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We're really looking forward to this: hope to see you there!

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I'm looking forward to contributing to this session, where I'll be speaking about the challenge of researching post-Reformation Catholicism in English localities

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This! THIS! Genuinely excited! I wasn’t the world’s greatest researcher but one of the highlights of my time at the IHR was digging into the detail of the VCH. And while Malmesbury was the subject of my obsession then, Oxfordshire is currently occupying a large amount of my head.

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A reminder that all these projects are dependent on your support, in kind, in time, or in cash. Almost all work is supported by individual county charitable trusts. To find out more, see the appropriate county on our website:

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NEW draft material from Oxfordshire. This text, by @markpagevch.bsky.social relates the history of #Kingham, south of Adlestrop, and SW of #ChippingNorton. These drafts are available for researchers, comment, corrections and to flush out extra information. Take a look #Skystorians! 🗃️

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We’re really looking forward to the next FREE training session in our series about placed-based #religious #history beyond the parish church. Join us & the @catholicrs.bsky.social online next Wednesday 7th May 2-4pm. Sign up using the link below 👇

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Great blog on women at the British Museum. @beyondnotables.bsky.social has a (very!) long list of women associated in some way w/ the Museum between 1870-1950, including women lecturing at the Museum (many w/ explicit permission of Trustees), women using the Reading Room, & women donors

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#ICYMI - #Skystorians We are delighted to announce the launch of FOUR new VCH projects across England. We now have active projects in 22 of England's counties and two of the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire. Welcome to the fold, #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire and #London! More in the blog:

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If anyone wants to link up with English Heritage, please get in touch! The charity looks after over 400 sites and a million collection items, there’s lots to share and work with.

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I love the juxtaposition here of @vchlondon.bsky.social #BigRedBooks with the (even bigger) volumes of Camden's Britannia (1695). People have been writing about place for a long, long time. For VCH online, see @bho.bsky.social, a full text of Camden here, btw: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B184....

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There are a relatively large number of churches dedicated to Oswald of Northumbria, and surprisingly the majority of them are not in England! I'm in the process of mapping them all - not finished yet - but the pattern so far is quite striking! oswaldusrex.co.uk/map/

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There's still time to book to join us on 15 May for @amalexathorn.bsky.social and what will be a fascinating insight into the ways history was researched and written by women in the early 20th century. 🗃️ #Skystorians

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Bell is, of course, in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database bsky.app/profile/ncll... BUT critical to say that so are a number of other (far less well known) women who were also involved in archaeology in the areas that Bell is associated with.

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Fantastic day yesterday in #Newcastle with colleagues from @uhihistory.bsky.social, @newcastleuni.bsky.social, @vchlondon.bsky.social, public & community history groups from Scotland & England.

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#VCH 'Victoria County History' is celebrating over 125 years of creating an encyclopaedic history of English counties. They’ve just announced new projects - blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four... #LibraryofBham @vchlondon.bsky.social

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A enquiry today led me to this delicious collection of Italian delis and restaurants. I may have gone down a rabbit hole of King Bomba, an anarchist owned deli in Old Compton Street. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...

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Still time to sign up for this tomorrow - online round table discussion about what happens to churches’ histories & stories when buildings have to close. Sign up using the link below 👇

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Hugely exciting doctoral studentship opportunity supervised by the IHR's @justincolson.bsky.social, @adamchapman.bsky.social, and @charlesxhistory.bsky.social, Alexandra Stevenson of Historic Royal Palaces. Applications close 26th May 2025.

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We are delighted to announce our programme for the Spring/Summer term 2025. Our first seminar will be Ian Mell's paper 'Motifs, Policies, and Functions in East and Southeast Asia: "green space" as a travelling concept', on 1st May 2025: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/motif...

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If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

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A fascinating in-person #lecture for anyone interested in the formation of #Humanities disciplines in the early 20th century, the role of early #women historians, and historical processes of research & #publishing. 15 May, free to all, book via link @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

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Wonderful to be sharing this news: in its 126th year, the Victoria County #History of #England is growing, with 4 new projects in #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire & #London. Brilliant to see this engaged, collaborative work in communities, with expert historians of all kinds. Congratulations all!

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We're delighted to be hosting @amalexathorn.bsky.social on 15 May for her exciting lecture, 'Women Making History in the Early Twentieth Century: Working for the VCH ‘Big Red Books’. Details in the link, we hope to see you there! #Skystorians 🗃️

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Happy Friday Everyone! We've been working hard to recreate the historical townships of Wales from various historical sources and map. The pre-1840 Township boundaries for Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire & Radnorshire are now available on the Historical Boundaries of Wales website!!!

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Letters from a Settlement archive.org/details/lett... Alice Hodson's memoir about the Lady Margaret Hall Settlement in London's East End includes acknowledgement to @vchlondon.bsky.social's Dorothy Kempe "for both criticism and encouragement" bsky.app/profile/luci...

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Great news. #VCH is invaluable to local and family history research. Know more about the place your ancestors lived.

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Episode #3 of our podcast is here! We speak to documentary filmmaker Dr Shweta Ghosh (University of Reading) about storytelling, good cups of tea, and the links between rural history in England and India. 🔊 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

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Not ONE, but FOUR new projects from @vchlondon.bsky.social. Delighted to see one is county of my birth! #Dorset

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Very exciting news, especially excited for the long overdue project on Dorset. Good luck @markforrest.bsky.social!

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Of interest, we hope, to @royalhistsoc.org, @balhnews.bsky.social, @historyworkshop.org.uk, @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social and many, many more!

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Intrigued to see that a new novel, Murder at Hampton Court, is set in the Palace's Grace & Favour residences www.historiamag.com/grace-favour.... I'll be discussing former Grace & Favour residents Edith & Gyneth Keate in my @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture 15 May www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

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We are thrilled that @vchlondon.bsky.social are starting a new project on London as a whole city building on the excellent work going in in Middlesex.

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Proud to be part of this. It's early days but feel very lucky to be able to do this important work.

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Amy Malden's diary includes details of a tour of Switzerland in August 1898 and cycling tours through Kent, Devon, Surrey and North Wales. The diary includes photographs, postcards and pressed flowers and ferns. #Archive30 #PopularItem mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/NCA/...

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Part-time, permanent tutor job in my Department. We're looking for a local/architectural historian to teach two asynchronous online courses. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV263/d...

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Of interest, we hope, to @royalhistsoc.org, @balhnews.bsky.social, @historyworkshop.org.uk, @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social and many, many more!

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If this sounds intriguing, & learning how women historians helped shape the study and writing of history in the early 20th century is interesting, come along to @ihr.bsky.social on 15 May to hear the wonderful @amalexathorn.bsky.social explore some of the many stories about these remarkable women. 🗃️

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We're delighted to be hosting @amalexathorn.bsky.social on 15 May for her exciting lecture, 'Women Making History in the Early Twentieth Century: Working for the VCH ‘Big Red Books’. Details in the link, we hope to see you there! #Skystorians 🗃️

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This is a bumper year for @vchlondon.bsky.social: Four new projects (each breaking new ground in counties where we haven't been actively researching for around a century. Many new books including our 250th Big Red Book (and that's in a county we haven't done before: Westmorland). #VCHRedBook250

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Exciting (and important) news for #Skystorians! England's longest and most durable #LocalHistory project is now even bigger! With these four new projects, @vchlondon.bsky.social is now actively researching in 22 counties and two Ridings of Yorkshire: the most since before the First World War. 🗃️

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