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Robyn C @robynlc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thank you! I'm so pleased!

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Jonathan Payne @drpmaths.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I've been doing some work with English Heritage to develop some maths trips at castles (well - one castle so far). First pilot going on Monday, which I'm really excited about.

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I love learning about activity around the Museum Data Service, like a great practical post on 'Checking for new museum records with the Mapping Museums Database, Excel and OpenRefine' by Haixin Huang, UCL Digital Humanities postgrad museumdata.uk/blog/checkin...

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Checking for new museum records with the Mapping Museums Database, Excel and OpenRefine - Museum Data Service

Haixin Huang, UCL Digital Humanities postgrad student, discusses how they used a combination of Excel, OpenRefine and Wikidata to find new museum records to add to MDS from the Mapping Museum…

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 30/04/2026

Delighted to be able to share a first teaching and research resource relating to The Firearm Revolution: a compilation of links to primary sources - visual, objects and translations of texts that I cite in the book #academia #earlymodern #skystorians

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Primary sources for The Firearm Revolution

Are you teaching with The Firearm Revolution? Or perhaps you’re an independent researcher with an interest in the history of firearms. With the help of my PhD student Guy Reynolds, I’ve …

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We love Prof. Machado! “Students in Associate Professor of Classics Dominic Machado's community-based learning course worked with middle school students in the Marlborough School District to help bring the Latin language to life for the younger audience.” magazine.holycross.edu/stories/anci...

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An Ancient Language Finds a New Audience

A community-based learning course brings Latin into the middle school classroom.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Really enjoyed this mixture of detective work and close reading!

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Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte... @bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social

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EMCO Internship Programme

A digital edition of the complete letters of Elizabeth Montagu 1718-1800 - ISSN 2753-9091

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 24/02/2026

England’s civic museums call for new £120m-a-year investment - English Civic Museums Network sets out vision for ‘coherent, fair and sustainable support system’

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England’s civic museums call for £120m strategic investment programme - Museums Association

English Civic Museum Network sets out vision for ‘coherent, fair and sustainable support system’

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Elizabeth Beattie @elizabethbeattie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

My blog for the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Library Special Collections went live yesterday! It's a very short glimpse of the thousands of women whose lives I've been researching over the last 16 months.

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Women’s activities in seventeenth-century St Andrews: the evidence of the Kirk Sessions – University Collections blog

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My first proper blog post for @globalmarhist.bsky.social 🙌🏻 This is the source I repeatedly return to when I teach others about Caribbean slavery. There is so much that can be gleaned from this source alone. My post discusses some of the features!

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Robyn C @robynlc.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Happy to share that I've successfully achieved the Professional Knowledge Award from @collegeofteaching.bsky.social One step closer to Chartered Status #CTeach

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Robyn C @robynlc.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Happy to share that I've successfully achieved the Development of Teaching Practice Award from @collegeofteaching.bsky.social One step closer to Chartered Status #CTeach

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Market Place, Manchester, as in c.1890, by John L. Chapman (b.1946). #NorthernArt

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Nassau Street, From Outside The Kildare Street Club, Dublin, painting by Rose Mary Barton (1856-1929).

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

👁️ SEEING THINGS by Amanda Shubert tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by magic lanterns, stereoscopes, and illusionistic stage magic—redefining what it meant to see in the modern world. Learn more here ⬇️ 📖 ow.ly/sveJ50XeJkv

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Seeing Things by Amanda Shubert | Paperback | Cornell University Press

A cultural history of nineteenth-century media imaginaries, Seeing Things tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical technologies—magic lanterns, stereoscopes,...

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If anyone is planning to do the #AScareADay October challenge (a story or poem a day, curated by yours truly!)... I've made a little recording of the first day's poem - Robert Herrick's 'The Hag' A nice quick listen (for fun or for the challenge) - enjoy! youtu.be/pGPeozcz4DM

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The Hag by Robert Herrick (1648)

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

What can a museum object reveal about colonialism, extinction and genocide? Thomas Kador’s latest blog post explores how collections help us confront difficult histories and rethink the role of museums in education. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4n92tX9 #ObjectBasedLearning

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Tackling difficult histories with (museum) objects

What can a preserved animal specimen tell us about colonialism, extinction and even genocide? In this blog post, Thomas Kador reflects on the themes of his recent book Object-Based Learning: Exploring...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

OOOO! The latest special issue for the Journal of #EarlyModern History is on Archives & Objects, a dialogue between the archival and material turn 🤩 Would you look at that ace table of contents 🤩 brill.com/view/journal... #YayArchives! #HistArchives!

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Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci: "Material Culture and Early Modern Archivality: A Dialogue"
Filippo de Vivo "A Cock for the Records: Posted Libels as Archival Objects"
Suzanna Ivanič "Piecing Back the Puzzle: Objects, Inventories, and the Problem of Classification"
Ana Struillou "Mobility, Material Culture, and the Archive: A View from the Mediterranean"
Subah Dayal "Mughal Hands, Envelopes, and the Materiality of Trans-Imperial Archives"
Anne T. Gerritsen "Kang Wang’s Helmet and the Archivality of Chinese Popular Religious Practice"

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Tudor Places @tudorplaces.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

However, this is just one of its numerous and varied functions. In Issue 03, Alfred Hawkins explores the fascinating history of this chapel which has served, and continues to serve, the Tower’s diverse community over the centuries. bit.ly/3OheivE

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Issue 3 - Tudor Places Magazine - Exploring Tudor Places and their Stories

We delve into the story of Henry VIII's warship, the “Mary Rose", explore the Chapel Royal of Saint Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London, look at Richmond Palace and Harlech Castle

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 06/08/2025

New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians

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The Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: new Camden volume published - RHS

The Society is very pleased to announced publication of its latest Camden series volume: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler. This vol...

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Robyn C @robynlc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Gained my Education Research and Inquiry Certificate from @collegeofteaching.bsky.social 🙂 #HistoryTeacher #Cteach

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

📢 New Will of the Month post 📢 How do we write about those who left little behind, both in terms of possessions, & evidence in the historical record? 📜 This month's post explores the life of a servant woman, Mary Carlton, who had few objects to bequeath other than her 'box' 🧵1/2 #skystorians

A greyscale eighteenth -century print of a servant woman being turned out of a house and on to the streets. The woman exits a door and down some steps in the centre of the painting, two other women stand in the doorway behind her, the streets are filled with destitute looking people. Thomas Gaugain: Diligence and Dissipation: The Wanton turn’d out of Doors for Misconduct (Plate 5) (1797) Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:20235

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Robyn C @robynlc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Had a great time at #SouthwarkCathedral History Festival on Saturday, heard amazing talks from some of my favourite Historians including @alfredrjhawkins.bsky.social and @drowenemmerson.bsky.social

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025

For 30 years I've been experimenting with ways to see & use the online collections of libraries, archives & museums. I've made useful things, playful things, & weird things. Here's a big list of them for you to explore! wraggelabs.com #GLAM #histodons #digitalHumanities

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Wragge Labs

A compilation of things I've built over the last 30 years to help people see and use the online collections of libraries, archives, and museums.

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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

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At a time of crisis for the profession, a unique collection of interviews demonstrates the importance of history. - History & Policy

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK, the Institute of Historical Research has made available a unique archive of interviews with some of the profession's leading post-war Bri...

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Robyn C @robynlc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Amazing discussion on the importance of heritage & navigating how we access the past, digital engagement, reaching audiences & sharing stories & research - wonderful talk! GreatBritishArchitecture, Jack Chesher (LondonLivingHistory) @alfredrjhawkins.bsky.social @historywithjackson.bsky.social

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I finally got around to uploading our 'About the Zoo' video to the wills project YouTube channel. Take a look for a quick introduction to the research from members of the team, for recordings of webinars and for guides to transcribing wills for us on Zooniverse. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/@MaterialWills