Here with Centre for the History of People Place & Community colleagues Ruth Slatter & Justin Colson to support our colleague Adam Chapman as he gives the annual Maurice Bond Lecture for British Records Association Events at London Metropolitan Archives this evening - new insights into #archives through, and of, @vch_london.

Does this suggest Reform don’t regard being dead as a serious barrier to running as one of their candidates? Broad church and all that…

Booking is open for a special online fringe event
Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) in partnership with History & Policy Institute of Historical Research. We have a distinguished panel of historians including Margaret MacMillan, Serhii Plokhy, Allyson Edwards and Christopher Finlay. Register now. eventbrite.fr/e/conf24-histo…

Inspired by Alison McClean’s recent piece History & Policy Institute of Historical Research on the reclassification of files in The National Archives royal biographer Andrew Lownie writes today about his own experiences. We’d be delighted to publish a response from TNA’s Keeper. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articl…

‘The rules of Swiftonomics dictate a return of investment, financially and culturally. The Commonwealth Games cannot guarantee either.’ Singapore was right to decline to host them writes Neil Humphreys. sg.news.yahoo.com/well-done-sing…

Booking is open for a special online fringe event
Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) in partnership with History & Policy Institute of Historical Research. We have a distinguished panel of historians including Margaret MacMillan, Serhii Plokhy, Allyson Edwards and Christopher Finlay. Register now. eventbrite.fr/e/conf24-histo…

Delighted to announce that booking is open for a special online fringe event Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) in partnership with History & Policy Institute of Historical Research. Distinguished panel includes Margaret MacMillan, Serhii Plokhy, Allyson Edwards and Christopher Finlay. To register:
eventbrite.fr/e/conf24-histo…

Inspired by Alison McClean’s recent piece History & Policy Institute of Historical Research on the reclassification of files in The National Archives royal biographer Andrew Lownie writes today about his own experiences. We’d be delighted to publish a response from TNA’s Keeper. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articl…

🏳️‍🌈 #SeizedBooks launches today! 

Our new online exhibition explores the censorship of LGBTQ+ lit & the defiant campaign against 1984 raids on Gay's The Word.

Explore confiscated titles, the legal battle & queer reading cultures: london.ac.uk/seized-books

Inspired by Alison McClean’s recent piece History & Policy Institute of Historical Research on the reclassification of files in The National Archives royal biographer Andrew Lownie writes today about his own experiences. We’d be delighted to publish a response from TNA’s Keeper.historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articl…

Inspired by Alison McClean’s recent piece History & Policy Institute of Historical Research on the reclassification of files in The National Archives royal biographer Andrew Lownie writes today about his own experiences. We’d be delighted to publish a response from TNA’s Keeper.historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articl…

Read Chris Moffat's interview with Archi Times, prompted by the publication of the book 'The Time of Building'. The book is available free at ArchitecturalArchives.pk architimesonline.com/site/historian…

Really pleased to have been asked to write an appreciation of the life of Arthur Burns for History Workshop academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-ar…
I keep hearing his voice in my head.

And it’s not just the pictures that offend the report’s authors. They suggest “[T]he very name of the Foreign, Commonwealth (formerly ‘Colonial’) and Development Office is anchored in the past.”

🎶 “Like a bridge between Trump and Starmer,
I will lay me down…” 🎵

Larkinland. A parting view from the train.

Johnson using the term “shameful” is a bit like John Waters complaining about something being in bad taste.

Hull Minster’s splendid medieval font, carved in the 1380s, in which William Wilberforce was baptised in 1759.

Hull looking uncharacteristically cheerful today in a positively Mediterranean breeze.

I do think this - from the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull - is a pretty funky item: Dr Moyes, founder of the Hull Literary Society, painted in 1792.