John Levin

Bristol Radical History Festival 2026 - Bristol Radical History Group The Bristol Radical History Festival returns this Spring for its eighth edition, with history talks, panel discussions, films, history walks, performance and exhibitions. There will also be space devo...

Bristol Radical History Festival, 25th & 26th April, program announced:

www.brh.org.uk/site/event-s...

#RadicalHistory #History

Yet more #PublicDomain #Hansard vols opened by Google Books:

1906:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=cTV...

1907:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=V7N...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=Hyp...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=Akk...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=jEQ...

1914:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=wYc...

Screenshot of the homepage of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies digital archive.

I've put online a #c18th side project on Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies that uses data extraction for mapping & network analysis, exploring questions of urban history, genre and print culture, geography, and social worlds across editions:

harrisslist.prisms.digital

#HarrissList #DH #WIP

Will this be recorded? Have to attend a meeting so can't make this event.

And a couple more #PublicDomain #Hansard volumes I got Google to release from snippet view:

books.google.co.uk/books?id=6SU...

books.google.co.uk/books?id=Rin...

The Parliamentary Debates

#PublicDomain #Hansard vols from 1908, released by Google Books:

books.google.co.uk/books?id=7zL...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=qWJ...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=RCg...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=0UQ...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=rUQ...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=fCU...

Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...

ah, for years we've been ringing the alarm bell that all the 'cost saving' measures which these VCs are pushing through are actually wildly elitist drives to destroy all the work of widening participation of the past few decades, and now he's just straight up declaring it himself.

Hate to be right.

More #PublicDomain Hansard released from Google:

1897: books.google.co.uk/books?id=jcx...
1898: books.google.co.uk/books?id=2l4...
1898: books.google.co.uk/books?id=q9F...
1901: books.google.co.uk/books?id=v4F...
1901: books.google.co.uk/books?id=0b7...
1904: books.google.co.uk/books?id=Vr7...

Newcastle Prison also had a wing for debtors, according to:
newcastlegaol.co.uk/construction...

#DebtHistory #CarceralHistory

'Author and researcher Dr Clare Sandford-Couch is part of a group of academics researching the history of women in the prison and co-wrote the book Newcastle Prison: A History, 1828-1925.'

A short blog post on my field trip the other day
historyofpublicspace.uk/case-studies...

Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.

⬇️ This.

Many collections everywhere, but particularly beyond Europe or N. America, are undercatalogued or not catalogued at all. When they burn, no trace survives.

Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.

1/ Important new article by Dr. Tara Inniss that discusses the "chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure, and climatic threats" of Caribbean archives, compounded by vulnerabilities and policy gaps.

Thread w recent examples of destruction of collections by fire:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

More British state publications made #PublicDomain by
requesting them from Google Books:

Origins of WW1: The Balkan Wars: books.google.co.uk/books?id=ers...

Far Eastern Affairs, 1933-36: books.google.co.uk/books?id=z3v...

The Balkan States, 1920: books.google.co.uk/books?id=9TQ...

9/10 The anti-reparative activists think that because this investment in human suffering wasn't as profitable as the Church had hoped, the institution should wash its hands of any moral responsibility. The moral of their story: a sin is only a sin if it pays off financially.

TywinDeVillena's comment on "Parisian Newspaper Headlines during Napoleon's March to Paris in 1815, as noted by Alexandre Dumas. The closer he got, the more favorable they became." Explore this conversation and more from the europe community

A tall tale from Dumas, according to this:
www.reddit.com/r/europe/com...

From the Safari community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the Safari community

Thanks for checking.
I'm seeing the same thing; and according to:
www.reddit.com/r/Safari/com...
this is by design. :/

Thanks!

Thanks!

Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939

And more #PublicDomain vols opened by Google Books:

Docs on British Foreign Policy:

European and Security Questions, 1927-28:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZQZ...

European and Naval Questions, 1927:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=AQZ...

Aftermath of Locarno:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=KJ2...

Yet more #PublicDomain vols released from Google Books' snippet view:

1931 Census of England & Wales
General Report:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=dCL...
Tables:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=f0x...

Docs on British Foreign Policy: 1922 Conferences
books.google.co.uk/books?id=Mlw...

Smearing Sussex (and Me): Responding to Nigel Biggar’s Latest Attack in The Spectator The University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don&#…

The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate.

alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...

Interesting question indeed. Making it more general, I've just checked the contents of the English Reports, and as far as I can tell, only a single volume (no. 82) has reports from the Interregnum.

statutes.org.uk/site/collect...

#LegalHistory

Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the session of the Parliament.

And more vols of Hansard released from snippet view:

1926: books.google.co.uk/books?id=19M...

1927: books.google.co.uk/books?id=3NM...

1946: books.google.co.uk/books?id=8os...

#PublicDomain

#Hansard vols, released from Google's snippet view:

1882 books.google.co.uk/books?id=Bos...

1883: books.google.co.uk/books?id=8os...

1907: books.google.co.uk/books?id=DiM...

1924: books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBS...

#PublicDomain

Schwitters: Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) is one of the most significant representatives of the international artistic avant-garde of the interwar years. He was a wilful crossover artist, who created an unmistakeab...

Kurt Schwitters at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, featuring a reconstruction of the #Merzbau:

www.zpk.org/en/ausstellu...

www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitio...

#dada

More #PublicDomain 1921 Census reports released by Google:

General Tables:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=2we...

London
books.google.co.uk/books?id=c-x...

Kent
books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fgn...