This is a fine piece (from 2019) on historians and genealogists, amateur and professional, and their digital contact.
Plus #chartism!
Family History in the Digital Age
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/digital-history/family-history-in-the-digital-age/
New #OpenAccess book from University of London Press:
Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England, by Hannah Jeans
https://uolpress.co.uk/book/reading-gender-and-identity-in-seventeenth-century-england/
This ambitious and interdisciplinary book redraws the history of early modern Englishwomen’s reading, exploring the connections between gender, reading habits and genre throughout the seventeenth century. It challenges accepted historiographical narratives about reading that have privileged male experience and the impact of the Civil War, and highlights the multiplicity and complexity of women’s reading practices, […]
The Digital Repository of Ireland has been undertaking a review of its social media presence in 2025 to ensure that our digital communications align with our organisation’s values.
One of the changes we made was to leave X, and join Mastodon!
Learn more: https://dri.ie/news/connect-with-us-changes-to-dris-social-media-strategy/ #DigiPresNews
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) has been undertaking a review of its social media presence in 2025 to ensure that our digital communications align with our organisation’s values, as outlined in our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy. DRI uses multiple social media channels to communicate DRI news and events, open up collection material for […]
A useful guide to 'Rapid Response' archiving, from the UK National Archives:
We wrote this guidance to help you decide whether to collect in relation to unprecedented or unforeseen situations and events. We recognise that people reading this guidance may be in challenging circumstances. Please know that you are not alone. You can reach out to the Archive Sector Leadership Team through asl@nationalarchives.gov.uk. You may find the […]
New #OpenAccess primary source:
Judith Roads, ed. Minute Book of the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings of Ratcliff Quakers, 1681–1701.
📢 NEW ONLINE COURSE 📢 Beyond Statues: Memorials in Modern Wales
From war memorials to memorial gardens, plaques to statues, placenames to public buildings; memorials surround us. They shape and are shaped by our heritage, our communities, our landscapes and our very identities.
Why do we memorialise? What or who do we commemorate? Who do memorials serve - the past or the present? Whether it’s a statue of Edward Coulston, 'Cofiwch Dryweryn' graffiti, or a new plaque; memorials are rarely out of the news and are often as controversial as they are ubiquitous.
A mine of information for investigating local history; explore the many forms, motivations, challenges and purposes of memorials in Wales and beyond.
Fee Waiver available for eligible learners who live in Wales including paid and unpaid carers, LGBTQ+ and many more
👍 Only proof of Welsh address is required 👍
https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-learning/courses/course/details/HL303H_XE19910/
"Quest to restore sound that called child workers to Flaxmill Maltings building, which paved way for modern high-rises"
which is a strange framing for a site of child labour:
"A third of the 800 workers at the flax mill were under 16 and some as young as nine. .... children were brought in from as far afield as London and Hull, mostly from the workhouses. Often orphans, the children were given housing, food and clothes but not paid wages."
And also new from Cambridge Elements:
Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys
Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool
by Laura Hamer & Michael Brocken
Free to readuntil the end of the month.
New from Cambridge Elements:
Archaeological Wood and Woodworking
by Caroline Arbuckle Macleod
Free to read until the end of March
A Nation on Strike: first thoughts
A Nation on Strike, front page. In September 1926, Walter Milne-Bailey, head of the TUC research department, sat down to record his thoughts on the General Strike, which had taken place in May of that year. As we approach the centenary of that event, the typewritten script of his report has been digitized and published online by the TUC Library Collections.1…
http://sslh.org.uk/2025/03/18/a-nation-on-strike-first-thoughts/
Digital Repository of Ireland
Rita Singer
Labour History