New (draft) text now available!

Thanks to Professor Nicholas Orme, we are pleased to share draft texts of around 40 medieval monastic and religious foundations in #Devon which will form part of our second volume on the county in due course.

All comments/corrections gratefully received. 🗃️

Yesterday, our @chppc.bsky.social team was busy at the @sasnews.bsky.social Festival of Research, showcasing our map-based project Layers of London (now more than 17,000 user-generated records!) and our new project in progress, PlaceLayers, which scales up to cover all of England, Scotland and Wales

#TeamWilliam or #TeamHarold? Yesterday we gave out stickers @sasnews.bsky.social Festival of Research as part of our new project to archive #BayeuxTapestry stories. Share yours (you don't have to have seen it!) and be part of history. Visit tinyurl.com/UoLTapestry or use the QR codes! #UoLTapestry

For a history of Ashwell (with drawings!) from 1912, see @bho.bsky.social:

The full text, and the other drawings - ironically, this was a cheap way of illustrating the volumes before the First World War: it would probably be prohibitively expensive today - is available @bho.bsky.social:

Closing next Friday (16th): 'History and Archives in Practice' 2027. Calls for panels invited for our annual meeting of historians and archivists, with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA.

HAP27 focuses on connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy & applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

Back from limbo! the relaunch of Hosprec, the Hospital Records Database, with which I was involved for so many years
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Available now: new draft text on some of the (very many), medieval religious foundations, including the chapel of Exeter castle; Benedictine foundations including the nuns of Polsloe; a host of hospitals, almshouses and minster churches and much, much more.

#MedievalSky #Skystorians

The work in Devon is one of of FIVE (5) new projects for us, in Devon, Dorset, London, Kent, and Lincolnshire. For more, please see this blog post from our Co-General Editor, @ruthslatter.bsky.social.

#MedievalSky #Skystorians #LocalHistory

New (draft) text now available!

Thanks to Professor Nicholas Orme, we are pleased to share draft texts of around 40 medieval monastic and religious foundations in #Devon which will form part of our second volume on the county in due course.

All comments/corrections gratefully received. 🗃️

Are you studying, researching or teaching Black British histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 680,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today!

Watch our video 'Researching the history of race and ethnicity in BBIH' to learn more buff.ly/iXI2MwX

Interesting #LocalHistory resource here - mapping historical data is something we're very interested in (watch this space for more), and this is a great way of visualising defensive monuments and their distribution.

We're really excited to share updates on our exciting new projects in #Devon, #Dorset, #Kent , #Lincolnshire an #London in our latest blog with @ihr.bsky.social, part of our wonderful community of projects.

Please take a look!

#Skystorians

Such a privilege to work with the fantastic researchers involved in these projects. They are full of community spirit & rigorous research, and all demonstrate the value of studying places throughout time, their landscapes & communities. Long live the @vch-home.bsky.social

So exciting to be able to share thee updates on new VCH projects (@vch-home.bsky.social might be over 125 years old, but it's always doing something *new*), from medieval religious houses, via the streets of Soho, the Isle of Purbeck and much, much more. 🗃️

We're really excited to share updates on our exciting new projects in #Devon, #Dorset, #Kent , #Lincolnshire an #London in our latest blog with @ihr.bsky.social, part of our wonderful community of projects.

Please take a look!

#Skystorians

Next month it's Buckinghamshire History Festival! We'll be celebrating all of the fantastic heritage that our county has to offer.

We've got lots of fantastic events booked in for you running throughout the whole month, all around the county.

Interested? Learn more at histfestbucks.co.uk