Oh hey, just popping past to share Islington Heritage's St Patrick's reel. Would love for anyone to view, like, and maybe follow the page! Always excited to explore the Borough's Irish history! www.instagram.com/reel/DV-j_v4...

Did I tell you about the time I discovered an unknown photograph of a test cricketer and member of Don Bradman's Invincibles? In the spare time, I'm still research, writing (and doing some recording about) the Mandurama Reds rugby league team. open.substack.com/pub/manduram...

Irish Times' new mailout setup is painful, I don't need emails that look like they come from journalists!

'Call for Speakers' for the conference 'Hidden Histories' organised by the amazing Andie Kristina and myself. 21st of May 2026 and is open to anyone from any discipline. Please share with anyone who may be interested in submitting an abstract for a paper. 👇 #conference

Obit I've come across for a former league player who died in 1928. He was young too, 32. Most obits were the same, short but painful illness. Anyone out there able to suggest what illness would have been reported like this? Was it a bad cancer?

Gave a "mystery lecture" in London last night. Thought I'd lost the crowd but rather they'd taken me up on the challenge of considering a very human perspective of the Troubles. Glad I went before the lecture on pareidolia in everyday objects 🤣 Posting more in 2026, here not there, of course.

My project on the Mandurama Reds has received the Wes Smythe Award (from the Tom Brock Bequest) to further research the history of the village and rugby league team. Lots of connections to labour union history, Irish migration, and rural life in this story open.substack.com/pub/manduram...

Flatford Mill and Dedham. Beautiful countryside and great @nationaltrust.org.uk spot: 10/10 scones and ice cream

The Parliamentary History Essay Prize 2025 is open! The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in our journal! The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2025! For details 👇 🧵1/4 @histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social

🪦 Ever walked through a graveyard & wondered what the stones can tell us? @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Archaeologist Lara Wilgaus shares how graves are recorded, from GPS mapping to grave motifs, in their #ADayInArchaeology blog. 👉

We're trying to raise the profile of the work we're doing to support Heritage Work in the London Borough of Islington. Any insta follows would be appreciated! www.instagram.com/islingtonher...

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Sos lóin i Londain.

Got a tour of the Emirates and Arsenal Museum today, caught this reference to Glentoran. Hadn't realised that Arsenal travelled to play the Glens in September of 1969! The night before the match there were attacks on the RUC and churches burnt out!

No one: Local Authority Heritage Service: "I've sent you a WhatsApp could you just confirm this isn't poop."

I'll be speaking at the Linen Hall Library on the history of the (British) Red Cross movement in Northern Ireland. 13 June! linenhall.com/event/oh-whe...

Historic churches, I'm in search of examples of great brochures, flyers, and design! Does anyone have any they can share? #heritage #churches #history

Walk and explore around the Reformed Jewish burial ground at Balls Pond Road. Fascinating stuff and a great project underway!

Corner of Church Rd and High Street, building on the right is now the Boots!

Brilliant to see Templemore Baths on the BBC! Really pleased to do this as a bit of a farewell to both the building and my home of six years www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0028n2j

Moves to London, #Belfast gets all the sun. Am I doomed to gloom forever? Lovely day back running an Intro to Oral History workshop for QUB's Our Place; Our Stories. #OralHistory #History

Free oral history workshop, Tue 25th at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Plenty of participation, and I'll definitely be available to chat. Made possible through a @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History comment project Sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...

Three years of freelancing, still find the exact words to politely enquire about remuneration awkward to formulate.

Today I found out I need a root canal and got invited to speak at Kings in London. Swings and round-a-bouts right?

whenever i'm up all night writing with the cat i think of Pangur Ban - the cat of an Irish monk who lived in Reichenau Abbey in the 9th century, and the poem the monk wrote about him.

Some heritage that needs saving on #heritagetreasures day: Mountpottinger School, *I believe* the oldest purpose built public education building in East Belfast. Designed by Samuel Close and built in 1896. Derelict today, leased to a furniture shop. Pictured with emoji.

A local history group has brought the most Australian green grocers to my attention. Davo's Fruit & Veg Mart, Blayney, NSW c. 1980

Old Donegall Street Congregational Church. Anyone recognise these symbols? Lower appears to be St Patrick's Cross

No snow, just rainy in Belfast but the cat buried himself in the doona.

Totally acceptable to stay up until 03:30 to watch the Australia v India test when the cat's asleep on you, right?

A 2025 resolution is to explore BlueSky more. Another is to properly attempt to get into writing up all the bits of Belfast and Irish (and let's face it Australian) history that didn't make their way into work or research already!

Open to freelance ops! 📚🎙️ I have updated my webpage which can only mean one thing, in 2025 I am open to new freelance heritage opportunities. I currently have space in my calendar for shorter, mostly oral history projects but I am open to any discussion! samguthrie.page

Thrilled with this find! Cathal Byrne's "As I Roved Out", £15 at Keats & Chapman. Legendary book and bookshop in #Belfast. A timely find as I plan to step back from EastSide Partnership and take on new heritage projects. Are you working on something with oral history in Ulster? Get in touch!

🗃️ Historians of migration, empire, and diaspora, and readers of global Irish history in particular, may be interested in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, a series I edit for @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/search-resul...

I think I accidentally soft launched Doha's next tourism campaign during my TWELVE HOUR layover. #Qatar #Doha

Sorry for the lack of posts, busy eating everything in sight at the Phuket Old Town markets.

Just Australia's Russell Hobbes British Film Festival excitedly and enthusiastically claiming Saoirse Ronan as British in their copy and audio adverts!

Finally took one of Jason Burke's First World War Historical Walking Tours around East Belfast. Great walk and greater stories from the Great War.

@rauchway.bsky.social would love to join the What's History 🗃️ list please!

Wanted to test out posting the archive emoji! Feels like a training day for BlueSky 🗃️

My current obsession is the Recollect Central West platform on Central West Libraries. A great selection of mid-century photos of Orange, NSW. Yes, I'm researching sporting history in my spare time. #RugbyLeague #SportsHistory #Australia centralwest.recollect.net.au

So many notifications and I barely feel like I have something to post 😅

Talisk are absolutely class. Last night at Limelight was brilliant.

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Lots of notifications, but too busy having a pie and a pint in Edinburgh.