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The much loved Kursaal in Southend-on-Sea, subject to legal agreements, has a new leaseholder. The local council are stating this new deal paves the way to outstanding repairs being undertaken and a new leisure-based use. We placed the building on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2024.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art just released 100 high-quality 3D scans on its website for free. Now you can get up-close and personal with a voluptuous Neolithic marble figurine, Monet’s haystack paintings, and more.
I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...
The Turkish sauna in the Arlington Baths Club, Glasgow is 150 years old, and I'm giving a lecture on the history and context of the baths on 13 March 2026 at 7pm.
This #MapMonday we have even #MoreMaps for you! 🗺️✨
We've georeferenced the 1,329 first edition Six-inch maps of England and Wales we added in November. Now you can use a special toggle button in our viewers to compare these maps side-by-side.
Explore the new tool > maps.nls.uk/additions/#194
Opening pages of Pauline Stafford's British Academy memoir of Dame Jinty Nelson with abstract text: Summary. Jinty Nelson was a leading scholar of early medieval European history, with a special focus on Francia in the late 8th and 9th centuries. She was at the forefront of a generation that re-vivified the study of the early middle ages, in her case especially concerned with the working of the Carolingian political system and the re-evaluation of the role of the aristocracy alongside king and church in early medieval politics. She was a pioneer of the study of women’s and gender history, demonstrating not only its intrinsic interest and importance, but also that political history could not be understood without attention to both. She had a deep and humane interest in the people of the past. Her academic career was spent entirely at King’s College, London, where she was an outstanding and much-loved teacher. Her professional contribution and recognition went far beyond that, and were marked by her election in 2000 as the first woman President of the Royal Historical Society. She became a champion of the subject and its teaching, wherever that was practised. In 2006 she was made a Dame of the British Empire for services to History.
Now available, the British Academy memoir of Dame Jinty Nelson (1942-2024), historian and first female President of the Royal Historical Society: bit.ly/4qUa0ua
The memoir is written by Professor Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social and available via @britishacademy.bsky.social #Skystorians
Read more about the building's history and why we added it to our list in 2023 here: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/endangered-b...
Lithographs of Hawkins's sketches of Ichthyosaur anatomy, with handwritten attotations.
A very special #FossilFriday. Thanks to @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, one of the c19th's greatest works of palaeontological literature is now properly digitised: Thomas Hawkins's beautiful, epic, semi-unhinged Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44...)
Lecturer, History of Design and Material Culture at the Victoria and Albert Museum - applications close 5th March 2026 vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
From mid-February 2026, the MGH is able to make all articles from the DA and NA available in digital form, fully searchable and open access! #medievalsky
mgh.de/en/publicati...
The latest edition of my free Friends of Charles Darwin newsletter went out earlier today to mark the 217th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. You can read it here… #HistSci
Grimsaw's painting of Boar Lane, Leeds. Warm yellow light spills from the windows of buildings onto a grey street.
Spent this Valentine's day at the John Atkinson Grimshaw show at @leedsartgallery.bsky.social. I'm a sucker for his moonscapes to begin with but loved this exhibition and the relationship he had to the city. Maybe another research project for the never-ending list...
Historian of science Janet Browne, author of the definitive biography of Charles Darwin (Voyaging, 1995; The Power of Place, 2002) will publish an abridged and updated one-volume version this June with @princetonupress.bsky.social: bit.ly/4mS7R0Q
#DarwinDay #HPS #histsci
National Gallery of Art Acquires Stirring Artemisia Masterpiece
“Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” (c. 1625) is the first work by the Italian Baroque artist to enter the institution’s collection.
by Rhea Nayyar for @hyperallergic.com
hyperallergic.com/national-gal...
We are delighted to welcome Professor Sarah Betzer (University of Virginia) for a research seminar on New “Lesson[s] of a Bas Relief.” 💬
📅 05 Mar 2026 | 🕠 17:30–19:30
📍 IAS Common Ground
🌟All welcome!
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
The National Museum Cardiff is mounting a major survey exhibition of one of the most famous artists in its collection, Gwen John (1876-1939), nine decades after it invested just £20 on a painting by an artist then almost unknown.
Working on #OAbooks or in Humanities or Social Sciences academic book publication (through a learned society, press or OA initiative)? Don't be left out in the cold (project contact address in link below).
A rare 19th/20th-century position open at Birkbeck!
Sorry to hear this: such rich scholarship helping humanities researchers to engage with the history of science.
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
Some awesome news to end the week on: the inaugural @ojcollective.bsky.social journals catalogue is live, and you can see the eight Edinburgh Diamond journals included along many other Diamond Open Access journals.
Have a browse and support community-led Diamond Open Access publishing!
A picture of the new book, Intoxicated Ways of Knowing.
Unbelievable to finally see it in print! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci #drugsky #medsky #scisky @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Das Buch-Cover von »Coca and the Victorians« auf neongelbem Hintergrund.
From its botanical origins to a global commodity – an interdisciplinary analysis of coca in 19th-century Britain.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7977-9/
#Coca #Britain #19thCentury #History
A London talk on the history of science, travel, collecting, and exchange.
#histsci 🗃 #travel
Full schedule for this term's 40+ seminars (free and open to the public) here. If you're studying, researching or just interested in History, have a look, and do book. Most seminars can be attended virtually; many are hybrid and you are welcome to join the Institute's London audience in person. 2/2
Read this thread for the lived experience of what it's like in almost all UK universities now - just an internal implosion. Organisationally, morally, in terms of capacity and morale.
Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.
PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
