If you are in reach of the Buckinghamshire Archives, this looks very worth attending (in person only - but live archival material included). #Skystorians #LocalHistory

Master's Scholarships programme 2026-27: supporting groups underrepresented in academic history - RHS Each year the Society awards Scholarships to support students who will study for a Master's degree in history at a UK university. Master's Scholarships, each of £5000, seek to support students from gr...

Today we also open the call for applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe

Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians

Lucy Simpkins and the Fight Against the Corn Laws — Wiltshire Victoria County History In the 1840s, farm labourers and their families in the villages around Chippenham faced dire circumstances. Low wages and high food prices had created a situation in which basic foodstuffs were increa...

New blog from our friends @wiltshistory.bsky.social looking at the fight against the Corn Laws in Wiltshire looking forward to the publication of our #BigRedBook on Chippenham and its neighbourhood, due out from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social in just a couple of months. #Skystorians

And here’s another freelance history job.

Maritime History Conference at Southampton 17-18 April - Hampshire Archive Trust New Researchers in Maritime History Conference is taking place this year on 17-18 April 2026 at the University of Southampton. Organised by the British

Interested in #MaritimeHistpry? Join researchers at the University of Southampton for the New Researchers in Maritime History Conference and enjoy a talk from Dr Craig Lambert on 17th and 18th April

More info below ⬇️

hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/marit...

Montage of front covers from Salvation Army newspapers, The War Cry and The Social Gazette

🥳We're so pleased to announce that two Salvation Army periodicals are now available on the British Newspaper Archive.

'The War Cry' for 1879-1985 & 'The Social Gazette' for its entire run of 1893-1917. A total of more than 70,000 pages! 🙌

www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/BL/war-cry 🔒

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 at The Priory Rooms in Birmingham.
palaeography.uk/study/short-...

#Skystorians it is not too late to book for this in person summer school course, in London 8-12 June, where we cover the basics of working with medieval manuscripts. Ideal for graduate students, #librarians, or anyone with an interest in medieval books.

Re-posting this after Easter week. A potential research job that might suit an ECR.

VCH Cumbria covers the former counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, together with Lancashire north of the Sands and parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 🗃️

For more and how to support their work: 2/2

What an interesting building! We have not - as yet - published an account of Underbarrow, the township in which 'Henry's Castle' stands, but it is in the arc of our colleagues in Cumbria - would you like to know more? 1/2

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

#HistoryJob - our friends @leicsvcht.bsky.social are advertising for a fixed term role as Editor/Volunteer Coordinator for a community-based history project funded by Charnwood Forest Geopark and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Role includes research and writing and might suit an #ECR 🗃️

#HistoryJob - our friends @leicsvcht.bsky.social are advertising for a fixed term role as Editor/Volunteer Coordinator for a community-based history project funded by Charnwood Forest Geopark and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Role includes research and writing and might suit an #ECR 🗃️

Thank you.

The way these things are, we are obviously now dealing with another East Riding Council (and working with the excellent East Riding Archives).

We basically treat the 1972 Local Government Act as one redrawing among many...

I love this local history of the writing of local history.

The Humber Bridge under construction: By Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14349457

Ok, so our Red Books are slightly less conspicuous than the Humber Bridge - one of the symbols of Humberside (albeit planned before Humberside came into being) - but nonetheless, a product of that late local authority that brought Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire (sort of), together. 3/3

VCH Yorkshire Publications VCH Yorkshire Publications

... and so the members of the East Riding Council looked to secure the history of the soon-to-be old East Riding.

So they came to an arrangement whereby we received a loan and the interest on that money funded research and publication on the area.

And so, 10 volumes in, the arrangement holds. 2/3

What does Humberside mean to us? Well, without it, we would have no project in Yorkshire's East Riding.

Bear with us.

Simply, the prospect of the East Riding being amalgamated into a trans-Humber local authority was reckoned a bit much... #Skystorians 1/3

Photograph of a colourful plan entitled "County Offices (Extension)" showing "Basement Record Rooms" and "Ground Floor". The extension was built on St Mary's Gate in Derby in 1910, opposite the County Hall built in 1660 (now South Derbyshire Magistrates Court). Three of the stores shown in the plan continued to be used by the record office until 2013.

Derbyshire's first County Archivist, Joan Sinar, started in April 1962, but the county archives have a much longer history. Find out more in this article by one of our archivists or read the printed copy in our #LocalStudies library: archaeologydataservi...

#ArchivePast #Archive30

Yes, druids.

Poster yn hysbysebu cyfrifiad capeli newydd y Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru. Poster advertising the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales' new chapel census.

📢 New Census of Welsh Nonconformist Chapels Launched!

The @rcahmwales.bsky.social has launched a new census to record the current story of Welsh Nonconformist chapels and inform their future.

Take part here:
🔗 zurl.co/cNO1n

Interesting new digital resource from the (always wonderful) folk @mrcwarwick.bsky.social. #Skystorians

A Homeless Library: The Library of the Housing Crisis? David Mountain, 27 March 2026.[1] In the storerooms of a little-known fenland museum is a treasure trove of rare books on town planning and housing policy, comprising an entire specialist library. …

One of the country's finest libraries of books on town planning and housing policy - the Harry Simpson Memorial Library, currently located in Wisbech - is at risk of being pulped. Please publicise and support the campaign to save it.
davemnt.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/a...

1924 ad for Wm Harbrow Ltd, 'Specialists in Design and Constuction of Temporary and Semi-Permanent Buildings.' Temp churches sprang up mid-C19th (until c. WWI) as places of worship for rapidly expanding populations in industrial towns & cities. Also a need for more nonconformist places of worship.

On balance, the iron version was probably better value (and certainly less *yikes* (with the benefit of hindsight, anyway)...

If you are in the UK (or otherwise have access to BBC Sounds), this should be worth a listen.

Good morning - the short answer is yes(indeed, we are expecting the submission of a volume in the very near future - though that is for the south of the county.

Future plans for work in Nottinghamshire are uncertain: please drop our editor @adamchapman.bsky.social a line.

John Aubrey and the Victoria County History: Parallel Endeavours in Systematic Local History - On History Dr Louise Ryland-Epton describes the gestation of the latest Victoria County History (VCH), publications on Chippenham and its neighbourhood, looking at how this work was informed by earlier scholarsh...

Before @vch-home.bsky.social before modern archaeology, John Aubrey was inventing local history in the lanes around Chippenham. As his 400th b'day month ends, find out 👇blog.history.ac.uk/2026/03/john-aubrey-and-...