Louise Falcini
@louisefalcini.bsky.social
Interested in co-production, archives and public histories. Historian of 18thC poverty, marginal communities and cleanliness. Currently researching 19thC prisons. I did a thing here www.thomasturner.org.uk #18C
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I'm on the New Books Network podcast discussing Contested Commons with Miranda Melcher.
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England" (Reaktion, 2025) - New Books Network
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December 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I'm on the New Books Network podcast discussing Contested Commons with Miranda Melcher.
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/contested-co...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/contested-co...
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Current Special Collections Visiting Fellow Michelle Reynolds (@lovelymydear.bsky.social) is researching the role of Laurence Housman (1865-1959) in the women's suffrage movement.
December 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Current Special Collections Visiting Fellow Michelle Reynolds (@lovelymydear.bsky.social) is researching the role of Laurence Housman (1865-1959) in the women's suffrage movement.
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The Abbey's muniment collection - or archive - is one of the oldest in England. The documents we care for, from royal charters to estate papers and administrative records from the medieval monastery, chart life at the Abbey since the 10th century.
#ExploreYourArchive #EYAYourArchive
#ExploreYourArchive #EYAYourArchive
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Abbey's muniment collection - or archive - is one of the oldest in England. The documents we care for, from royal charters to estate papers and administrative records from the medieval monastery, chart life at the Abbey since the 10th century.
#ExploreYourArchive #EYAYourArchive
#ExploreYourArchive #EYAYourArchive
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Theorists often talk about ‘the archive’ as if it is a thing that exists, but there is no ‘archive,’ only many particular archives, each with its own institutional, infrastructural+substantive affordances+restrictions, stories and silences, promises and pitfalls. This should not be controversial 🗃️
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Theorists often talk about ‘the archive’ as if it is a thing that exists, but there is no ‘archive,’ only many particular archives, each with its own institutional, infrastructural+substantive affordances+restrictions, stories and silences, promises and pitfalls. This should not be controversial 🗃️
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The results that @marinelives.bsky.social is getting using Gemini 3 Pro, transcribing and translating Armenian ms materials are stunning. Historians, teachers and archivists really need to be discussing where we want to be with this stuff. open.substack.com/pub/generati...
A New Lens into the Archive
You are in an archive. You find a document in a language you don't understand. You take a photo, input it into Gemini 3 Pro. 60 seconds later you have a transcription, transliteration, and translation
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December 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The results that @marinelives.bsky.social is getting using Gemini 3 Pro, transcribing and translating Armenian ms materials are stunning. Historians, teachers and archivists really need to be discussing where we want to be with this stuff. open.substack.com/pub/generati...
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I have a new Substack article about the potential of Gemi 3 Pro to assist with machine transcription of medium and low resource languages #history #translation #palaeography #digitalhumanities @timhitchcock.bsky.social @dancohen.org @tedunderwood.com open.substack.com/pub/generati...
A New Lens into the Archive
You are in an archive. You find a document in a language you don't understand. You take a photo, input it into Gemini 3 Pro. 60 seconds later you have a transcription, transliteration, and translation
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I have a new Substack article about the potential of Gemi 3 Pro to assist with machine transcription of medium and low resource languages #history #translation #palaeography #digitalhumanities @timhitchcock.bsky.social @dancohen.org @tedunderwood.com open.substack.com/pub/generati...
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'Penge' by Paul Bartlett
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November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
'Penge' by Paul Bartlett
macbirmingham.co.uk/courses/tuto...
macbirmingham.co.uk/courses/tuto...
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Really pleased to see that Helen Esfandiary's excellent talk last week to @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘Such a silly fellow I fear his making some mistake’: The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar Session
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November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Really pleased to see that Helen Esfandiary's excellent talk last week to @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
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Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
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I wonder if anyone on here can help? Attached is a section from a 1706 volume, with shorthand annotations that look like Brachygraphy to me. The assumption has to be that they represent the biblical passages in the nearby text, but I can't make the shorthand agree with the texts being referenced.
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I wonder if anyone on here can help? Attached is a section from a 1706 volume, with shorthand annotations that look like Brachygraphy to me. The assumption has to be that they represent the biblical passages in the nearby text, but I can't make the shorthand agree with the texts being referenced.
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EHRI-UK (@ehri-uk.bsky.social) are seeking to map the network of archives in the UK which have collections that relate to the Holocaust in their holdings.
Please contact [email protected] by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
Please contact [email protected] by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
EHRI-UK (@ehri-uk.bsky.social) are seeking to map the network of archives in the UK which have collections that relate to the Holocaust in their holdings.
Please contact [email protected] by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
Please contact [email protected] by Friday 21 November letting them know your archive name and a rough estimate of the collections you hold (2/3)
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These catalogue updates allow me, a serious historian, to search for "fart" and find the case where the accused allegedly said he "cared not a fart for the Lord Mayor of London." What will you find? discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
These catalogue updates allow me, a serious historian, to search for "fart" and find the case where the accused allegedly said he "cared not a fart for the Lord Mayor of London." What will you find? discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
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To accompany her new book, Rachael also wrote for the RHS blog about the prominence of guilds in pre-Reformation society bit.ly/4oncsc1.
All 25 books in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series are available free Open Access. To learn more about NHP bit.ly/47rxWP3 2/2 #Skystorians
All 25 books in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series are available free Open Access. To learn more about NHP bit.ly/47rxWP3 2/2 #Skystorians
25th title published in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' Open Access book series - RHS
The Society is very pleased to announce publication, today, of the 25th title in its 'New Historical Perspectives' book series: Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlo...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
To accompany her new book, Rachael also wrote for the RHS blog about the prominence of guilds in pre-Reformation society bit.ly/4oncsc1.
All 25 books in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series are available free Open Access. To learn more about NHP bit.ly/47rxWP3 2/2 #Skystorians
All 25 books in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series are available free Open Access. To learn more about NHP bit.ly/47rxWP3 2/2 #Skystorians
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The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award!
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award!
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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Art of Laundry. Via FB/Junta Takao (with thanks to Clive Norris). Estendendo a roupa 1953 photo Ramón Dimas…
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Art of Laundry. Via FB/Junta Takao (with thanks to Clive Norris). Estendendo a roupa 1953 photo Ramón Dimas…
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Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October!
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
The Open University
Moments of Rupture Online 20-21 November 2025Some legal and social changes are so profound that they create what seem to be moments of rupture: breaks between the ‘before’ and ‘after’. These moments c...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October!
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
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Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
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A great little 1777 King's Bench case. The defendants were accused of boiling "great quantities of soap lees, whale oil, and caput mortuum of aqua fortis", causing "unwholesome smokes, stenches, and smells" and corrupting and infecting the air. [TNA KB 28/304]
October 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A great little 1777 King's Bench case. The defendants were accused of boiling "great quantities of soap lees, whale oil, and caput mortuum of aqua fortis", causing "unwholesome smokes, stenches, and smells" and corrupting and infecting the air. [TNA KB 28/304]
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'Halcyon Days' by Anna Pugh, contemporary British folk artist #womensart
October 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
'Halcyon Days' by Anna Pugh, contemporary British folk artist #womensart
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Sex, lies, and the Chevalier d'Eon! You can now listen to my @long18thsem.bsky.social talk on Lord Mansfield and the Chevalier d'Eon on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Sex, lies, and the Chevalier d'Eon! You can now listen to my @long18thsem.bsky.social talk on Lord Mansfield and the Chevalier d'Eon on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Marie Petiet, The Laundresses, 1882, Oil on canvas. 113 x 170 cm (Limoux, Musée Petiet)
September 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Marie Petiet, The Laundresses, 1882, Oil on canvas. 113 x 170 cm (Limoux, Musée Petiet)
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🤗 Very proud of our staff members for having an article published in the latest issue of @learnedpublishing.bsky.social about the Living with Machines project on our @manifoldscholar.bsky.social platform!
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities
September 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🤗 Very proud of our staff members for having an article published in the latest issue of @learnedpublishing.bsky.social about the Living with Machines project on our @manifoldscholar.bsky.social platform!
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenAccess #ExperimentalPublishing #OpenHumanities