Thanks to @irishhiststudies.bsky.social for the opportunity to review this fantastic edited collection by @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & @jenniferredmond.bsky.social. It’s already been v useful for my research&teaching in Irish gender history -highly recommend! www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/t...

Discipline and Punish, a #conference organised by our colleagues Dr Richard Kirwan and Dr Wouter Kreuze, takes place in @unioflimerick.bsky.social in January. Details at malcontents.hcommons.org/conference/

CfP 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @ssnci.bsky.social annual conference in June 2026. Deadline 1 Feb 2026! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

I call this "The Lying Screen"

A radical new field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow, Gal Beckerman writes.

WINTER Term Card: We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics. Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎 @ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026 See 👇for details. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Women were first admitted to the Linnean Society in 1905, after a campaign by Marian Farquharson. This portrait by James Sant shows the first formal admission of women as Fellows. buff.ly/vcmY3sD #EYAInclusion

"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign." Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq

This year’s overpriced advent calendar is….The Simpsons (How could you Krusty?! I’d never lend my name to an inferior product)

I love a serendipitous 19th C newspaper find! Nice to know that we've always been laughing in situations we're not supposed to... (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 11 Sept. 1830)

Humanity's future depends on strong, resilient ecosystems.🌳🐿️🐝🌱🦋 We've written a report with partners including @newcastleuni.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social presenting a big-picture ecosystem approach to restoring nature. Read it here: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

I helped programme this year's lecture series. Really looking forward to this one!

#OnThisDay, 18 Nov 1910, 119 people are arrested whilst protesting for the right for women to vote in the UK. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory 🗃️ 1/2

I had the opportunity to put together a book display this month in the @dexinst.bsky.social (title: 'Threads through Time')! It's based on depictions of clothing in the historic book collection 📚It will be on display until this Saturday, 22 November

It was great to visit the @brlsi.bsky.social over the past two days. I got to look at an impressive set of nineteenth-century annual reports and other institutional archival materials. I was very grateful to receive the Rob Randall bursary which made this research visit possible!! ⭐️📚

Happy Halloween (Oíche Shamhna) to all who celebrate 👻🔥 getting into the spirit by listening to Dr Doireann Ní Ghlacáin share her expertise on the Cailleach - the Irish goddess who is currently in the process of bringing about winter 💨

Happy Samhain 🔥

What if friendship were understood not just on an individual, personal level, but as something political – a radical practice capable of upending hierarchies and producing revolutionary social change? Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.

No more emojis, just gravestone reactions. (These are all from Old Norwichtown Burial Ground in Norwich, Connecticut.)

I started House of Guinness last night. Sadly, what has been seen cannot be unseen 💔 no subtlety whatsoever. Every time the "fenians" came on screen diddly-idle-dum music started playing, the costumes looked AI generated and they were all wearing different shades of green 🥴

Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the death of Manchán Magan president.ie/en/media-lib...

Calling all university students! How about this seventeenth century medical recipe book as #DissertationInspiration? See this recipe book and a number of other fascinating archives in person at our Dissertation Inspiration Drop In on Friday 24th October, 2-4pm.

Calling all university students! Are you looking for some #DissertationInspiration? Join us for a drop in session to view original primary sources, perfect to give you ideas for your historical research. Free and open to all.

Came across an obscure local satire serial that the @dexinst.bsky.social was subscribed to for a few years in the 1880s. Some of the members were not pleased about its presence in the reading room!

This is such a brilliant piece of #SocialHistory! Demonstrating once again how railways were far more than just shiny locos moving carriages and goods wagons. This says so much about imagined communities & attempting to knit a workforce together ... #Railway200 #RailwayHistory

It was great to help out with Schools' Enrichment Week at @dexinst.bsky.social 🔍📚 today the year 10's were tasked with finding parallels between 19thC media and the media of today! There were lots of interesting discussions around scandel, fake news and clickbait 📲

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

Very excited!! I am helping with the organisation of this year's @dexinst.bsky.social's lecture series, so feel free to message or email me if you are interested or would like to know more 📚🔍📜🍂

We are delighted to say that #SHSConf2025 was an immense success! Please read more about it here - and stay tuned for more information and announcements from the conference!✨ socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/10/s...

📢JOBS: 2 postdoc research associate positions📢 On AHRC project 'Informing contemporary land use policy through sustainability assessment of farming systems' in pre-modern periods🗃️ - FT from 01/10/25 - #Medieval history (3 years) - #EarlyModern history (28 months) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025. 🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. 🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h... #WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

Thoroughly enjoyed attending #SHSConf2025. Such fascinating and impactful displays of work throughout! Very grateful for the opportunity to present a paper and I was delighted to be able to have such interesting discussions over the past few days!! @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @swwdtp.bsky.social

PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.

Call for papers: Mobilizing Nature: The Environmental History of the Ottoman Danubian Frontier, Vienna, 12-13 March 2026. URL: danfront.univie.ac.a...

Yay! Can't wait for this conference 📚

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

PhD Studentship - Rural and Tribal History of the Modern Middle East (c.1870-c.1945) University College Dublin - AC21205 #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD709/p...

The Worth Library Fellowship scheme is now open: edwardworthlibrary.ie/research-fel... Closing date is 4 April 2025. Please retweet @earlymodhistory.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.bsky.social @historyofscience.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

A sinister Victorian Valentine’s Day! The mid-nineteenth century saw the rise of the comic or mocking Valentine, in contrast to more romantic images. This illustration by Kenny Meadows appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1852, and doesn’t disappoint in its grisly detail. #valentinesday

My siblings and I are all moved out of home but my mom still displays our christmas art that we made in school every year and it is so wholesome! My favourite is the christmas cards we made i n'gaeilge (in Irish) #gaeilge #nollaig #irish

The book display is back at the DEI! This makes me happy <3 #historiclibraries

#introduction Hello, I'm rubbish at introducing myself. My main personality trait at the minute is my PhD research because it's pretty all consuming. The focus of my research is the social history of Enlightenment subscription libraries in the nineteenth century.

Postdoc advertised at UCL to work on the project ‘Connecting Histories, Connecting Heritage: Early Modern Cities and Their Afterlives’ !! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...