Louise Falcini

Intimate photographs of 1970s East London squatters discovered decades later Found after the photographer's death at 99, Joyce Edwards' previously unseen portraits document the people who reclaimed abandoned homes and went on to create a rare social housing project that sti...

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Fierce 😁

British Crime Historians Symposium 2026 – Call for Abstracts The British Crime Historians Symposium meets every 2-3 years to discuss and debate original historical research on all aspects of crime, policing, punishment, law, criminal justice and social regul…

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Public wash-house Liverpool (1959) | BFI National Archive YouTube video by BFI

‘Many women almost regard their washhouse as their club’.

This is such a fascinating documentary of a Liverpool public wash house from 1959 from the women carrying clothes bundles on their head, to the dolly to the new machines, the drying cupboards &their cafe.

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Poster for the Edible Boundaries conference at University of Warwick on 14 March 2026.

Looking forward to speaking about dairywomen and cheesemaking at the Edible Boundaries conference at University of Warwick on 14 March 🧀

@edibleboundaries.bsky.social

I've used my London Lives datasets of 18th-century St Clement Danes pauper removal orders and settlement exams to make a new interactive map mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/cdr… #18thc

Excellent news.

Very much looking forward to it. Hoping it will be in the 'affordable' price bracket.

😂

Possibly just swing (it's a long time since I've seen it).

Foundling Hospital estate, one of the 'private' squares, possibly Mecklenburg(?).

My favourite 18thC rule (by-law?) - no adults on swings. You just know there's a great story behind that rule.

Working with criminal justice records
Wed, 25 March | 13:00 GMT | Online

🎤 Charlotte Smith, The National Archives
🎤 Dr Jessamy Carlson, The National Archives
🎤 Miles Wright, The Law Commission of England and Wales

Reserve your spot here:
shorturl.at/KlsVm

Happy to help if you need any additional info.

Vagrancy | London Lives share.google/ARigpl52zOnc... is a useful starting point. If you're having trouble with the statutes see John Levin's website About | The Statutes Project share.google/63awIgl92Fro...

Identifying Women Jurors and Institutionalising Women’s Citizenship In this guest post, Kay Crosby uses the early history of women’s jury service to explore the criteria by which the state recognized some women (but not others) as citizens.

Guest post by @kaycrosby.bsky.social: 'Identifying Women Jurors and Institutionalising Women's Citizenship'
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Great to see @polly-lowe.bsky.social 's article on 'The body as property' available on open access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0144039X.2025.2570609#abstract A really smart analysis of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies and 18th c. attitudes to commercial sex.

THE Nicholas 'dodgy developer' Barbon?

Fine on my android phone .

There's an extra £1.6 billion for early years interventions and an additional £1.8 billion for specialist teachers (speech & language, TAs and SEND) for children without an EHCP and an additional £3.5 billion in 28/29 for high needs children. It's a good start. Reform want to reduce existing budgets

Oh no, another post about AI. 😉

I suspect it was a sponging-house, a form of private lock-up.

Since a large number of record offices use the same system - I feel your pain!

18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP

Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026.

Please see the poster for further information!

Question for #archivists providing online access to digital collections which include sensitive or offensive content.
Do you have age restrictions or your platform?
#archives #digipres

Was there a mother and baby home there? A charities handbook may help checking that out.

Bill Turkel and I have just published an article in DHQ. It is about the emergence of Manslaughter as a charge at the Old Bailey, and the working methods we used to analyse the data. dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... Thanks to Gabor Toth for shepherding it through peer review.

Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30

Or certainly looks suspiciously like her( see also plate 1. A harlots progress).

Sorry, actually Mother Needham. See Hallet, Spectacle of Difference.