Advertisement for 'Keapot Urns' made by Sumerling & Co., Ltd. Features a drawing of a wheeled trolley with an urn, mugs, milk jug and bowls.

Advertisement for the 'Tea Infusing Apparatus' capable of making '400 pints of tea in thirty minutes'.

We're not saying that the MRC staff drink a lot of tea but....

'A problem solved'

Why is #NationalTeaDay a month before National Biscuit Day? Everyone knows you can't have one without the other!

Good luck Rachel! Always an honour to hear about Rodney Bickerstaffe 💜✊ rodneybickerstaffe.org.uk

On my way to Winchester to talk to @unison.org.uk retired members AGM about the history of the union. There will be a little bit of Thatcher, quite a lot of Bickerstaffe and lots of activism!

I want to visit BoH to see the church but now I also want to get a pint in the White Swan while I wait for my train home

Such a wonderful story. You can buy a Live Departures Board for £300, but British Rail can't afford one for Barton-on-Humber Lincolnshire, so there's now one in The White Swan opposite

An illustration of a Georgian manor house in the mid- background. An ominous black cloud directly above the house. A tree lined avenue on the far right of the illustration. A central pathway leading down from the property with figures along the route including a male figure in the middle of the pathway pushing a wheelbarrow. Two female figures -adult and child- to the left of this figure looking on at the workman. A large tree to their left. Legend at the bottom of the illustration indicates this is Baskerville House, Easy Hill, Broad Street.

Dr Caroline Archer–Parre explores eighteenth-century typeface punches and how a three-year funded project by BCU and Cambridge scholars is reshaping our understanding: theironroom.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/t... Ref: WK/B11/1140 #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social @Baskerville1707

Disgusting. Solidarity and sympathy

I would never have got that - not my natural stomping ground!

A thing of beauty and usefulness 🤓

There’s even an almost integrated brewery tap 👀

Ooh now

Now admiring Stockport’s new public transport integration - very smart!

I am genuinely stumped and I get about a bit!

Well I think so!

On a train to Manchester and I feel like I am the only person not heading that way for the Manchester marathon. I am going to drink wine and chat in Didsbury.

I'll be there for a day!

Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham Conference information

Registration for MBS2026 is now open! Registration link and the conference programme can be found here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.

Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Photograph of portrait of Mann as a working engineer. 10 May 1924. Tom Mann remarked ‘the painting of which this is a photograph was done by an artist who had not seen me; he took it from photographs […] He’s given me a nose like Tolstoy eh?’ Included in the correspondence between Tom Mann, to his wife Elsie Mann, mainly from Russia. 'Papers of Tom Mann (1856-1941), trade union leader and socialist' Reference MSS.334/3/6/20

Trade unionist and activist Tom Mann was born in Coventry #OnThisDay in 1856

- Leader of the 1889 London dock strike
- President of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union.
- Founded the British Communist Party in 1920.
- President - International Transport Workers' Federation.

Photograph of two men working a massive computer the size of a room. One bloke is fiddling with knobs on a three sided desk console. The other has opened a door and is looking confusedly at wiring.

MRC staff trying to turn Bluesky on and off again

Don't forget that the 1926 General Strike centenary open day is fast approaching. Book your tickets here: phm.org.uk/events_new/1...

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Deadlifting I think

I used to love this on the other place - hooray for bringing my attention to it over here 😍

Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick (@mrcwarwick.bsky.social) New exhibition incoming... #GeneralStrike100

On now!

'9 Days in May: Remembering the 1926 General Strike'

An exhibition at @mrcwarwick.bsky.social, until 5 June - well worth going to see just some of the riches the MRC cares for!

@tuc.org.uk @rmtunion.bsky.social #GeneralStrike100

warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Scotland’s only dedicated public archive celebrating LGBTQ+ literary heritage launches urgent appeal to secure its future The Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive, Scotland’s only dedicated public archive celebrating LGBTQ+ literary heritage, has launched an urgent funding appeal as it faces a growing financial crisis tha...

Save The Lavender Menace archive. Please share / donate 🏳️‍🌈 www.scenemag.co.uk/scotlands-on...

15-20 people gathered around a long table in a large library/study space, listening to a presentation being delivered. A large pull-up screen displays a presentation.

Just 20 tickets left for our Leadership skills event next month! If you’re travelling from outside the host city of Birmingham, this week is your last chance to apply for a travel bursary!

📆 Tuesday 5 May (10am-2.30pm)

Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leadership... (1/2)

Sagas! The 2026 Midland Viking Symposium .

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.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

History: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship in History with Museum Wales (RS949) - Swansea University We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Great research opportunity to work with the Welsh Political Archive. Please share with contacts.
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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