#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30.
Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm
This looks great accompaniment to the 1926 Irish census.
This conference we are supporting in Birmingham in June has an amazing mix of 40 panels - a veritable Choose your Own Adventure through modern British studies. It’s also the inaugural event of the Association of Modern British Studies! Great stuff here
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
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
Birmingham-based peeps, there are still tickets available for this in-person event organised by BRIHC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! A unique opportunity to hear @profdanhicks.bsky.social reflect on his work on heritage, memory and conflict in conversation with @corinnefowler.bsky.social
Reminds me weather very different when I began LOA for hip replacement in January. In my last week and glad I’m more mobile for this lovely spring.😍
Photo of view from a kitchen window across a green garden with hornbeam hedge, crabapple and silver birch trees. Parasols and pergolas provide shade. Blue sky above with lots of fluffy white cliffs on horizon.
Doing the washing up and glancing up struck by the bank of fluffy little clouds over the wood in the distance. Joyful sight!
🌿 Learning botany at home 🔓️
In our latest BJHS issue, Brad Scott explores how the Talbot family studied mosses—by collecting, drawing, and naming—showing how botanical knowledge was shaped in domestic settings and through networks, even without formal structures.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I caved and bought a peony plant 😅 anyone successfully grew one in a large pot?
A cluster of bright bluebell flowers growing in long grass at the base of a large tree, with a red‑brick house and garden visible in the background on a spring day.
A close-up of bluebell flowers with delicate purple-blue petals rising through long green grass, with trees and garden foliage softly blurred in the background.
A small grassy area neae a canal lock with bluebells and pale yellow flowers in the foreground, two wooden benches among trees, and a paved path leading toward the lock and a fence.
A wooden bench beside a towpath in a wooded area, with white and purple-blue spring flowers growing near a large tree and dense greenery behind
No Green Team yesterday due to a shortage of supervisors for our DofE volunteers, but Borrowcop Locks Canal Park is still looking stunning. 🌿
Can you help our green team on Saturday mornings? Get in touch.
#WeDigCanals #Lichfield #Staffordshire
Yay, and there they all are at Mountjoy. My father, his twin Ada and their two brothers. Very odd to see my father described as Catholic. Not something he brought to England with him.
Mind you, not many Davenports in Dublin so that didn't take long. Might have more trouble with the Kelly side ...
Seems like solid reaction to me.
Don’t know why, but I was quite moved to see my mother and 3 of her siblings, two of whom were constants in my childhood.
Best choice.
Not the family historian in our house but couldn’t resist a search. And there’s my mother as a small person at Coliemore Road, Dalkey.
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...
A garden lawn filled with tall grass and colourful yellow dandelions in front of a house. Text reads ‘Pledge to Let it Grow for the No Mow Movement’ and ‘And get a FREE No Mow May guide,’ with an image of the No Mow May guide booklet in the corner.
Green graphic with the heading ‘Become a No Mow Hero’. A checklist reads: ‘Pledge to help nature’, ‘Check out your new No Mow May Guide’, ‘Stop mowing’, ‘Let it grow’, and ‘Watch nature flourish’. Illustrated icons of a bee, flowers, and a ladybird decorate the design.
Make a pledge to help nature🌸
DYK there are more than 23 million gardens in the UK. If every garden let it grow for the #NoMowMay Movement, just imagine how much we could help wildlife like bees & butterflies.🐝
Take the pledge and join thousands of people across the UK -https://loom.ly/ay3YcNA
It’s time… 🌱🇬🇧
We’re potting up the Basil 🙌🏻 #herbs #flowers #horticulture #basil
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-...
Great research opportunity to work with the Welsh Political Archive. Please share with contacts.
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History has been launched, including my chapter 'Women and Divorce Law in England and Wales, 1537–2022'. I had great fun writing it and I'm proud to be published alongside so many amazing authors writing on such importantly and timely topics.
Buzzards and kites here too on outskirts of Leamington. Love to see kites wheeling about over scrubby land at back of us that is to become a country park. Hoping that won’t put them off!
And here’s another freelance history job.
📣Freelance opportunity with @balhnews.bsky.social 📣
Wildlife pond in summer
Umbellifer - cow parsley
Teasels and grasses in late summer
I've tried to make my garden full of homes & food for wildlife. A pond surrounded by guelder rose & dogwood. Loads of umbellifers. Teasels for finches. Bird feed boost in the winter hungry gap. More like your favourite community cafe for birds than a fast food hub. #FeedSafelyFeedSeasonally
