The Midland History Essay Prize 2025 is now live!

Submit an article relating to the history of the Midlands and be in with a chance of winning £400, plus publication in our journal. The deadline for entries is 31st October 2025. See the attached flyer for further details.

There May Be Ghosts Here: An Ethnographic Study of the Black Country Using the 1896 Diary of Thomas Frederick Worrall In the summer of 1896, Thomas Frederick Worrall and his fiancée took a holiday in the part of the English midlands known as the Black Country. They went on expeditions each day, and Worrall kept a ...

Rachael Jones explores the diary of Thomas Worrall to examine haunted landscapes and the English Midlands in 1896. Read ‘There May Be Ghosts Here: An Ethnographic Study of the Black Country Using the 1896 Diary of Thomas Frederick Worrall’ in Midland History.

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‘The Properest Witch He Ever Knowed’: Belief and Insanity in the 1875 James Haywood Witchcraft Murder Trial This article presents a narrative history of the infamous 1875 trial of James Haywood. In September this year, Haywood viciously murdered his neighbour Ann Tennant who he believed to be a witch; le...

Brendan C. Walsh discusses the 1875 murder of Ann Tennant, the trial that followed and belief in witchcraft in nineteenth-century England in his article ‘“The Properest Witch He Ever Knowed”: Belief and Insanity in the 1875 James Haywood Witchcraft Murder Trial’

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G. Landon Adams has published his latest article ‘Reevaluating William Ward’s (1769–1823) Early Radicalism: An Archival Assessment of the 1797 Thelwall Riot in Derby and the Parties Responsible’ in the spring 2025 issue of Midland History.

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Theologian and Locality: Cartwright, Puritanism and the Lord Leycester Hospital in Tudor Warwick This article examines Thomas Cartwright’s career as master of the Lord Leycester almshouse in Warwick between 1585 and 1603. Cartwright was one of Elizabethan England’s most prominent theologians a...

In the latest issue of Midland History, you can read Angus Crawford’s ‘Theologian and Locality: Cartwright, Puritanism and the Lord Leycester Hospital in Tudor Warwick’. Crawford examines Thomas Cartwright’s career as master of the Lord Leycester (1585–1603).

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Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK

Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups.

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Medieval French on the Move: Studies in Honour of Keith Busby was published this month. A fantastic volume by Leah Tether, Patrick Moran and Anne Salamon. And I got to work with Marianne Ailes again!

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And you can read Luke Foddy's article 'Rebel without a Cause? Robert de Ferrers III and the Barons’ War in the Midlands, 1263–1265' in Midland History.

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Midland History Volume 50, Issue 1 of Midland History

The Spring 2025 issue of Midland History is out now, featuring articles on Tudor Warwick, the Thelwall Riot, a witchcraft murder trial, and the Black Country.

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