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British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · Oct 27
News: Individual subscriptions for British History Online are now available again!

£50 for a years access to 209 high quality transcriptions of volumes of state archives.

Catalogue: www.british-history.ac.uk/premium-cont...

Subscribe: www.british-history.ac.uk/subscribe
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ihr.bsky.social
New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history…
blog.history.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
bho.bsky.social
Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place & Testimony in British Guiana

making the largest collection of first-person testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean in existence – the Reports of the Protectors of Slaves – accessible.

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/p...

#History
Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life - The National Archives
The National Archives is working with international academics to make the largest collection of first-person testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean in existence – the Reports of the Protector...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
bho.bsky.social
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions

nation.cymru/news/new-pro...

#History #MedicalHistory #WelshHistory
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 10:59 AM
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vch-home.bsky.social
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
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 10:42 AM
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gftu.org.uk
🚨 We're marking the 1926 General Strike centenary.

Read the latest article by our Assistant GS, @redhen90.bsky.social - https://www.balh.org.uk/blog-making-history-not-reliving-it-the-national-partnership-to-celebrate-100-anniversary-of-the-general-strike-1926-2025-10-05

#GeneralStrike100 #GFTU
Commemorative graphic for the 100th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike, featuring a central figure in a vintage car, surrounded by historical images of crowds and workers, against a stylized backdrop with geometric shapes and logos of various UK museums and cultural institutions.
October 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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ieruk.bsky.social
General Strike 100

National museums, libraries, archives, community groups, and individuals across the UK are marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike.

All the details here: generalstrike100.com #GeneralStrike100
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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ihrscb.bsky.social
Our final event of term is happening this Thursday (27 November) Dr Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social on 'English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700'. ✨📚 This talk will be in-person only at the IHR. You can sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700
This talk introduces the UKRI-funded Future Leaders project, The Global Library project.
www.history.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
bho.bsky.social
Some beautiful modernist housing in #Liverpool, the latest from the ever-excellent @municipaldreams.bsky.social blog:

#History 🗃️
municipaldreams.bsky.social Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 5d
2/ Secondly, Liverpool's interwar tenement housing of the 1930s - an innovative attempt to 'raise an A1 community in a properly planned township of flats':
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
Courtyard view of Caryl Gardens, six-storey tenement block, and arched entrance Early photograph of Warwick Gardens, five-storey blocks, showing access balconies and arched entrance Early photograph of Warwick Gardens, five-storey blocks, showing shop and private balconies
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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bho.bsky.social
New, and very interesting, #OpenAccess article on Early English Books Online:

Opening the black box of EEBO

academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

#History 🗃️
Opening the black box of EEBO
Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t
academic.oup.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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dralexcraven.bsky.social
One for historians of migration and diversity: Just found a reference to a payment by the overseers of Charlton Kings (Glos.) to 'an Arabia Felix man' in 1733. I'd never come across the term before, but Google tells me it's an old name for southern Arabia, or the Yeman.
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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handhyorkshire.bsky.social
This has to be one of of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century from March 1907. Sixteen years old suffragette Dora Thewlis. A poor mill worker from Honley in Huddersfield she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union At a demonstration in London she is
was arrested and served a week in prison. Dora, obviously a very strong young woman emigrated to Australia before the start of the First World War, therefore never seeing the passage of women's suffrage in England, where she married and lived until her death in 1976.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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sharonhoward.bsky.social
I'm actually slightly mystified at how I managed to bypass the palaver, but I have this URL which is working for me without logging in to anything: edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/eb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
bho.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess #MedievalHistory from @uolpress.bsky.social

Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society
The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow
by Rachael Harkes

uolpress.co.uk/book/forging...

#History
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society - University of London Press
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society is an ambitious and innovative study of the social, political and religious histories of medieval England and Wales. Using the Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow as a...
uolpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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proghist.bsky.social
🗣️ ENABLAR is a new initiative from @jisc.bsky.social
+ @proghist.bsky.social, bringing library and archive practitioners into dialogue with digital humanities researchers.

We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.

tinyurl.com/enablar-blog
Infographic reading Call for Participants, tinyurl.com/enablar-blog. Jisc and Programming Historian logos are shown alongside a wordmark for the ENABLAR project, which reads ENABLAR, ENABling Library and Archive participation in digital Research co-learning communities.
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉

universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/

(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)

Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.

www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
Programs - School of Advanced Study
universityoflondon.smapply.io
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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adamchapman.bsky.social
You want references? VCH Somerset, from @vch-home.bsky.social, volume IX, available @bho.bsky.social:
Glastonbury: Town | British History Online
www.british-history.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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vch-home.bsky.social
Reflections on launching a landmark volume for us, being our 250th and the very first for Westmorland from our wonderful colleague and friend, Sarah Rose.

In this blog, Sarah looks back on the processes of research, writing, and collaboration in the context of VCH Cumbria and its work. 🗃️
Bringing the VCH to Westmorland: Launching Lonsdale Ward, the First Red Book for Cumbria - On History
In this blogpost, Dr Sarah Rose, Assistant Editor of the Victoria County History (VCH) project in Cumbria, describes the milestone achievement of producing Westmorland volume I, Lonsdale Ward. This is...
blog.history.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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statutes.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess (though it was a bit of a palaver downloading it) #LegalHistory and #WomensHistory book:

Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law
by Lotte Fikkers

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-early-m...

#History 🗃️
Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law
Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
bho.bsky.social
New, and very interesting, #OpenAccess article on Early English Books Online:

Opening the black box of EEBO

academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

#History 🗃️
Opening the black box of EEBO
Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t
academic.oup.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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markcrail.bsky.social
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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bldigischol.bsky.social
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library

https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
bl.libguides.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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sharonhoward.bsky.social
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
bho.bsky.social
Important piece of contemporary #LGBT #History:
rebeccawynter.bsky.social Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 22d
Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'!

There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.

#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
‘Conversion Therapy’ and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983 - University of Birmingham
Between c.1966 and 1983, the University of Birmingham employed researchers who orchestrated so-called 'conversion therapy' for same-sex love
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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rebeccawynter.bsky.social
Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'!

There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.

#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
‘Conversion Therapy’ and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983 - University of Birmingham
Between c.1966 and 1983, the University of Birmingham employed researchers who orchestrated so-called 'conversion therapy' for same-sex love
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM