Mass rocks. Not really that widespread. Loads of Catholic chapels in use throughout the eighteenth century in Ireland.

After being denied entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher by Israeli police earlier today, in powerful moment, Cardinal Pizzaballa blessed the city of Jerusalem with a relic of the Holy Cross; the brief service took place at the foot of the Mount of Olives.

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

28 Mar 1627: The first dateable manuscript penned #otd by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, #Franciscan friar, scribe, historian, lexicographer & one compiler of the Annals of the Four Masters (His signature from @ucdarchives.bsky.social )

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

My chip? Hot.

I’m sure people would absolutely love to listen to academic systems meetings as podcasts 😂

Hope he is ok!

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Sweet mother of god

Time to channel this energy....#COYBIG

Awful to see player stretchered off like that. Really hope Szmodics is okay. #coybig #speirgorm

Oh Mo Dhia

The U.S. oil blockade on Cuba is fast exhausting the country’s supply of fuel, causing daily blackouts and food shortages. It is also upending the island’s universal health care system, which is struggling to provide even basic medical care. nyti.ms/4bTFJ9p

As he giveth, so he taketh away. Ireland will win tonight, but it'll rain at every wedding in Ireland for a year. Are we happy enough to accept that, yeah? As a nation? #COYBIG #CZEIRL

Hope we have the printers ready for a World Cup edition @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

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CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

📣Out now on #firstview Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' #Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Seems a bit off given the provenance of many items IN these museums, right?

Ah this would be such a shame! Being able to walk in and have access to incredible works of art is one of the glories of a city like London

Headline writer wins.🤞

'I would encourage everybody to cycle to their local cathedral and just go and listen': meet the man on a mission to save choral music by bike The CEO of the Cathedral Music Trust is visiting 100 choirs across England and Wales over 50 days of cycling www.cyclingweekly.com/news/i-would...

We need to remember the Triangle Fire not only because it was a tragedy but because it made people realize they can mobilize together and bring change. The fire made people understand why we need unions and then propelled them to do something about it. 🗃️

The interior of this small rural church is one of Britain’s most remarkable Victorian artistic treasures. In the 1980s, the church was deemed structurally unsafe and this exceptionally rare and beautiful interior was almost lost to demolition. 1/10

Job opportunity with manuscripts and early printed books! Librarian at Lincoln Cathedral – Cathedral Library £43,722 - Full time applicaiton DL: 14 April 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQX901/l...

Fascinating to see this research into bog flowers used in historic medical processes being explored due to its anti microbial properties! 🌷 phys.org/news/2026-03...

Food security needs to be prioritised somehow

Are you an educator, GLAM professional or climate advocate interested in helping learners connect with climate issues? Join our Education and Climate Action Communities for a webinar on using #CulturalHeritage as a resource for teaching about #ClimateChange! 🗓️ 8 April 📍 Online 🔗 bit.ly/4bTWOB4

Museum of Youth Culture to open in London www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

“There’s no ceasefire,” says Hamdouna’s father. “It’s all talk, for the media. In reality, there’s no ceasefire.”

"What's your favourite book of the Bible, Robert?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of the Bible"

Absolutely awful.

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

LOVED this series, if anyone is looking for something beautiful & tender & real to watch - mubi.com/en/ie/series...

“These days, there are many voices that go unheard and much suffering that goes unseen...”. Thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for allowing this voice through.

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

Happy St Cuthbert's Day. Annual excuse to repost article on 'Cuthbert’s relics and the origins of the diocese of Durham', *Anglo-Saxon England* (2021). Warning: contains some dastardly revisionism about Cuthbert's history (at Chester-le-Street) & the 'Viking Age' Northumbrian church cup.org/4ssGyNq

If interested in applying for our collaborative PhD, 'Uncharted Voices: Subaltern Cultures and Identities in Global Seafaring, 1880–1950', we will be holding a live webinar on Tuesday 24th March (1-2 pm). For further details about the project and webinar, see www.rmg.co.uk/ahrc-collabo...

Spring Equinox! Loughcrew, Co. Meath is associated with Equinox due to Cairn T’s alignment with its sunrise Loughcrew has 30 other Neolithic passage tombs. In collaboration with @nationalmons.bsky.social we surveyed Cairn U: skfb.ly/pHyJM Explore more Megalithic art from Cairn U here skfb.ly/pzHFy

It’s been out a while now, but Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thcentury British travel to Spain and Portugal that is free to download here! uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...

Eid Mubarak 🌙

Great for our neighbours at Liverpool University. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/

A new edition of "On Liberty" names Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill as co-authors. [Countless students who've attributed the book to "Mills" nod approvingly]

Brilliant to have @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social speak with our students & staff (& wider Limerick history community) next week! Really looking forward to attending!

Really looking forward to speaking (virtually) to the University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College History Seminar next Tuesday 24th. I'll be talking about "1583: one year in the languages of London", and I'm really excited to try out this new material with such a great audience!

Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

New on advance access: "The migration–innovation nexus in the early modern world" by @fgottmann.bsky.social, Floris van Swet (@northumbriahistory.bsky.social) and Rémi Dewière (Università degli Studi di Padova) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...