History PhD at KCL on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS. Views my own.
Charlotte Cull
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'Land Explorer' is a great, free tool for looking up maps of corporate-owned land in England & Wales. I use it a lot for research and investigations.
The team behind it are crowdfunding to make it even better in future - if you can chip in, please do so here:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explo...
One step closer to an episode on the Diggers...
Join us on Weds 1 July for the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture, given by Prof Rebecca Earle (Warwick) bit.ly/4eF0DMp, and followed by our summer party.
Rebecca's lecture, ‘The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’, is open for booking. All welcome #Skystorians
Terry Winters, Untitled, 1989
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120646
Hampstead Heath ponds to remain trans-inclusive after public back existing rules
"Segregation of classes or income groups is a social evil which should be discouraged[...]We have much to learn from one another"
Really enjoyed this on Norwich's social democratic vision for council housing (and bonus points for it being about the Finest city)
Day 2 of @modbritstud.bsky.social with @royalhistsoc.org (And we have more badges!)
If you’re at MBS in Birmingham this week, come stop by the @royalhistsoc.org booth and say hello to myself and @charlottecull.bsky.social 👋
Send us your abstracts before 26 June!
The overall conclusion I am drawing from the replies is that we need Lifelong Learning and funding for adult education. Learning shouldn't stop at 16 or 18.
All of which opportunities have diminished over the last 30 years.
The Society’s 2026 Prothero Lecture will be given by Rebecca Earle FBA, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Warwick. Rebecca's lecture, which takes place at 6.00pm on Wednesday 1 Ju...
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Policy agreement means trans people will continue to have access to Kenwood Ladies’ and Highgate Men’s ponds in north-west London
The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules.
There are gender-segregated ponds for men and women, with trans people able to swim in whichever they feel most appropriate, or use the heath’s mixed-gender pond instead. Continue reading...
My latest Substack post looks at the over 7600 council homes built by Norwich City Council between the wars and the ideals of its early postwar planning. Part II on Thursday will describe the city's Golden Age of council housing ...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/council-ho...
📢 Clare Jackson, Hon Professor of Early Modern History @cam.ac.uk on BBCRadio4 InOurTime with @tmbejan.bsky.social & @tedvallance.bsky.social.
They discuss the Levellers, political radicals who pioneered petitions and pamphlets to reimagine the English constitution.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
"The problem is – that isn’t the only thing people have demanded be added to the national curriculum. This happens all the time. What follows is the result of the most cursory Google News search..."
Together with Sarah Albientz, Claire Aniel-Buchheit, Thomas Beugniet, Thomas Caubet, Léo Grillet and Léo Laglenne, I'm putting together a conference on Anarchist Spaces from c. 1870 to today.
The CFP is here: echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event...
Abstracts expected by 26 June!
The political movement during the English Civil War committed to a new idea of equality.
