#UK #ukarmy #secondworldwar #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #WW2 #worldwarii #wwii #Ukhistory
#Ukhistory
Talks, Tours, Songs and Seeds
5th July
https://igniteliverpool.com/2025/06/ignite-futures-who-owns-the-land/
National Archives (UK): Blogs at The National Archives have a new home. “…at over a decade old, the blog is starting to look a bit tired. It is not the easiest thing to find on our website, and its design and limited features aren’t allowing us to tell our stories in the best way possible. So with that, this will be the last post on this blog. Today we are launching our new Blogs at the […]
📣 CALL FOR SPEAKERS 📣
🗓️ Event Date: 5th July
📍 Topic: Land Ownership in the UK
From feudal lords to offshore trusts — who owns Britain, and why does it matter?
We’re looking for engaging speakers to explore the past, present, and future of land in the UK. Whether you want to talk about medieval manors, enclosure, colonial legacies, or today’s land justice movements — we want to hear from you!
💬 Talks can be academic, creative, personal, or political.
🔗 Submit your proposal via the link in bio.
#powerandproperty #LandJustice #UKHistory #WhoOwnsTheLand #CallForSpeakers #LandReform #Enclosure #LandOwnership #PowerAndProperty
Not cool so much as a great read from ABC News (Australia): King Charles’s great-grandmother collected beautiful things. Did she bully people to acquire them?. “To some of her loved ones, Mary was a brilliant eccentric with a sentimental reverence for objects that once belonged to the House of Windsor. But to members of the art world and other royals, she was a persuasive hustler, a queen who […]
Confederation of Service Charities: Pioneering female veterans of the WRAC continue to mark VE Day’s 80th anniversary by sharing their own stories for landmark new project. “As the UK marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day, a new project highlights the women who helped shape the British Army in the years that followed. On 22 May 2025, pioneering veterans of the Women’s Royal Army Corps […]
Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail
#HackerNews #BritishNavalDominance #AgeOfSail #NavalHistory #MaritimeStrategy #UKHistory
It's like a scene from "The Antiques Roadshow." In 1946, Harvard Law School paid $27.50 for what it believed to be an unofficial copy of the Magna Carta. Two medieval history experts analyzed it and have concluded that it's actually the real deal: A rare, lost original Magna Carta from 1300 (the reign of King Edward I) that could be worth millions. Here's more from @BBCNews.
#MagnaCarta #History @histodons #UKHistory #Culture #MedievalHistory
The National Archives (UK): Three UK archives engaging new audiences for VE and VJ Day anniversaries. “This year, The National Archives spotted an opportunity to support archives in commemorating VE and VJ Day through its Engagement Grants programme. For the most recent round of applications, themed around ‘community’, we encouraged archives to propose projects that either reached out to […]
Derbyshire Times: New online archive shares Peak District village carnival traditions worldwide – thanks to £64,233 in funding. “The Winster Wakes Archive is now available to the world online after more than a year’s work to curate a collection of resources from residents past and present over more than a century. The Wakes began as holidays run by parish churches and linked to the feast […]
Ian Visits: British Army puts 80-years of SOLDIER magazine online in free archive. “Good news for researchers as an 80 year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, SOLDIER, has been digitised and is now available online for free. The magazine, SOLDIER (yes, in capitals) was authorised by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as a morale-boosting magazine for British Army troops fighting […]
Has George Washington received a royal pardon?
#georgewashington #treason #pardon #royalpardon #justice #ushistory #ukhistory #history #usa #britishempire #uk #war
Irish Post: Troubles archive projects will provide ‘transparency’ over Government policies in Northern Ireland. “The first project will see Government records relating to the Troubles digitised and published in collaboration with the National Archives…. The second is an archival research project, which will see official historians appointed to research British Government policy towards […]
Jerusalem Post: Unveiling the past: State Archives digitizes official British Mandate newspaper . “The Israel State Archives published on Sunday the digital collection of the Palestine Gazette, the official newspaper for the British government during mandatory Palestine. The collection was published to mark the uploading of the 50 millionth paper to the archive’s website.”
"The first surviving #CivilWar #woodenstakedefences to be found in the #UK have been discovered by #archaeologists in the #moat of #Sheffield's former #castle.
The stakes were stuck into the ground to form a barrier around the #Royalist-controlled castle, which fell to #Parliamentarian forces...in August
BBC News - Sheffield's first surviving Civil War stake defences revealed - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkmg7758n7o?fbclid=IwY2xjawIy3ZRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYBTBkhu7S6mHhQnviqS1gbxN21uKaPdfn-woeZD3fAOrwmF4Dklw_GqOQ_aem_zaXVOba4WddmdBHHbdMDzA
#Sheffield
#sheffieldhistory
#ukhistory
#SheffieldCastle
#yorkshire
Wired Gov: Archives Revealed awards new cataloguing grants and first-ever consortium grant. “Archives Revealed is a partnership programme between The National Archives, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Lottery Heritage Fund which helps unlock collections across the UK and build the skills needed to care for them into the future. These are the first grants of their […]
He was a living refutation of the caricature of socialists as miserable scolds, as well as being the co-author of the still stimulating "The Common People".
BBC: Struggling English museums get rescue funds. “Museums, theatres and other cultural venues in England are to receive £270m funding to stay afloat and fix their crumbling buildings, the government has said. The money will go to attractions ‘in urgent need of financial support to keep them up and running, carry out vital infrastructure work and improve long term financial resilience’, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/20/bbc-struggling-english-museums-get-rescue-funds/
Historic Environment Scotland: Unlock Scotland’s past with trove.scot. “Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has today launched trove.scot, its new digital portal for the historic environment. Users can now delve into Scotland’s heritage with the platform, which brings together millions of HES’s unique and diverse collections of information, images, video, spatial data and archival […]
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