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How did early modern people remember and define rights of way in and beyond their communities? Dr Zoë Jackson reflects on this question which is guiding her postdoctoral research on how and why people in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and Scotland remembered, contested, and communicated their knowledge of and use of these paths. Dr Jackson describes how the award of...

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The country house has been a major focus of research for academics and heritage professionals alike in recent years. But what about the houses that do not quite fit under the traditional country house umbrella, such as villas, townhouses, seaside resorts, hunting lodges, royal residences, pleasure palaces? In this post, Alyssa Myers introduces the 'Beyond the Country House' proj...

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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is a celebrated figure in British history, yet her connections to Derbyshire are less widely understood. The Nightingale family’s wealth was rooted in the industrial economy of Derbyshire, particularly around Cromford and Lea Bridge. Their home at Lea Hurst served as an important retreat, where Florence returned after the Crimean War and later ca...

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Dating from c.1431-c.1624, the Charterhouse Water Maps are four large manuscript rolls illustrating the water system built in 1430 to serve the monks of the London Charterhouse in Clerkenwell, when it was a Carthusian monastery just outside the city walls. Today, the Charterhouse is a living heritage site which keeps and displays the Water Maps in the original location for which...

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Iqbal Singh (The National Archives) and Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS, University of London) detail a a one-day participatory workshop on colonial history at SOAS for people working in higher education, the GLAM and creative sector and community-facing roles to explore audio-zine making as a tool for thinking about historical sources and the construction of history itself. The workshop...

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