We're delighted to have published another great issue of Cultural and Social History. With articles spanning 1589 to 2020 and the West Midlands to Tasmania, it shows the wide range of histories we support!

What can group petitions to local magistrates tell us about 'neighbourliness' in early modern England?

Amy Burnett's article in Cultural and Social History is the latest addition to the #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2019/05/p…

The call for papers for next year's SHS conference is now live.

We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be in Durham, 8-10 July 2024.

The call is wide-ranging and we like to think we're a friendly bunch:

socialhistory.org.uk/2023/11/20/cal…

Just noticed these extraordinary ‘ghost’ rivers in the landscape on Google Earth, just south of Ely

Another cold, dark Monday journey to York. Objectively, so look somewhat bedraggled. In my head, though, I look like this wonderful creature (though with a less painful neck angle). From my newly purchased 1816 Lady’s Magazine. #ladysmag #fashionplate

My article on marital separation is now officially in volume 20, issue 4 of Cultural and Social History!

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'From Pentonville Road Looking West, London, Evening' (1884) by John O'Connor

(Museum of London)