Oh to be a taxidermy rat having a bath...

What a great way to end this semester’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series tomorrow with @niamhcullen.bsky.social, chaired by @elainefarrell.bsky.social! Drinks and snacks provided as usual. For more information and to sign up to attend online see: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Feeling incredibly proud of Dr @mpalawrence.bsky.social, who has passed his PhD viva with no corrections! An outstanding thesis on queer Irish culture and migration c. 1880 to 1960. Examined by Matt Cook and Fearghal McGarry!

I talked to the History Extra pod about the ideas behind MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN and how they relate to today’s grim politics Listen on Spotify oR wHerEvEr yOu gEt yOur PoDcAsTs open.spotify.com/episode/4Zey...

Huge Congratulations to Our Own Gemma Kelly! Cara-Friend is incredibly proud to congratulate Gemma Kelly on winning the Motivation Award at this year’s GNI Awards! Gemma’s passion, commitment, and unwavering dedication to our community are truly inspiring. Gemma, we’re all so proud of you!

NEW QUEER HISTORY ARTICLE from me & @charlielynch.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Cara-Friend staff had a fantastic time tonight at the @rainbowrefugeesni Halloween meet up! 🎃

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar this Friday from QUB’s @jamielukas.bsky.social. Do note the room change for this week only. Honoured to be asked to chair the seminar this week. More details & sign up to join online via link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Nearly four years of work wrapped up with one e-mail! The thesis is officially off my desk 😌🎉

How I feel visiting my family in the rural West Midlands

Had a great week doing thesis edits in pubs and bars around London! And yes, I giggled at the last picture because I have the humour of a 12 year old.

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

Had an absolutely fantastic time at Belfast Pride with the team at @cara-friend.bsky.social !

The hugely successful 'Founding Cara-Friend' exhibition will be hosted by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland for the month of July! This exhibition features a selection of portraits and stories of some of the volunteers who worked to establish Cara-Friend in the 1970s and 1980s!

A long time ago we used to have a lecture room with maps of Ireland on the wall, this would have been a great addition! Well done to all involved and hope your map finds a good home: www.rte.ie/news/ireland... PS: We would also have gladly helped 'empty' the Smarties tubes used for Giant's Causeway

A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80

Intention to submit posted. Caffeine guzzled. Edits in progress.

Been working with these folks for a while now (although officially for the last few weeks) and it's a great environment!

Had a great time presenting in the @ssnci.bsky.social conference! Aberdeen, as a city, is often taken for granite in my opinion.

Someone needs to stop me sending this to my friends every time I do something mischievous

“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.” Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS ARCHIVES PSA 📣 Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen?? (I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)

Today at 4pm

Heartened to receive a gift in the post from lovely academic friend. Very cool.

This year's Wiles Lectures in History will be given at QUB on 28-31 May by Prof Sven Beckert of Harvard, on ‘Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism’. There are 4 free public lectures over 4 days: details at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...

Applications are open for the 2025-26 AHSS Global Fellows Scheme at QUB, funding visits by established academics of 4-12 weeks to Belfast. Specialists in Irish Studies are welcome to contact us at [email protected] before 30 May. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/about/Leader...

Finally managed to get the pigeons out of the attic and patch the roof... but now the pigeons think that they should be living in the house. I can no longer have my windows open without having to escort some feathered fuck back out through it 30 minutes later.

A beautiful day for solidarity in Belfast today!

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Found out my building manager won't fix the crack in my ceiling, unexpectedly didn't get paid my PhD stipend, and I spilled coffee down myself... all within fifteen minutes of each other.

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

Partner finally decided to organise his books after moving. We moved in last January.

Today's the big day! There are 22 planned protests all over the UK and even one abroad! Find out if there's one near you here: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Remember deadline to submit your abstracts is 20 April!!

How I feel in front of my class when I can’t get the projector to work

With that, my organising stint for the QUB History Seminar Series is at its end! Had some amazing speakers over the last two years, and the wine wasn’t bad either! Thank you so much to @conorbrockbank.bsky.social for my gift, and for taking over the seminar series from me! 💖

The last seminar of the semester is happening today at 4! Hope to see you there!

Happening tomorrow! Come along and join us in welcoming Alex Lichtenstein to QUB!

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled due to illness!

Happening tomorrow!

Every time I see this it locks that sentence into my head for a good 2-3 weeks. Sorry to my partner who now has to listen to me washing the dishes saying ‘Give orange me give eat orange’ on repeat.

QUB History Sem Fri 14 March in 27 University Square 01/003 at 16:00: Catriona Edington will be presenting on: 'Samuel Pepys: An Infertile Self?' Catriona Edington is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate in History at QUB whose research focuses on human and animal fertility medicine in early modern England

So please to have @phghaslam.bsky.social for the QUB History Seminar Series!

Happening tomorrow with the lovely @phghaslam.bsky.social

Had an absolute blast with @tashwalker.bsky.social on Friday for the QUB Public History Seminar!

Congratulations to our colleagues Dr Ruth Duffy and Dr Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social on winning the ACIS Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book and Ann Owens Weekes Prize for best article in Irish Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, and/or Intersectional Studies.

Used some of my favourite primary sources for teaching about the gay rights movement and the U.S. black civil rights movement today: in 1971, a group of gay rights activist groups joined together to picket the 'Lost and Found' gay bar in Washington, D. C. for refusing service to non-white people.

**Call for Papers** Public History in an Age of Anxiety CPH Annual Conference, Belfast, 2025

This is, quite clearly, mad