We're in Cambridge for a few days. Where should we go with our toddler? He likes walking and looking at things. He's a huge fan of butterflies, tractors, and men with beards.

Séamus is getting very good at running conferences. Thanks @oralhistoryie.bsky.social for being so welcoming (and for some really interesting sessions)! #OHNI2025 #oralhistory

Conference Baby in Glasgow!

"Finding your tribe when you've had a baby can be really diffic-"

Séamus is willing to let me keep going to conferences, but there are strict conditions.

Thank you @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social and @nwavc2025.bsky.social for hosting Séamus for his first academic conference! Such a lovely bunch of people and some really interesting papers too! 😊

My child is clearly the star of the conference 😆

I've spent almost a decade researching and writing about incredibly difficult histories. I was always able to compartmentalise and deal with it. All of a sudden, since coming back from maternity leave, I can't hack it at all. It's all too upsetting. How can I go back to how I was??

**Call for Papers** Public History in an Age of Anxiety CPH Annual Conference, Belfast, 2025

Grim economic outlooks. Contemporary social historian seeking freelance work - historical research, research and policy, editorial…

I need to find a way of putting on my CV that I'm writing my PhD one handed because I am constantly pumping breast milk 🤔

20/ It’s a Jungle Out There by Ed Miliano Animals, nature, wonder Perhaps not as well known, but a real beauty Age 3+ #discoveririshkidsbooks

3/ and 4/ Time for Bed Fred by Yasmeen Ismail and Be Wild, Little One by Olivia Hope and Daniel Egnéus Two beautiful picture books for age 3+ # DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

Special thanks to my delightful baby who decided to pull my top down and share his favourite thing in the world (my boob) with everyone on the zoom call 🫠

I grew up in a flat in central London. Moved to a town when I was 12 and my God, I was convinced we were about to all be killed in our beds the first time I heard what turned out to be a pair of loved up foxes

My therapist: Big Lithuania isn't Real. Big Lithuania can't hurt you. Big Lithuania:

Not to have a go at whoever writes the Birkbeck bulletin emails, but there cannot possibly be "ten things you need to know at Birkbeck" every single week.

Our edited collection is published Open Access by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 6 February! We have wonderful chapters exploring inherited objects and stories! We loved putting it together @katieebarclay.bsky.social @tanyaevans.bsky.social @ashleybarnwell.bsky.social @lauracking.bsky.social

Here is the link www.bloomsbury.com/uk/978135038...

the press will call some guy a “controversial conservative journalist” and he’s the senior editor of “phrenology quarterly, an aryan brotherhood publication”

Photographs from Stephen Gill's 2002 series, 'Trolley Portraits'

St Brigid’s Eve - Don't forget to leave a piece of cloth outside to be blessed by Brigid as she passes tonight! This is the brat Bríde, it’ll cure headaches or sore throats and keep you healthy for the year! #speirgorm #brigidsday #stbrigid www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Took the baby to see an art installation in East London. His face is very, "you call this art??"

Marianne Faithful was once hospitalised in Dublin. My aunt was the Night Sister. A young man turned up at the door very late at night to see Marianne but Ena refused to let him in. "But I'm Mick Jagger!" he cried. "I don't care who you are" said Ena as she slammed the door in his face.

I'm really gutted about this. "I wonder why the schools don't teach anything useful these days Like how to fall from grace, and slide with elegance from a pedestal I never asked to be on in the first place" www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm now on the new waiting list. Which is six months long 😬 Should get some therapy in time for his first birthday 🤪

I was referred to the local perinatal mental health team within days of having the baby. For the last 5 months I've been on a waiting list for an assessment. The assessment is today and then I'll be placed on another waiting list. I've basically spent 5 months waiting to wait 😬

This is exciting, lads. Be there or be square 😎

examples of fiction writers who have used oral history methods? oral histories that blend into the speculative/fictional?

I ran a report to identify popular baby names in England that aren't popular in Ireland, and vice versa. And...

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Calling all historians and history practitioners 🗃️ - can you help a #History MA candidate? For my dissertation I'm exploring the motivations, influences and ambitions of those who practice* history. Will you fill in (and share!) my 10-question survey, please? forms.office.com/e/mFNv6tAqxn 1/2

Between his big nap, a bottle, and now having a play, I've not seen the baby in 4.5hrs. That's the longest since he was in the NICU five long months ago. In that time, I've transcribed a whole interview & structured the plan for my entire thesis. Now I'm just scrolling photos of him on my phone 😂

This is gorgeous

Cwtch is one of my favourite words and hearing it takes me straight back to being little and visiting my grandmother's house in Llanelli. Over the years, I've taught it to all the kids I've nannied for and I recently heard my partner telling the baby they were having a cwtch ❤️

We're looking for a researcher with LGBTQ+ expertise and lived experience to develop a Queer Tour for NMI – Collins Barracks, launching May 2025 for the 10th Anniversary of Marriage Equality. #LGBTHistory www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

If there's a hell, I think it will be very similar to the experience of trying to fix a paper jam in the printer while breastfeeding a baby who desperately needs his fingernails trimmed.

This is absolutely brilliant, I love it

I had a serious chat with the baby yesterday and told him if I can't get on with things then he'll have to go to nursery. Last night, he slept through for the first time ever, and then today he's had a big two hour nap and accepted his other mother giving him a bottle of pumped milk. Hooray!

I have started PhDing again, only now I have an assistant

I'm attempting a gradual return to my PhD. Séamus isn't pleased.

I wonder if anyone has ever died from breastfeeding. Feel like I'm going to shrivel up like a salted slug.

Oh, did he “tease” seizing other countries’ territory, @cnn.com? What a little scamp he is. What an incorrigible rascal.

The baby has been protesting for almost two whole weeks about coming back from Ireland. Impressive. He's basically swapped his daytime and nighttime sleep completely around. I'm so exhausted that I've started randomly falling over. Pretty much forgotten my own name at this point.

Reminder that the Guardian staff are on a 48 hour strike against the sale of Observer. If you wouldn’t cross a picket line in real life, don’t do it virtually.

This is also a perfect description of how I feel every morning since having a child 😬

It's a lovely misty Lancashire morning. I am in my pajamas pushing a buggy through several fields because I accidentally went on a solo trip with the baby at the exact same time as he entered a violent sleep regression. Hoping I'm going to fall down a disused mine or something so I can rest.

Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the

What is your favourite article to discuss with students how historical research works?