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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · 6d

Came across a nice account of what it was like to be a student at University of Bristol in 1947 in the Godalming County School magazine. The typical day starts with 1st gong for breakfast at 7.45! @bristolunilib.bsky.social
www.theoga.org/wp-content/u...

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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · 9d

Love this! My Nana had a fuchsia nursery in Cornwall and I have fond memories of taking fuchsia cuttings with her in the greenhouses

Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 9d

'Greenhouse Interior,' (c1935) shows Stanley Spencer's common practice at the time of this painting; a closely observed and highly detailed flower painting, in this case fuchsias, against a receding background.

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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · 10d

For anyone interested in Jack Phillips wireless operator of #Titanic I've just come across a nice little bio of him in Godalming County Grammar School mag of 1933 because his sister established a prize at the school in his name. The magazine is scanned
www.theoga.org/wp-content/u...

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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · 12d

Finally visited @nationaltrust.org.uk Red House - built for William Morris! Only open for a few days a week and you have to book in advance.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17d

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:

Events

Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research

www.history.ac.uk

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 14d

A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens

Rings with discreet dual purpose have been in use since before the common era, when Hannibal, facing extradition, allegedly ingested the poison he kept secreted behind a gemstone on his finger.

www.openculture.com

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 14d

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · 14d

Great new book out from Caroline Dakers uclpress.co.uk/book/million...

Millionaire Shopping

Millionaire Shopping is the first full, detailed and original account of the huge and unstoppable collecting and patronage of Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) who was one of the most important but lesser-k...

uclpress.co.uk

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 15d

"For... interesting holidays".

Something about the spookily lit trees in the foreground makes this feel like the kind of poster you'd catch sight of on a mildewed wall in the early minutes of an MR James adaptation.

(SMG: collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co23...)

1930 LNER poster advertising "Dunfermline For Interesting Holidays". Spookily lit trees in the foreground and the Abbey beyond.

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Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social · 16d

Long shot: any1 ever come across a #Laight family in #NewYork in the 1820s, with ties to #Haiti?

Tiny info I have: father=Henry, daughter=Maria. She's not a native writer of French, requests orange jams (!) from Modeste Pigeon in Port-au-P., is v. religious.

Thanks #skystorians 's hivemind!

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 22d

BBC coverage of research using Northampton General Hospital's archive:

Child hospital care dates from 18th Century:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The study itself is #OpenAccess:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#History #MedicalHistory

Northampton research reveals origins of paediatric hospital care

Research overturns the belief children did not receive hospital treatment until the Victorian era.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 23d

This is a wonderful carte-de-visite of a spirit photograph featuring the fab Victorian psychic duo of Mrs Guppy and Charles Williams from around 1892. The pair, along with Frank Herne, regularly collaborated during seances, especially in the 1870s. Their main manifestations were spirit apports.

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Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social · 23d

Victorianists - a little bit of silly joy in all the gloom: take a moment today to vote for this gorgeous Lego set idea of the Great Exhibition so we can all get it for Christmas! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Front view of the Crystal Palace exterior rendered in Lego complete with megalosaurus and horsedrawn omnibus

Interior view of Lego Crystal Palace showing various details of the exhibition

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Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social · 24d

Hello Bluesky!

We are an independent group of Friends that support The Women's Library at LSE through fundraising, donations, publicity, advice, and activities.

Find out more about our history and our work here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

Friends of the Women's Library – The Friends of The Women’s Library support the preservation and use of one of the most important collections on women’s history in the UK.

friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 23d

I’m delighted to be part of this term’s London 19th Century Studies Seminar line up, and on a periodicals panel with @andrewkingc19.bsky.social no less! Join us at Senate House on Tues 14 Oct - all welcome!

Hark! The wild west wind rattles yonder casement, and autumn's own breath chills the under-insulated pedestrian trudging the pavement outside. These things betoken the return of hats and overcoats, umbrellas and germs, and of course students... but also the London 19th Century Studies Seminar! Please find the programme below, lovingly curated by myself, Mary Shannon and Briony Wickes. All events will be held from 6pm to 8pm in Room 243 at Senate House.
14th October: Andrew King (Greenwich),
"Periodicals and the Materiality of Marketing", and Clare Stainthorp (Royal College of Art),
"The British Freethought Movement and
Periodical Form".
25th November: Kate Hext (Exeter) and Catherine Maxwell (QMUL) on Decadent
Flowers and Gardens.
9th December: Peter Bryden (Exeter) and Robert Hampson (RHUL) on New Perspectives on Late Victorian Art.

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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · 26d

I have the 1000 page version - one of the few novels that I re-read because it’s so pacey!

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 27d

@melindahaunton.bsky.social We've not officially launched this yet, but it is on our website, so while I remember... Look what we're doing at work in half term: history.rcp.ac.uk/event/tales-... Colleague said 'I wonder if we could get a storyteller in' and I said 'I know just the person!'.

Tales from the Doctors' library: family storytelling | RCP Museum

history.rcp.ac.uk

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 27d

This looks like an amazing opportunity for someone to write for VCH Herefordshire! 📕

Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · Sep 10

New #Skystorians job alert!

The impressive VCH Herefordshire project have been fundraising hard for some time and are now able to advertise two contributing editor roles which will work towards completing work histories of Ledbury and the Malvern Hills.

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Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust

An opportunity for an academic position as a Contributing Editors is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 28d

Professor Christopher Duffy was greatly admired and is greatly missed but I had no idea about this.
www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/histori...

Historian leaves £1m to Culloden Battlefield in his Will

An acclaimed historian left more than £1 million to help protect the Culloden Battlefield — after a lifetime dedicated to researching its history.

www.inverness-courier.co.uk

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Sep 5

Explore an Online Archive of 12,700 Vintage Cookbooks

“Early cookbooks were fit for kings,” writes Henry Notaker at The Atlantic. “The oldest published recipe collections” in the 15th and 16th centuries in Western Europe “emanated from the palaces of mon...

www.openculture.com

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · Sep 6

John Atkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds OTD, 6 September in 1836. The Victorian painter is celebrated for his luminous nocturnal scenes of city streets and docks. Self-taught and once employed by the railway, he turned to painting full-time in the 1870s. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and

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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · Aug 28

I saw the obituary for the architectural historian Andrew Saint in @thetimes.com - This book was so important to my PhD

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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · Aug 25

Very pleased to have completed this lovely tapestry!

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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · Aug 24

Just visited @gilbertwhites.bsky.social Gilbert White’s house in Selborne. Nice day out! Perplexed why none of my kids ever came here on school trips (as I live quite locally)?

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · Jul 30

'Demolition of the Blitzed House of Commons' (1945) by Frank Ernest Beresford

(Parliamentary Art Collection)

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