Sarah Wride

Re-membering the medieval parliament, 1769-1886 At the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on Tuesday 17 March, Dr Sarah Wride of the University of York and the Institute of Historical Research,

Dr Sarah Wride will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on 'Re-Membering the Medieval Parliament, 1769-1886'.

📍 Senate House, London / Online
🗓️Tuesday 17 March 2026
⏱️5:30-6:30pm

Find out more about the paper and how to attend below.

The talk may be of particular interest to @bars.bsky.social, @bavs-uk.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social, & @folkloresociety.bsky.social & more generally to @royalhistsoc.org, #academicsky, & #skystorians. All welcome!

Re-membering the medieval parliament, 1769-1886 - The History of Parliament At the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on Tuesday 17 March, Dr Sarah Wride of the University of York and the Institute of Historical Research,

Ever wondered why May for UK elections? Find out more 👇in my post for the #histparl blog.

If you're a glutton for May Day traditions, parliamentary reform debate & ideas about Anglo-Saxon direct democracy, I'll be expanding at 5:30 (online & in person) on 17 March @ihr.bsky.social 👉 rb.gy/65bzj7

A week left to reply for this fantastic role. Closes 15 March

New exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social!

Aardman's The Wicker Man.

Overheard from a #WorldBookDay crowd outside the local school just now: [small boy, already with a slight edge of frustration/anxiety in his voice]: 'I'm NOT a butler I'm JAMES BOND!'

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

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...

I say this every time the question comes up, but I want a period-appropriate adaptation of Edgeworth’s “Belinda”…but filmed and edited like a reality tv show…complete with talking head confessionals.

Sign saying ‘our bartenders are so light fingered they could be concert pianists’ Why, are they going to rob me?

I feel they have misunderstood this expression:

A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.

Re-Membering the Medieval Parliament, 1769-1886

The next @ihr.bsky.social 'Parliaments, Politics & People' seminar looks like a corker.

Sarah Wride (@york.ac.uk & IHR) 'Re-Membering the Medieval Parliament, 1769-1886'

📆 17 March ⏰ 17:30-19:00 @ IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU & online

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Meanwhile, at the Cage aux Folles Bar & Grille…

The text reads "FREE EXHIBITION", "RAG: A HISTORY OF BLOOD", "27 February to 16 October 2026", with the logo and address of the Physicians' Gallery; pink shades in the background, with an image of a bloody rag.

📣 Please do what I cannot & take in @physiciansgallery.bsky.social's forthcoming exhibition.

For details & to register for the launch on 26 February, w/ talks from the (bloody) excellent @helenking.bsky.social & Prof. Marc Turner👉 shorturl.at/fnH5m

#AcademicSky
#Skystorians
#MedicalHumanities

The side of a white van, with "JUST-WILLIAMS" (in the style of the dust covers used for the original Just William series), "REMOVALS LEWES", and the company's contact details.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

Happy publication anniversary to Northanger Abbey! Celebrate by accusing your crush’s dad of murder.

Why on earth are Americans interested in concrete?

Is this true, American people on BlueSky?

It turns out that it takes upwards of ONE HOUR for me to recognise that I've accidentally left repeat-one on and have been listening to one song on a loop. Even when that song is 'Back to the Start'.

Happy birthday Lord Byron!

Mary Shelley after reading Thomas Moore's edition of his Letters and Journals:

Wikipedia sections of an article. 1: early life and career as a pirate. 2: archbishop of York.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Statue of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace installed in Hinckley Project leaders hope the sculpture will inspire girls and young women to study maths and science.

Some lovely #LordByron -ish news, in case anybody else missed it: a statue of Ada Lovelace will be unveiled on Lower Bond Street in #Hinckley, Leicestershire, 2-4pm on 31 January 👇

@bars.bsky.social
@bavs-uk.bsky.social
#AcademicSky
#Skystorians

📣3 days to go until the deadline - we can't wait to see you for our 50th anniversary in Lancaster!

📣 The Figure of the Politician in Modern & Contemporary Europe from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, edited by Pasi Ihalainen, @rosariolopez.bsky.social, Kari Palonen, & Henk te Velde, launches online on 6 February 👇
#AcademicSky #Skystorians #HistParl #BookSky

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Two uniformed policement are in the foreground of this mid-century photograph, one has his hands behind his back. They are both looking out at Trafalgar Square's epic Christmas tree, with lights and a star on top. Night is falling and it is foggy.

I'm finally clocking (& logging) off for Christmas: Happy Holidays one & all!

Discipline and Nourish.

The author was dead: to begin with.

SHS Annual Conference 2026 Our 50th anniversary conference will be held at Lancaster University, the academic home of the Social History Society. A Significant Milestone The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster Un…

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨

📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!

We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.

📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

#CFP 🗃️

Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published widely on British and Irish romantic literature, and particularly on the intersection of health and illness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing.

Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....