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...

OUT NOW! The Modern British City 1945-2000, ed. by Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith, brings together architectural, urban and social historians, to chart the extraordinary changes that took place in British cities between the end of the Second World War and the early 21st century.

It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Just a few of the historical treats that await #Skystorians in person or online in the week of 26 January at the IHR: Robert Bickers speaks on Charles Archer in Shanghai and Hong Kong, the Long 18th-centuryists appreciate Penelope Corfield's work and women rebel in the medieval Mediterranean. 1/2

Weaving and crafts community: we have a loom that needs saving. It's beautiful and looks to be in great shape. Please share to all Irish crafts people. #Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland

Hello historians - there is a specific purpose role now advertised in UL’s history department - Title of Post: Assistant Professor in Irish History (specialism History of the Family) - all details are over on UL vacancies! Do share! #jobsky #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm

A non-fiction book following a 678km journey on foot across Ireland. Author Tim Hannigan explores the land’s troubled history and asks why public access to Ireland’s beautiful rural landscapes is so limited. Due to be released on August 27th, mark your calendars! K.H

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @maynoothuniversity.ie deadline for abstracts 1 Feb! For more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Raindrops in lichen. The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍

Excited to be organizing and moderating this discussion on urban history as an interdisciplinary research practice in a few weeks — if you're in Cambridge, come join us! Registration at the link below 👇

'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2

My book is a bargain right now, especially as printed in colour! MUP sale runs to end of the month ("discount will apply automatically at checkout, unless based in North America. North American customers, please enter discount code JAN40 at checkout"): manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526168511/

Keen to know more about 'Thermal horizons: energy and infrastructures of British global power, c. 1830–1900'? Join us to discuss Alex Bremmer's paper on Tuesday 13 January either in person at the Institute of Historical Research, London or on Zoom, 5:30 GMT. Free and open to the public.

Woo hoo! My essay on Catholic chapel-building in Ireland 1780s- 1820s is now available as #OpenAccess - so if you want to read it, you can just click right through. GRMA to the IReL agreements for that! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Turned up for a day of research at Limerick archives with no snacks and no sense of how far it is from the nearest shop. The archivist gave me half her sandwich and her granola bar. I’m still so grateful / embarrassed every time I remember

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue! My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Just listened to this piece on RTE Radio 1. The sting in the tail, as ever, is she's a Tr*mp supporter who didn't expect that dealing with the immigrants would mean her: "unreal that someone can be treated like vermin for a petty crime that was committed ten years ago". www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Some tweets on the pre-Famine structure of the Irish peasantry. The academic consensus of a massive landless proletariat at social war with tenant farmers is, I think, unsupportable.