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BHO is currently down, due to overly vigourous bots hitting all the University of London web estate. Normal service resumed as soon as we can.

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We have come across plenty of estate agent-produced documents for houses on sale that various women in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database once owned or lived in. Can be quite informative!

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Apropros of the use of estate agents websites for historical research, Wowhaus www.wowhaus.co.uk is a lovely tour of modernist architecture. Would love to see an early modern equivalent, spotlighting premodernist housing. (HuzzahHouse?!) #History 🗃️

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'The findings have been made by the Communities of Liberation project at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, assisted by Prof Simon Newman of the University of Glasgow.' A great example of the power of dual community-based & university-based research collaborations. 1/2

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📢 In Case You Missed It! 📢 Our February 'Will of the Month' post is now live on our blog 📜 @lsangha.bsky.social examines the will of a former convict in early Stuart London - telling a story of prisons, personal debts, and a magic ring 💍 #history #skystorians sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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We've had a make-over! Please take a look at our new-look site, and report any bugs* www.british-history.ac.uk * Yes, subs are still unavailable and search in specific publications is broken. We are working on it.

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Exhibition in Tower Hamlets: Researchers uncover stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #History #BlackHistory 🗃️

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📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

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Absolutely wretched behaviour from the national Library of Australia. An example of both the contempt so many organisations have for both hackers and users, and the current tendency towards the 'enshittification' of the web.

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Back online: The Yale digital edition of Samuel Johnson's work, free to read and view: yalejohnson.com #History 🗃️

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This week in radical history: The British government is forced to resign, due to public outrage over its attacks on political refugees, 1858. Yes this really happened! wp.me/p74yfw-j4

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Hackney History Festival is back! Hackney Society, Hackney Archives and many others we are organising the inaugural Hackney History Festival in May 2025. Tickets available soon. Will you be there? #hackneyhistoryfestival #Hackney #History #event #london

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Back online: The Yale digital edition of Samuel Johnson's work, free to read and view: yalejohnson.com #History 🗃️

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Coke in verse?! Online at: books.google.co.uk/books?id=ALY... Sample: 81 Gore "A person dying by poison meant To kill another, muder by th' event." #Law

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Campaign to turn William Blake's house into a museum. See also the William Blake Fellowship: www.williamblakefellowship.com/house-of-wil... #History 🗃️

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Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

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We have had last minute change of schedule - instead join us next week to hear seminar co-convenor Tim Hitchcock discuss his latest research (conducted with Bob Shoemaker) on policing and criminal justice in the late 18th century, at the usual time of 17:30 at the IHR and online. @ihr.bsky.social

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The act itself: 16 Charles 1 c.1: An Act for the preventing of inconveniencies happening by the long intermission.of Parliaments. www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-rea... #History 🗃️

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From next week our X account will close and be archived. We will be solely on BlueSky where we will continue to promote #history, historical practice and the humanities. Please do join us #Skystorians

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And may I afk, what if the term for writing 's' as 'f', because you have fpent too much time reading c18th print?

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Please forgive the self-promotion but, in case of interest to anyone, I'm bringing hip-hop history to the @ihr.bsky.social @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social next Thursday. All welcome in-person or online, details / registration info here: www.history.ac.uk/events/strai...

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Today on the blog I wrote about how we keep telling the same, boring, wrong history over and over again, instead of doing more complex and interesting work, and why. Like, why are we talking about Magna Carta ever let alone in the Temple Church? going-medieval.com/2025/02/12/o...

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“A Bermudian Patriotic Prayer”, 1821. This biting “blasphemous”critique was sent to Colonial Office by the governor who reported that in so small a place these placards made a “more injurious impression than in England.” CO internally noted these were devices to attack the govr about other things.

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In a Jisc webinar, hearing that OUP have charged Manchester Uni more than £20,000 each for two OA books. Absolutely outrageous charges, and absolutely unsurprising to hear it was OUP. A Q abt cost breakdown wasn't answered, but you can bet the prestige premium makes up a hefty chunk of that money.

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Updated my list of databases and biographical dictionaries of c18th British people: anterotesis.com/wordpress/hi... If you know of others, please inform me! #History #c18th #DigitalHistory 🗃️

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A lovely thread on a lost (or perhaps not) place in the historic county of #Middlesex. Lots of #Domesday content, a little from our Middlesex volume 8, available @bho.bsky.social: www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vo... 🗃️

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New article from Robin Eagles of the Georgian Lords on some of the early Lords' debates on the American crisis of 1775 historyofparliament.com/2025/02/11/b...

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NEW draft text from @wiltshistory.bsky.social by @markforrest.bsky.social and @lrylandepton.bsky.social on #Alderbury which will feature in the upcoming 21st volume of our Wiltshire series. As ever, all feedback, comments, and corrections gratefully received! 🗃️

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#OnThisDay in London petitioning history, 1723: The residents of the Southwark Mint rookery petition Parliament against the recent closure of their sanctuary, a stronghold against bailiffs chasing debtors. An article on this petition on the Alsatia blog: alsatia.org.uk/site/2012/02...

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@mrcwarwick.bsky.social You used to have a map of the 1926 General Strike here: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... Are you going to restore it? Or could you share the data? Thanks.

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Ahead of next Tuesday's 'Parliaments, Politics and People' seminar at @ihr.bsky.social, @alfiesteer.bsky.social has written for #HistParl about the Campaign Group of Labour MPs, and their radical approach to the parliamentary system, and an MPs role within it. historyofparliament.com/2025/02/06/c...

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The lost court of King's Bench: a recreation of the #c18th court in Westminster Hall. kingsbench.engagedhumanities.org #History #LegalHistory 🗃️

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New from Cambridge UP in their Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series, and free to read til Feb 27th: Historiographic Reasoning by Aviezer Tucker www.cambridge.org/core/element... #History 🗃️

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#OnThisDay in gardening history: suffragette attack on Kew Gardens orchid houses, 1913, one action in the increasingly militant war of sabotage, demanding women be ‘granted’ the right to vote wp.me/p74yfw-rs

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#OTD 6 February 1918: The Representation of the People Act gained royal assent. It extended the franchise to men over 21, and some women over 30. statutes.org.uk/site/the-sta... #History #LegalHistory 🗃️

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Two new Cambridge Elements on #UrbanHistory, both free to download and read until 27th February 2025: The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning by Ian Morley: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Africa in Urban History by Ambe J. Njoh: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #History 🗃️

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This is an interesting use for estate agents' websites. #History 🗃️

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I'm reading a 1607 will by a London haberdasher who begins by leaving money to prisoners in Newgate, Ludgate and 'the two Compters in London'. A page later, we hear that following a summons to the court of Chancery, the testator was himself imprisoned in the Fleet for a time. 📜🎩🪙👨‍⚖️

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New #OpenAccess #c20th #History book from @manchesterup.bsky.social : The renewal of post-war Manchester: Planning, architecture and the state by Richard Brook www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... 🗃️

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