Adam Chapman
@adamchapman.bsky.social
Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
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Adam Chapman
@adamchapman.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Good morning (UK time), to new followers.
I’m a medieval historian working on Wales 🏴 (personally), and using the lens of place, working on the histories of England from way back to right now, editing the amazing @vchlondon.bsky.social.
Also, place, landscapes, cricket (sorry), fuelled by tea.
I’m a medieval historian working on Wales 🏴 (personally), and using the lens of place, working on the histories of England from way back to right now, editing the amazing @vchlondon.bsky.social.
Also, place, landscapes, cricket (sorry), fuelled by tea.
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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There is a startling level of cultural illiteracy involved in complaining that a school's Christmas play has a plot about refugees from the Middle East. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inverness school's Christmas show cancelled after 'racist' abuse
Highland Council says some of the online messages were directed at staff at the primary.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There is a startling level of cultural illiteracy involved in complaining that a school's Christmas play has a plot about refugees from the Middle East. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
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Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
A thoughtful (and I hope, important), blog from Chris Tinmouth who has been working with my colleagues in Cumbria - on supporting and encouraging neurodivergent people to engage with community history projects for everyone's benefit. #Skystorians
A rather different blog from us, hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, & written by Dr Christopher Tinmouth.
Christopher reflects on his involvement with the VCH in Cumbria and the benefits that supporting neurodivergent people can bring to a broad-based community history project like the VCH. #Skystorians
Christopher reflects on his involvement with the VCH in Cumbria and the benefits that supporting neurodivergent people can bring to a broad-based community history project like the VCH. #Skystorians
The Value of Encouraging Neurodivergent Participation in Community Research Initiatives for the Victoria County History of England - On History
Dr Christopher Tinmouth addresses the value of encouraging neurodivergent participation in community research initiatives.
blog.history.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A thoughtful (and I hope, important), blog from Chris Tinmouth who has been working with my colleagues in Cumbria - on supporting and encouraging neurodivergent people to engage with community history projects for everyone's benefit. #Skystorians
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Whoop! Exciting news – we are delighted to share that we have been awarded funding from The National Archives Research and Innovation programme for our Mapping the Past for the Future project, which will start next year.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Whoop! Exciting news – we are delighted to share that we have been awarded funding from The National Archives Research and Innovation programme for our Mapping the Past for the Future project, which will start next year.
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This is extremely unfortunate to say the least. Not sure how I would have reacted to having my Reith lectures censored - the world has changed in an ill way in the two years since.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is extremely unfortunate to say the least. Not sure how I would have reacted to having my Reith lectures censored - the world has changed in an ill way in the two years since.
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A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival of the NHS wp.me/p8Mk4U-198p
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival o...
nation.cymru
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival of the NHS wp.me/p8Mk4U-198p
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
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It’s happened again!
If you find anything that resembles a grenade, a bomb or anything you think contains explosives - DO NOT take it the police station.
LEAVE IT ALONE and DIAL 999.
It’s potentially dangerous and needs to be checked by experts.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
If you find anything that resembles a grenade, a bomb or anything you think contains explosives - DO NOT take it the police station.
LEAVE IT ALONE and DIAL 999.
It’s potentially dangerous and needs to be checked by experts.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It’s happened again!
If you find anything that resembles a grenade, a bomb or anything you think contains explosives - DO NOT take it the police station.
LEAVE IT ALONE and DIAL 999.
It’s potentially dangerous and needs to be checked by experts.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
If you find anything that resembles a grenade, a bomb or anything you think contains explosives - DO NOT take it the police station.
LEAVE IT ALONE and DIAL 999.
It’s potentially dangerous and needs to be checked by experts.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society: a brief guide if you’re considering an application | Historical Transactions
blog.royalhistsoc.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
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Great programme of spatial history workshops and hackathons during early December!
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great programme of spatial history workshops and hackathons during early December!
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Casebooks is here! #EarlyModern 🗃️
Casebooks is here. Stay tuned for the #casebookstherapy 2025-2026 schedule #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology @jakubochocinski.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Casebooks is here! #EarlyModern 🗃️
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We’ve opened registration for our annual conference! 🥳
📅 26 Feb 2026
⏰ 9.30am to 5pm
🏫 Hughes Hall, Cambridge
🏏 We’re looking forward to a day of presentations & discussion, plus a Q&A on the 2026 ICC World Cup. Book your place now:
📅 26 Feb 2026
⏰ 9.30am to 5pm
🏫 Hughes Hall, Cambridge
🏏 We’re looking forward to a day of presentations & discussion, plus a Q&A on the 2026 ICC World Cup. Book your place now:
Cricket Research Network, Annual Conference, Cambridge, Thu 26 Feb, 9.30am
Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, 9.30am to 5.00pm
www.cricketsociety.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We’ve opened registration for our annual conference! 🥳
📅 26 Feb 2026
⏰ 9.30am to 5pm
🏫 Hughes Hall, Cambridge
🏏 We’re looking forward to a day of presentations & discussion, plus a Q&A on the 2026 ICC World Cup. Book your place now:
📅 26 Feb 2026
⏰ 9.30am to 5pm
🏫 Hughes Hall, Cambridge
🏏 We’re looking forward to a day of presentations & discussion, plus a Q&A on the 2026 ICC World Cup. Book your place now:
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Sometimes we need help from #specialist conservators to help restore our museum and archive collections.
The 1822 Barnsley Township map is one of Barnsley Archives' key early maps, It shows the landscape and individual buildings in incredible detail. Drawn by William Porter Garforth. #Museum30
The 1822 Barnsley Township map is one of Barnsley Archives' key early maps, It shows the landscape and individual buildings in incredible detail. Drawn by William Porter Garforth. #Museum30
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sometimes we need help from #specialist conservators to help restore our museum and archive collections.
The 1822 Barnsley Township map is one of Barnsley Archives' key early maps, It shows the landscape and individual buildings in incredible detail. Drawn by William Porter Garforth. #Museum30
The 1822 Barnsley Township map is one of Barnsley Archives' key early maps, It shows the landscape and individual buildings in incredible detail. Drawn by William Porter Garforth. #Museum30
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I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
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The @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool 2026 is now booking on the theme of 'Sickness & Health'. From the Black Death to Covid-19. Use code HEALTH10 before 24th Jan to get 10% discount! Bursaries available www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool 2026 is now booking on the theme of 'Sickness & Health'. From the Black Death to Covid-19. Use code HEALTH10 before 24th Jan to get 10% discount! Bursaries available www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Listen to @historyandpolicy.bsky.social's Izzy Conn talking to Matt Forde on his Political Party podcast about her brilliant series Leading Labour
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Listen to @historyandpolicy.bsky.social's Izzy Conn talking to Matt Forde on his Political Party podcast about her brilliant series Leading Labour
open.spotify.com/episode/1jar...
open.spotify.com/episode/1jar...
One for @rwldproject.bsky.social.
There is a poignant dedication on the station sign: "Dedicated to a loyal railwayman, who died in the cause of duty – Walter James Stolworthy, of Wymondham (1927-1988)".
A Liberal England guest post from Neil Hickman.
A Liberal England guest post from Neil Hickman.
GUEST POST In the cause of duty: Walter Stolworthy is remembered at Wymondham station
Intrigued by a sign on a Norfolk railway station, Neil Hickman discovers a story of selfless service. We take the people who work on the ra...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
One for @rwldproject.bsky.social.
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North East England borehole data drive: share your data, shape the future
We're asking for drillers, consultants, councils, housebuilders, and developers to share ground investigation (GI) data for the Newcastle and Gateshead area.
We're asking for drillers, consultants, councils, housebuilders, and developers to share ground investigation (GI) data for the Newcastle and Gateshead area.
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
North East England borehole data drive: share your data, shape the future
We're asking for drillers, consultants, councils, housebuilders, and developers to share ground investigation (GI) data for the Newcastle and Gateshead area.
We're asking for drillers, consultants, councils, housebuilders, and developers to share ground investigation (GI) data for the Newcastle and Gateshead area.
Mother to Stephen Church, one of those who - through being as encouraging open day host as one might wish at UEA and, later, by his teaching and general encouragement, supported my becoming a historian.
I never met Rosemary, but I owe her a debt.
I never met Rosemary, but I owe her a debt.
RIP Rosemary Church, who "founded the Faringdon & District Archaeological & Historical Society" which "catalogued gravestones, transcribed documents, collected photographs from a bygone age, put on exhibitions and talks, and set up a history resource centre"
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Rosemary Church obituary
Other lives: Primary school teacher who set up a local history society in the Oxfordshire town of Faringdon
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Mother to Stephen Church, one of those who - through being as encouraging open day host as one might wish at UEA and, later, by his teaching and general encouragement, supported my becoming a historian.
I never met Rosemary, but I owe her a debt.
I never met Rosemary, but I owe her a debt.
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Every "X will be unpopular" take which does not compare X with the other options available should be stuck in a bin.
Raising big taxes is unpopular. Not raising them means starving public services. Remind me how many years of starving public services worked out for the incumbent in May last year.
Raising big taxes is unpopular. Not raising them means starving public services. Remind me how many years of starving public services worked out for the incumbent in May last year.
Just seen another 'but you don't get it! Raising income tax would be unpopular!' It certainly would.
I just am asking anyone who posts that to look at the currently planning departmental spending allocations going into 2028-9 and to explain why they think the *current* plans will be popular:
I just am asking anyone who posts that to look at the currently planning departmental spending allocations going into 2028-9 and to explain why they think the *current* plans will be popular:
Spending Review 2025 (HTML)
www.gov.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every "X will be unpopular" take which does not compare X with the other options available should be stuck in a bin.
Raising big taxes is unpopular. Not raising them means starving public services. Remind me how many years of starving public services worked out for the incumbent in May last year.
Raising big taxes is unpopular. Not raising them means starving public services. Remind me how many years of starving public services worked out for the incumbent in May last year.
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Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians