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liber-ray.bsky.social
A fun afternoon yesterday with the @rialibrary.bsky.social Stowe Missal! MS D ii 3 dates to the late 8th/early 9th centuries, and contains excerpts from the Gospel of St John and a Latin Missal. The last folio features Irish charms to protect against loss of eyesight and urinal diseases! 📜🎉
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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ystadaucymru.bsky.social
Huge thanks to Dr Gareth Huws for a wonderful lecture yesterday evening, using the Plas Newydd & Bodrhyddan papers at @archpbu.bsky.social to explore the operation of Irish-Welsh estates.

Thanks to everyone who attended in person and online.

A pleasure to co-host with @historicirishho.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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archpbu.bsky.social
Grant by Queen Anne by Letters Patent to Richard Bulkeley, son of Richard, Lord Bulkeley and Viscount Cashiels, of the offices of Chancellor and Chamberlain of North Wales and of Constable of Beaumaris Castle.

Dyddiad/Date: 1702 BHILL/186
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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rhiggitt.bsky.social
Lots of great objects and archives to explore (one at random here, Leighton Dalrymple's sketch of John Blenkinsop's Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca', 1812), with themed virtual exhibitions #histSTM📜
Detail from an early 19thC autograph letter, including a sketch of a locomotive on rails, pulling carts of what looks like coal. A man in a hat is drawn to its left for scale.
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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glamarchives.bsky.social
This tiny little volume made an appearance in the searchroom yesterday. It’s a condensed diary for the year 1895, and forms part of the papers of the Williams Family of Miskin Manor.
Cover of the 'Condensed 1895 Diary' sitting in the palm of one hand. The diary held open in one hand. The covers of the small diary.
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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annalujz.bsky.social
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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chrishall.bsky.social
Good to see A.E. Heath, who brought Rush Rhees and hence #Wittgenstein to #Swansea, getting recognition en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._H...
A. E. Heath - Wikipedia
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November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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derbyshiredro.bsky.social
Dronfield Station in the 1870s didn't only move passengers and goods, it was the Amazon of its day and moved parcels! This is a parcel delivery book entry from the #1870s for delivering parcels via passenger train, showing consignees and signatures when parcels collected.

#Railway200
A book that has been filled in by hand using black ink.
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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hellohistoria.bsky.social
Yesterday, I finally visited @gwentarchives.bsky.social to look at Abergavenny Asylum records 🔎

Looking forward to seeing where this research takes me 👀

#Wales #History #histmed
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Look Out for Insane Foliage!

Hand-painted incunable borders and a little bit of book guts for a treat at #NewberryLibrary. (Inc. 1286; 109.5; 7250)

#Illuminated #BindingWaste
Front gutter with manuscript binding waste and a very green plant border. Initial B with a gold background and bulbous plants, some pink. Initial S with gold dotted flowers on left.
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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derbyshiredro.bsky.social
Amongst the archives of the Diocese of Derby is our #ArchiveOfTheWeek, three volumes of watercolours of the county's parish churches, created about 1823 by Philip Browne. Photographs of some churches were added between 1870 and 1900.

#EYAReligion/Spirituality #art
Selection of watercolours by Philip Browne showing the parish churches of Dore, Blackwell, Tibshelf, Ault Hucknall, Cromford and Hartshorne about 1823, with a photograph of Kirk Langley about 1890s.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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thegozfather.bsky.social
My mission to fill The National Archives website with niche legal records continues. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
Plea roll for the Court of King’s Bench, with a portrait of Henry VIII
This record of disputes taken to court in 1518, written in abbreviated Latin, includes a vivid portrait of the reigning monarch at the time.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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worsted.bsky.social
Useful archival cataloguing term found
Extract from typed document with title 'Main Comments on Bungle of Documents' It continues by listing the contents of the Bungle.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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mediumaevum.bsky.social
Five days remain to submit your presentation proposal for the Medieval Wales conference taking place at Prifysgol Caerdydd/ Cardiff University, 25th-26th April 2026.

Read the full CFP in both Welsh and English at mediumaevum.org.uk/events/medie...
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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gwentarchives.bsky.social
Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.

Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
One for the #speirgorm community.
simonbriercliffe.bsky.social Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social · 2d
I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?
An old black and white photo showing five men in Edwardian clothes, all wearing hates, standing in front of woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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rgmemss.bsky.social
Congratulations for all our contributors to the successful RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments this past weekend!
They shone with expert reports of discoveries, projects, and work-in-progress about fragments in manuscript and early-printed forms. Hurray!
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2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments -
2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments “Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books: Encountering and Reconstructing the Legacy of Otto F. Ege and Other Biblioclasts“ Friday to Sunday 21–23 November 2025 Hybri...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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mccaine.bsky.social
"The Working Ladies' Guild for Necessitous Gentlewomen" sounds 100% like a twee historical fantasy detective series. In fact, maybe it should be one
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historyworkshop.org.uk History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 3d
New publishing opportunity!

The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.

Further information and contact details in the text below.
A call for editors for a new edited volume on the Working Ladies Guild. The volume is expected to focus on the late-Victorian period, with the case-histories of women based in London who approached the Guild for relief providing the bulk of the material. The records of the Guild’s Chelsea group, covering the period 1884 to 1897, will provide the core of the material to be transcribed and edited. Readers who are interested in potentially taking on this task should contact Dr Anne Summers (chair@friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk) or Prof Jerry White, Honorary General Editor (Modern Records) of the LRS (jerry.white@bbk.ac.uk) to discuss the project further.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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clodaghtait.bsky.social
Would love to see all the Church of Ireland registers properly online, like the Catholic ones on the @nlireland.bsky.social website.
aoifeb.bsky.social Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks to Heritage Council funding, digital versions of these parish registers will soon be online. And the precious records of St Luke's Douglas can move from a damp old building to a temperature-controlled archive. #Speirgorm #Ireland 🗃️
3 large leather-bound books lie on a table, framed by a checkerboard tiled floor and a window inset frame. They are in chronological order, oldest, most tattered volume on the left. The newest bears the lable 'In memory of Percy Henry Sweetnam, 21-3-18 to 5-3-91'
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
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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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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thegozfather.bsky.social
Want to know exactly how much tea was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party? Just check the bill the East India Company sent the British shortly afterwards, a copy of which is now at The National Archives [TNA CO 5/247] www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, American colonists threw 340 chests of tea into Boston harbour in an event now known as the Boston Tea Party. This letter from the East India Company gives a breakdown of teas des...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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uniwalespress.bsky.social
'All who read him will learn much on Britain's landscapes and those that once inhabited them'.

An excellent review of Stephen Knight's 'Nature and Medieval Literature' in Mediaevistik!

Read the full review here: www.peterlang.com/document/167...
Cover of Nature and Medieval Literature which features an illustration of a stag in a snowy field
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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gwentarchives.bsky.social
Ymunwch â ni yn Archifau Gwent ddydd Llun 15 Rhagfyr am fore yn archwilio hanes Gwaith Dur Glynebwy. Yna bydd cyfle i weld ffilmiau’r archif o Lynebwy a'r Gwaith Dur gan ein partneriaid yn Archifau Darlledu Cymru (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru).
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM