The Migration Museum is seeking a Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis. Application deadline: 18 October 2026.

The things nobody tells disabled journalists about an industry that wasn’t built for us. Click to read Press Access, by Frances Ryan, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Up steep steps from the sandy beach, and a birds-ear view of ocean breakers from a thicket, perched half-way up the cliff. Several hours to go before low tide. Directly ahead slow rolling waves, break...

Ghosts, Fonts, and Nameplates

The IHR Library offers free membership for academic staff, students and researchers.

As we commented in a previous post London’s eighteenth/early nineteenth century theatre audiences were often rowdy, unruly, fond of breaking down the supposed line of separation between performer a…

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?

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

Today marks the anniversary of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act receiving royal assent. But why was this bill necessary 26 years after the passing of the 1807

Alt: Dolly Parton winking and drinking a cup of tea.