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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It’s time for a new 🧵 about one of our editorial board’s choice of an article from the journal’s back catalogue that was influential on them. This time it’s our Board Chair Bob Shoemaker’s choice of Valerie Pearl’s 1979 article, ‘Change and Stability in Seventeenth-century London’.

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Change and Stability in Seventeenth-century London

Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 5, No. 1, 1979)

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We are looking for a new Joint Book Reviews Editor to join our editorial board. They would cover the period from 1800, working alongside Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval/early modern period. You can check out the full Call for Expressions of Interest here; and please do also share widely.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research. The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.

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Curriers' Essay Prize | The London Journal

The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The second in our series of threads on the wonderful articles comprising our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today', is on Sam Waterman and Charlotte Grant's 'Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City' (available open access). 🧵

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Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City*

This article provides an account of teaching London’s cultural history on a semester-long, first-year undergraduate study-abroad course at Northeastern University London (NUL) using a multi-authore...

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

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London Lives

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Seeing the covers side-by-side shows just how much things have changed, but also how much they’ve stayed the same. I’m really proud of this special issue ❤️

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today’s the day! The 50th anniversary special issue of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social, which I co-edited with Bob Shoemaker, is published! It concludes with my rather personal reflection on the future of the humanities: I’d be very grateful if you gave it a read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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London’s Past into the Future

Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2025)

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Really pleased that 2024 update of The Old Bailey Online was awarded the 2024 Mary Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize by the American Society for Legal History, for "a project that continues to break new ground in the field of digital legal history". www.oldbaileyonline.org

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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

A searchable online edition of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913.

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

The London Journal is currently seeking EOIs (due 15/03/24) for the role of exhibitions, media, and arts reviews editor. The appointee will commission & edit reviews of creative works about London and be a member of the journal's editorial board. Full call here: thelondonjournal.org/LDN_EMARev_E...

Call for Expressions of Interest: Reviews Editor and Member of the London Journal Editorial Board

The London Journal is looking for expressions of interest for the role of reviews editor for exhibitions, media, and arts and member of its Editorial Board. The Journal is a multi-disciplinary periodical embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past and present. For more information, see: https://www.thelondonjournal.org/.

The role of reviews editor is to commission, and edit, reviews of one or more of the following types of creative works about London: exhibitions (broadly defined), theatre, film television, music, and literature (please note that the role of book reviews editor is already covered). For a recent example of an exhibitions review, see the review of the exhibition Executions at the Museum of London Docklands in 2022–2023. For a theatre review, see Triumph 1621, performed at St Mary le Bow, London, on 29 October 2021.

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Really pleased to announce the launch of a new version (9.0) of the Old Bailey Online oldbaileyonline.org. There is lots of new functionality, and a thoroughly redesigned front and back end.

a screenshot of the Old Bailey homepage, with a prominent search box in the middle. The background is a photograph of Court No. 1

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