@fancyhistorian.bsky.socialHelp! Does anyone, by chance, have either photos or transcriptions of Thomas Parsons's diary? In whole or part? He was a stonecutter in Bath in 1769. It's at the Huntington and all I can find a handful of articles :/
#18thc #skystorians
@oana-sorsk-id.bsky.socialSuch a nice way to start your day! The introduction to our SI on Maternity in ECE has just appeared in the History of the Family, #skystorians. Thanks to @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @kindkovacs.bsky.social & Andrea Griffante www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@footnotesinhistory.bsky.social#OTD in 1944, Thomas Akio Hoshino is fined and sentenced to three years and three months in federal prison for failing to report to induction into the Army. Hoshino and 33 other Nisei men from Minidoka were convicted for draft evasion.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
@academic.oup.comPut Ray Trautman's name at the top of the list of historical figures who will never again be forgotten.
"A Librarian's War" introduces Trautman, whose work during World War II helped bring books to millions, transforming access to reading across America: oxford.ly/4Am6UFd
@uvapress.bsky.socialMatthew Mason @matthewmason.bsky.social, author of "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World" on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast!
@royalhistsoc.orgAnd for new postgraduate students: if you're starting a Master's or PhD in #History, please consider joining
@royalhistsoc.org as a Postgraduate Member. Next closing date: 5 October bit.ly/4x3eX6S
The Society offers research funding, events, publications, history news, and networking #Skystorians
@royalhistsoc.orgWe warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing dates: 5 October & 14 December.
Fellowship is open to those who've made a scholarly research contribution to #history in all sectors (within & beyond higher education) in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
@georgianlords.bsky.socialTrudging through a will and two characters jump out, sounding like they have come straight from a cautionary tale...
Messrs Towgood and Standfast...
@imc-leeds.bsky.socialTwo days to go to the session and round table proposal deadline for #IMC2027! 😮
Be sure your submissions are sent in to the IMC team by 23:59 BST(GMT+1) on Wednesday 30 September through our submission portal.
Details on our website: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2027/pro...
@ideasroadshow.bsky.social🔎 Take a visit with us to a tiny church near Florence which is only open for a few hours per week and is filled with stunning frescoes by Spinello Aretino telling the story of St. Catherine.
@mobhistory.substack.com#OTD (Sep 28)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.
#Detroit #Chicago #Philadelphia #Massachusetts #KansasCity #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
@ghilondon.bsky.socialLast chance to apply for our next round of scholarships!
For more information: www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunitie...
@writersofwrongs.bsky.social
@adamchapman.bsky.socialAnyone working on English historic buildings or with any Historic England image resource might be wondering why it's all broken.
Wonder no more. An IT screw up of the first order. #Skystorians
@dbellingradt.bsky.socialAnd here is the etching in full glory making visible the beer tankard, the smoking pipe and tobacco, and a few cherubs' heads blowing violent blasts in every direction, two of which are filled with swarms of insects... #skystorians
@royalhistsoc.orgNext week, the Society visits historians at the University of Strathclyde and concludes the day with a public lecture by Dr Meleisa Ono-George: 'Visualizing Difference: Amelia Newsham and the Art of Race-Making’ bit.ly/46MYwkA
Join us at 6pm on Weds 7 October, in person. All welcome #Skystorians
@royalhistsoc.orgOur great thanks to Prof Glen O'Hara for his excellent RHS lecture last Friday evening: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’.
Recordings are now available bit.ly/4ySyB6W #Skystorians 1/2