My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This was an amazing day. I learnt so much about histories of infertility and loss from a range of disciplines. Thanks v much to @niamhroisin.bsky.social for bringing us all together and for facilitating the most open and supportive conference I have attended. www.irishhumanities.ie/assets/Locat...

Absolutely fascinating keynote lecture by @historianjen.bsky.social on early modern understandings of pregnancy loss and its connections with the weather. Excellent start to the Locating Loss conference organised by @niamhroisin.bsky.social at UL this morning. #histmed

Final spaces available for our ‘Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces’ conference next week @unioflimerick.bsky.social - 27 May. Free, all welcome (booking required) - we have a wonderful line-up of speakers on the day - www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Excellent piece by @kieranconnell.bsky.social on Ireland’s multicultural history in @irishexaminer.bsky.social. I’m so thrilled to be CI on this AHRC-funded project and to get to work with Kieran and @jcrangle.bsky.social on uncovering Ireland’s rich history of diversity over the past 100 years.

I have a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about a new AHRC project I’m proud to be involved in with @jcrangle.bsky.social & @tortietabby.bsky.social on a hundred years of diversity in Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Excellent piece by @kieranconnell.bsky.social on Ireland’s multicultural history in @irishexaminer.bsky.social. I’m so thrilled to be CI on this AHRC-funded project and to get to work with Kieran and @jcrangle.bsky.social on uncovering Ireland’s rich history of diversity over the past 100 years.

This is a cat check point: relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

Thanks so much to the @irishexaminer.bsky.social for publishing this piece on our upcoming conference on histories of infertility @unioflimerick.bsky.social on 27 May - booking required, free to attend and all are most welcome - www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

I'm excited to share a new paper that's now available OA in Signs: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... We put forward a framework for a “feminist abortion,” which aspires to centre the person seeking abortion and their needs & to factoring in the power structures in which they are situated.

Do you know someone fantastic who'd like to do a health history PhD? Get them to apply to come and work with me and @tortietabby.bsky.social at Strathclyde! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Not surprised by this. Morale is low everywhere in UK HE, with humanities departments most affected. And as cuts to excellent departments like Hertfordshire show, doing well in REF, publishing in high-impact journals, bringing in funding etc won’t save any of us in the long run.

This is unfathomable to me! As well as being stupid and cruel, it doesn't even make financial sense! Humanities subjects are cheap! They are subsiding expensive subjects! Please someone stop this mindless destruction!

Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) warned, decrying a campaign of "collective punishment" against Palestinians

Brilliant presentations from @cshhh.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social PhD and ex-MSc students about their research which forms a special issue of the Ex Historia journal on the theme of ‘Resistance’. This stems from the 2024 @sshmedicine.bsky.social conference. #histmed

When slavery was abolished in Jamaica in 1834, the following Irish surnames were present in the long list of compensated slave-owners: Barry, Bourke, Boyle, Brady, Brennan, Broderick, Buckley, Burke, Byrne, Carey, Carroll, Codd, Coleman, Collins, Conway, Corbett, Costello, Cowan, Creighton, Crowley

I’m so looking forward to speaking at this fantastic conference organised by @niamhroisin.bsky.social. Wonderful line-up of speakers working on infertility from the early modern period to the present. I’ll speak about Irish women’s experiences of pregnancy loss & infertility in late 20th century.

The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.

Happy 1926 Irish census day! This is an amazing resource, huge undertaking by the NAI. Managed to find all eight of my great-grandparents. Interestingly, my great-grandmother’s father had filled their form in Irish so took a bit longer to locate them. nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

We didn't deserve this day.

#DIBLives Known to a generation of Dubliners as 'The Diceman', street performer, gay activist & icon Thom MgGinty (b. #OTD 1952) introduced a high level of theatricality and wit that spawned a legion of imitators. He often appeared in character at political protests. www.dib.ie/index.php/bi...

New article in Oral History by me, Sarah Mason & @livideehistory.bsky.social based on our experiences of research with Irish women: ‘Out in the open:reflections on researcher well-being and emotional honesty in oral histories of trauma’. DM if you don’t have access! Thanks @oralhistsoc.bsky.social.

100% agree with Craig and appreciate the support @oralhistsoc.bsky.social showed my co-authors and I with this article, which was originally presented as a panel at the OHS conference last year. I’d encourage anyone working on oral history to join and publish in their journal: ohs.org.uk/join/

New article in Oral History by me, Sarah Mason & @livideehistory.bsky.social based on our experiences of research with Irish women: ‘Out in the open:reflections on researcher well-being and emotional honesty in oral histories of trauma’. DM if you don’t have access! Thanks @oralhistsoc.bsky.social.

Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol. Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Fantastic presentation by Naomi Samake-Backert of the RE:SHaRE team as part of the @cshhh.bsky.social seminar series this evening. Naomi spoke to us on her important research on virginity testing and reproductive surveillance at Heathrow airport in the late 70s. #histmed

David Byrne in Glasgow last night. Just incredible! 🥹🤩

Unmissable event coming up in London on 24th of March on the city’s histories of health in disease. Dream panel of Ross MacFarlane, Elma Brenner, and Richard Barnett. Details and link to tickets below. #histmed www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...

Remembering Mark E. Smith on his birthday. Here are The Fall performing Big New Prinz live on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1988

Interested in learning more about the history of health and medicine? Curious about doing a Master's degree? Please fill out the survey link below about a part-time and online Master's course we are developing at the University of Strathclyde. Deadline 18 March forms.office.com/pages/respon...

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to hosting Tom White next week for a co-hosted seminar with the Scottish Oral History Centre, Tuesday 3rd of March 4-5.30pm Graham Hills Building Room 222. Everyone welcome!

Irish history talk next week @unistrathclyde.bsky.social: Prof Enda Delaney (Edinburgh) ‘Out of Time: Ireland and Modernity,’ Wed 18th February from 1pm to 2.30pm at the Scottish Oral History Centre, Graeme Hills 222, 40 George St. All welcome, tea and coffee will be served.

UCU - Strikes likely at Strathclyde University as staff vote for industrial action www.ucu.org.uk/article/1440...

We are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026 mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Thanks so much @niamhcullen.bsky.social for the lovely review of my book ❤️

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

Very excited for the @cshhh.bsky.social upcoming seminar series. #HistMed & #HistSex folks should come along if they can! Keep an eye on the page as we've to come! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...

Searching 'Alice Glenn sex hotline' on the Irish newspaper archives...totally normal Thursday morning for me here. 😂

Today is publication day! The Open Access version is now online so you can read for free on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social With huge thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social Go to jimcrowintheasylum.com

This is horrific and barely being reported on in the UK media. Shame on the British government. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

The first two hours this morning

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

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...