Midland History Journal
@midlandhistory.bsky.social
We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
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Midland History
Midland History publishes on the history of the English Midlands region and historical comparisons with other areas.
www.tandfonline.com
The Midland History journal welcomes article submissions from professional and independent historians, and research students, working on any aspect of the history of the Midlands from Roman times to the 21st century. Visit our submissions site here:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ymd...
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ymd...
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We're proud to be a member of the #GeneralStrike100 national partnership
Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...
Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!
Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...
Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We're proud to be a member of the #GeneralStrike100 national partnership
Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...
Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!
Explore our interactive map & sign up to visit your nearest partner & #GeneralStrike100 history sites at actionnetwork.org/forms/visit-...
Looking forward to sharing our collections through onsite events & digitised sources!
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#Disability History Month runs from 20 November until 20 December. Chance to look at Birmingham institutions such as the Birmingham Royal Institute for the Blind started in 1846. Ref - WK/E1/481 #LibraryofBham
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#Disability History Month runs from 20 November until 20 December. Chance to look at Birmingham institutions such as the Birmingham Royal Institute for the Blind started in 1846. Ref - WK/E1/481 #LibraryofBham
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
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If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory
Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm.
For further details & tickets:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...
@midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social
Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm.
For further details & tickets:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...
@midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social
British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 Book Launch | National Trust
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory
Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm.
For further details & tickets:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...
@midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social
Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm.
For further details & tickets:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...
@midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social
The latest issue from Midland History includes the earliest Charter of King Edward I; a scrivener tale of Coventry Priory 1532; the office of the escheator in the counties of Warwick & Leicester 1351-1500; and Birmingham's burial ground dispute of 1806-31 plus book reviews
2 articles #OpenAcess
2 articles #OpenAcess
Midland History
Volume 50, Issue 2 of Midland History
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November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The latest issue from Midland History includes the earliest Charter of King Edward I; a scrivener tale of Coventry Priory 1532; the office of the escheator in the counties of Warwick & Leicester 1351-1500; and Birmingham's burial ground dispute of 1806-31 plus book reviews
2 articles #OpenAcess
2 articles #OpenAcess
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📣Exciting Opportunity✨ to join the Library & Archives senior management team at University of Warwick. To lead @mrcwarwick.bsky.social, including the University Archives and Special Collections.
Closing date: 7 Dec
#Archives #ArchivesWM @uknatarcsector.bsky.social
Closing date: 7 Dec
#Archives #ArchivesWM @uknatarcsector.bsky.social
MRC Manager and Head of Archives and Special Collections
An exciting opportunity has come up to join the Library & Archives senior management team. You will lead on all aspects of strategic development and operational management and expertise relating to th...
www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📣Exciting Opportunity✨ to join the Library & Archives senior management team at University of Warwick. To lead @mrcwarwick.bsky.social, including the University Archives and Special Collections.
Closing date: 7 Dec
#Archives #ArchivesWM @uknatarcsector.bsky.social
Closing date: 7 Dec
#Archives #ArchivesWM @uknatarcsector.bsky.social
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Finally got my review of @kieranconnell.bsky.social's Multicultural Britain together for @midlandhistory.bsky.social - spoiler alert, I thought it was fab.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Multicultural Britain: A People’s History
Published in Midland History (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Finally got my review of @kieranconnell.bsky.social's Multicultural Britain together for @midlandhistory.bsky.social - spoiler alert, I thought it was fab.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Looking forward to this #Birmingham #LocalHistory talk by fellow enthusiast @jfredt.bsky.social
📅Thurs 13 November
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
💻Online
Free and open to all just register to receive link
📅Thurs 13 November
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
💻Online
Free and open to all just register to receive link
John Pigott Smith, Surveyor (1798-1861): Birmingham’s Answer to Bazalgette
John Townley explores the career of civil engineer John Pigott Smith, a man of many parts and Birmingham’s answer to Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Looking forward to this #Birmingham #LocalHistory talk by fellow enthusiast @jfredt.bsky.social
📅Thurs 13 November
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
💻Online
Free and open to all just register to receive link
📅Thurs 13 November
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
💻Online
Free and open to all just register to receive link
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Enjoyable day at Black Country Day at the Black Country Living Museum
Some content already available on @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social YouTube site
#Railways200
Some content already available on @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social YouTube site
#Railways200
A video of the presentation given by Chris Baker at the Black Country History Day on November 8th entitled "Agenoria, Aristocrats and Iron Masters – Railway Beginnings in the western Black Country 1820 to 1860 " is now available on the Society YouTube site youtu.be/mcyE57Dqdbw
Agenoria, Aristocrats and Iron Masters; Railway Beginnings in the western Black Country 1820 to 1860
A talk given at "After Agenoria; Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country, Black Country Living Museum, 8th November 2025". This talk considers the early development of the rail system…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Enjoyable day at Black Country Day at the Black Country Living Museum
Some content already available on @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social YouTube site
#Railways200
Some content already available on @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social YouTube site
#Railways200
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#Historians, mark your calendars!
Our 2026 Summer Conference will be held on 13-15 July at @royalholloway.bsky.social. The Call for Papers will open in January 2026.
#churchhistory #Skystorians #cfp
Our 2026 Summer Conference will be held on 13-15 July at @royalholloway.bsky.social. The Call for Papers will open in January 2026.
#churchhistory #Skystorians #cfp
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
#Historians, mark your calendars!
Our 2026 Summer Conference will be held on 13-15 July at @royalholloway.bsky.social. The Call for Papers will open in January 2026.
#churchhistory #Skystorians #cfp
Our 2026 Summer Conference will be held on 13-15 July at @royalholloway.bsky.social. The Call for Papers will open in January 2026.
#churchhistory #Skystorians #cfp
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🚨 Archive Job Alert 🚨
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
📜 Fancy working with our fantastic archive collections?
We're looking for a *new* MRC Manager to lead our service!
Could this be YOU?
Find out more about the role at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
More about the MRC at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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There is still time to enter the Midland History essay prize
£400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal
Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃
#phd #ecr #postgrad
£400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal
Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃
#phd #ecr #postgrad
To enter the Midland History Essay Prize, the essay must be a genuine work of original research, not published or accepted for publication as an article or a chapter in an edited collection book. Max. 10,000 words, including footnotes, tables and figure captions (2/2)
More Details 👇
More Details 👇
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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On Friday 21 November we host the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture given this year by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): bit.ly/48NJHR5
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘
6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘
6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘: In Person
The Royal Historical Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA, FBA (Trinity College Dublin): IN PERSON BOOKING
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October 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
On Friday 21 November we host the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture given this year by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): bit.ly/48NJHR5
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘
6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland‘
6pm, at Mary Ward House, London, and online. Booking now open and all welcome. #Skystotrians
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Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Mon 3rd November at 5.30pm tinyurl.com/UptonBaskerv... Professor Caroline Archer-Parré will be giving her talk: Inhuming and exhuming: John Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc
October 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Mon 3rd November at 5.30pm tinyurl.com/UptonBaskerv... Professor Caroline Archer-Parré will be giving her talk: Inhuming and exhuming: John Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc
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Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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A new season of talks from the Centre for Midlands History & Cultures begins next month!
We begin with a house history - Winterbourne, Edgbaston, #Birmingham
📅Thurs 16 October
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
Online via Zoom
All Welcome
@archivewhg.bsky.social
We begin with a house history - Winterbourne, Edgbaston, #Birmingham
📅Thurs 16 October
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
Online via Zoom
All Welcome
@archivewhg.bsky.social
Winterbourne, 1904-2025
Join Dr Sue Tungate for this house history on Winterbourne in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A new season of talks from the Centre for Midlands History & Cultures begins next month!
We begin with a house history - Winterbourne, Edgbaston, #Birmingham
📅Thurs 16 October
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
Online via Zoom
All Welcome
@archivewhg.bsky.social
We begin with a house history - Winterbourne, Edgbaston, #Birmingham
📅Thurs 16 October
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
Online via Zoom
All Welcome
@archivewhg.bsky.social
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More podcasts from The World Turned Upside Down resource (see www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk)
Historical fiction and the English Civil Wars👇
Historical fiction and the English Civil Wars👇
Creating Memory - Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars - The World Turned Upside Down
Historical fiction is often a lens through which the memory of the Civil Wars has been shaped. Therefore, this is an important, but often forgotten topic
www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
More podcasts from The World Turned Upside Down resource (see www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk)
Historical fiction and the English Civil Wars👇
Historical fiction and the English Civil Wars👇
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#ICYMI: Looking for ways to celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen's birth? Why not go to a study day, hosted at SeaCity Museum, on 18 October!
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-s...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-s...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
September 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
#ICYMI: Looking for ways to celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen's birth? Why not go to a study day, hosted at SeaCity Museum, on 18 October!
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-s...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-s...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
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📣Job Opportunity📣
Stoke-on-Trent City Council seeks innovative & experienced Archive Services Manager to lead the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives team, following recent relocation to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery(PMAG)
Closing date for applications: 7 October
#Archives #ArchivesWM
Stoke-on-Trent City Council seeks innovative & experienced Archive Services Manager to lead the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives team, following recent relocation to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery(PMAG)
Closing date for applications: 7 October
#Archives #ArchivesWM
Archive Services Manager - Stoke-on-Trent City Council
An exciting opportunity has come up for Archives Services Manager at Stoke-on-Trent City Archives. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking an innovative ...
www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📣Job Opportunity📣
Stoke-on-Trent City Council seeks innovative & experienced Archive Services Manager to lead the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives team, following recent relocation to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery(PMAG)
Closing date for applications: 7 October
#Archives #ArchivesWM
Stoke-on-Trent City Council seeks innovative & experienced Archive Services Manager to lead the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives team, following recent relocation to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery(PMAG)
Closing date for applications: 7 October
#Archives #ArchivesWM
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Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
www.bsecs.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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Black Country Society History Day 8/11/2025. After Agenoria: Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country. Organised in cooperation with the Black Country Living Museum. The programme for the day and booking details can be downloaded from tickets.bclm.com/127979/127980
August 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Black Country Society History Day 8/11/2025. After Agenoria: Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country. Organised in cooperation with the Black Country Living Museum. The programme for the day and booking details can be downloaded from tickets.bclm.com/127979/127980
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The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub is a new national programme to support inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s galleries, libraries, #archives, and museums (GLAM) and heritage sectors.
Launch Webinar: Weds 17th Sept 2025.
On offer three grant schemes - to find out more 👇
Launch Webinar: Weds 17th Sept 2025.
On offer three grant schemes - to find out more 👇
Community Hub - Portals
The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub is a new national programme led by The National Archives in partnership with Leeds Museums & Galleries, the National Library of Wales, and the Communit...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
August 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub is a new national programme to support inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s galleries, libraries, #archives, and museums (GLAM) and heritage sectors.
Launch Webinar: Weds 17th Sept 2025.
On offer three grant schemes - to find out more 👇
Launch Webinar: Weds 17th Sept 2025.
On offer three grant schemes - to find out more 👇
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Interested in starting a #OnePlaceStudy? Already engaged in OPS research but in need of guidance and inspiration? Here’s the course for you!
Society members can claim a 10% discount on the course fee, while non-members taking the course are offered a year's free membership of our Society.
Society members can claim a 10% discount on the course fee, while non-members taking the course are offered a year's free membership of our Society.
First Steps to a One-Place Study. One-place studies are a fascinating blend of local and family history. They are frequently undertaken by family historians wanting to create a context for their ancestors. www.pharostutors.com/first-steps-...
September 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Interested in starting a #OnePlaceStudy? Already engaged in OPS research but in need of guidance and inspiration? Here’s the course for you!
Society members can claim a 10% discount on the course fee, while non-members taking the course are offered a year's free membership of our Society.
Society members can claim a 10% discount on the course fee, while non-members taking the course are offered a year's free membership of our Society.
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You can now fully search Exchequer depositions for the reign of Victoria [1837-1841] online. Plaintiffs, defendants, subject, county, dates of commission, the whole shebang. Enjoy! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...
September 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
You can now fully search Exchequer depositions for the reign of Victoria [1837-1841] online. Plaintiffs, defendants, subject, county, dates of commission, the whole shebang. Enjoy! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...