Katie - The Creative Historian

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THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR will be published on 25 February 2027 and pre-orders are open NOW! Come and meet Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Henry 'Sugar' Goodson, Jack Wannop, Jack Davenport, Alf Ball, Jem Haines, Jem Smith, and a little bit of Felix Scott... 🥊🔪🦁🐻🤜🏻🤛🏾 linktr.ee/thedevilsdan...

Police are looking for a Mr Ea-Nasir, of 1 Old Street, Ur, Kingdom of Babylon.

Great weekend in Coventry for work. Great historic city and lovely people. The Modern Records Centre is a lovely archive. 🗃️

How lovely to have the chance to cut the ribbon on the newly refurbished Honley Library today! That’s right: a village in Yorkshire managed to raise £200,000 to keep their 90-year-old library open and running. Readers loved it, and with patience and hard work, one donation at a time, they DID IT!

Reposting for the weekend!

English Heritage are looking for a sports historian for their Blue Plaque panel. I have the same role on the Historic England National Blue Plaque Panel, and I encourage anyone with a bit of spare time and a passion for heritage to take a look at the post. Details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/english...

FRIDAY MURDER TIME and this time we go to Sandon in rural Essex. In 1859, Isaac Finch married Martha Barber in Woodham Ferrers. They settled in a house just outside Sandon and Isaac worked for Sandon Hall. By 1870, Martha had birthed eight children and lost three. Standard ag labs of the time.

Really excited to say today is the release of my fourth history book, an extended biography of Richard II and his court! Richard was a highly complicated king, who started his reign with the hopes of a nation, and ended starving in a dungeon... www.waterstones.com/book/richard...

Really important, on Trafalgar Day, to observe that there are both women and black people included in this image. It's not anachronistic or "woke" to tell their stories, and ignoring them is doing a disservice not only to those people but also to their contemporaries who made sure they were seen.

Here's Sir David Attenborough on why this huge, heart-shaped piece of the UK in Northumberland is so important. A chance like this to save massive space for nature won't come again. £11,000 donated yesterday, £1.37m still to go by the end of the month - the time is now! 💚 #conservation #ukwildlife

The extremely pretty little thatched Church of St. Mary, Barton Bendish, Norfolk 💕

Sixty years, tomorrow. They gave the man in charge a knighthood. They made the local community pay for the remembrance garden. No-one held to account. I always think of the dinner lady, Nansi, who shielded five kids with her body and died in the process but they all lived. #Aberfan

A weird request I really need some help with: I'm looking for great quotes about history written/said BY WOMEN (and yes, I know Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, obv)

Royston Station opened on this day in 1850, as the eastern terminus of the Royston and Hitchin Railway. The line was extended to Shepreth in 1851 and through to Cambridge in 1852.

There are two reasons I never had trouble accepting Trans people. One is that I got a good biology education even before going to Uni to study it. The other is that I did read Terry Pratchett's fantastic books. If you can do both, but at bare minimum read the books!

I have finally (after 10 years) published Unlucky Princesses on the Kindle. BRB while I wait for the imposter syndrome to turn down a notch. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HNKBRXB2

I almost sold out of these beauties but now have ample stock back in. Grab your Blobby through time whimsical art print, with 38 varities to choose from! Item link tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4522... #mrblobby #blobby #history #thetudors #anneboleyn

I have finally (after 10 years) published Unlucky Princesses on the Kindle. BRB while I wait for the imposter syndrome to turn down a notch. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HNKBRXB2

Today in 1216 saw the death of King John, arguably the worst king ever to rule England. A tyrant, a coward, a liar and a traitor, contemporaries accused him of cruelly persecuting his enemies and sexually assaulting the women at his court. Some quotes from the chronicles:

Sure. When the Roman army needs over a tonne of cheese to make it through the day people nod sagely and say of course they needed those calories. But when I need over a tonne of cheese to make it through the day people beg me to stop and talk about my cholesterol and mental health.

You can currently download my Norman Conquest book for only 99p. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

More details on all the above… SERVUS by @emmasouthon.bsky.social is a fascinating, humane, and important reassessment of Roman slavery and the lives of the enslaved — this book will make you look at ancient history very differently

1,900 year-old Roman birthday invitation! 🎉 🥳 From Claudia Severa to her friend Sulpicia Lepidina, it’s one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman! Found at Vindolanda fort, it gives a glimpse of social life on Rome’s northern frontier! 📷 me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

#31daysofgraves Language Ward Brinley Owens’ father died in 1919 presumably just before this inscription was added to his son’s grave Amavimus, Amamus, Amabimus The Latin means “We loved, we love, we continue to love" Olive, his mother lived to be 98. Ward was an insurance clerk before the war

Ghost ON the shell

Credit for Endell Street goes to Murray, Garrett Anderson, and every woman who worked there. But Sir Alfred Keogh was the ally they needed against an institutionally sexist military, and a political establishment VERY uncomfortable with an openly suffragette-run, SUCCESSFUL, military hospital.

Flora Murray is one of my heroes. A pioneering medical professional, and an astonishingly good commanding officer, who did it all in the face of extreme prejudice and resistance. She never married, and lived her whole life with her "best friend" Louisa Garrett Anderson. They are buried together 🏳️‍🌈

The absolute best to come home from work to your author copies of your very own book 🥰 they are soo beautiful, didn't they do a fantastic job! Richard II is out on 22nd October, so why not nab your copy now?! www.waterstones.com/book/richard... #history #medieval #TBR

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10: Missing Massachusetts burying grounds have lots of cenotaphs for people who were lost at sea. Some stones commemorate generations of sailors from the same family, like Capt. Moses Brown of Newburyport and his sons, William and Moses, who all died on separate voyages.

Medieval Executions 🧵 Hi there. One of my areas of expertise is medieval crime and punishment. If you’re interested, here are some comments on medieval executions. Note that, just as today, practices and perceptions varied widely across medieval Europe... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We're recruiting a Volunteer + Training Coordinator to grow our volunteer programme, create new opportunities for people to get involved, and support staff and volunteer training as part of the museum's exciting redevelopment. Apply by 18 October 2026: colchester.gov.uk/jobs

New additions to the TBR mountain.

Oh my giddy aunt!! Hosprec - the database that allows you to search by hospital name & find out if any archives survive is finally back!! 💙🎉💙🎉💙🎉💙🎉 #HistNursing #HistMed #Hospitals @rcnhistory.bsky.social #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospital-rec...

See…a humanities degree helps you realize that “Cat’s in the Cradle” isn’t a guide to successful parenting.

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Claxton was enormously affected by his experience of WW1, and then later WW2 veterans. He fully embraced the principle of "building a town fit for heroes" and was adamant that meant creating a town with safe roads/cycling. He specifically said he wanted no-one to survive a war then die on a road.

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

I needed to find a way to celebrate Just History Posts, and so I'm hosting an online event on 17th October! Joined by other bloggers, we'll chat everything history websites: running them, challenges we’ve faced, where the future may take us, and more! Tickets: justhistoryposts.com/events/

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

Update from Ancestry on their digitisation of The British Army service records in conjunction with The National Archives

On Saturday, 7 November, I will be running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around the theme of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints. I hope that this workshop will help to improve the coverage of women and LGBTQ+ history on Wikipedia. To attend, follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wiki-edit-...

📅 #onthisday 30 Sept 1888 Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are killed in what became the “Double Event”. Two women, two full lives, later reduced to a myth. Hallie Rubenhold reminds us that justice lies in remembering who they were, not who killed them. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/376763 #otd

On this day in 1896, the county boundary dividing Royston between Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire changed. Historically, the boundary ran through town along Baldock St and Melbourn St. The boundary placed the whole town into Herts. In 1989, the boundary moved again to follow the completed A505.

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

5. The best way of pushing a book to a kid is to say it isn't suitable. "You won't understand it." "It's rude." "It's far too challenging for someone your age." Then, just leave the book around somewhere they can reach it.

many years back arrived in work to find everyone looking out of one window. there was a car upside down at the bottom of an embankment beside the office car park which was quite a sight to see manager's phone rang and one of the team was on the other end saying "so you can probably see my car..."