Frankenstein (1910). Kind of wild to consider that its release is closer in time to the publication of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel than to the present day

The brilliant @ciarab.bsky.social talking about the release of the 1926 Irish census and how census research opens windows onto both your family’s past and the state’s past.

#IrishDiasperialism Very interesting display coming next week at the @nmireland.bsky.social focused on the Catalpa Mission through which US-based Fenians rescued 6 from Fremantle in Western Australia. Links across Diaspora, Empire, & anti-colonial networks.

US 📉 Good shout out to @chrischirp.bsky.social's "Trump Action Tracker" in the new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social Democracy report. The tracker documents actions and statements of Trump and his administration: "704 directly undermining democracy, 459 weakening civil rights, 689 suppressing dissent"

Taking any positive news I can get these days. Here we go… www.bbc.com/news/article...

NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

A fun 🧵for those building out reading on the Great War

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.

“It feels like someone just lit a match on your eyelid and put out a match on your eyelid” This is a helluva reporting job by @nbcnews.com with videos, photos & eyewitness accounts of how the ICE rampage through American cities is inflicting "grievous injuries" on people. Read/share:

🧵The experiences of an attorney brought into immigration cases in MN over the past month. Describes the disregard for the law by DHS, abetted by AUSAs. Defiance of court orders, inhumane conditions for prisoners, &c.

Our History UK Pedagogy Forum returns for 2026, beginning with a timely online discussion on narratives around the 'Value' of a history degree (3-4.30pm, Tuesday 24 February 2026) Please do share, hope to see you there! #historyeducation #academicsky historyuk.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/events/2025-...

🧵On the sites the DHS is purchasing to convert into prison camps for detainees. More than $500m spent already, & localities often learn of the plans after the fact. What are the entities who refit the sites? Who will run them? What about local infrastructure capacity (& tax implications)?

This data deserves as wide an audience as you’ve got.

A useful guide to researching environmental history at the national Archives, UK.

This.

Amen. The Boss.

Another? They’ve shot another Minnesotan?

Apparently yesterday, while other non-violent actions took place around the Twin Cities. After clergy visited the site where George Floyd was killed, legal observers noticed vehicles following the bus carrying the clergy & began to follow and film. ICE officers proceeded to attack the observers.

If you’re not watching Minnesota, you need to. This is what democracy looks like. This is what people power looks like. Bless them.

Ignore the inevitable, instinctive, ad hominem, knee jerk hostility to a book on slavery and the monarchy in the right wing press. This is a better glimpse of @brookenewman.bsky.social’s new book: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The brilliant @anamariecox.bsky.social on the ground at the Minneapolis airport. Listen to her describe the reality of people organizing to support community in the face of what has come to MN. This is people power at its finest. Inspirational.

🧵Interesting from Carney in Davos

🔥 MACRON (throwing shade at Trump): "We do prefer respect to bullies…. And we prefer rule of law to brutality. Having a place like Europe which is predictable, loyal, and where you know the rule of the game is the rule of law, it's a good place.”

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

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🔊 MN clergy got Target CEO Brian Cornell on the phone. Target’s motto: “Expect more. Pay less.” More like expect the bare minimum and get… hung up on? 🤔 We’re not leaving Target HQ until we get a meeting with Brian Cornell. #ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood

Minneapolis yesterday. This. 🙏❤️

I’m sorry. Dominant what? And that’s a good thing???

Happy New Year, Bluesky 🎉 May peace, care for working folks, racial justice, access to universal healthcare, scientific & historical research, & empathy be our guiding lights.

A searching article from three outstanding historians in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social Thinking through how one moves beyond the statist view of history, in Ireland or elsewhere, is essential in the 21st century. I highly recommend this piece.

That feeling when you’re traveling, and there’s a layover, and you think ‘I’ll just check what’s happening in the Ireland v Hungary match…!!!! #coybig 🎉☘️🎉

🧵Important re: transatlantic nexus of this type of culture war demand

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

A great pleasure to join Damian @irishacw.bsky.social and the Transatlantic podcast to talk about the Irish in Wisconsin & Milwaukee.

Excellent brief essay on the importance of multi-lingual skills to the Irish Revolution www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

🧵This work looks so exciting. Thanks for calling attention to it.

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

An important essay to consider. The argument is specific to UChicago, but its lessons to a greater or lesser degree apply to many American higher ed institutions, particularly R1s.

Looking forward to the return for season 2 of this terrific series!

Dear Americans, This is not true: "The European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%". This is true: Americans will have to pay 15% extra for goods from EU. You're welcome and thank you for your attention in this matter, Is Mise, GnaM

Trump hiring Oddjob to caddy for him because…of course

Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again

1/11 History Reclaimed is still trying to invalidate the Church of England’s Project Spire reparative justice investment fund on historical grounds, with letters to the TLS and this rebuttal of the work of historians who examined the Church's complicity in slave-trading:

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The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.

Amplify this analysis. 🧵 from @asharangappa.bsky.social

This would seem to be very bad: the National Archives belong to the people of the United States.

Long 🧵. Read to the end. Links throughout as well. GRMA, a Rothaí!

WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems, leading historians reminded the nation that when making tough choices, it never hurts to stop, take a look at similar situations from the past, and then think about whether the decisions people made back then were good or bad.

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...