The Project Team

AHRC-funded project about the English Poor Law, 'Small bills and petty finance'.

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

You can join the engagement team at Perton library on Saturday 18 March, where we will be exploring the history of photography for #ScienceWeek @StaffsLibraries

[Cumbria Archives @CumbriaArchives]

Today sees the closure of the Whitehaven branch of Natwest bank. #WhitehavenArchives holds the plan for premises at 71-72 Lowther Street from 1910, originally made by the Bank of Whitehaven. #archives #History #Banking #buildingheritage

[Prof Alannah Tomkins @AlannahTomkins]

Fancy a workshop on the history of parochial corruption in the long eighteenth century? Email me at [email protected] for details and block out Friday 16 June!

[Staffordshire Record Society @record_society]

This imaginatively and meticulously researched study of the Wildeys of Lichfield reveals the role of female enterprise and draws on work for @AHRCpoorlaw See also his coedited volume from the project: Providing for the Poor (with @louisefalcini )

[Centre for Regional and Local History @CRLHLeicester]

AMAZING NEW RESOURCE! We’ve digitised over 2000 of our topographical prints, paintings, drawings and photographs from C17-20. Check out ‘Views of England and Wales’. Fully catalogued, indexed, and searchable by county, theme, artist, you name it! Enjoy and share the bounty!

[Poverty&Paupers: the New Poor Law in England&Wales @TheirWrite]

On Wed 22 Feb 2023 we (@UkNatArchives & @TrentUni) launch our book #In_Their_Own_Write_Contesting_the_New_Poor_Law_1834_to_1900, pub. by @McGillQueensUP, + the interactive/online educational resource #Teaching_the_Voices_of_the_Victorian_Poor
Both are based on 1000s of English

[Dr Pete Collinge @pete_collinge]

Great morning @PickfordsHouse discussing activity sessions over the coming months.

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

.@RoyalHistSoc's book series, 'New Historical Perspectives' recently published its 15th #History title.

All books, and 125+ book chapters, available free #openaccess via @JSTOR #OA https://t.co/QCycwz4dG4 - making work easy to share on reading lists.

@UoLPress #twitterstorians

[UK Association for the History of Nursing @UK_histnursing]

We are delighted that Prof Alannah Tomkins is the new editor for the UKAHN Bulletin. Thanks go to Dr Sue Hawkins for her fantaic three years - what an achivement. Welcome Alannah, as we look forward to 2023 and beyond: https://t.co/lnXungtfkE #HistNursing #FairPayforNursing

[Dr Pete Collinge @pete_collinge]

Ashbourne Library is hosting an exhibition @AHRCpoorlaw on the Old Poor Law during January. Copies of Providing for the Poor available to borrow.

[Prof Elaine Chalus @EHChalus]

AHRC-Funded PhD Studentship: From 'Am I Not A Man and a Brother?' to 'Ar'n't I A Woman?': Social Reform and Transatlantic Abolition (1787-1865) at Keele University https://t.co/kpTnjE2lY1 #jobsacuk #twitterstorians

[The Keep @TheKeepArchives]

The Keep Christmas opening hours: The Keep will close for the holidays at 4pm on Friday 23 December and re-open as usual from 10am on Tuesday 3 January 2023. Seasons greetings to all and a Happy New Year!

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

Today we enjoyed a Christmas get-together with some of our volunteers to say thank you for their incredible support this year. We recognised key achievements and had the chance to catch up over refreshments. The engagement team enjoyed making our volunteer room look festive.

[Cumbria Archives @CumbriaArchives]

This coming Tuesday is our Christmas Archive Discovery Evening at #WhitehavenArchives. Join us for Christmas of yore with festive refreshments...Tues 20 Dec at 7pm. Free event, just turn up

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

A is for Abbots Bromley, Alrewas and Alton. Here are some details from the latest enclosure maps added to Staffordshire Past Track. #digitisation #maps #StaffordshireHistory @StaffordshireCC @StaffsLibraries @HeritageFundM_E

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

It's always a treat to see Father Christmas out and about! Here he is delighting children in Staffordshire: bestowing gifts at two Christmas parties in the 1940s, at Stafford Currys in 1950 and his 1971 Grotto at the Guildhall Co-op’s Toy Fair. Which visit is your favourite? 🎅

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

What a great view of Bridge Street in Stafford, looking towards Market Square. This photograph is from the 1960s and shows the new Christmas lights. #ChristmasCountdown

[Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @SocialBodiesUoB]

Update! Together we have transcribed 25 of the 97 letters we released yesterday. Some are short, some are long. Some will squeeze into a coffee break; some need a full lunch. You will laugh. You may cry. You will be moved. We have letters to suits all readers!

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

Our neighbours @Staff_Gatehouse are getting ready for their 2022 panto Cinderella so we thought we would show you some fun Cinderella themed items from our collections. Nimmy the Shetland pony was the star of this 1965 performance #panto #Christmas2022

[StaffsStokeHistory @ArchandHeritage]

We have some exciting news to share. Construction work for the #StaffordshireHistoryCentre will begin early in the new year. You can read a full update here: https://t.co/vUkmAH4SgZ Thank you @HeritageFundUK @HeritageFundM_E @StaffordshireCC