Today is Local History Day 2026.
Schools across the UK are exploring local people, places and stories through classroom work, assemblies and links with heritage sites.
Taking part today or in the coming weeks?
Use #LocalHistoryDay and tag us so we can share.
#LocalHistory #TeacherLed
The Society would like to remind our PhD and ECR members that we are accepting proposals for New Voices in First World War Studies, a virtual conference that we are hosting on 17 June.
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Available online now 🏆 second place in our 2025 Midland History essay prize by Eleanor Deakin 🏆
Read about Oxford antiquarian Francis Wise's imagined history of the Uffington White Horse and how its legacy has endured to the present day
doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2026.2656866
The Trig Pillar at Thorny Gale, Cumbria, site of the last observations in the Retriangulation of Great Britain, on 4 June 1962 Image credit: C20 Society
The Trig Pillar plaque at Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, site of the first observations in the Retriangulation of Great Britain, on 18 April 1936 Image credit: McCoy Wynne Photography (from the Triangulation project)
📍Heritage in High Places: Happy 90th to the beloved British Trig Point!
C20 has submitted listing applications for the two most historically important examples: the first, at Cold Ashby in Nottinghamshire (1936) and the last, at Thorny Gale in Cumbria (1962).
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/heritag...
A photograph of a female figure looking towards the camera. Her hair is pulled back off her forehead. She is wearing a plain blouse in the late Victorian style which is buttoned up to the collar and clasped together with a brooch. Beneath the photograph are the following words - Miss Marie Bethell Beauclerc (From a photograph by A. Marlow, Handsworth).
#BirminghamWomen Marie Bethell Beauclerc (1845–1897), innovator in journalism and education, credited as England's first female reporter and contemporary of George Dawson: tinyurl.com/MarieBeauclerc Ref: Birmingham Faces & Places vol.5 opp. p.74. L08.2 #LibraryofBham
It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share.
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Calling all #ECR #skystorians! Follow HistoryLab+ here & sign up to become a member there (👇) to discover job & training opportunities, resources, & a community as you find your feet #postdoc!
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
@royalhistsoc.org
Map of the Peak District National Park, designated 13 April 1951
Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park, designated #otd 13 April 1951. Originally 555 square miles of moor and valley, the 'great north roof of England.' It would never have happened but for one woman... 1/4
🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨
Was Offa of Mercia really the villain we’re told? ⚔️ @rorynaismith.bsky.social digs deeper 👇
🎟️ Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor...
#History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social
📣New SHS PGR Work-in-Progress sessions launched by our PGR reps @louisebell.bsky.social & @aayushigupta.bsky.social!
Informal, supportive space to share research & test ideas. Open to all history PGRs & ECRs working in and around social history. More info here!
socialhistory.org.uk/2026/04/09/s...
A stack of books on a blue surface with the text: "Amplifying voices: The Cambridge Amplify Fund.
The inaugural Cambridge Amplify Grant will support early-career scholars in History and Area Studies in publishing their first book, providing financial and editorial support over 12 months.
⏰ The closing date for submissions is 13 April 2026.
Find out more 🔗 https://cup.org/3NJAd1a
Northleach today, maybe the ultimate wool church, the nave rebuilt in mid15thC by John Fortey in big, unrepentent Perpendicular. The church is celebrated for its collection of brasses to woolmen, some of whom (as Thomas Adynet here) stand on wool sacks, instead of lions or grassy mounds.
⚔️ What happened at the Battle of Birmingham? ⚔️
A picture of the devastated city of Napier in the wake of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
🚨 CFP: Disastrous Pasts And Sustainable Futures. Urban disasters and resilience in historical and social scientific perspectives.
🗓️ 29-30 June 2026
An interdisciplinary and international conference organised at the University of Warwick
For more details, see warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
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Screenshot of the MRC's 50th anniversary exhibition. The document (partly) on view is a photograph of a painting of Tom Mann, shown in heroic pose as an engineering worker. Tom Mann sent the photo to his wife, with a letter from the Soviet Union.
#Archive30 starts today! Use the hashtag throughout April to find posts of varying levels of tenuousness on the themes of the day
For #YourArchive we're introducing ourselves with the MRC in 58 documents (should have been 50 but we got overexcited)
warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
One month until the 1 May deadline for the Gordon Forster Essay Prize.
Open to postgraduate students & ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should be between 7000-10000 words inc. footnotes.
Please repost!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I have found the best fence in Lichfield, if not Staffordshire.
⚠️ Deadline tomorrow ⚠️
Final call for our New Voices in Midland History Conference, for postgraduates, early careers researchers, independent scholars, and heritage, museum, and archive professionals.
Saturday 6 June at the National Civil War Centre in Newark.
More details below 👇
The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April
rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...
Cover of a booklet - title at the top is Home Away From Home - the condensation trails of two airplanes weave between the title with images of airplanes on either side. Subtitle beneath this is Women’s Journeys From Mirpur to Birmingham. Below, a group photograph of a family of six - two adults and four minors. The youngest two sat on the lap or close to the adults. A scenic backdrop with a minaret in the right background.
#BritishAsianHistory Home Away From Home looks at women's journeys from Mirpur, Pakistan to Birmingham. Interviews tell the stories of the women making new lives in the city. Women’s Lives in the Archives: tinyurl.com/JourneysFrom... Ref: MS 4760/35 #LibraryofBham #raqsartstudio
🚨1 week left!🚨
This week, Wednesday 25th March at 7.30pm, Dudley Canal and Caverns.
AGM followed by Ways of Seeing: Paintings, Prints and Drawings of the Black Country, c1700 to 1900. Presented by Malcolm Dick, Chairman of the BCS.
There's just over a week left to submit your abstract for the New Voices in Midland History Conference before the 31 March deadline.
Join us on Saturday 6 June at the National Civil War Centre in Newark to share your research about the history of our region.
More details 👇
We're hiring! We’re looking for a Research Assistant (0.4FTE, 12 month FTC) to join us and work with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social.
Role can be held flexibly (though not remote); centres around outreach + engagement, archival + oral history work in Worcestershire
jobs.worcester.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Composite image of bulletins produced during the 1926 General Strike. They include copies of the British Worker, British Gazette, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Evening News, Sunday Pictorial and a selection of emergency bulletins, including sheets produced by local strike committees and Councils of Action.
Reporting the General Strike
We're looking ahead to May! As the centenary of Britain's 'Great Hold-Up' approaches, we've added more sources to our General Strike digitised collection
550+ strike bulletins, leaflets, reports, radio transcripts and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
In addition to today's guide to national history societies in the UK and Ireland, we also have listings of c.100 Record Societies.
These societies are central to our research culture, with a focus on regional history / primary source publications. Here is England: bit.ly/4sPSwk3 1/2 #Skystorians
An open book showing a fold out page with an illustration of a purple foxglove on it
Physician and botanist, William Withering was born #OnThisDay 1741. He was the first to undertake clinical assessment of digitalis as a treatment for dropsy. His book "An account of the foxglove" was published in 1785 #histmed
"In an era of perennial short-termism, reminding ourselves of the sheer lifespan of cathedrals ... is certainly food for thought" - Benjamin Phillips on Richard Newsholme's new study of Worcester Cathedral
Read more of our latest book reviews online today 👇
www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
A large, robust stone font on an octagonal stone base, set into a tiled floor. Its shape is clearly that of a column base, but upside down. (Make like Emlyn Hughes in the picture round on 'A Question of Sport' and all will become clear.)
The stonking great font at St. Andrew's, #Wroxeter - made from an upturned Roman column base. One of many pieces of re-used stone in a remarkable church. (A look around it adds a lot to a visit to the nearby 'Roman City' site.)
#FontsOnFriday #Shropshire #ChurchCrawling #RomanBritain
📷 My own
Two colour photographs, the left photograph showing a pile of folded parchment deeds in front of a box with masking tape and handwritten label reading "Old Deeds Etc.". The right hand photograph shows one of the large Latin deeds laid out in front of the box of other deeds. The deed has elaborate drawings along the top, including an exquisite portrait of King George I, followed by thick Latin text between large red lines.
This #NewAccession is a little more complicated to catalogue than most. Our archivists will be getting out their university training notes to catalogue the oldest of these deeds and identifying their connection to each other might be even harder!
#archives #17thCentury