This blog post was written by Dr Ruth Slatter and Dr Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH.   Following the announcement of four new VCH projects in 2025, in this blog post Ruth Slatter and Adam...

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This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman

This series includes transcriptions of petitions (written requests) submitted to a range of local and national authorities in England from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) Intern in Environmental Histories Zoë Jackson uses two petitions as a starting point to reflect on environmental history as a field, and the…

Hull Maritime Museum has reopened after a six-year, £20m refit, and its extraordinary collection of art and artefacts of seafaring life is making waves once again, writes Matthew Kerr

This election could serve as the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election - John London

James Bradshaw by Joseph Wright of Derby If you’ve been watching Professor David Olusoga’s series ‘Finding Britain’s Slave Traders’ you will have seen the new Register of Br…

Joe Saunders Mulberries are wonderful trees bearing lovely fruit. Despite their distinctiveness these trees ‘are often overlooked and even at the height of their fruit season they can remain unnoti…

“The Duke of Bedford… has stopped up the road from Southampton-row to Somers-Town. This, though called a private road, and as such, not open to carriages, has been a footway from time immemorial. I…

This lesson demonstrates how to display and share image files on the web using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Github Pages. After explaining how to create and host...

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Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

County maps for six early modern England & Wales datasets

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

Revisiting the Origins of the ‘Roundhead’ in 1641

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On 14 September 1731, the Lord Mayor of London, banned the employment of black apprentices, with a proclamation declaring that

Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans

With over a million made homeless due to the air raids during the Second World War, combined with tens of thousands of returning service personnel, and even more refugees and non-returning European…

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Following on from yesterday’s account of the mass squatting of Duchess of Bedford House and other buildings across central London in September 1946, here’s an article published at the t…

At the end of WW2 there was massive homelessness around the country – a pre-war shortage of housing had been made worse by the destruction of houses through bombing and a total halt in the building…