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Promotional graphic with the text "Moved to Care: Stories of Nursing and Migration". Graphic elements of passport stamps, an airplane icon, and a heart with an arrow, all on a light blue background.
We have a new London exhibition: #MovedToCare - showcasing stories of nursing and migration. A huge thank you to everyone who made it to our launch event last week.
The exhibit is now open to all! You can learn more and view the online version on our website: https://bit.ly/4aSES9E
How do archaeologists engage with material culture? What can we learn from ‘reading’ the everyday lives, ideas and cultures of the people who built the world around us? Join us on 19 Mar at our IHR Archaeology and Local History Online Free Taster Session. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Audience sits in an auditorium at MA conference
Has your museum run a successful event that you’d like to share with others? 🎟️
Museums Journal is looking for case studies from museums that have programmed great events – these might be talks, lates, family days or workshops.
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New collection on Layers of London created using fieldwork, photography, stamp-based prints, and digital mapping to records overlooked historical artefacts in contemporary London. #digitalhumanities
Artist Timothy Yufit’s In Place project uses Layers of London to document displaced headstones embedded within London’s parks and public spaces. These fragmented historical traces remain present within the contemporary urban landscape. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...
Painted in 1919, Santiago Rusiñol's picture depicts the estate of Sa Coma in Valdemosa on Mallorca’s east coast. Rusiñol developed a strand of modernism in Spain which translated into paintings of landscapes, pictures which varied from symbolist to more naturalistic works.
#ChancelArchTuesday
Perfectly timed to add as a cautionary case study to our postgraduate archive skills session, which I'm just tweaking for next week's group
Do take a look at the wonderful @beyondnotables.bsky.social database which includes, among others, many of our early women researchers, authors, and editors!
As bombs rained down in 1940s London, artists responded. See art that presents a city both familiar and strange in over 45 paintings and drawings alongside photographs, film, objects and oral histories.
IWM London
20 March to 1 November 2026
Roman mosaic depicting a grey dolphin with red beak, tail and whiskers, swimming up and out of shot
A sassy dolphin with flamboyant red feather costume vibe for #MosaicMonday
Detail from a 2nd century #Roman floor found in Fordington High Street #Dorchester 1927
Conserved by Cliveden Conservation, the cheeky chappie can today be admired in the excellent @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social
📷 Sept 2023
A section of the embroidery showing Daleks fighting mounted Normans
As the excitement over the displaying of the Bayeux Tapestry (embroidery) builds I feel the experience will only be worthwhile if the long suppressed section of the work is included.
@gingertrevtrev.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
'Coastal Defences.' Eric Ravilious painted this work in Newhaven, East Sussex in 1940; as a coastal town it was heavily fortified because of its targeting as part of Operation Sea Lion, the planned invasion of Britain by German forces.
Could it be that gates are like busses? You wait for ages and then several turn up at once? Protector gate. Modern and so Mouse deprived of the pleasure of a good medieval drive pintle. But hey, a gate's a gate #StGeorgeEastonInGordano #NorthSomerset #Thursgate #IronworkThursday
All of the information in the image is available via the web link.
New free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Text reads: Although frequent readers of VCH publications will be familiar with this disciplined approach to research, it may be valuable to highlight that characteristic for new readers. Conclusions and clear explorations of change over time are brought together from the combination and interweaving of a great deal of evidence, briefly presented, thus creating volumes that are scholarly but remain engaging and approachable. Of course, given the short format and the extent of material researched, there is little space to develop individual points or stories, but the reader is provided with every opportunity to identify matters of personal interest and follow them up, using the excellent references available.
Praise for our 'Short' on the parish of Cradley, Herefordshire, by Terry Morgan in the Transactions of the Woolhope Club.
Learn more, and buy now from our friends @uolpress.bsky.social. #Skystorians #LocalHistory
uolpress.co.uk/book/the-vic...
In 2025 a grant from FNL enabled Nairn Museum to acquire medieval & early modern manuscripts created by Clan Rose of Kilravock Castle. In this film, Curator Annie MacDonald talks about one of the indentures. A great addition to Nairn's collections!
vimeo.com/1166667400?f...
🗺️ Crowdsourcing community history, showcasing digital collections, learning resources – what's happening on Humap?
Take a look!
tampa-through-time.humap.site/
amicablecontributors.com/
www.refugeemap.org/
www.scarboroughatlas.org/
#GIS #HGIS #DigitalHumanities
Castle Urquhart depicted here by David Young Cameron from around 1920, is situated on Strone Point, south west of Inverness. It was given to Clan Grant in 1509, but was destroyed during the Jacobite rebellion.
The @ihr.bsky.social has brought all its online resources - journals, @vch-home.bsky.social, OA book series, @bho.bsky.social, BBIH, @layersoflondon.bsky.social, and more - into one section of its website for easier access bit.ly/4cCrpUD.
Much of this content is free to use online #Skystorians
Travellers will encounter many vehicles on their voyages...
The Express Food Truck, ever equipped to handle lunch
The Voidsailor Mobile Home, a luxury retreat
The G/Bike, for when fast is not fast enough
The Vehicle Handbook Update 2026 is out next week!
#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
A woman removes a cardboard box from a long set of shelves in a strong room.
Check out our updated slate of free online events with spaces still available!
Upcoming events cover data migration, records of traumatic histories, manorial records, heritage science and more: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Book now to avoid disappointment!
We begin today with this one on "Lachrymae", featuring Nick from the team here: www.youtube.com/watch?reload...
#OTD 55 years ago the UK switched to decimal currency: here's an article on how this shows up in the Britten-Pears archive, with Britten buying himself ready-reckoners, shop bills swapping currencies mid-month, and charities seeing publicity opportunities.
www.brittenpearsarts.org/news/archive...
Our Chairman gave a talk yesterday up in Woodford on the origins of Redbridge street names, and I was reminded of this from a newspaper in 1894.
Cameron Corbett was busily laying out the Grange Estate north of the station (York Road to Northbrook) but needed another road.
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#ComingSoon
18th Century parchment
18th Century parchment
18th Century parchment
This is cool. Attached to these depositions for a case between two clerks is a schedule of all the marriages, baptisms, and burials performed by the defendant clerk in St John Clerkenwell between 1771 and 1773. TNA E 134/15Geo3/Trin4 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6...
🗺️ Historic maps of South Asia – now at your fingertips
The MAHSA Project is thrilled to share our open-access search portal for historic Survey of India maps! (1/3)
In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’
