Sam Wetherell

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10 October 2026 19:27

RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.

Glen O'Hara

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24 September 2026 16:49

THIS FRIDAY: You can come to my @royalhistsoc.org public lecture on rights of way and the struggle for land access in England and Wales... It's at London's Senate House at 6pm. Still a few tickets left! And an online version. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

London Review of Books

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31 August 2026 19:21

‘Nearly three million workers downed tools, and 162 million working days were lost. The British trade union movement was the strongest in the world. So why did the strike end with its unconditional surrender?’ Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on the 1926 general strike. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Churchill Archives Centre

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04 August 2026 11:18

📢 Today we are publishing a new set of material to our online Access Portal, totalling 14690 images in 105 files across 5 collections! 📝 📓 📒 This batch contains diaries, autobiographies and letters. The full extent detailed on our new blog post: buff.ly/dxwJdSM

Dr Laura Sangha

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02 August 2026 19:04

Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/