Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Obviously we all know Bluesky is a retirement home for elder millennials but, if you happen to know any 18-30 people who might like to take a shot at this, do pass it on!

Thrilled to have this piece up on Dublin Review of Books today drb.ie/tcds-forgott... it brings together my own family history and the work we are doing as part of the Trinity Colonial Legacies project.

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

For Dublin-based folks: I’m giving an afternoon talk next month (15 Oct) at Trinity about my forthcoming book (available for preorder for twenty quid). www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

Morning on Mount Tsurugi, 1926 (woodblock print by Yoshida Hiroshi, Art Gallery of NSW)

I've signed this open letter to show that I stand in solidarity with migrant workers in Northern Ireland and against racism. Will you sign too? my.actnowni.org/petitions/so...

Bizarre, xenophobic, fear-mongering post from Michael Deane… head of a small empire of restaurants that Belfast folk might wish to avoid from now on

Really looking forward to both attending and speaking at the seminars for @qubhistory.bsky.social this semester. There is a great range of topics being covered with the usual free snacks and drinks. Come along one and all!

Another day of fascinating and thought provoking papers at @publichistoryqub.bsky.social conference on ‘public history in an age of anxieties’, incl eco-anxieties, museums + Lough Neagh, @amycking.bsky.social on anti-fascist pedagogies, and great discussions of community histories + co-production

Very pleased to see my essay included in this list… and intrigued to read the rest

A really strong, thought provoking start to the @publichistoryqub.bsky.social annual conference on ‘Public History in an age of Anxiety’ with @cathfletcher.bsky.social on museums and gun heritage, and Lisa Goff on the challenges of public history in Trump’s America

Looking forward to this!

"We ought to be challenging publishers’ desire for a neat arc. Why must I be palatable? I would ask, questioning the industry’s tendency to sanitise suffering into something marketable"

My strangle little retelling of the Niamh and Oisin story appears in the Independent’s New Irish Writing series today. Very pleased it found a home there m.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...

A Baptist minister has been arrested in Oxford for holding a placard reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. Rev Grote of New Road Baptist Church said ‘I am doing this because of my faith. I’m doing this because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ, who broke the rules and created peace.’

I have a new article in Modern Italy on mothers, children in 1970s Italian feminist magazine Effe - a lot familiar in their discussions of emotions, expectations and experience of mothering although I especially like their ideas about the radical potential of maternal love doi.org/10.1017/mit....

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

Unless the UK expedites the safe passage of Palestinians with university offers, the government will have abetted the wiping out of scholarship in Gaza, says Oxford emeritus professor Avi Shlaim www.independent.co.uk/voices/pales...

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it

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Please dm me if you can help.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

Be my replacement for a year and work in a great School with lovely colleagues! Please share with any modern Europeanists who might be interested!

Also hoping to get to some of these this month #womenintranslation #witmonth

A fun start to #witmonth with ‘to the moon’ by Jang Ryujin (translator Sean Lin Halbert) about a group of women who invest in cryptocurrency to escape corporate drudgery in Seoul

2nd August 1980, the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history is carried out by neo-fascist group NAR. A bomb hidden in a suitcase explodes in the waiting room of Bologna Station, causing the partial collapse of the station structure. 85 people die and 200 are injured [Thread] >> 1

'Public History in an Age of Anxiety', QUB Centre for Public History Conference, 9-11 September. Register now and join us for a packed programme over three days. www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements. The time to act is now - me @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Already received submissions from all over the world for the conference 'opposition to Thatcher' that me and Ciara are facilitating this autumn. Still time to submit abstracts. Please share to anyone who might be interested. Multidisciplinary. @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social

Very disturbing to read

my favourite part of Belfast Pride this year was the history-teaching float 😍🤓

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

With the recent increase of far-right groups targeting housing for asylum seekers in the UK, Kieran Connell's @kieranconnell.bsky.social piece published earlier this year, on Labour, immigration and the far-right after Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech, resonates again: www.historyworkshop....

What's happening in Gaza is mind-bogglingly inhumane. But I'm not sure it's useful to say that "the world" has been "silent" about it. Plenty of people and orgs - including the UN, several states, and the majority NGOs have been *screaming* about the destruction for at least eighteen months. 1/2

This is so niche I can't believe I am asking, but does anyone know anyone who might be an expert in Protestantism in Italy during the Reformation? (Stranger things have happened). RTs welcome.

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Israel needs to be stopped....

It’s difficult how understand how all of this can be allowed to happen, in full view of the world. And western governments condemn Israel while selling them the arms to do it

If your condemnation of Israel 'in the strongest possible terms' doesn't also include the decision to stop selling them the weapons being used to perpetrate a genocide then your joint statement is just meaningless noise to disguise the blood smeared all over your hands www.bbc.com/news/article...

Delighted to see our (Brendan Twomey and myself) new Curated Collection on the Registry of Deeds up on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll.... @historytcd.bsky.social

I’m delighted that the three wonderful creative responses commissioned for my and @niamhcullen.bsky.social‬ AHRC network ‘Institutions and Infant Care’, can now be viewed online www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/services-2, featuring works by Izaac Elliott, Alison Lowry and Alice Kinsella.

I’m so pleased that the three wonderful creative works commissioned for my and @kathrowold.bsky.social AHRC network ‘institutions and infant care, can now be viewed online www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/services-2 @qubhistory.bsky.social