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The Call for Papers for NACBS 2026 is now open! Join us in Pasadena!
Read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...
Read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...
Join us Thursday to hear more about how the global histories of oil and empire are inextricably interlinked.
📕Fueling Empire with Karl Ittmann
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Free and open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
📕Fueling Empire with Karl Ittmann
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Free and open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Fueling Empire with Karl Ittmann | NACBS
Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945. Bill Storey will join Karl in discussion.
www.nacbs.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Join us Thursday to hear more about how the global histories of oil and empire are inextricably interlinked.
📕Fueling Empire with Karl Ittmann
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Free and open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
📕Fueling Empire with Karl Ittmann
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Free and open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
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We invite 20-minute papers for our 2026 Summer Conference 'The Church and Race' #CfP #history
Keynote speakers:
▪️Prof Miri Rubin, EHS President @qmul.bsky.social
▪️Prof Herman Bennett, @cuny.edu
▪️The Right Reverend Rowan Williams
Deadline: 15 April
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/
Keynote speakers:
▪️Prof Miri Rubin, EHS President @qmul.bsky.social
▪️Prof Herman Bennett, @cuny.edu
▪️The Right Reverend Rowan Williams
Deadline: 15 April
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/
February 16, 2026 at 10:36 AM
We invite 20-minute papers for our 2026 Summer Conference 'The Church and Race' #CfP #history
Keynote speakers:
▪️Prof Miri Rubin, EHS President @qmul.bsky.social
▪️Prof Herman Bennett, @cuny.edu
▪️The Right Reverend Rowan Williams
Deadline: 15 April
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/
Keynote speakers:
▪️Prof Miri Rubin, EHS President @qmul.bsky.social
▪️Prof Herman Bennett, @cuny.edu
▪️The Right Reverend Rowan Williams
Deadline: 15 April
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/
“The current anxiety around AI in English studies, however, cannot be understood in isolation from the longer institutional and colonial histories of the discipline, which parallel the institutional and colonial histories of AI itself.”
Read the next piece in our AI series by Anushmita Mohanty.
Read the next piece in our AI series by Anushmita Mohanty.
Reading, Assessment, and AI in English Studies
"The current anxiety around AI in English studies, however, cannot be understood in isolation from the longer institutional and colonial histories of the discipline, which parallel the institutional a...
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February 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
“The current anxiety around AI in English studies, however, cannot be understood in isolation from the longer institutional and colonial histories of the discipline, which parallel the institutional and colonial histories of AI itself.”
Read the next piece in our AI series by Anushmita Mohanty.
Read the next piece in our AI series by Anushmita Mohanty.
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A week full of One British Archive! Check out these two new additions to the series!
📗“Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives by Tara Inniss
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives by Tara Inniss
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
One British Archive: “Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
One British Archive: “Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives - Volume 65
www.cambridge.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
A week full of One British Archive! Check out these two new additions to the series!
📗“Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives by Tara Inniss
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives by Tara Inniss
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Also new in the One British Archive Series!
📗Stocked Stacks in the Great Plains: British and Irish Collections at the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library by Elspeth Healey
OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗Stocked Stacks in the Great Plains: British and Irish Collections at the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library by Elspeth Healey
OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
One British Archive: Stocked Stacks in the Great Plains: British and Irish Collections at the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
One British Archive: Stocked Stacks in the Great Plains: British and Irish Collections at the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library - Volume 65
www.cambridge.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Also new in the One British Archive Series!
📗Stocked Stacks in the Great Plains: British and Irish Collections at the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library by Elspeth Healey
OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗Stocked Stacks in the Great Plains: British and Irish Collections at the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library by Elspeth Healey
OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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📢Another new piece out in the One British Archive Series!
📗"A Monumental Task: The Archival Potential of Graveyards" by James Johnson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"A Monumental Task: The Archival Potential of Graveyards" by James Johnson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
One British Archive: A Monumental Task: The Archival Potential of Graveyards | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
One British Archive: A Monumental Task: The Archival Potential of Graveyards - Volume 65
www.cambridge.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:06 PM
📢Another new piece out in the One British Archive Series!
📗"A Monumental Task: The Archival Potential of Graveyards" by James Johnson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"A Monumental Task: The Archival Potential of Graveyards" by James Johnson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Important reading. Looking forward to the rest of the series
Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more!
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
The AI Takeover Is Not Inevitable: Now Is the Time to Resist
"Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable."
www.nacbs.org
February 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Important reading. Looking forward to the rest of the series
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📢New in JBS!
📗“Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21” by John C. Mitcham
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21” by John C. Mitcham
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
📢New in JBS!
📗“Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21” by John C. Mitcham
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21” by John C. Mitcham
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Next up in the series!
📗"One British Archive: The Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age Database" by Madeline Bassnett
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"One British Archive: The Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age Database" by Madeline Bassnett
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
One British Archive: The Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age Database | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
One British Archive: The Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age Database - Volume 65
www.cambridge.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Next up in the series!
📗"One British Archive: The Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age Database" by Madeline Bassnett
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"One British Archive: The Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age Database" by Madeline Bassnett
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New JBS article alert! 🚨 #slaveryarchive
““Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain” by Hannah Young.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
““Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain” by Hannah Young.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain - Volume 65
www.cambridge.org
February 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
New JBS article alert! 🚨 #slaveryarchive
““Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain” by Hannah Young.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
““Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain” by Hannah Young.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more!
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
The AI Takeover Is Not Inevitable: Now Is the Time to Resist
"Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable."
www.nacbs.org
February 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more!
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
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📢Upcoming Book Event!
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
📢Upcoming Book Event!
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
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I wrote a thing
“Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable.”
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
The AI Takeover Is Not Inevitable: Now Is the Time to Resist
"Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable."
www.nacbs.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I wrote a thing
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CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
February 5, 2026 at 2:09 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
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For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
February 4, 2026 at 6:59 PM
For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
“Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable.”
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
The AI Takeover Is Not Inevitable: Now Is the Time to Resist
"Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable."
www.nacbs.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:59 PM
“Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable.”
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
📢Upcoming Book Event!
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
📢Upcoming Book Event!
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
📕Fueling Empire with @kittmann.bsky.social
⏰February 19 at noon ET
Join us to celebrate the publication of Karl Ittmann’s recent book Fueling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945.
This event is free & open to the public. RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
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Great job opportunity, 18 month research fellowship in British Studies, linked to @thenacbs.bsky.social 2027
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Great job opportunity, 18 month research fellowship in British Studies, linked to @thenacbs.bsky.social 2027
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Job opportunity: 18 month fellowship in British Studies working @ihr.bsky.social to undertake own research and prep for NACBS2027 @thenacbs.bsky.social
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Job opportunity: 18 month fellowship in British Studies working @ihr.bsky.social to undertake own research and prep for NACBS2027 @thenacbs.bsky.social
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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📢New in JBS!
📗"Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s" by Kate Tilson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s" by Kate Tilson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s - Volume 65
www.cambridge.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:39 PM
📢New in JBS!
📗"Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s" by Kate Tilson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s" by Kate Tilson
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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📢New in JBS!
📗"'Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System'? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain" by Hannah Young
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"'Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System'? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain" by Hannah Young
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain - Volume 65
www.cambridge.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
📢New in JBS!
📗"'Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System'? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain" by Hannah Young
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"'Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System'? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain" by Hannah Young
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Yessssssss @thenacbs.bsky.social 's BROADSIDES blog & contributors doing a fabulous job getting politically-relevant info out there, as always
So much wrong with the history in this amicus brief (as the OP here knows).
Birthright citizenship *was* medieval law in that children of aliens born in England were English. And being married to an English person exempted you from taxation.
My receipts here: www.nacbs.org/post/medieva...
Birthright citizenship *was* medieval law in that children of aliens born in England were English. And being married to an English person exempted you from taxation.
My receipts here: www.nacbs.org/post/medieva...
January 28, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Yessssssss @thenacbs.bsky.social 's BROADSIDES blog & contributors doing a fabulous job getting politically-relevant info out there, as always
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March 5th at 12pm EST!
Join @thenacbs.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of Matthew Mason’s recent book "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World."
Eliga Gould will join Dr. Mason in discussion.
RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Join @thenacbs.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of Matthew Mason’s recent book "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World."
Eliga Gould will join Dr. Mason in discussion.
RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
January 26, 2026 at 8:22 PM
March 5th at 12pm EST!
Join @thenacbs.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of Matthew Mason’s recent book "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World."
Eliga Gould will join Dr. Mason in discussion.
RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Join @thenacbs.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of Matthew Mason’s recent book "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World."
Eliga Gould will join Dr. Mason in discussion.
RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Did an MA student write a fantastic paper on British Studies this year? Consider nominating them for the NACBS MA Essay Prize!
📅Nominations due February 15
More info: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...
📅Nominations due February 15
More info: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Did an MA student write a fantastic paper on British Studies this year? Consider nominating them for the NACBS MA Essay Prize!
📅Nominations due February 15
More info: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...
📅Nominations due February 15
More info: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...
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I had great fun bringing together material from @virtualtreasury.bsky.social with the England's immigrants database to look at people immigrating to and between England and Ireland in the middle ages.
“Humans have been on the move to and among these islands for as long as we have records and as far back as we can see in the archaeology.”
In the latest for Broadsides, @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social draws on the England's Immigrants Project to explore medieval migration to England & Ireland.
In the latest for Broadsides, @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social draws on the England's Immigrants Project to explore medieval migration to England & Ireland.
Medieval Migration
“Humans have been on the move to and among these islands for as long as we have records and as far back as we can see in the archaeology.”
www.nacbs.org
January 23, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I had great fun bringing together material from @virtualtreasury.bsky.social with the England's immigrants database to look at people immigrating to and between England and Ireland in the middle ages.