Jamie Nightingale

Just completed PhD @RHULHistory. Space, aesthetics and agency on/in 19thC training ships and industrial schools.

[Society for Nautical Research @NauticalHistory]

Historic Clyde-built sailing ship Pommern reopens to visitors https://t.co/t4BTGkpe3e

[Sarah Wise @MissSarahWise]

1880s, London Docks. Crowd of unemployed waiting in hope of being picked out by the foreman for a day’s casual work, at the wretched pay of 5d a day.Families dreaded hearing the return of a father/husband in the daytime as it meant he'd been unable to get a day’s much-needed work

[History of Education @HistEdSocUK]

Fab opportunity! Funded places still available to attend the Society of Education Studies colloquium in Oxford this September, marking 150 years since the 1870 Education Act. £30/£20 including accommodation, meals, membership, journal subscription!
https://t.co/S82BJlv9TO

[Layers of London @LayersofLondon]

Some fantastic images from the early 20th century in the collection "Educating London", added to our site by @LdnMetArchives (https://t.co/B2yDrIJVgD) If you have any interesting pictures of Londoners learning why not tweet at us or add it to Layers of London!

[Philip K Allan @PhilipKAllan]

Nice bit of archive film from the twilight of sail

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

The biggest and most secretive sell-off of public assets - '2m hectares of public land, worth £400 billion...appropriated by the private sector in recent decades, representing 10% of the British land mass'. A review of the important new book by @bceagle71:
https://t.co/G52DTJXNje

[Institute of Historical Research @ihr_history]

An important piece of London's social history is now available, free access, on @LayersofLondon.

Charles Booth's poverty maps from his Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903) are now available to be explored!

Explore now: https://t.co/VxcZMo1w33

[Philip K Allan @PhilipKAllan]

S.V. Penang in dry dock at #Millwall, South London (1932)

#Nautical #Maritime #tallships

[Pet History since 1800 @pethistories]

The podcast of @JaneHamlett & @rebeccaxpreston paper's for the Metropolitan History Seminar Programme 'Shopping for pets in nineteenth and twentieth-century London' is now available online. Check it out today - https://t.co/T1wnF6nd23 #pethistories #animalhistory #twitterstorians

[Marina Amaral @marinamaral2]

Franz Reichelt, an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.

[Cumbria Archives @CumbriaArchives]

One of Whitehaven’s characters, Sal Madge died 120 yrs ago today. She was born in a workhouse in Penrith in 1831 but lived & worked most of her life in Whitehaven. She died a pauper but a large number of people attended her funeral, her death was reported in the Whitehaven News.

[Angela Platt @acplatt87]

Does your research touch on gender and religion, gender and power or all three? We welcome your proposal to our upcoming conference! #genderhistory #religioushistory #ecrlife #phdlife #academiclife

[National Museums Scotland Library @NMSlibraries]

Patterns: This 1787 catalogue contains specimens of barkcloth collected by Captain Cook during his three voyages to the Southern Hemisphere. The manuscripts describe the manufacture and use of these materials, but we like the vivid samples best #Archive30 #Patterns

[Dr Tracey Jones @traceyej]

#Archive30 today is #patterns- I love the patterns on these shawls.

I feel so lucky to research #MiningWomen #PitBrowLasses for my #PhD

[Philip K Allan @PhilipKAllan]

A lost sight from the past – Sailing barque Milverton drydocked at John Stewart's yard, East London 1918,

#LondonDocks #Tallships #Maritime

[Douglas Small @DrDouglasSmall]

Meanwhile, in the Nineteenth Century... 😳

[Institute of Historical Research @ihr_history]

Layers of London have just added some of the most beautiful, meticulous and hauntingly tragic maps to their free, online map collection.

You can explore the London County Council's #WW2 bomb damage maps now: https://t.co/9h3r3mXs17 @LayersofLondon #openaccess

[Helen Rogers @Conviction19c]

So proud of @PocknellRosa who has transcribed Maud Clarke’s memoir. Read life story of working class girl born 1887 and so a “jubilee baby” who lived till 1982 @writing__lives @JMUEnglish @VictorianWeb https://t.co/zwt8Mdh70P

[Pet History since 1800 @pethistories]

There is still plenty of time to register for our Animals & the Home Conference on 1st May 2019. For details of the programme and how to register head on over to our website: https://t.co/ZgFJQ9YlHP Registration is free but required. #pethistories #animalhistory #twitterstorians

[Bauhaus Movement @BauhausMovement]

#AnniAlbers originally wanted to be a painter, but it was at the loom where she found artistic freedom at the #Bauhaus. In her work she primarily explored abstraction. © KunstsammlungNRW