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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · 23d

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...

IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History Seminar

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · 23d

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...

IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History Seminar

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...

ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · 23d

There was a good video which did a similar thing by just carrying out normal internet searches of passers by. It was pretty scary because they could work out where they lived and worked quickly. I am increasingly thinking we just need to put as little online as possible.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 23d

Join us online on 24 Sept to celebrate the 250th VCH Big Red Book!

Founded in 1899, @vchlondon.bsky.social is writing the #history of every place in #England, with partners across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome!

https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/celebrating-local-place-based-history-westmorland-250th-vch-big-red-book#:~:text=Event%20information%3E&text=In%20September%202025%2C%20the%20UK's,and%20community%20history%20more%20widely.

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · Jul 30

One here👋

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · Jul 25

Nor me, not sure sending selfies to American companies to prove your age seems like a great idea either

Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · Jul 25

Is it a new law that all websites have to follow in the UK? I have had it on other sites as well

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · Jul 24

Yes it's great that we are actually getting it on free to air now. Same for the all Ireland hurling I watched last weekend. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it and how much I'm looking forward to the all Ireland football final this weekend.

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · Jul 7

This is a great model. Emily was kind enough to share it with our @vchlondon.bsky.social project and it has been so helpful. It allowed volunteers with no training to accurately transcribe Early Modern records. This would have been so much harder without her help

Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jul 6

Just pushed the button on running the Egerton model for the last time before we make it public. We hit 1.1 million words in the training data and 126,000 in the verification set. This has been three years in the making, but it's a great model and really accurate. @transkribus.bsky.social

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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · May 22

🔊 Today at midday UK time, join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar (on Zoom) to celebrate 'Tudor Networks of Power', the winning entry for the 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues... #dhist

22 May 2025 – Deswarte Prize Seminar: Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian Ahnert on 'Tudor Networks of Power' - Digital History Seminar

This seminar is 12:00 pm – 13:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97213610241 later posted to our YouTube channel. This seminar will celebrate the winning entry for the 2024 Richard Deswarte P...

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · May 9

This looks like a super interesting PhD opportunity for an artist or historian engaged in creative practice-based research www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-... @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social #nationalmaritimemuseum @josiekane.bsky.social

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: Thames Barge Stories

A fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship between the National Maritime Museum and Royal College of Art from October 2025, under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme.

www.rca.ac.uk

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · May 6

We're really looking forward to this: hope to see you there!

Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · May 6

Join us next week for the @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture:
Women Making History in the Early Twentieth Century: Working for the VCH ‘Big Red Books’ with @amalexathorn.bsky.social.
Free to attend: www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · Apr 30

I love the juxtaposition here of @vchlondon.bsky.social #BigRedBooks with the (even bigger) volumes of Camden's Britannia (1695).

People have been writing about place for a long, long time.

For VCH online, see @bho.bsky.social, a full text of Camden here, btw: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B184....

Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · Apr 30

#VCH 'Victoria County History' is celebrating over 125 years of creating an encyclopaedic history of English counties. They’ve just announced new projects -
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four... #LibraryofBham @vchlondon.bsky.social

A shelf of books with leather bindings and gold embossed writing. The books are showing their spines. Titles include A History of the County of Warwickshire on the left and Camden’s Britannia on the right.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Apr 30

#ICYMI - #Skystorians We are delighted to announce the launch of FOUR new VCH projects across England.

We now have active projects in 22 of England's counties and two of the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire.

Welcome to the fold, #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire and #London! More in the blog:

Four New Victoria County History Projects - On History

This blog post was written by Ruth Slatter and Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH. The Victoria County History (VCH), is delighted to announce that its national network of place-based history...

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · Apr 24

This is a bumper year for @vchlondon.bsky.social:

Four new projects (each breaking new ground in counties where we haven't been actively researching for around a century.

Many new books *including* our 250th Big Red Book (and that's in a county we haven't done before: Westmorland). #VCHRedBook250

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · Apr 24

Despite being over 125 years old, one of our flagship projects @vchlondon.bsky.social continues to be a vibrant, growing national network of place-based historians. The network has very excitingly recently welcomed 4 new projects. Find out more in this @ihr.bsky.social blog post 👇

Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are SUPER excited to share the news that the #VCH network is growing & has recently added 4 new projects in #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire & #London. These are all really exciting, collaborative projects, which you can find out more about here: blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four...

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · Apr 24

Proud to be part of this. It's early days but feel very lucky to be able to do this important work.

Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are SUPER excited to share the news that the #VCH network is growing & has recently added 4 new projects in #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire & #London. These are all really exciting, collaborative projects, which you can find out more about here: blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four...

Four New Victoria County History Projects - On History

This blog post was written by Ruth Slatter and Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH. The Victoria County History (VCH), is delighted to announce that its national network of place-based history...

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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · Apr 24

Despite being over 125 years old, one of our flagship projects @vchlondon.bsky.social continues to be a vibrant, growing national network of place-based historians. The network has very excitingly recently welcomed 4 new projects. Find out more in this @ihr.bsky.social blog post 👇

Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are SUPER excited to share the news that the #VCH network is growing & has recently added 4 new projects in #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire & #London. These are all really exciting, collaborative projects, which you can find out more about here: blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four...

Four New Victoria County History Projects - On History

This blog post was written by Ruth Slatter and Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH. The Victoria County History (VCH), is delighted to announce that its national network of place-based history...

blog.history.ac.uk

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Matt Lampitt @mattlampitt.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thrilled to see that this is now available online (for free)!

academic.oup.com/book/59910

@mappingthemarch.bsky.social

Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches: Networks, Places, Politics

Abstract. The Welsh Marches, a name that today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusti

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Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social · Apr 22

Did you know that we give away free credits to students who want to use Transkribus for their Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis?

Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇

www.transkribus.org/scholarship

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Heather Taylor (Hetty) @healextay.bsky.social · Apr 15

Want to know what kind of ‘non-medical’ ailments a medieval medical practitioner might have been able to treat you for? Thrilled to share some of my research in the journal of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social - open access and everything! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

‘An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost’: ‘Non-medical’ Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts

Summary. This essay conducts a close examination of manuscripts of English provenance from the late Middle Ages which, while predominantly medical in natur

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · Mar 28

I can only travel with noise cancelling headphones for reason such as this. The first time I used them was a revalation

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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · Mar 14

Our partners - large and small - together ensure we can continue to do what we do. If you value our open access, multilingual work, please consider becoming a partner.

Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · Mar 14

Deep thanks to @c2dh.uni.lu for renewing their membership to our Institutional Partnership Programme.

Their generous contribution empowers us to produce #DiamondOpenAccess resources for digital humanists around the world.

Thank you!✨

Join our global community tinyurl.com/support-PH

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · Mar 12

Excited to run the annual @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives in June! Check out the CFP below, please share widely, and submit an abstract!

CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · Mar 12

Call for Papers for our Annual CEMS Colloquium! This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Organised by @emilyrowe1.bsky.social.

We're looking for 15-minute papers. Deadline for abstracts is 11 April. Full details below.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...

@kingsartshums.bsky.social

Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · Mar 4

The US government hostility to Europe is clear and open. They, and Putin, want a divided and exploitable Europe.

The war in Ukraine is about as well. Both now and at the outset.

The only reason Trump is being 'generous' with the UK is to keep them away from the EU. He has openly stated this.

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