Local, social, and population history. We support and publish original research by academic and non-academic historians.
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Booking now: our autumn conference (on Zoom) is on 9 October. It's FREE, and you can look forward to these papers on the theme of the British diaspora.
For more information and the booking form, see our website localpopulationstudies.org.u…
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Just realized that I never noted the passing of Sir E. A. Wrigley, the legendary British demographer and economic historian, on February 24. Here's a short thread on someone whose research and writing made a big difference to the way that I think about the Industrial Revolution.
An online lecture for #Halloween from the Church Monuments Society 🎃🪦👻
Macabre tombs expert, Dr Roger Bowdler, looks at depictions of death and decay in monuments.
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This is part of a series of online lectures organised by the Society. Topics include: gravedigging, vaults and their contents, and Welsh cadaver tombs
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Nominations now open for Alan Ball Awards 2021: #localhistory publication of the year lslibrarians.wordpress.com/2…
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Submissions for the Midland History Annual Essay Prize 2021 are now invited. A prize of £400 is offered. Entries must be based on a historical subject relating to the English Midlands. Closing date 31 October 2021. For details and entry criteria visit think.taylorandfrancis.com/j…
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Booking now: our autumn conference (on Zoom) is on 9 October. It's FREE, and you can look forward to these papers on the theme of the British diaspora.
For more information and the booking form, see our website localpopulationstudies.org.u…
Several new data papers have caught our eye. Good to see historians producing this kind of v. useful work
Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households 1300-1600
Chris Briggs, Alice Forward, and Ben Jervis
doi.org/10.11141/ia.56.14
Black Lives, British Justice: Black People in London Criminal Justice Records, 1720-1841
doi.org/10.25971/y2r7-8994
@Adam_Crymble
History student uncovers new details about 17th century plague hospital in Bristol
bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/sept…
Alex Beard's work has been published online by Bristol Record Society: archive.org/details/beardpla…
(Nice to see a record society using the Internet Archive)
The resource Public Petitions to Parliament, 1833-1918 may be useful to local and social historians
Just a few more reasons to join the IHR library! - 4 electronic resources added to our collections which are avaialble offsite to all IHR library members. And remember membership to the library is free and open to everyone.
blog.history.ac.uk/2021/09/n…
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One million pages made free on British Newspaper Archive lslibrarians.wordpress.com/2…
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Nominations now open for the McCulla Award 2021.
If you know an outstanding local studies librarian, let us know by 31 October.
#localhistory #librarians lslibrarians.wordpress.com/2…
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Fantastic prize and opportunity. Editors have been nothing but friendly and helpful with me! Would strongly encourage submissions to this, get writing!
Submissions for the Midland History Annual Essay Prize 2021 are now invited. A prize of £400 is offered. Entries must be based on a historical subject relating to the English Midlands. Closing date 31 October 2021. For details and entry criteria visit think.taylorandfrancis.com/j…
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More news: project lecture at the University of York on 7 October at 6pm by Dr Pete Collinge, entitled 'Small Bills and Petty Finance: co-creating the history of the Old Poor Law'. It will be recorded for anyone who can't attend in person.
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*NEW BLOG POST* One of our volunteers has written about Irish people living in #Uttoxeter in 1851, and has looked at the Cunningham family, who probably moved there in the wake of the potato famine in #Ireland. localhistorylab.home.blog/20…
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See our latest blog post, written by one of our volunteers: ‘Infant names in mid 19th century Uttoxeter’ localhistorylab.home.blog/vc…
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... perhaps of interest to the good folks at @DrinkingStudies @BALHNews @VCH_London @WarwickFoodGRP @Emma_J_Wells @ClaireKennan @wartsandbrawls @drjpwillis @_drsang @mark_hailwood @EMhistblog @KitFrench1348 @DrRJWarren @hiegleah ... & others working on 'Parish, Power & Politics'
NEW POST: @Brodie_Waddell investigates parish petitions for & against alehouses in the early 17thC Malvern Hills, engaging with themes of our 'Politics' #PaSymp21 on 7-8 May (NB: registrations close on Sat 1/5 !): warwick.ac.uk/my-parish/post… @HRCWarwick @WarwickHistory
