Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2

Sorry to read about these thefts from the colonial collections of Bristol Museum, wishing for a speedy recovery And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

A selection of objects from the 'Changing Ireland, 1900-2020' I digitally curated are available now: Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...

Funded PhDs at QUB: 'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!

How do young people across the UK experience the spaces, services & relationships that shape their social and cultural lives? We wanted to find out. 🧵 As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.

Really enjoyed the new ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition at the @nmireland.bsky.social - Collins Barracks! Lovely integration of commissioned poems by Paula Meehan; fascinating selection of objects, beautifully curated and displayed.

"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else To everyone else they are just "homes"

Grateful for an awfully slow news day to share my newly published article. What else would you be reading today? muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...

Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

What does the history of the potato tell us about nationhood and identity? Professor Rebecca Earle FBA explores what the story of this humble crop reveals about nationhood and identity . Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/43nRkKm

“France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view” apnews.com/article/jewe...

Did medieval nuns care for their appearance? Rings, brooches, combs, manicure sets all found on the site of Barking Abbey.

📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press. Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.

Fascinating research! Looking forward to reading 🙂

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Another fabulous RUA exhibition at the @ulstermuseum.org an absolute highlight of the cultural calender ✨️

If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y

Saw this pic in Emma’s post below, and it’s always lovely to see my dress (designed by James Davis Seaver) in the museum, and now it’s in this new exhibit. But I also love that the woman in the pic is checking out my frock in the touchscreen too. She’s got good taste!

A fun and emotional evening returning and seeing my team for the opening of @nmireland.bsky.social Changing Ireland exhibition - the exhibition showcases around 300 objects connected to Ireland's history from 1900-2020. Exciting to see years of hard work come to life!

Useful thoughts on kneecap and anti-colonialism, esp generational diff in attitudes to Ireland’s past (and present). Of the difficult issues that prevent deeper examination: who benefited from colonialism and the role whiteness has always played in denial of the colonial? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Bumping this up again. Deadline for applications is October 3rd.

Most recently, we ran a workshop with participants at the @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History annual conference. Here are some of the results. Thanks @emmajmca.bsky.social, @alexjioannou.bsky.social and others for sharing your work.

Looking forward to my holiday read! @mauricejcasey.com

As part of our Network Northern Ireland 2025 event @mauricejcasey.com will be hosting our latest History Open Mic Night w/ special guests at The Pavillion pub in Belfast. Open to all.

Thanks so much @publichistoryqub.bsky.social for such a stimulating and thought-provoking conference. Although I reflected on personal experiences, I spoke to employment practices that have negativity affected so many hard working and passionate museum professionals and academics.

A very powerful article from Marchella Ward in the Public Humanities journal (open access) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Our first Irish Studies seminar of the new year will be our very own Dom Bryan on 22 Sept speaking on 'Authenticity, history and everyday nationalism: comparing Irish pubs to McDonald's restaurants'. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

I am giving away one *free copy* of my new book "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project". Simply repost to enter the draw. I will randomly select the lucky reader on Friday 5 September. The book can be shipped within the UK or internationally!

"The ideas exchange with Palestinian educators comes as they consider the monumental challenge of rebuilding and sustaining an education system under the pressures of ongoing conflict". Important work for Palestine from @QUBelfast and @StMarys_Belfast www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

Coming soon from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast! In this episode I visit the @nmireland.bsky.social, where Maeve Sikora & Matthew Seaver discuss the wonderful Words on the Wave exhibition and the incredible Irish manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall #Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #SpéirGhorm

Multisensory approach for museums and exhibitions Displaying the past through sounds, smells, touch and not simply texts and visuals Open access article in International Public History journal @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #Museum #PublicHistory www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The Irish Journal of Anthropology (IJA) has just released its special issue on "Islandness", which will be of interest to all scholars of Ireland, and of islands more broadly. The IJA is open access and hosted by University College Cork on behalf of the Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI).

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Hello! Quick question - planning a research trip & wondering if anyone knows whether the Catholic parish church in Youghal tends to be open on a Sunday afternoon (I know some churches close up now after Mass) - parish office is closed for 2 weeks so I can’t ask them directly! Might any locals know?

i wrote a little something. collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/o...

This month in #HiddenCatholicCollections, we spotlight the Spiritan General Archives in Chevilly Larue, France. To read more, go to achahistory.org/hidden/.

It takes a twisted sense of humour to charge someone for displaying a terrorist flag and then schedule their court appearance for mid summer in Belfast where the flags of terrorist organisations (with whom parts of the British state colluded in crimes) will bedeck the streets, as they do every year.

‘Words on a Wave’ at the @nmireland.bsky.social from May 30th - this promises to be one hell of a show! 🤓 #History #Heritage #Ireland #Europe #WordsOnAWave www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

'Carbon colonialism' by Laurie Parsons exposes how rich countries cook the books on climate change - by outsourcing it to poorer ones in the global South. Pre-order the paperback edition now, publishing May 2025. #EarthDay #greenwashing #climate #booksky

Great to see colleagues work and research 🤓

Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for an exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving a glimpse of the daily lives of early medieval Irish monks. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

📢 An exciting opportunity for conservators & archivists! UCD Library is seeking a Book and Paper Conservator to establish a Conservation Laboratory, part of a new Cultural Heritage Centre to be developed in the James Joyce Library. Full job description➡️ www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... #jobfairy