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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 5d

From Historic England
Curzon Street Station #Birmingham
Past, Present and Future
#Railway200

Curzon Street Station, Birmingham: Past, Present and Future | Historic England

Examining the building complex of the first railway to connect the capital with a major provincial city.

historicengland.org.uk

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 9d

#Birmingham People's History Archive event
Saturday 4 October from 10am (talk at 1.30pm)
Please note the venue: All Saints Church, Kings Heath
(not at the archive in Margaret Street)

a flyer with text and a photograph of people holding a Kings Heath CND banner. It advertises Birmingham People's History Archive presents 'Decisions and Consequences' 4 October at All Saints Church, Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham Free event no need to book all welcome

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have a #LocalHistory you'd like to tell? Why not share it through the BALH's website! Whether it's a podcast, blog piece, 10-minute talk or other format, we have a range of ways of sharing your stories.

Find out more, here: www.balh.org.uk/blog-ways-to...

#WeAreLocalHistory

A man in a turtle neck jumper sits in front of a laptop in a library. "Get involved" is written over the image

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 6d

What timing @theironroom.bsky.social ! This morning I was listening to @historyextra.bsky.social Life of the Week podcast on Andrew Carnegie - from humble beginnings in Scotland, to American industrialist (robber baron) to philanthropist and anti-war campaigner!

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 6d

Sign up now for our AGM next week and stay for the SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history. Oct 6th 4-5.30pm BST

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-the-ss...

#histmed #histSTM

AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene

Notes from the trash-heap of medical history focuses on everyday technologies of health and medicine in the 20th century.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 7d

Check out the calls for papers on our website with abstract deadlines throughout the month. sshm.org/portfolio/up...

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] Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health: Call for Papers (A one day wor…

sshm.org

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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · 7d

After the #ArchivesWM AGM in September the annual review for 2024-2025 is now available via the website!
Introduced by The National Archives it offers an overview of the work of the charity and includes 'Around the Archives' sharing news of the great projects taking place across the region
#Archives

Archives West Midlands Annual Review 2024–2025

We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest Annual Review. As with our previous reviews, it contains an overview ...

www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk

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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · 6d

Find out more at this webinar about the revisions to the Archive Service Accreditation Standard, reflect on what this means for services, and how this will impact on applications.
📅Mon 6 October
🕰️11am-12.45pm (UK time)
💻Online
#archives

Launch of the Revised Archive Service Accreditation Standard

Find out more about the revisions to the standard, reflect on what this means for your service, and how this will impact on applications.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 9d

Our call for papers deadline is a week today! #medhums #histmed #histpsych

Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 8d

One month to go until our abstracts submission deadline!

Full details can be found on our website and please email us [[email protected]] with any questions.

Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 15d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 9d

As well as the #HistMed stories the site has some lovely #HistNursing tales!

historywm.com/search

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Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social · 9d

👇 Job! Plus, working with @hwaetspur.bsky.social is a pure delight

Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 9d

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

jobs.kent.ac.uk

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 9d

#Birmingham People's History Archive event
Saturday 4 October from 10am (talk at 1.30pm)
Please note the venue: All Saints Church, Kings Heath
(not at the archive in Margaret Street)

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 10d

📢New online event!💥

Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇

#histmed #histSTM #matcult

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025

Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

sshm.org

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Josh Allen @joshpallen.bsky.social · 10d

September 2025's Walk Midlands Newsletter went to subscribers this morning

Ft. new walks in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and much, much more

Check it out and subscribe👇

walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/walk-midla...

Walk Midlands Newsletter September 2025

Features new walks in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and much, much more

walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 10d

Check out Dudley History Festival taking place 11-31 October
#WeAreLocalHistory @balhnews.bsky.social

blackcountrysoc.bsky.social @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social · 13d

Dudley History Festival 11th to 31st October/ More details of talks and other events at www.better.org.uk/library/dudl...

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 14d

#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

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 14d

#histmed @sshmedicine.bsky.social

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 14d

From the current issue “A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis”

by Henrietta Harrison (‪@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social‬/‪@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social‬)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis*

Abstract. Diagnosing a patient on the basis of their pulse alone is an impressive demonstration of medical ability for which early modern Chinese doctors w

doi.org

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 14d

Really good article. “There are autisms, rather than just autism.”

While it can be challenging, let’s try and celebrate diversity; let’s face it: it’s the thing that not only makes human culture fertile but is the root of all life on earth.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14d

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.

www.nytimes.com

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Wolverhampton's interwar council housing ...
open.substack.com/pub/municipa...

Wolverhampton’s Interwar Council Estates: ‘tenanted by respectable residents’

Wolverhampton was another council controlled by the Conservative Party between the wars and yet, with over 8000 council homes built in the period, it was one of the biggest providers of council housin...

open.substack.com

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 14d

More podcasts from The World Turned Upside Down resource (see www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk)
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

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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · 15d

📣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

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

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 17d

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

Winterbourne, 1904-2025

Join Dr Sue Tungate for this house history on Winterbourne in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 18d

Enjoyed speaking about the history of Birmingham Municipal Bank at The Exchange this Birmingham Heritage Week - great questions and discussion about thrift afterwards
#BHW2025

In a room with large windows a seated audience listening to speaker standing in front of two presentation screens

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