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EMCO Internship Programme A digital edition of the complete letters of Elizabeth Montagu 1718-1800 - ISSN 2753-9091

Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte...

@bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social

England’s civic museums call for £120m strategic investment programme - Museums Association English Civic Museum Network sets out vision for ‘coherent, fair and sustainable support system’

England’s civic museums call for new £120m-a-year investment - English Civic Museums Network sets out vision for ‘coherent, fair and sustainable support system’

Teaching Slavery Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...

I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK

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My blog for the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Library Special Collections went live yesterday! It's a very short glimpse of the thousands of women whose lives I've been researching over the last 16 months.

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think.

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The queer question. Navigating the waters of historical queerness This post has been written by Meggie Hayes, History and Politics Teacher and Inclusion Lead at The Crypt School, Gloucestershire People are queer and people have always been queer. So it stands to …

In this week's OBHD Blog from @histassoc.bsky.social we have Meggie Hayes from The Crypt School writing about Queer History onebighistorydepartment.com/2026/02/06/t... #historyteacher

Selling Education in England, 1650–1715* Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang

My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Teaching notes, no. 2: A material world In last month’s post, I confessed that teaching has never been my favourite aspect of academic life. It’s the area I have struggled with the most in my career, in part because I teach a…

Teaching with material and visual culture - my favourite class of the year, in the Sudan Archive at Durham University. 🗃️📜📷📸🇸🇩

70% of young adults say historic buildings boost their wellbeing

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Government announces bumper £1.5 billion package to restore national pride £1.5 billion will be invested in cultural organisations over a five-year period – turning the corner on underfunding over the last decade and more

The £1.5 billion of funding is made up of:

£760 million for museums, including local and regional museums, and at risk heritage and historic buildings

#HistoryEducation

Thank you!

My first proper blog post for @globalmarhist.bsky.social 🙌🏻 This is the source I repeatedly return to when I teach others about Caribbean slavery.

There is so much that can be gleaned from this source alone. My post discusses some of the features!

Happy to share that I've successfully achieved the Professional Knowledge Award from @collegeofteaching.bsky.social
One step closer to Chartered Status #CTeach

Happy to share that I've successfully achieved the Development of Teaching Practice Award from @collegeofteaching.bsky.social
One step closer to Chartered Status #CTeach

Market Place, Manchester, as in c.1890, by John L. Chapman (b.1946). #NorthernArt

Nassau Street, From Outside The Kildare Street Club, Dublin, painting by Rose Mary Barton (1856-1929).

Seeing Things by Amanda Shubert | Paperback | Cornell University Press A cultural history of nineteenth-century media imaginaries, Seeing Things tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical technologies—magic lanterns, stereoscopes,...

👁️ SEEING THINGS by Amanda Shubert tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by magic lanterns, stereoscopes, and illusionistic stage magic—redefining what it meant to see in the modern world.

Learn more here ⬇️
📖 https://ow.ly/sveJ50XeJkv

The Peculiar Case of a Royal Peculiar: A Problem of Faculty at the Tower of London
By Alfred R J Hawkins
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Inflammation and stress markers measurably reduced by viewing art in a gallery, study finds - Arts Professional Viewing art in a gallery setting has immediate, measurable physiological benefits for health and well-being, a new study has found.

Love this

The Hag by Robert Herrick (1648) YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

If anyone is planning to do the #AScareADay October challenge (a story or poem a day, curated by yours truly!)...

I've made a little recording of the first day's poem - Robert Herrick's 'The Hag'

A nice quick listen (for fun or for the challenge) - enjoy!

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The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.

The Wolfson History Prize shortlist for 2025 is announced. Good reading.

Tackling difficult histories with (museum) objects What can a preserved animal specimen tell us about colonialism, extinction and even genocide? In this blog post, Thomas Kador reflects on the themes of his recent book Object-Based Learning: Exploring...

What can a museum object reveal about colonialism, extinction and genocide?
Thomas Kador’s latest blog post explores how collections help us confront difficult histories and rethink the role of museums in education.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4n92tX9
#ObjectBasedLearning

screenshot of the table of contents. List of authors and titles: Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci: "Material Culture and Early Modern Archivality: A Dialogue" Filippo de Vivo "A Cock for the Records: Posted Libels as Archival Objects" Suzanna Ivanič "Piecing Back the Puzzle: Objects, Inventories, and the Problem of Classification" Ana Struillou "Mobility, Material Culture, and the Archive: A View from the Mediterranean" Subah Dayal "Mughal Hands, Envelopes, and the Materiality of Trans-Imperial Archives" Anne T. Gerritsen "Kang Wang’s Helmet and the Archivality of Chinese Popular Religious Practice"

OOOO! The latest special issue for the Journal of #EarlyModern History is on Archives & Objects, a dialogue between the archival and material turn 🤩

Would you look at that ace table of contents 🤩

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#YayArchives! #HistArchives!

Issue 3 - Tudor Places Magazine - Exploring Tudor Places and their Stories We delve into the story of Henry VIII's warship, the “Mary Rose", explore the Chapel Royal of Saint Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London, look at Richmond Palace and Harlech Castle

However, this is just one of its numerous and varied functions. In Issue 03, Alfred Hawkins explores the fascinating history of this chapel which has served, and continues to serve, the Tower’s diverse community over the centuries.

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The Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: new Camden volume published - RHS The Society is very pleased to announced publication of its latest Camden series volume: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler. This vol...

New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS

The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians

Gained my Education Research and Inquiry Certificate from @collegeofteaching.bsky.social 🙂 #HistoryTeacher #Cteach

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

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