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How-to History explains events, concepts, sources and share thoughts on researching, writing and teaching history. Each ‘How-to’ is a short guide which directs you to further resources. howtohistory.substack.com
Monsters, by Thomas Wood. Sharing an old post on All Hallows Eve! 'Wherever they appear, monsters act as embodiments of those things that humanity should fear'. how-to-history.com/2024/10/30/m...
October 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Monsters, by Thomas Wood. Sharing an old post on All Hallows Eve! 'Wherever they appear, monsters act as embodiments of those things that humanity should fear'. how-to-history.com/2024/10/30/m...
Title Deeds, by Joe Saunders. Deeds are legal documents concerning the ownership or possession of property, usually regarding the transfer of land or a house from one person to another. how-to-history.com/2025/10/29/t...
Title Deeds
Joe Saunders Deeds are legal documents concerning the ownership or possession of property, usually regarding the transfer of land or a house from one person to another. They have been in use since …
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October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Title Deeds, by Joe Saunders. Deeds are legal documents concerning the ownership or possession of property, usually regarding the transfer of land or a house from one person to another. how-to-history.com/2025/10/29/t...
Please note that How-to History is in the process of relocating to a new platform. Email subscribers will continue to receive posts. Please bear with us during the construction of our new site: how-to-history.com
How-to History
Instruction and information for historians. Into your inbox monthly.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Please note that How-to History is in the process of relocating to a new platform. Email subscribers will continue to receive posts. Please bear with us during the construction of our new site: how-to-history.com
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Pre-Modern Chess, by Anna Cusack. Chess is an old game, a very old game, and as such its origins are much debated and complex. howtohistory.substack.com/p/pre-modern...
Pre-Modern Chess
The World
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September 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Pre-Modern Chess, by Anna Cusack. Chess is an old game, a very old game, and as such its origins are much debated and complex. howtohistory.substack.com/p/pre-modern...
Pre-Modern Chess, by Anna Cusack. Chess is an old game, a very old game, and as such its origins are much debated and complex. howtohistory.substack.com/p/pre-modern...
Pre-Modern Chess
The World
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September 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Pre-Modern Chess, by Anna Cusack. Chess is an old game, a very old game, and as such its origins are much debated and complex. howtohistory.substack.com/p/pre-modern...
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Britain is crosshatched with lyke ways -- paths for transporting the newly dead toward burial & eternity. Famous, hikeable ones in Dartmoor and York Moors. @annacusack.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social tell all about them. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads
Corpse Roads
Britain
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September 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Britain is crosshatched with lyke ways -- paths for transporting the newly dead toward burial & eternity. Famous, hikeable ones in Dartmoor and York Moors. @annacusack.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social tell all about them. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads
Corpse Roads, by Anna Cusack. Corpse roads, sometimes known as burial roads or coffin roads were used for exactly what it sounds like, transporting a corpse. Often found in rural areas these paths lead from remote dwellings to the parish churchyard. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads
Corpse Roads
Britain
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August 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Corpse Roads, by Anna Cusack. Corpse roads, sometimes known as burial roads or coffin roads were used for exactly what it sounds like, transporting a corpse. Often found in rural areas these paths lead from remote dwellings to the parish churchyard. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads
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Liberation 1945 – As it Happened
Channel Islands
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Liberation 1945 – As it Happened
Channel Islands
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Liberation 1945 – As it Happened
Channel Islands
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July 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Latest @howtohistory.bsky.social blog
Liberation 1945 – As it Happened
Channel Islands
Link 👉 howtohistory.substack.com/p/liberation...
Liberation 1945 – As it Happened
Channel Islands
Link 👉 howtohistory.substack.com/p/liberation...
Liberation 1945 – As it Happened. Could you imagine how the events leading up to, and the eventual Liberation of Jersey and Guernsey in May 1945 would have been ‘reported’ on social media? Liberation 1945 – As It Happened showed how it might have been. howtohistory.substack.com/p/liberation...
Liberation 1945 – As it Happened
Channel Islands
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July 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Liberation 1945 – As it Happened. Could you imagine how the events leading up to, and the eventual Liberation of Jersey and Guernsey in May 1945 would have been ‘reported’ on social media? Liberation 1945 – As It Happened showed how it might have been. howtohistory.substack.com/p/liberation...
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There's still time to sign up for our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon, this Thurs 24 July, 1-4pm BST:
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 📅🕐
Join us online or in person in Exeter & help us transcribe early modern wills 📜✍️
We'll email registered attendees with joining info in the next 2 days 💻
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 📅🕐
Join us online or in person in Exeter & help us transcribe early modern wills 📜✍️
We'll email registered attendees with joining info in the next 2 days 💻
July 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
There's still time to sign up for our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon, this Thurs 24 July, 1-4pm BST:
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 📅🕐
Join us online or in person in Exeter & help us transcribe early modern wills 📜✍️
We'll email registered attendees with joining info in the next 2 days 💻
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 📅🕐
Join us online or in person in Exeter & help us transcribe early modern wills 📜✍️
We'll email registered attendees with joining info in the next 2 days 💻
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Recent articles on How-to History are on Trade Tokens, Leases, Pub Signs and Lascars. Read these and all our posts for free: howtohistory.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Recent articles on How-to History are on Trade Tokens, Leases, Pub Signs and Lascars. Read these and all our posts for free: howtohistory.substack.com
Recent articles on How-to History are on Trade Tokens, Leases, Pub Signs and Lascars. Read these and all our posts for free: howtohistory.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Recent articles on How-to History are on Trade Tokens, Leases, Pub Signs and Lascars. Read these and all our posts for free: howtohistory.substack.com
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We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
June 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
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Lascars, by Shagnick Bhattacharya. A lascar was a seaman of mostly South Asian origin. Described as the first proper ‘globalised workforce’, lascars made the inter-oceanic commerce of the British Empire possible. howtohistory.substack.com/p/lascars
June 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Lascars, by Shagnick Bhattacharya. A lascar was a seaman of mostly South Asian origin. Described as the first proper ‘globalised workforce’, lascars made the inter-oceanic commerce of the British Empire possible. howtohistory.substack.com/p/lascars
Lascars, by Shagnick Bhattacharya. A lascar was a seaman of mostly South Asian origin. Described as the first proper ‘globalised workforce’, lascars made the inter-oceanic commerce of the British Empire possible. howtohistory.substack.com/p/lascars
June 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Lascars, by Shagnick Bhattacharya. A lascar was a seaman of mostly South Asian origin. Described as the first proper ‘globalised workforce’, lascars made the inter-oceanic commerce of the British Empire possible. howtohistory.substack.com/p/lascars
Thank you to everyone who has read and shared How-to History. We are now at around 100 posts and over 2,500 followers. We want to continue delivering in a manageable way, given time constraints on the editors, and so are moving to monthly publication. howtohistory.substack.com/p/moving-mon...
May 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Thank you to everyone who has read and shared How-to History. We are now at around 100 posts and over 2,500 followers. We want to continue delivering in a manageable way, given time constraints on the editors, and so are moving to monthly publication. howtohistory.substack.com/p/moving-mon...
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How-to History explains events, concepts, sources and share thoughts on researching, writing and teaching history. Each ‘How-to’ is a short guide which directs you to further resources. howtohistory.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
How-to History explains events, concepts, sources and share thoughts on researching, writing and teaching history. Each ‘How-to’ is a short guide which directs you to further resources. howtohistory.substack.com
How-to History explains events, concepts, sources and share thoughts on researching, writing and teaching history. Each ‘How-to’ is a short guide which directs you to further resources. howtohistory.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
How-to History explains events, concepts, sources and share thoughts on researching, writing and teaching history. Each ‘How-to’ is a short guide which directs you to further resources. howtohistory.substack.com
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The Society's Camden series is a collection of 385 volumes of primary sources, edited by specialist historians.
Forthcoming volumes, published this summer, include the 'Papers of Admiral George Grey' and the 'Holograph Letters Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots' bit.ly/4jUHWnF #Skystorians
Forthcoming volumes, published this summer, include the 'Papers of Admiral George Grey' and the 'Holograph Letters Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots' bit.ly/4jUHWnF #Skystorians
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Society's Camden series is a collection of 385 volumes of primary sources, edited by specialist historians.
Forthcoming volumes, published this summer, include the 'Papers of Admiral George Grey' and the 'Holograph Letters Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots' bit.ly/4jUHWnF #Skystorians
Forthcoming volumes, published this summer, include the 'Papers of Admiral George Grey' and the 'Holograph Letters Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots' bit.ly/4jUHWnF #Skystorians
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Pub names and signs, by Joe Saunders. In more illiterate times tradesmen advertised their business by hanging a sign outside their premises. Pubs names and hanging signs continue to enable identification and differentiation. howtohistory.substack.com/p/pub-names-...
Pub names and signs
Britain
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April 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Pub names and signs, by Joe Saunders. In more illiterate times tradesmen advertised their business by hanging a sign outside their premises. Pubs names and hanging signs continue to enable identification and differentiation. howtohistory.substack.com/p/pub-names-...
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Recent How-to posts are on the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, Microfilm, the History of Parliament project, and Rate Books. Read all our posts here: howtohistory.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Recent How-to posts are on the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, Microfilm, the History of Parliament project, and Rate Books. Read all our posts here: howtohistory.substack.com
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Railway 200, by Joe Saunders. A year-long, nationwide campaign to celebrate two centuries of the modern railway. A wide variety of activities and events are planned to celebrate the history of rail. #Railway200 howtohistory.substack.com/p/railway-200
May 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Railway 200, by Joe Saunders. A year-long, nationwide campaign to celebrate two centuries of the modern railway. A wide variety of activities and events are planned to celebrate the history of rail. #Railway200 howtohistory.substack.com/p/railway-200
Railway 200, by Joe Saunders. A year-long, nationwide campaign to celebrate two centuries of the modern railway. A wide variety of activities and events are planned to celebrate the history of rail. #Railway200 howtohistory.substack.com/p/railway-200
May 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Railway 200, by Joe Saunders. A year-long, nationwide campaign to celebrate two centuries of the modern railway. A wide variety of activities and events are planned to celebrate the history of rail. #Railway200 howtohistory.substack.com/p/railway-200
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Trade Tokens, by Anna Cusack, ‘Between about 1648 and 1673, almost no small-value coins were minted by the government’. The wealthy could use credit but everyone else who needed to do business began to rely on trade tokens. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens
April 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Trade Tokens, by Anna Cusack, ‘Between about 1648 and 1673, almost no small-value coins were minted by the government’. The wealthy could use credit but everyone else who needed to do business began to rely on trade tokens. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens
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A few years ago Baltimore, Md., merchants launched Bnotes -- currency for buying from local shops and restaurants. @howtohistory.bsky.social @annacusack.bsky.social show how local trade tokens have substituted for sovereign currency for a long time. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens
Trade Tokens
England
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April 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A few years ago Baltimore, Md., merchants launched Bnotes -- currency for buying from local shops and restaurants. @howtohistory.bsky.social @annacusack.bsky.social show how local trade tokens have substituted for sovereign currency for a long time. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens