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Midland History Journal
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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 Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · Nov 14
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...
Midland History
Midland History publishes on the history of the English Midlands region and historical comparisons with other areas.
www.tandfonline.com
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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 9d
Our call for papers deadline is a week today! #medhums #histmed #histpsych
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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
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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
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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 · 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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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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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · 14d
📣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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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 23d
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/...
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
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blackcountrysoc.bsky.social @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social · Aug 14
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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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · Aug 22
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 👇
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
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 25d
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.
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Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 25d
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-...
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 25d
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...
Catalogue descriptions for E 134 Victoria
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Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · Aug 12
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 👇
Flyer advertising Midland History Essay Prize 2025. Black background with text in while and image of journal front cover. Email j.pick@bham.ac.uk for more details or enquiries.
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Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · Aug 12
The Midland History Essay Prize of £400 is offered for the best essay submitted on an historical subject relating to midland England.
⏱️Deadline for entries 31 Oct 2025
See webpage for some #OpenAccess examples of previous winning essays
More details about how to enter below (1/2)
Midland History Annual Essay Prize
Explore the article collection: Midland History Annual Essay Prize. Published in Midland History.
www.tandfonline.com
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Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · Jun 23
An #exhibition of John Louis Petit ( 1801-1868) East Midlands #paintings
Rutland County Museum, Oakham
23 August to 4 October 2025 during museum opening times
Based in Lichfield, Petit painted many places across the region.
#art
J.L.Petit – painter
An exhibition of Petit’s East Midlands paintings – Rutland County Museum, Oakham, August 23rd to October 4th, 2025 Oakham Buttercross Opening Times The Exhibition can be viewed during t…
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Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · Jul 17
Event Sharing 📰
Heritage Talk with Professor Catherine Hindson at Selly Manor
Discover the story of early 20th century theatre at the Cadbury factory | Thursday 17th July 2025 | 7pm
£7 per person. To book please call 0121 472 0199 or visit:
Theatre in (and around) the Chocolate Factory
Performing Work and Play at Bournville, 1900-1935
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · Jul 11
I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · Jul 12
#ICYMI our new blog post is out!

We look at the possibilities the Railway Work, Life & Death project offers heritage railways.

We explore work we're doing with the Severn Valley Railway, to look at its past staff & to share it with the public!

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/revisiting-d...
One side of a tri-fold leaflet, showing front and rear covers, plus inside page, with details of Railway Work, Life & Death project, and its research into railway workers & their accidents on the Severn Valley Railway route.
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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · Jul 12
Exhibition News! Visit Sandwell Archives to celebrate 40 years of the West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre
Monday 4 August– Friday 29 August 2025
#ArchivesWM
'40 years of the West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre' Exhibition - Exhibition in Smethwick, West Midlands - Visit Sandwell
Visit our exhibition at Sandwell Archives and Smethwick Library to celebrate 40 years of the West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre.
www.visitsandwell.com
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · Jul 12
My annual reminder to people thinking about applying for these or @leverhulme.ac.uk ECFs: you do NOT have to go to Oxbridge or Russell Gp unis to make a successful application. I went to Edge Hill with my Leverhulme and moved it to Staffordshire when I was offered a permanent job. 1/?
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Jul 9
We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · Jul 10
Our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon is happening in 2 weeks' time! 📜✍️

📅 Thurs 24 July
🕐 1-4pm BST

Join us online or in person in Exeter: transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers & help transcribe as many wills as possible!

Sign up here:
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
A poster advertising the 'Wills Project Transcribathon' on Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter, and on zoom. The poster features black text on green and yellow backgrounds, and three images - a box of folded will manuscripts, an unfolded will manuscript, and the painting Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, Abbot Hall, 1607. Photo: Lakeland Arts. The poster text reads: ' - Transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers, - Learn more about English wills from 1540-1790 during talks from the experts, - Share & discuss interesting discoveries, - Attend for all or part of the event, - Contribute to academic research & help make these remarkable documents more accessible for all'. Details of the event can be found at this address: https://willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Jul 10
📢JOBS: 2 postdoc research associate positions📢

On AHRC project 'Informing contemporary land use policy through sustainability assessment of farming systems' in pre-modern periods🗃️

- FT from 01/10/25
- #Medieval history (3 years)
- #EarlyModern history (28 months)

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · Jul 10
Loved @socialhistsoc.bsky.social #SHSConf2025? Or - worse - missed out on being part of it this year? Our CfP for next year's 50th Anniversary Conference, which will be at Lancaster University in July 2026, goes live in the Autumn 🍂 so you have time to decide what might be a nice paper to submit.. 🤔
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Alt: a red rose with green leaves and sparkles
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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · Jul 10
Glad to see the our Bursary Scheme is now advertised on the @royalhistsoc.org website!
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Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · Jul 10
In case you haven't spotted it:
**Historical Association Bursary Scheme via @royalhistsoc.org **
Open to early career and mid-career applicants
£1,500 research support to produce an article
Deadline 15 August 2025
royalhistsoc.org/calendar/his...
History: The Journal of the Historical Association – Bursary Scheme (Early Career and Mid-Career Routes) – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | RHS
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Friends of Key Hill cemetery & Warstone Lane cemetery, B'ham JQ @friends-fkwc.bsky.social · Jul 7
Are you fascinated by the origins of sports & notable figures? Sun 13 July, Discover the story of Major Harry Gem, co-founder of lawn tennis, during a B'ham tour @ 12 noon.
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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · Jul 2
The National Archives are looking for two Records Specialists to join their Collections Expertise & Engagement department #jobs
Records Specialist: 19th Century/Modern Parliament at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Archives West Midlands @archiveswm.bsky.social · Jul 2
Do you have ancestors from Shropshire?
Or do you live in Shropshire with an interest in family history/genealogy?
If so Shropshire Family History Society can offer support and have resources available to help you in your research.
Take a look at their new website 👇
www.sfhs.org.uk
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