Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England. Northern History is published by @RoutledgeHist.
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4 Nov 2024
We'd like to invite submissions to the Gordon Forster Essay Prize. It is open to postgraduate students and ECRs.
The winner will receive £200 and their essay will be considered for publication in the journal.
Deadline: 1 March 2025. Please repost!
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15 Dec 2025
The Editors are pleased to announce that Samuel Lane (Institute of Historical Research) is the winner of the 2025 Gordon Forster Essay Prize, for an essay entitled ‘Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham, his Palatinate, and the Crown, 1333-1345’.
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27 Nov 2025
New open access article -
Robert Piggott, ‘A League of Their Own: Halifax Hospital League of Friends’ is free to access on our website.
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16 Sep 2025
New article -
Rowan Patel’s article “The Earliest Records of Glassmaking in Medieval England: Evidence from Vale Royal Abbey, Cheshire” is available on our website.
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26 Aug 2025
Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham: eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving…
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12 Aug 2025
New book review online
John Lamb reviews ‘The Simons of Manchester: How One Family Shaped a City and a Nation’ in Northern History.
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5 Aug 2025
Our latest piece in @StoryHull about FS Smith. Our display of his drawings is open until 28 August during our normal opening hours. The article is by our colleague Neil, who led the curation of the exhibition.
@Hull_Museums @hull_libraries @VisitHullEvents
5 Aug 2025
HISTORY: The life and legacy of Frederick Schultz Smith — ‘Hull’s answer to Lowry’.
✍🏻 by Martin Taylor, city archivist @Hullhistorynews #Hull #Hullhistory #localhistory
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30 Jul 2025
A new book review:
S.J Connolly reviews ‘The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain: 1819 to the Early Twentieth Century’.
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30 Jul 2025
Book review:
Christopher Donaldson reviews ‘Cumbria: 1,000 Years of Maps’
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19 Feb 2025
There’s 10 days until the deadline for the journal’s Essay Prize.
Full details are available on our website.
Please repost!
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18 Feb 2025
Excited to share my research on Victorian author ✍️ Isabella Banks, and her links to Chester at the upcoming Chester Festival of Ideas. Visit the website for more details: festivalofideas.chester.ac.u…
18 Feb 2025
Here's a look back at the 2024 #chesterfestivalofideas and we're now looking forward to this year's festival on 3-6 July - in the splendour of Chester Town Hall and across #chester @Go_CheshireWest #cheshire @uochester :
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30 Jan 2025
There isn’t long until the deadline for submitting to the Gordon Forster Essay Prize (1 March!).
The prize is open to ECRs and postgraduates. The prize is £200 and the essay will be considered for publication in Northern History.
Please repost!
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Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2025
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19 Jan 2025
✨The Radical North, 1779-1914: A Symposium in Memory of Malcolm Chase
👉Read more about this SHS-supported event here:
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exc…
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13 Jan 2025
Clare Downham
Prof Martin Heale (University of Liverpool) is giving a talk "Hospitality and Display: The House and Household of the Abbots of Chester" in Chester on Tues 21 Jan 2025, 12pm. Tickets are free but booking is required chestercathedral.com/events/…...
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8 Jan 2025
'Weavers' cottages and loomshops in the Huddersfield area' - an online talk by Colum Giles on Thu 16 Jan 2025 at 7.30pm. Weavers' cottages are found widely in the West Riding of Yorkshire and give a distinct character to the area's landscape. Free, book at yvbsg.org.uk/events.html
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8 Jan 2025
1066 and all that? Here in the North West it's 1092 that matters - when the Kingdom of Cumbria south of Hadrian's Wall fell to the Normans. Fiona Edmonds @VCH_Cumbria & I @LancasterHistor discuss for @HistoryExtra - including new work on the important Norman site @lowthercastle!
30 Dec 2024
On the podcast | Sophie Ambler (@RG1253) and Fiona Edmonds reveal how William Rufus led a second Norman Conquest in Cumbria, several decades after 1066:
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ALT Podcast banner featuring a serene landscape with a calm lake reflecting mountains under a clear blue sky. The HistoryExtra podcast logo is displayed prominently on the image.
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7 Jan 2025
There's still time to sign up for my talk on Bradford's Reform Jewish Burial Ground, taking place Friday 10th January ONLINE @11am
Sign up via the link below:
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@JewishStudiesUK @JHSEngland #jewishhistory
3 Jan 2025
Join me online at 11am on Friday 10th January for a FREE talk on the fascinating history of The Bradford Reform Jewish Burial Ground. 🪦
Sign up via Abraham Events mailing list 👇
tinyurl.com/33yysa2r
@bradford2025 #jewishhistory @NGG_JHSE #cemet
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9 Jan 2025
Free online talk introducting manors and their documents
All Manor of Things
30 Jan 2025 7pm
Update on Everyday Life in a Northumbrian Manor project. Also findings from the documents to inspire your manorial research.
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#archives @HeritageFundUK
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8 Jan 2025
🚨 28th Jan virtual event!!! 🚨
Sharing the option to sign up for a 1-1 with a commissioning editor about your research and book idea.
To sign-up for an afternoon appointment with Emily Russell Lucy Kidwell in advance, email historylabplus.ihr@gmail.com.
#publishing #phd
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8 Jan 2025
There’s just under 2 months until the deadline for the Gordon Forster Essay Prize.
This prize is open to postgraduate students and ECRs. The winner will receive £200 and their essay will be considered for publication.
Deadline: 1 March 2025
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2025
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