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REMINDER ABOUT THURSDAY'S INDY-HIST MEETING

Thurs. 16 April 6pm on Zoom

Opportunity to discuss what we want to say to RHS council members in May.

Meeting Link. www.bit.ly/INDY-HIST-ZOOM

Full link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8946886836...

Meeting ID: 894 6886 8369

Passcode: 920307

Submitted my edited book manuscript to the publishers. Pheww! Now the long wait begins…

Looking forward to this meeting . . .

The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48* This article considers the roles that the body and the senses played in shaping the dynamics of 19th-century reform crowds in Britain. Acoustics, terrain, timing, weather and corporeal issues of hung...

In this Open Access article, @drdavesteele.bsky.social explores bodily and sensory experiences in the crowds formed by the reform movement from 1816-1848, offering new perspectives on the lived experience of popular politics and the mass platform.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Even better! All articles are now Open Access until June 30

Thanks Katrina. I’m in good company in this collection, available:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206...

Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914* This article considers the political lecture tour, and particularly the travelling socialist caravan tours organised by Clarion socialists at the end of the 19th century, to argue that, for socialist...

I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period

@katrinanavickas.bsky.social
@histarchck.bsky.social
@richardhuzzey.bsky.social
@kathrynrix.bsky.social
@histparl.bsky.social
@victoriancommons.bsky.social
@georgianlords.bsky.social
@lauracforster.bsky.social
@henryjmiller.bsky.social
@drdavesteele.bsky.social

Special Issue: The Politics of Organising in the Long 19th Century: Parliamentary History: Vol 45, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

As well as Naomi, thanks also to co-authors and to PHJ @parlhistjournal.bsky.social for commissioning this special edition, Parliamentary History 45-1 (2026) The Politics of Organising in the Long 19th Century
Full issue :
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206...

My article ‘The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48’
has been published in Parliamentary History Journal 45-1 (2026)
Thanks to Naomi Lloyd-Jones for a great job editing
Read/download here (open source): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

It was a pleasure. Thanks

I’ve never been to Billing Aquadrome

My article on extra-parliamentary activity in New Palace Yard is featured today on the Society for the Study of Labour History’s series on places of significance in labour history . . .

Leamington Peace Festival is coming back but we need your help. Can you donate to our crowdfunder?
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/peace-fest...

Photobooth selfie of Dave Steele

Apparently it’s 100 years since the introduction of the Photobooth. In a bizarre twist it was 50 years ago that I took this Photobooth selfie complete with roll up and fag-burn on my Rupert-the-bear scarf. What was I thinking?

Loving the front cover image. My son was at Newbury for some of the time

It’s a review copy. I’d better get reviewing!

Look what just arrived! @katrinanavickas.bsky.social

Looking forward to tomorrow's intriguing session on a collaborative project to improve the digitisation of handwritten wills. Join us at 5pm Weds. Free registration : www.bit.ly/dig-cit-sci

Don’t forget to sign up for this Wednesday’s presentation on digitising Early Modern handwritten documents

Full gallery here: maritimehull.co.uk/whats-happen...

There’s also a gallery of my work on Hull Docks on Hull Maritime Museum’s website

Fuller gallery and biog. here:

machelp.org.uk/hull/

These remind me of a series of photos I took of Hull in 1975 machelp.org.uk/hull/

Looking forward to this . . . @lsangha.bsky.social
@materialwills.bsky.social
@emilymayvine.bsky.social
@transkribus.bsky.social
@zooniverse.bsky.social

France's political upheaval isn't temporary - it's a profound constitutional crisis | Pierre Purseigle The old prime minister is back with a new team, but it can’t last: a democracy can’t have a president with the powers of a king, says French historian Pierre Purseigle

Where I try to explain why France is not going through an ordinary political crisis but that the Fifth Republic is a regime in crisis.
🇫🇷 #france #politics
👇 👇 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Great piece Pierre! I already read it when it came up on my Guardian feed earlier

And this medal marking her death

I recently bought this lovely jug