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Andrew @generalising.bsky.social · 14h

I got very curious about this. You can trace Shearer's unit (21 CCS) and you can see what looks like the echo of his little blaze of fame: in Sept 1916 you get visits from various grandees including ... the editor of the BMJ, who presumably came to see for himself.

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 43m

An important new archive of #LGBTHistory:

#History 🗃️

LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 1h

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 1h

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social · 1h

Short thread answering a query about the dating of 5 Elizabeth 1 c.16, An Act Against Conjurations, Inchantments and #Witchcraft.

(Text of act: statutes.org.uk/site/the-sta... )

#LegalHistory

The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social · 1h

Welcome to the wacky world of regnal codes and statute dating!

My source for the text, which gives the year as 1563, can now be found at:
www.scribd.com/document/347...

Statutes of the Realm dates the parliamentary session as 1562-3:
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ps...

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SMRT 131 Witchcraft and The Act of 1604 PDF | PDF | Witchcraft | Magic (Paranormal)

Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site.

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 3h

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 1d

At Bristol Central Library:

Fugitives in the Archive

"Featuring original newspapers, maps, and memoirs by c18th & c19th Black writers, this exhibition assembles the possible lives of these runaways before their bid for freedom."

bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=242...

#History

Fugitives in the Archive : Exhibition

During the 18th century, British newspapers published advertisements for runaway enslaved people with rewards for their capture; for the hundreds of Black and Asian people brought to Britain through t...

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 2d

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4d

#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 5d

One week to go until Lyndal Roper's talk at @ihr.bsky.social!

Register for the hybrid event here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

And check out our other talks by @emilymayvine.bsky.social and @nailyas.bsky.social here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 6d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 6d

Whoop! This also means you can all read my very first #histSTM article(!) for free. It feels quite a long way from my current work...
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 6d

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library goes #OpenAccess

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

#History 🗃️

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 6d

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library goes #OpenAccess

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

#History 🗃️

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 20d

THIS is a fabulous website

The #Chester Consistory Court

Archive of cause papers from the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in #England

Find out more about this amazing free database 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk

To search 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk/directory

#Cheshire

Chester Consistory Court - Cause Papers Archive

Searchable archive of cause papers from Chester Consistory Court - the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in England.

www.chestercausepapers.org.uk

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Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social · 13d

British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 7d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social · 8d

New Bibliography: Royal Proclamations

statutes.org.uk/site/collect...

#LegalHistory

Proclamations

The canonical bibliography of Royal proclamations is that of the Earl of Lindsey’s commission, the two volumes of ‘Tudor and Stuart Proclamations 1485-1714’: Volume 1: England and…

statutes.org.uk

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 8d

Please join us for our inaugural seminar of the term in the IHR and online. Register: tinyurl.com/298ssvkr
@ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11d

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.
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 11d

🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October.

Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 11d

Your best ever night at the #theatre? Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Thurs 13 Nov to recreate it - or stage the show of your dreams - & discover the use of #toy theatre in #heritage #research! From my fab PhD student @pdwebster.bsky.social. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
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A Night at the TOY Theatre!

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 13d

We're moving our Mastodon account.

As our previous provider is shutting down, we've moved to hcommons.social/@bho

Gi' us a follow!

British History Online (@[email protected])

1 Post, 239 Following, 1 Follower · BHO is a digital library of historic source material and the Victoria County Histories, based at the Institute of Historical Research

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 12d

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · 13d

Here's the full seminar programme for autumn 2025. Seminars are either hybrid or online only so plenty of opportunities for those not local to London to join us.

Please sign up using the links for any papers you'd like to come to.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Contemporary British History

The Contemporary British History seminar seeks to explore all aspects the recent past of the British Isles from a historical point of view.

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 13d

We're moving our Mastodon account.

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1 Post, 239 Following, 1 Follower · BHO is a digital library of historic source material and the Victoria County Histories, based at the Institute of Historical Research

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