Local Population Studies
@LocalPopStudies
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Local, social, and population history. We support and publish original research by academic and non-academic historians.
United Kingdom
Joined January 2014
Booking now: our autumn conference (on Zoom) is on 9 October. It's FREE, and you can look forward to these papers on the theme of the British diaspora. For more information and the booking form, see our website https://t.co/qyyU7X8C4W
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Just realized that I never noted the passing of Sir E. A. Wrigley, the legendary British demographer and economic historian, on February 24. Here's a short thread on someone whose research and writing made a big difference to the way that I think about the Industrial Revolution.
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This is part of a series of online lectures organised by the Society. Topics include: gravedigging, vaults and their contents, and Welsh cadaver tombs https://t.co/LroSx7I32h
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The Church Monuments Society is for everyone who is fascinated by tomb carvings, from medieval effigies to modern gravestones. We organise excursions and study days, publish a journal and a newslet...
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An online lecture for #Halloween from the Church Monuments Society 🎃🪦👻 Macabre tombs expert, Dr Roger Bowdler, looks at depictions of death and decay in monuments. https://t.co/TO5cp3GNoD
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Our first All Hallows Lecture, in which macabre tombs expert, Dr Roger Bowdler, looks at depictions of death and decay in monuments.
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Nominations now open for Alan Ball Awards 2021: #localhistory publication of the year
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We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the Alan Ball Awards for local history publication of the year. The criteria and categories have slightly changed this year in order to …
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Submissions for the Midland History Annual Essay Prize 2021 are now invited. A prize of £400 is offered. Entries must be based on a historical subject relating to the English Midlands. Closing date 31 October 2021. For details and entry criteria visit https://t.co/8CdUm8FOzL
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Booking now: our autumn conference (on Zoom) is on 9 October. It's FREE, and you can look forward to these papers on the theme of the British diaspora. For more information and the booking form, see our website https://t.co/qyyU7X8C4W
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Black Lives, British Justice: Black People in London Criminal Justice Records, 1720-1841 https://t.co/Z3banKliNs
@Adam_Crymble
jsdp.enslaved.org
A digital academic journal that publishes datasets and accompanying data articles about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
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Several new data papers have caught our eye. Good to see historians producing this kind of v. useful work Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households 1300-1600 Chris Briggs, Alice Forward, and Ben Jervis https://t.co/bf59LevMX2
intarch.ac.uk
Data paper on possessions of medieval households in England from c.1300–1600, derived from archaeological excavation reports and historical documents
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Alex Beard's work has been published online by Bristol Record Society: https://t.co/tZZm4eykpO (Nice to see a record society using the Internet Archive)
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History student uncovers new details about 17th century plague hospital in Bristol https://t.co/fKcregdlAL
bristol.ac.uk
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The resource Public Petitions to Parliament, 1833-1918 may be useful to local and social historians
Just a few more reasons to join the IHR library! - 4 electronic resources added to our collections which are avaialble offsite to all IHR library members. And remember membership to the library is free and open to everyone. https://t.co/5wc0qW0KLK
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One million pages made free on British Newspaper Archive
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The British Library have announced that around a million pages have been made free on British Newspaper Archive. This is thanks to a new agreement between the British Library and Findmypast, who ma…
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Nominations now open for the McCulla Award 2021. If you know an outstanding local studies librarian, let us know by 31 October. #localhistory #librarians
localstudieslibrarians.org
The Local Studies Group of CILIP are looking to recognise an outstanding local studies librarian. The McCulla award is usually given for a recent major project, or as a lifetime award for someone n…
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Fantastic prize and opportunity. Editors have been nothing but friendly and helpful with me! Would strongly encourage submissions to this, get writing!
Submissions for the Midland History Annual Essay Prize 2021 are now invited. A prize of £400 is offered. Entries must be based on a historical subject relating to the English Midlands. Closing date 31 October 2021. For details and entry criteria visit https://t.co/8CdUm8FOzL
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More news: project lecture at the University of York on 7 October at 6pm by Dr Pete Collinge, entitled 'Small Bills and Petty Finance: co-creating the history of the Old Poor Law'. It will be recorded for anyone who can't attend in person.
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*NEW BLOG POST* One of our volunteers has written about Irish people living in #Uttoxeter in 1851, and has looked at the Cunningham family, who probably moved there in the wake of the potato famine in #Ireland.
localhistorylab.home.blog
The 1851 census documents about 4800 people in the parish of Uttoxeter on the night of Sunday 30th March 1851. Birthplaces are recorded. Half of those living in Uttoxeter were born in Uttoxeter. Th…
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See our latest blog post, written by one of our volunteers: ‘Infant names in mid 19th century Uttoxeter’
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Victoria County History of Staffordshire
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... perhaps of interest to the good folks at @DrinkingStudies @BALHNews @VCH_London @WarwickFoodGRP @Emma_J_Wells @ClaireKennan @wartsandbrawls @drjpwillis @_drsang @mark_hailwood @EMhistblog @KitFrench1348 @DrRJWarren @hiegleah ... & others working on 'Parish, Power & Politics'
NEW POST: @Brodie_Waddell investigates parish petitions for & against alehouses in the early 17thC Malvern Hills, engaging with themes of our 'Politics' #PaSymp21 on 7-8 May (NB: registrations close on Sat 1/5 !): https://t.co/tssULC3Gmn
@HRCWarwick @WarwickHistory
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