Andy Warhol's portrait of David Hockney, from the early 1970s.

Amol Rajan chucklingly refereeing to Elon Musk being "very outspoken" about events in Belfast is an actual fucking disgrace.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

I have an essay in the Irish Times this weekend reflecting on the intimate practice of writing about queer history in Belfast. Warning: contains pillow talk www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

My first book, "Inspecting the home: Urban poverty and public health in nineteenth-century France", will be published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in February 2027 To find out more (or to add it to your wish lists...) see the link below: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183149/

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Are you studying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

All the "is Miliband popular/competent/acceptable after losing 11 years ago" is missing the most crucial point: that the most dramatically satisfying ending is that the guy who lost the election after which everything went wrong comes back and fixes it all. Ask Chekov. Ask Aristotle

📉 Lots of discussion on @healthfoundation.bsky.social dn.bsky.social’s analysis of the latest UK healthy life expectancy figures. In our @bmj.com opinion, @martinmckee.bsky.social and I argue a key part of the story is still missing: austerity. �� https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s9s923 🧵

Pippa this exam question has been used too many times already

Who’s got “my father was a toolmaker” on their bingo card for the big speech?

Tom Hulme’s ‘Belfastmen’ launched tonight by @sophcocooper.bsky.social at No Alibis

Devastating news and furious at such a waste of talent and expertise

Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.

The May Bank Holiday was traditionally a day of celebration for organised labour. This year, it also marks 100 years since the General Strike: the biggest industrial action in British history. So why not kick back with a podcast on the stunning events of 1926? www.ppfideas.com/episodes/now...

“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

May at the @greenhouseuis.net with our regular Monday book talks, Wednesday research talks and many special events featuring @mmendoza.bsky.social, Hauke Ohls, @erikahanna.bsky.social and others. #envhum 🌷

GOOD NEWS: we've got some last-minute tickets available for next week's public lecture 'Food for Thought – The Bayeux Tapestry Revisited' in Bristol. Get yours before they're gone! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec...

In 1976-78, the Grunwick dispute became a UK labour movement cause célèbre Dubbed the 'strikers in saris', the largely female and South Asian workforce fought for union recognition Recordings with key participants (in 2007) are available at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #Archive30 #SoundAndVision

final meeting with a dissertation student & I described the 2 weeks before submission as time for "thesismaxxing". student paused, then replied... "please do not ever say that again". have i just been... mogged?

Cork Lifelong Learning Festival is coming up and we are hosting several events in @ucclibrary.bsky.social including Tracing History and Legacy: The Helen Hooker O'Malley Photographic Archive at UCC Library - Lifelong Learning Festival 2026. Register at link below: libcal.ucc.ie/event/4507125

Really beautiful expression of why fostering the Irish language is an ecological rather than a political issue in this old letter from the late poet Gabriel Rosenstock in today’s Irish Times.

I go to Bishopston Library every Saturday, get out 20 books each week for my 3 kids, spend an hour doing the colouring sheets and browsing the cook books. All for free in a city where everything costs too much. I ❤️❤️❤️ it

New 1926 General Strike map online! Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape. Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

If you’re Belfast-based, there are paperback copies of my book already on sale in the brilliant indie shop No Alibis!

Allegations of “family voting” was *the* top story on the BBC news summary the morning after the by-election. It was specifically alleged or implied by spokespeople from every major political party. It was directly reported by the political editor of Sky and the political editor is the Spectator.

Do you know of someone who might be interested in doing a #PhD on the urban, architectural and environmental history of the University of Liverpool? If so could you point them in my direction?

Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Oh, that’s very nice - PhD on migrant labour and craft in the 18th century

So many thoughts about this. It’s a damn good piece of political communication, using historical references to make its arguments.

he died doing what he loved (attempting to enforce the post-2022 pedestrian right-of-way at junctions)

In the latest UCD Library #CulturalHeritage blog post Polly Morton looks at the eccentric life of 19th century landowner Adolphus Cooke, taken from the Urban Folklore Project held in @bealoideasucd.bsky.social Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/03/12/a... @ucdarchives.bsky.social

Just feels a bit unfair that the only life events that society deems acceptable to celebrate and acknowledge for women are engagements and matrimony, having babies, and leading an army to wage war on the men of Ulster in order to steal a bull and one-up your own husband

Race, Obsolescence and the Management of ‘Surplus’ Populations in Postwar Liverpool Free talk, all welcome, Wed 11 March, 2pm, after the society's annual general meeting, Liverpool Central Library, Fourth Floor Meeting Room by Dr Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social, University of York 1/5

I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth

Very much enjoyed doing this video interview about my article! Thanks to @erikahanna.bsky.social and @urbanhistory.bsky.social for the opportunity. Hopefully of interest to colleagues across urban history and environmental humanities #UrbanHist #UrbanStudies #EnviroHums #CoastalHist

In the latest Urban History interview, @erikahanna.bsky.social speaks to @samgrinsell.bsky.social about his recent article 'Urban History as Urgent Work'. It's an incredibly rich discussion of the intersection of urban history and environmental history, and how we do and communicate our research

Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

First time I've seen this postcard of the Somali village at the 1907 Dublin Exhibition in Herbert Park. #dublin

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939

Please join us for the launch of our 'Women Strike Back!' exhibition on Monday 9th March. The wonderful Vanessa Kasuule will be joining us for a poetry reading. You can book your tickets via: ticketpass.org/event/ELVTJM...

Indicative of a) how communities can come to rely on universities as provisioning community services b) how a prestige project can become a liability c) how positive heritage narratives don’t pay the bills d) abt what constitutes legit use of student fee income www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Just discovered this wonderful interview of Oliver McDonagh by Roy Foster, with Roy wearing a really fantastic pair of glasses. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Unison strike today in Bristol

Today we're celebrating #EllenHutchins, Ireland's first female field botanist, for Intl Day of Women & Girls in Science! She began to study plants in her early 20s, gathering more than 1,100 plant specimens over several years before passing away age 29. #CrawfordArtGallery #WomenInSTEM #GirlsInSTEM

Yahoo Fine Gael’s rule in Westminster is over

*drum roll* Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026! I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...