A very interesting experience. Our session was cut short because the MPs were called to a Commons vote, so only around 10 mins was recorded and will be in Hansard.
We carried on informally with the peers present, though that won't be on record.
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:
'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)
Books on shelves
Yesterday I was in York, and popped into Minster Gate bookshop.
Scanning the British History shelves, I slowly realised that there were many books on the same themes - radicalism, Chartism, trade unionism, 19th century economy and society, clearly part of a curated collection 1/n
'Londoners on Trial' - our new FREE exhibition, now open!
Explore the history of law and order in London, uncovering the stories of London’s criminals, victims and law enforcers from the medieval period to modern times.
Book your ticket now! 👇
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Trés cool, Laura. Looking forward to reading the review on my morning commute tomorrow!
'...a lively, scholarly account, full of bold personalities and surprising connections'
Thanks to Neal Ascherson for this generous review of 'The Paris Commune in Britain' in the @lrb.co.uk today
Particularly pleased to read that the book took Neal to the Newman Arms in search of the Communards 🍻
It's about that time of year when lecturers are setting exam questions for their students ... here's the University of London's Matriculation Examination on English History for November 1838. No cheating now!
Ref: The National Archives, HO 44/31.
Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Hannah in a green jacket and pink top, with Carla Denyer MP to her right and Ellie Chowns MP on the left. All v colourful.
Hannah Spencer being sworn in as a Green Party MP this afternoon, after winning the Gorton & Denton by-election last week. Photo: House of Commons
I’m finishing today my posting of recommended texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain - in this 100th anniversary year - with Nos. 27-35. Hope you’ve liked the overall series over recent weeks?!!
@strikemap.org @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
Catalogue description, typed text describing the Spanish Inquisition in the Court of Requests catalogue
Nobody ever expects them, but the Spanish Inquisition turn up a couple of times in the Court of Requests catalogue [TNA REQ 2] discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026
(Please share widely)
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Big up to the National Archives for their reasonably priced canteen where you can get a big curry for £6.50 at lunchtime.
CfP 📢 "Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (c.1500 - 1850)", Aberystwyth University
📆11-12 June 2026 | 🌍 Aberystwyth (Galles)
⏰Deadline: 27 February 2026
All info👇
#EarlyModern #CfP
Died #OTD 1835, Henry Hunt.
MP for Preston 1830-32, Hunt is most famed as a radical orator, and for his involvement in the 60,000 strong rally at St. Peter's Field, Manchester in 1819.
Find out more about the unfolding events, dubbed the 'Peterloo Massacre':
This week in Scribble Book, #HistParl Director @jhdavey.bsky.social explores the history of the History of Parliament, beginning in the 1930s with Josiah Wedgwood's questionnaire of former MPs who sat between 1885 and 1918.
Read and subscribe via the link below!
Really interesting read by @joecozens.bsky.social.
Particularly for me, as I wrote my undergrad dissertation about Weymouth elections!
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support for conferences and public events with a focus on labour history, broadly defined. Applications, for a maximum of £850 per event, are welcome at any time of year.
sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries for up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers (MA and doctoral) and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history
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The Society for the Study of Labour History offers #bursaries of up to £500 to students on BA and Taught Masters programmes to support archival, library and online research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history topic
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Our latest exhibition, Love Letters, is now open at The National Archives, revealing 500 years of love. From paupers, monarchs, queer networks & quiet acts of affection found in government records.
Very proud to have been lead curator on this one, working with so many wonderful people! 💌
New from Bristol Record Society:
Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade
archive.org/details/bris...
Really great to see BRS publish #OpenAccess on @archive.org !
#History #EnslavedHistory
Northern History, 1-13 Check far updates MALCOLM CHASE: A ROUNDTABLE TRiBUTE MATTHEW ROBERTS Sheffield Hallam University RoBERT POoLe University of Lancashire KATRINA NAVICKAS C University of Hertfordshire This paper brings together the reflections by three historians who knew Malcolm Chase, presented at the Northern History memorial conference in Leeds on 29 November 2024. It shows how integral Malcolm Chase's work was to nineteenth- century political and labour history of Britain. It explains his impact and legacy on the study of history, especially in and of northern England, and ends with a call for more work on regional and working-class history Keywords: labour history; Chartism; Malcolm Chase; northern history
Our roundtable tribute to Malcolm Chase is now published in Northern History.
@northernhistory.bsky.social
(Open access version will be available soon).
A reminder of this month's new post from our senior research fellow @martinspychal.bsky.social, who continues his series on Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP, with research into McLagan's father: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
this is one of my very favourite eebo pages, and I will never forget the shock of "discovering it" in the collection. (there is also a very good description of what turns out to be an octopus arriving near cornwall, I believe, in there too)
A poster with the details for five talks, the date and location are on the left, and the names of speakers and titles on the right
Great to see the programme for the @long18thsem.bsky.social for next term @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . You can register to attend either in person or online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar resumes on 14 January 2026, in person at the Institute of Historical Research and online via Zoom. (Kate Gibson, speaking on Fostering in 18th-century Britain).
Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.
The National Archives are hiring a Poor Law Research Assistant (39k for 2 years) working on Paul Carter's AHRC project on poverty/welfare in Wales, 1834-1930. Deadline 16 Dec.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.
