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Publishing sources for the history of south Wales
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Look Out for Insane Foliage!
Hand-painted incunable borders and a little bit of book guts for a treat at #NewberryLibrary. (Inc. 1286; 109.5; 7250)
#Illuminated #BindingWaste
Hand-painted incunable borders and a little bit of book guts for a treat at #NewberryLibrary. (Inc. 1286; 109.5; 7250)
#Illuminated #BindingWaste
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Look Out for Insane Foliage!
Hand-painted incunable borders and a little bit of book guts for a treat at #NewberryLibrary. (Inc. 1286; 109.5; 7250)
#Illuminated #BindingWaste
Hand-painted incunable borders and a little bit of book guts for a treat at #NewberryLibrary. (Inc. 1286; 109.5; 7250)
#Illuminated #BindingWaste
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Amongst the archives of the Diocese of Derby is our #ArchiveOfTheWeek, three volumes of watercolours of the county's parish churches, created about 1823 by Philip Browne. Photographs of some churches were added between 1870 and 1900.
#EYAReligion/Spirituality #art
#EYAReligion/Spirituality #art
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Amongst the archives of the Diocese of Derby is our #ArchiveOfTheWeek, three volumes of watercolours of the county's parish churches, created about 1823 by Philip Browne. Photographs of some churches were added between 1870 and 1900.
#EYAReligion/Spirituality #art
#EYAReligion/Spirituality #art
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My mission to fill The National Archives website with niche legal records continues. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
Plea roll for the Court of King’s Bench, with a portrait of Henry VIII
This record of disputes taken to court in 1518, written in abbreviated Latin, includes a vivid portrait of the reigning monarch at the time.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My mission to fill The National Archives website with niche legal records continues. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
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Useful archival cataloguing term found
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Useful archival cataloguing term found
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Five days remain to submit your presentation proposal for the Medieval Wales conference taking place at Prifysgol Caerdydd/ Cardiff University, 25th-26th April 2026.
Read the full CFP in both Welsh and English at mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medie...
Read the full CFP in both Welsh and English at mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medie...
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Five days remain to submit your presentation proposal for the Medieval Wales conference taking place at Prifysgol Caerdydd/ Cardiff University, 25th-26th April 2026.
Read the full CFP in both Welsh and English at mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medie...
Read the full CFP in both Welsh and English at mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medie...
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Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing ffionmfielding@gmail.com, before 15th December 2025.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing ffionmfielding@gmail.com, before 15th December 2025.
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing ffionmfielding@gmail.com, before 15th December 2025.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing ffionmfielding@gmail.com, before 15th December 2025.
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One for the #speirgorm community.
I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
One for the #speirgorm community.
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Congratulations for all our contributors to the successful RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments this past weekend!
They shone with expert reports of discoveries, projects, and work-in-progress about fragments in manuscript and early-printed forms. Hurray!
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They shone with expert reports of discoveries, projects, and work-in-progress about fragments in manuscript and early-printed forms. Hurray!
manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments -
2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments “Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books: Encountering and Reconstructing the Legacy of Otto F. Ege and Other Biblioclasts“ Friday to Sunday 21–23 November 2025 Hybri...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Congratulations for all our contributors to the successful RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments this past weekend!
They shone with expert reports of discoveries, projects, and work-in-progress about fragments in manuscript and early-printed forms. Hurray!
manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
They shone with expert reports of discoveries, projects, and work-in-progress about fragments in manuscript and early-printed forms. Hurray!
manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
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New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
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#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
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#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival o...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
nation.cymru/news/new-pro...
#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
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#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
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"The Working Ladies' Guild for Necessitous Gentlewomen" sounds 100% like a twee historical fantasy detective series. In fact, maybe it should be one
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"The Working Ladies' Guild for Necessitous Gentlewomen" sounds 100% like a twee historical fantasy detective series. In fact, maybe it should be one
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Would love to see all the Church of Ireland registers properly online, like the Catholic ones on the @nlireland.bsky.social website.
Thanks to Heritage Council funding, digital versions of these parish registers will soon be online. And the precious records of St Luke's Douglas can move from a damp old building to a temperature-controlled archive. #Speirgorm #Ireland 🗃️
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Would love to see all the Church of Ireland registers properly online, like the Catholic ones on the @nlireland.bsky.social website.
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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/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
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Want to know exactly how much tea was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party? Just check the bill the East India Company sent the British shortly afterwards, a copy of which is now at The National Archives [TNA CO 5/247] www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, American colonists threw 340 chests of tea into Boston harbour in an event now known as the Boston Tea Party. This letter from the East India Company gives a breakdown of teas des...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Want to know exactly how much tea was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party? Just check the bill the East India Company sent the British shortly afterwards, a copy of which is now at The National Archives [TNA CO 5/247] www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
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'All who read him will learn much on Britain's landscapes and those that once inhabited them'.
An excellent review of Stephen Knight's 'Nature and Medieval Literature' in Mediaevistik!
Read the full review here: www.peterlang.com/document/167...
An excellent review of Stephen Knight's 'Nature and Medieval Literature' in Mediaevistik!
Read the full review here: www.peterlang.com/document/167...
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
'All who read him will learn much on Britain's landscapes and those that once inhabited them'.
An excellent review of Stephen Knight's 'Nature and Medieval Literature' in Mediaevistik!
Read the full review here: www.peterlang.com/document/167...
An excellent review of Stephen Knight's 'Nature and Medieval Literature' in Mediaevistik!
Read the full review here: www.peterlang.com/document/167...
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Ymunwch â ni yn Archifau Gwent ddydd Llun 15 Rhagfyr am fore yn archwilio hanes Gwaith Dur Glynebwy. Yna bydd cyfle i weld ffilmiau’r archif o Lynebwy a'r Gwaith Dur gan ein partneriaid yn Archifau Darlledu Cymru (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru).
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ymunwch â ni yn Archifau Gwent ddydd Llun 15 Rhagfyr am fore yn archwilio hanes Gwaith Dur Glynebwy. Yna bydd cyfle i weld ffilmiau’r archif o Lynebwy a'r Gwaith Dur gan ein partneriaid yn Archifau Darlledu Cymru (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru).
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As part of the @cemslimerick.bsky.social Winter School at Univeristy of Limerick next Tuesday and Wednesday, you're welcome to Jason Harris's keynote on 'Manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: questions and approaches'. 5.15pm.
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
As part of the @cemslimerick.bsky.social Winter School at Univeristy of Limerick next Tuesday and Wednesday, you're welcome to Jason Harris's keynote on 'Manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: questions and approaches'. 5.15pm.
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Join us for the @cemslimerick.bsky.social 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History on 2-3 December in the University of Limerick. Programme and registration here: emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4...
4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2-3 December 2025
Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2–3 December 2025 Special Collections & Archives Training Room, Glucksman Library (GL…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Join us for the @cemslimerick.bsky.social 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History on 2-3 December in the University of Limerick. Programme and registration here: emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4...
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🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
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We are closed for the next two weeks for our annual stocktake so please do not visit us. We are still monitoring enquiries so email us at archives@reading.gov.uk or ring us on 01189375132. We will reopen to visitors on Tuesday 9 December.
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We are closed for the next two weeks for our annual stocktake so please do not visit us. We are still monitoring enquiries so email us at archives@reading.gov.uk or ring us on 01189375132. We will reopen to visitors on Tuesday 9 December.
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Mae cwyno am gyflwr ein trefi'n teimlo fel tueddiad modern ond mae’r ddogfen hon sy’n rhestru strydoedd Caernarfon yn awgrymu'n wahanol
Complaining about the condition of our town centres may seem like a current trend but this document listing Caernarfon streets suggests otherwise
PN/1/1951 1819
Complaining about the condition of our town centres may seem like a current trend but this document listing Caernarfon streets suggests otherwise
PN/1/1951 1819
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Mae cwyno am gyflwr ein trefi'n teimlo fel tueddiad modern ond mae’r ddogfen hon sy’n rhestru strydoedd Caernarfon yn awgrymu'n wahanol
Complaining about the condition of our town centres may seem like a current trend but this document listing Caernarfon streets suggests otherwise
PN/1/1951 1819
Complaining about the condition of our town centres may seem like a current trend but this document listing Caernarfon streets suggests otherwise
PN/1/1951 1819
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WHO IS CALLING THE BELGIAN ROYAL LIBRARY *DUSTY*???
Look at it:
Look at it:
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
WHO IS CALLING THE BELGIAN ROYAL LIBRARY *DUSTY*???
Look at it:
Look at it:
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It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
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"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
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Reversal of Fates: Access Through Photographs can be a Counterbalance
“Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict...”
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November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
hmml.org/stories/reve...
hmml.org/stories/reve...