Meet the Beautiful Dragonfly That Thrives in Your Pollution www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/s...

Superb lecture from Sherlock Holmes’s academic peer, @irishcookbooks.bsky.social at the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland 30 January. Always blown away by Dr Dorothy Cashman’s eye for microscopic detail.

Here’s another shout-out: Don’t endure sexual harassment or worse—as too many women of my generation have—call it out!

Why so not so gloomy looking? 😆

Very much looking forward to reading this!

Great to see another issue of this excellent Open Access journal hit the virtual shelves!

Looking 4 a fireside read over the holidays? "Honest Claret": The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine (www.peterlang.com) is packed/w intriguing facts about the history of wine drinking in Ireland w/emphasis as stated in title. eBook 4 instant gratification. Happy Holidays to All!

She Wrote the Book on Preservation in New York www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/r...

Great theme!

Thrilled to see that the editors Dr Dorothy Cashman’s and Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire’s groundbreaking excellent book has received this award. If you’ve any interest in food history check this publication outAvailable open access & hard copy the latter published by the Royal Irish Academy.

Sounds lie a reasonable holiday order. 😊

Also the winner in that category!

Back in stock just in time for Christmas is the Book of the Year nominee Irish Food History - A Companion, published by @ria.ie , edited by @irishcookbooks.bsky.social & Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire. A book for everyone that eats. A book to get lost in. thebookshop.ie/mairtin-mac-...

The Pure Liberation of a Personal Urination Device www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/m...

Tackling the Difficult Subject at the Heart of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/m...

Not quite sure but it appears to be rampant.

Reminds me of my experience with Endnote.

Thrilled to see that the editors Dr Dorothy Cashman’s and Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire’s groundbreaking excellent book has received this award. If you’ve any interest in food history check this publication outAvailable open access & hard copy the latter published by the Royal Irish Academy.

So good to receive the physical copies of Metropolitan Science! For those interested in early modern London and/or #histSTM details here (do let your library know!) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli...

Since clay tablets and papyrus scrolls, the hardest part of being an author isn't writing a book it's selling it. I'm guessing even Bede sometimes despaired. But, hey, MENEWOOD is ready to preorder in the UK in paperback, so Buy My Book! Post has buy links, credits: wp.me/p5F4z1-No #medievalsky 📚💙

Irish Food History: A Companion, eds Maírtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman. The winter is long. It's good to have an excellent book on hand that you can dip in and out of. Available Open Access arrow.tudublin.ie/irishfoodhist/ & hard copy shop.ria.ie/products/iri...

Great line-up!

📢 NEW Will of the Month Blog Post! 📢 To mark the new academic year, we look at the will of a man 'local' to the University of Exeter. Read about the charitable bequests of an Exeter Alderman, his pots & pans, & a box locked with 2 keys 🔑 #history #EarlyModern sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Exciting times ahead! Today our research students received an introduction to @transkribus.bsky.social from Frank Marquardt and will now be using it regularly for their work and research. Transkribus is a very helpful tool if you work with documents in at least 19 languages. #earlymodern #history 🗃️

@archive.org is definitely an invaluable resource for many researchers.

bog butter www.irishnews.com/news/ireland...

This is a great resource for anyone who teaches on Renaissance France, early modern Europe and its empires/colonies/contacts, the history of science and technology, and anything related.

There is a row of horse chestnut trees outside the study windows. Writing at my desk, I can see adults picking up conkers, polishing them on their jumpers and stuffing them gleefully into their pockets. The passing school children are too busy on their phones to notice.

Faculty job openings at Cornell, Information Science. Open area open rank and a special focus on areas including computational social science approaches. Application review beings Nov 10. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405

Have bowed out of Twitter (because it is, in fact, X). Hung in there because of the nice community trying to keep it positive. Now looking forward to finding new and former Twitter pals on this forum. 😊

For feck’s sake!

Morning everyone who loves second-hand books and bookshops: I'm researching an essay about strange/fascinating/moving artefacts found in second hand books such as old love letters/newspaper cuttings etc that have a bearing on your experience of the book. A reply/ repost hugely appreciated!!

Councillors are pushing for answers from Waterways Ireland on its plans for the old graving docks. “Are they going to flip the site for even more money, or are they going to do something themselves?” asked Green Party Councillor Claire Byrne. dublininquirer.com/2...

Do have a read of my new piece on how a domestic ‘circular economy’ was achieved as recently as our Irish grandparents generation, and three examples showing how they did: furniture, fashion and food waste 👇 www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Preparing my last seminar, I was very happy I could borrow a crucial title from @archive.org The alternative would have been to buy it for 10% of my total pay from Abebooks and have it shipped around the globe Or not use it at all

One of the best events in the summertime is westcorkhistoryfestival.org.

Open Access alert! Irish Food History:A Companion, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman, eds. Google for link to 28 chapters exploring Ireland’s food history from Prehistory to the present. Free to read/download. Very reasonably priced hard copy Book can be preordered at RIA.ie.

Smollet’s reference to ‘the suppurations that flow into [Bath’s]waters’ in Humphrey Clinker put me off of Jacuzzis for life. 😆

Just under a week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conference at Manchester in September 2024. We welcome any paper proposals exploring the 17 and 18C clergy in Britain and their experiences/identities at [email protected] CfP below!

You yell ‘em, Cat.

Very much looking forward to Susan Whyman's talk this evening to @long18thsem.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social on 'Edmund Rack, Master of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Bath'. It is hybrid, so do register to come along either in person or virtually. www.history.ac.uk/events/edmun...

Join us online & in person at the @ihr.bsky.social this Wednesday 22nd May at 5.30pm for Louisa Foroughi’s seminar ‘Identity & Regionality: #Yeoman Farmers in 15th & 16th-C England’. Everyone’s welcome. Sign up for this free event here www.history.ac.uk/events/ident...

A historian puts out call for kids to join monthly history book club. At a session Saturday, Amelia McCarthy said she liked the current pick to read but wanted to know why there are no seagulls in it, since it’s based in Dublin city centre. dublininquirer.com/2...

hey so my Cranach book is out! in which I offer another model of Renaissance artistic identity formation: the fashioning of communities rather than of the self. (if you've ever wondered about how often, while wandering museums, you run into a nude woman painted by Cranach, I explain this, too.

Delighted to find my book “Honest Claret”: The Social History of Georgian Ireland’s Favourite Wine (Oxford:Peter Lang, 2022) reviewed by @lucycogan.bsky.social in The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (V38N1), 158. 😊 One always appreciates the time expended by thoughtful reviewers!