#englandhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #englandhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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York News Focus: York’s past at your fingertips: Explore York launches new digital archive. “York’s history just became much easier to explore. A newly expanded digital archive catalogue has gone live at Explore York Libraries and Archives, opening up centuries of local stories, records and images to anyone with an internet connection.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/10/yorks-past-at-your-fingertips-explore-york-launches-new-digital-archive-york-news-focus/ -
Oxford Mail: Blenheim Palace digitises centuries-old archive collection. “The Blenheim Archives has finished cataloguing and digitising a collection of material never before seen by the public. The project has brought to light more than 200 documents and revealed fresh detail about life in the villages of Wolvercote, Cutteslowe, and Godstow.”
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The Conversation: Who were the ‘peasants’ of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt? New database has answers. “The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was one of the largest and most dramatic popular uprisings in medieval Europe. But what do we really know about this celebrated event in English history?… To understand the depth of the rebellion and its impact on society today, we created the People of 1381, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/18/the-conversation-who-were-the-peasants-of-the-1381-peasants-revolt-new-database-has-answers/ -
University of Michigan: New Additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. “The William L. Clements Library would like to announce the availability of new additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. General Thomas Gage served as the British Army’s Commander-in-Chief in North America from 1763 to 1775, the highest level of administration in the American colonies at that […]
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University of Michigan: New Additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. “The William L. Clements Library would like to announce the availability of new additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. General Thomas Gage served as the British Army’s Commander-in-Chief in North America from 1763 to 1775, the highest level of administration in the American colonies at that […]
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University of Michigan: New Additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. “The William L. Clements Library would like to announce the availability of new additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. General Thomas Gage served as the British Army’s Commander-in-Chief in North America from 1763 to 1775, the highest level of administration in the American colonies at that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/28/university-of-michigan-new-additions-to-the-thomas-gage-papers-digital-collection/ -
University of Michigan: New Additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. “The William L. Clements Library would like to announce the availability of new additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. General Thomas Gage served as the British Army’s Commander-in-Chief in North America from 1763 to 1775, the highest level of administration in the American colonies at that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/28/university-of-michigan-new-additions-to-the-thomas-gage-papers-digital-collection/ -
University of Michigan: New Additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. “The William L. Clements Library would like to announce the availability of new additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. General Thomas Gage served as the British Army’s Commander-in-Chief in North America from 1763 to 1775, the highest level of administration in the American colonies at that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/28/university-of-michigan-new-additions-to-the-thomas-gage-papers-digital-collection/ -
City of London England: New online archive launched to celebrate more than 20 years of the Liberty Festival and the UK’s disability arts scene. “Now, for the first time, materials relating to the festival’s history are available in one place, offering a rich resource for audiences, researchers, and future cultural innovators. The digital guide is accessible by design, including features […]
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Medievalists.net: Medieval Genealogical Roll Goes Online. “A colourful and fiercely partisan medieval genealogy created to support Edward IV’s claim to the English throne has now been digitised and made freely available online. In the turbulent fifteenth century, claimants often used elaborate genealogical rolls to legitimise their lineage, and the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Manuscript […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/03/medievalists-net-medieval-genealogical-roll-goes-online/
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Jewish News: Holocaust Centre North unveils three new digital galleries. “Holocaust Centre North is enabling people to explore parts of its rich archive remotely for the first time via a searchable browser. Three years in the making, it features three new curated digital image galleries, designed to guide visitors through themed selections of digitised photographs, documents, and artefacts.”
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BBC: Medieval conflict database ‘keeps folklore alive’. “The War of the Roses took place 1455-1487, with the Battle of Northampton – on the grounds of Delapre Abbey – among its most decisive moments. Led by the Battlefields Trust, the database highlights key sites and memorials relating to the war, which occurred between two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet — the House of York […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/19/bbc-medieval-conflict-database-keeps-folklore-alive/
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Ian Visits: From snails to street signs: Soho’s history revealed on a new digital map. This is Soho London, not SoHo NYC. “For the past year, nearly 700 heritage assets have been catalogued as part of a detailed street audit commissioned by the Soho Neighbourhood Forum. The survey… recorded a rich variety of features — from long-standing businesses and historic façades to plaques, street […]
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University of Exeter: National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’. “A digital team led by Exeter’s Dr Charlotte Tupman, of the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology, will transform the 500-year old Latin manuscripts into modern, searchable records, translated, analysed and in each case linked to current maps using […]
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The Canary: 40 years on, an astonishing new archive documents the Battle of the Beanfield. “1 June 2025 sees the 40th anniversary of the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’ – one of the darkest days in contemporary British history, when a convoy of 150 vehicles heading to the people’s free festival at Stonehenge was ambushed in a quiet corner of Wiltshire, contained in a field for several […]
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Historic England: Historic England Launches Local Heritage Hub to Unlock Hidden Histories. “Coinciding with this year’s Local History Month, Historic England has launched a new Local Heritage Hub. With nearly 400 locations, every county, city, district, major town, and national park in England now has a dedicated digital page that uncovers its rich and layered history.”
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Society for the Study of Labour History: Yorkshire Miners Association archives now indexed and catalogued online. “Work at the Modern Records Centre to catalogue the archive of the Yorkshire Miners Association is now complete with a catalogue live online at the University of Warwick website.”
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Society for the Study of Labour History: Yorkshire Miners Association archives now indexed and catalogued online. “Work at the Modern Records Centre to catalogue the archive of the Yorkshire Miners Association is now complete with a catalogue live online at the University of Warwick website.”
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Industrial Heritage Support: Historic England Snapshot Survey on the Collection of Developer-Funded Archaeological Archives Published. “Historic England’s Snapshot Survey on the Collection of Developer-Funded Archaeological Archives has now been published as a Historic England Research Report. Conducted as part of the Future for Archaeological Archives Programme, the survey gathered data on […]
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University of Cambridge: Modern Magic Unlocks Merlin’s Medieval Secrets. “A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur…. the digital results of the project are now available for everyone to explore online via the […]
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University of Exeter: Archaeologists find ‘lost’ site depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. “Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England…. Bosham, on the coast of West Sussex, is depicted twice in the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously narrates the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 when William, […]
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Historic England: Historic England Acquires World-Class Collection Featuring Earliest and Finest Photographs of England. “The Rosing Collection includes over 8,000 original black and white photographs of English architecture, landscapes and maritime history from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, when England was undergoing large-scale changes powered by industrialisation, urbanisation and […]
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Manchester City Council: 90,000+ images on Manchester’s new local image website. “Thanks to a £100,000 funding award from the National Lottery Heritage Fund in January 2024, Manchester Libraries has been able to develop the new Manchester Image Archive and to hire a project manager to oversee it. Currently hosting more than 90,000 images, the upgraded website features a much larger archive […]
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Thanks to Diane R. for sending this my way, from World History Teachers Blog: Online Archive for WWII. “Here is a cool new online archive of 20th-century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as images, cartoons, and documents. One of the most interesting parts of the archives is the investigations of significant issues designed for high school […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/11/world-history-teachers-blog-online-archive-for-wwii/