Just wondering whether this might be the first Victoria County History book to index the Covid-19 pandemic (@DrAdamChapman will know) - thus putting it on the same index footing as plague, smallpox, and the Black Death. Living history!

I’m really looking forward to this one-day conference. We’ve got a really brilliant line up of speakers who will share their academic, professional & personal experiences of Seely & Paget as architects & people. AND there will be a tour of The Charterhouse

Making plans with Senate House Library for a visit to Special Collections on our upcoming Victoria County History annual #VCHDay . Excited to see that we've VCH friends & colleagues joining us from: Cumbria, Durham, Essex, Hants, Leics, Gloucs, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, & Wilts (so far)!

We’re excited to be collaborating with HistoryLab+ to run Place-Based Histories: an interdisciplinary workshop for early career researchers. Tickets are free & there are a limited number of travel bursaries available. history.ac.uk/events/place-b…

Quotes from Susan Reynolds and Dr Charlotte Young on the role of Victoria County History in developing historical careers through the intense archival work the project entails.

Insightful evening at the British Records Association Events looking at history of Victoria County History plus a delight to catch up with ex UCL class mates Victoria Northwood & Matti Watton (25 years!), meet Susan Moore Research fellow AGRA Genealogy member in person 😃 & pick up the odd book or two…

Loving this slide - part of the conclusion to Adam Chapman's lecture this evening, looking at the formative role Victoria County History has played in historians' careers - then and now.

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.

For #MapMonday we have this delightful 1928 map showing parts of Hertfordshire produced by the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Company who provided electricity to the parts of London, Hertfordshire and Essex, from 1907 until 1948.

#ElectricitySupply #Utilities #Maps

The maps we hold here vary hugely in size and shape! This tiny detailed plan of the Lord Ailesbury's lands at #Whorlton & #Potto (1804), to be exchanged with Edward Wolley, measures just 18.5 x 23cm #MapMonday

Happy Monday! ⭐️

For our next “place of the week” post we are exploring the Sundial clock, St. Andrew's Church, Kirkandrews on Esk ⛪️

⬇️Find out more on our website: cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/kirka…

The first of our summer term #people , #place & #community seminars will be on the 24.04.24. Join us online at 17.30 to hear Jack Latimer (from Community Archives) & Justin Colson (from Layers of London) discuss #digital #community #archiving . Sign up here history.ac.uk/events/digital…

Our LAST @CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar of the semester. Please join us to round off what has been a fantastic year! With papers from the incredible Dr Amara Thornton Dr Joanne Norcup Dr Renée Landell Tré (he/him) 🇬🇩🇯🇲 Olivier Marboeuf Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
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This October we are excited to launch a series of local history workshops.

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Really looking forward to the #people , #place & #community seminar series this term. We’ll kick off on 24.04.24 with a conversation about #digital #community #archiving

Tailored for #ECRs , #Twitterstorians and new authors of all kinds, this is the first of a series of online workshops intended to help you through.

In later sessions, we'll also be looking at marketing and writing about historic buildings. More here: history.ac.uk/seminars/peopl….

So wonderful to see so many of our colleagues, Victoria County History's big red book in one place!

There really is a bit of something for everyone in our volumes:

Nye Bevan’s progressive views on community standards, relative to the development of social (council) housing during his time as Minister for Health & Housing (1945 - 1951), were likely heavily influenced by Thomas Sharp’s writing on the built environment.

Please join our colleagues Victoria County History, and author, Francis Boorman to celebrate the launch of their latest book on the parish of St George Hanover Square (in time for the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the parish) on 18 May.