John Levin
Cool Bike ArtAnti-Suffragette postcard
ca. 1910s
Happy International Women's Day, bicycle friends!
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BHO is a digital library of historic source material and the Victoria County Histories, based at the Institute of Historical Research
Irish historical materials released into the #PublicDomain by Google:
Irish Elections 1750-1832 (a collection of documents): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6i7gGsu4e2wC
Eighteenth Century Irish Official Papers in Great Britain: PrivateCollections.
Volume 1: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d2JX72yI4A0C
Volume 2: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wGi9G7paA40C
Good commentary on the article from Will Pooley:
https://williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/vote-with-your-fingers/
An important new article on #DigitalHistory infrastructure (and #OpenAccess too):
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources
Two new #OpenAccess histories from UCL Press,:
Student London
A new history of higher education in the capital
Georgina Brewis & Sam Blaxland
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/student-london/
Survey of London:
University College London, The Bloomsbury Campus
Student London
Students have formed a significant part of London’s population since the foundation of its first university in 1826, and Student London centres their experiences in the city’s history. To tell the 200-year story of student life in the capital this book draws on a rich source base that ranges from institutional records to college magazines, […]
pasttense#OnThisDay in London petitioning history, 1723: The residents of the Southwark Mint rookery petition Parliament against the recent closure of their sanctuary, a stronghold against bailiffs chasing debtors.
An article on this petition on the Alsatia blog: https://alsatia.org.uk/site/2012/02/minters-petition-parliament/
On #Walking as historical research, by Mark Hailwood at the Many Headed Monster blog:
https://manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/is-walking-research-a-methodological-ramble/
The Statutes Project#OTD in 1918:
The Representation of the People Act is passed, extending the vote to men over 21 and some women over 30.
Free to download until Feb 17th:
The Five Ages of Antifascism
by Joseph Fronczak
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/five-ages-of-antifascism/81A8109D6AB5C42990DD48A4462294BB
Really interesting interview on doing research into historic periodicals from @rs4vp.org
(2 parts of 3 so far published)
https://rs4vp.org/introducing-interview-series/
