Happy to be featured in @apollo-magazine.com in brief this month! “Faraday’s revelations – that tapestries were seen as the highest art form in Tudor society, for instance – breathe new life into the familiar stories of Holbein, Hilliard et al.”

Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Join me on Nov 13 for my talk: A Recipe for Resistance? Vegetarianism and Ethics in the anti-Nazi Underground. My alternative title was: First add oats, then kill Hitler.

Belfast! Come join me as we collaboratively imagine the concept of a History Open Mic night. I'll be sharing some of my "Too-Spicy for Social Media" Historical Hot Takes and outlining the MCCU (the Maurice Casey Cinematic Universe - which is not just a conceited term for early C20th Europe!)

it took me too long to get around to reading Hotel Lux by @mauricejcasey.com, but I'm so glad I did because it's one of the best books I've read in a long time. a phenomenal tale of radical lives brought forth from the archives with compassion and wit

NEW POST- Investigating the picture of my great grandfather Bob Stewart, Grigory Zinoviev and Ho Chi Minh. The Tattered Red Flag of the Communards. Hope and despair! breakingthefetters.com/2025/09/05/b...

🚨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...

Finished up a fascinating and surprising few days of research in the wonderful @wienerlibrary.bsky.social - I went down all kinds of unexpected anti-Nazi rabbit holes.

back at it* *sitting in the British Library Newsroom reading obscure left wing pamphlets

Just a few days left to grab this deal!

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

🌈 Some stories were never meant to be hidden. But they were. We’re joining the effort to bring them into the light. 📣 “In Conversation” at Collins Barracks 🗓️ Sept 4 | 🕕 6–7PM | 🎟️ Free With Dr. El Reid Buckley & @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social 🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

So great to see Hotel Lux in the window of Hodges Figgis today as Non-Fiction Book of the Month — and in the bestseller chart too.

My first piece in the TLS — a review of a fantastic and pioneering new study of the Paris Commune’s afterlives in Britain and Ireland by @lauracforster.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/history/the-...

As someone who has travelled to a Pizza Express in service of the author's research into Tudor art, I can confirm Christina is a brilliant storyteller and this is sure to be an A-grade banger.

Thanks so much to Fin of the Irish History Podcast for having me on to talk in detail about the Irish world of the Hotel Lux. You can listen here: shows.acast.com/irishhistory...

If you’ve been curious about what I mean when I talk about using history in “non-historical” games, then this design diary I wrote about Amberspire will give some insights. It’s about finding inspiration in the tension and meeting of micro and macro history lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...

Desperately trying to flush my hardback copy of Intermezzo down the toilet as the police kick in my front door

Goineog bhreá do Liam Ó Flaithearta i ndeireadh an tsleachta seo. Ceann amháin d'iliomad scéalta agus cuimhní cinn in 'Hotel Lux' le @mauricejcasey.com. Stair cuid de na daoine a d'oibrigh i Moscó ar son an Comintern le linn laethanta na réabhlóide agus an idéalachais.

Friends, my book HOTEL LUX is currently available for £0.99 on the Kindle Store. An intimate view of the revolution that changed the world, based on 7 years of research in archives across the globe. Please do check it out! www.amazon.co.uk/Hotel-Lux-In...

Thank you to readers and booksellers for the continued support even a year after publication. I am still always amazed.

The dangers of museum curation in the Stalin era - 1937 A museum director in Belarus is organising an exhibition about the first Comintern Congress. He writes to the Comintern to ascertain the fates of two individuals who feature in a group photograph from the Congress.

In another GREAT reputational win for the taste of Irish booksellers, Hotel Lux is also an Eason's Book of the Month for August!

A huge thank you to @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social for choosing Hotel Lux as their Non-Fiction Book of the Month for August!

Know Your Commissars! A guide to identifying commissars distributed to International Brigade volunteers during the Spanish Civil War, 1937.

This is a BRILLIANT book, absolutely fascinating on both the social & romantic lives of international socialists in pre-Stalin Russia, but also a great book on how historians do their research. For a mere 99p!!!

Friends, my book HOTEL LUX is currently available for £0.99 on the Kindle Store. An intimate view of the revolution that changed the world, based on 7 years of research in archives across the globe. Please do check it out! www.amazon.co.uk/Hotel-Lux-In...

A Spanish Civil War scene. A painting by an unknown International Brigade volunteer that somehow found itself preserved in the Comintern archives.

I came across a tranche of images of Ho Chi Minh in 1920s Moscow and spotted a familiar Scot

Londoners, my friend Jack's trans history walking tours have two more dates: events.humanitix.com/trans-histor... I don't shill for friends indiscriminately - if you're keen on accessible, entertaining, moving, locally rooted & politically engaged trans history, I would genuinely recommend this!

'Vervolgens is Maurice J. Casey de Moskouse archieven ingedoken met als resultaat een fascinerende geschiedenis waarvan je je bijna niet kunt voorstellen dat die waargebeurd is.’ Michel Krielaars @zelensky1961.bsky.social @nrc.nl @mauricejcasey.com www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

An adventurous few days in Galicia working with @markburman.bsky.social and a newspaper handmade by the children of a 1930s anti-Nazi power couple. Part of an upcoming radio doc.

#Gaza: People are being starved, while a few kilometers away supermarkets are loaded with food. UNRWA has thousands of trucks in neighbouring countries, loaded with food and medicines. We are just waiting for the green light. Lift the siege and let aid in at scale.

Universities these days seem particularly vulnerable to wallet inspectors in the guise of “brand” specialists. I feel like I could simply email a Vice Chancellor the word BEYOND in Helvetica with an invoice attached and make a healthy sum.

Back in Santiago de Compostela to work on a radio documentary about the most extraordinary set of documents I've ever uncovered.

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Arrived back from @wcorklitfest.bsky.social to find some exciting post waiting for me: The paperback of Hotel Lux — available everywhere 7 August!

I’ve managed to see both Ireland’s oldest continually used fridge (80 years) and oldest postbox (also still in use) on the same trip.

2.30pm today: Bantry House with @mauricejcasey.com (Hotel Lux: Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals) & Michel Krielaars (The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin) @zelensky1961.bsky.social #NewDutchWriting 🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/maurice-j-casey-michel-krielaars/

"Hotel Lux is an exceptionably readable work of history" Many thanks to Tom Wall for reading my book alongside two other works of Comintern history which influenced my book. In the July issue of the Dublin Review of Books: drb.ie/articles/spu...

The "Green Frontier" was a wooded stretch of the Dutch-German border near Aachen that railway workers realised remained unguarded in the early months of Nazi rule. The International Transport-workers' Federation successfully smuggled socialists across this border for some time in 1933.

Krakow: this is happening this evening at 6pm!

How did activists, artists and intellectuals in late 19th to early 20th century Ireland re-imagine what society and sexuality could look like? Maurice Casey (@mauricejcasey.com) ‬explores in the latest issue of History Workshop Journal. Read open access in HWJ 99: academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...

Just finished #HotelLux! “We can and should commit ourselves to building a more just world…dreaming of something better and mobilizing towards that dream is not only necessary, but an irrepressible human trait.” - @mauricejcasey.com

Vienna! I will be chatting about my book at Shakespeare and Co this Wednesday at 7pm: www.shakespeare.co.at/en/news/hote...

yes i am sure

A birthday message from two girls (ages 11 and 9) to their anti-fascist father - 1936. "That you stay healthy all year long... And that all your enemies will meet the same fate"

Excited for my first ever bilingual event (English and Polish) coming up in Krakow later this month. If you have friends in the city, let them know.

Dé Domhnaigh seo chugainn, beidh mé ag cuardach stair shloinne Uí Ghallchóir agus stair mo chlann féin. This coming Sunday on @tg4.bsky.social, I'm off in search of the Gallagher name and my own family history. Beo agus ar líne ag 20:30 an 22 Meitheamh: bígí linn!

So great to meet Jackie and Frank, former next-door neighbours of a key character in Hotel Lux: Nellie Cohen.