go to Oxbridge or Russell Gp unis to make a successful application. I went to Edge Hill with my Leverhulme and moved it to Staffordshire when I was offered a permanent job. 1/?
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Jul 9
We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
July 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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materialwills.bsky.social
Our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon is happening in 2 weeks' time! 📜✍️

📅 Thurs 24 July
🕐 1-4pm BST

Join us online or in person in Exeter: transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers & help transcribe as many wills as possible!

Sign up here:
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
A poster advertising the 'Wills Project Transcribathon' on Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter, and on zoom. The poster features black text on green and yellow backgrounds, and three images - a box of folded will manuscripts, an unfolded will manuscript, and the painting Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, Abbot Hall, 1607. Photo: Lakeland Arts. The poster text reads: ' - Transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers, - Learn more about English wills from 1540-1790 during talks from the experts, - Share & discuss interesting discoveries, - Attend for all or part of the event, - Contribute to academic research & help make these remarkable documents more accessible for all'. Details of the event can be found at this address: https://willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM