What did I do with my Saturday am (early), cleaned up old #gameboy, replaced screen and now looking good. Next gameboy colour and gameboy advance! The ds’s are all done. Achievements come in weird and wonderful ways!

Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2

Brilliant news for our committee member (and past president) @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social !

It’s now official! I’ve been awarded a 12 month @leverhulme.ac.uk Trust research fellowship to look at disability and the supernatural in the early modern world. Quite chuffed tbf @usihs.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social @irishhistsoc.bsky.social

Absolute snaps to @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social and co-author Dr Victoria McCollum for taking a murky bit of nordie history, which shows the damage one attention-seeking 'ho can do) and making it into something to catch the imagination of younger wans w1711.org/graphic-novel/

The Shropshire Witches Podcast is a romp through History, Folklore and the Wyrd via the lanes of Shropshire. We are passionate about forgotten narratives and hidden histories inside and outside of the County! ✨️💀🪦👻 rss.com/podcasts/the... #Folklore #History #Podcast #Witchsky #Pagansky #Witches

Very excited to be heading to University of Ulster next week to give the keynote talk at the On The Margins #comicsstudies conference! I’m speaking about ‘Playing the Game’ and sports stories in British girls’ comics - so many fab stories to unveil!! www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...

The 1981 Grove paperback edition of Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book (1961) features string on its collage cover: www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

Get you tickets now for a conference I am organising with Bob Curran & Victoria McCollum, ‘On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion’ Explores the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion 2-3 May, Ulster University, Coleraine www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...

Wild ponies in the Mourne Mountains, Co. Down

Heading up Slieve Donard looking down on Newcastle, County Down, NI

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Unicorn, from the work of 16thc physician Conrad Gesner. He wrote that unicorn horn, combined with wine, could counteract poisons and could cure a range of conditions including epilepsy

We’ve extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our colloquium on early modern war narratives! Please share widely and send us your abstracts! #earlymodern #history

'Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society': bit.ly/4cRjK37 The Society's President, Lucy Noakes, writes today on the profession and discipline @historywo.bsky.social #skystorians

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

Get you tickets now for a conference I am organising with Bob Curran & Victoria McCollum, ‘On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion’ Explores the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion 2-3 May, Ulster University, Coleraine www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...

Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️

Young Hare, Albrecht Dürer, 1502 (Albertina, Vienna) The artist died #otd 6 Apr 1528.

I'm giving a #hextag talk about the Basque Witch-Hunt in Liverpool on Thursday 17 April! Everyone is very welcome. 😊 #earlymodern 🗃️ www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/talks/the-wi...

#OTD 8 women were found guilty of bewitching the body of 18 year old Mary Dunbar under 1586 Irish witchcraft act. Read about it in the 2nd edition of my book, Possessed by the devil. And check out the website dedicated to the #islandmageewitches :w1711.org

New, revised edition of Possessed by the Devil (December 2024), my book on the Irish, Islandmagee witch hunts (see also our project website w1711.org) out now thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...

This copy of 'Geographia Generalis' from 1650 seems to have passed through a few hands before ending up with Edward Stillingfleet, whose 10,000 books have been on our shelves since we opened in 1707.

This looks amazing. The first Irish-language horror film. youtu.be/Hr530umjFpk?...

Celebrating scholarship and creativity #RSA2025 Star papers, lovely friends including @mikkibrock.bsky.social @ellenwerner.bsky.social @pjsalzman.bsky.social @jmhclark.bsky.social @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social @toujoursbizarre.bsky.social @hsbamford.bsky.social

Frans Pourbus, c. 1620 Francis of Assisi receives the stigmata. Fantastic detail on the habit here, clearly well-advised on the provisions of the Franciscan Rule. (Louvre)

Kinderspiele or Children's Games, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560 A delight of detail and a delight of a subject. There are 83 different forms of play depicted in the picture. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie)

23 Mar 1605: John Dee's wife, Jane Fromond, is buried at #Manchester #otd (Ashmolean)

A wee reminder, if you want to know more about Ireland’s last witch trial, the #islandmageewitches, check out our (with Dr Victoria McCollum) website: links to books, podcasts, a free graphic novel, original documents, animation, VR app, and info about our play, exhibition and hub: w1711.org

In exciting news, The Routledge History of the Devil is up and available to preview (and ask your libraries to consider preordering). It will be out in May. I am sorry to report that, though it comes in at nearly 600 pages, we couldn't *quite* stretch it to 666: www.routledge.com/.../Raiswe.....

This week the Society launched two new funding programmes generously supported by the Scouloudi Foundation: > RHS Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK > RHS Panel Grants bit.ly/4ky23ZP Both programmes will assist historians working collaboratively, in and outside higher education #Skystorians

Would'st thou like to live deliciously?

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Delighted to announce that Charlotte-Rose Millar, Andrew Sneddon and I are co-organising a conference in MIC Limerick next June on historical representations of ghosts 👻. CFP below: make sure and let us know of any questions!

Delighted to submit final manuscript of The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), with 97 colour images, amazing contributions by Laura McAtackney, Niamh Dowdall, Catherine Corless, Courtney Mundt, Faye McKeever, Andrew Sneddon, Claire Mitchell, Heather Richardson...

Let’s talk about #OpenAccess! We are proud to publish a third of our books in open access, drop by our stand at #rsa2025 #shax to browse our recent open access titles and chat to us about any questions you may have 🔓📚

Vote for 'A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey’ in the @dhawards.bsky.social under the ‘Best #DigitalHumanities Resource’ category! This resource was developed in partnership with DRI as part of the @irelandmapped.bsky.social project. Find out more and vote: dri.ie/news/os200-d...

Happy St Patrick’s Day from Kinnagoe Bay, Donegal. Site of sinking in 1588 of La Trinidad Valencera: a ship of the Spanish Armada

Happy St. Patrick’s day from Donegal !!!

@irishstudieswue.bsky.social @irishstudiesshu.bsky.social @irishinstitute.bsky.social @leabhairnua.bsky.social @cirishcaceres.bsky.social @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @smuhalifax.bsky.social #Ireland #theIrish #conflict #19c #SSNCI #IrishStudies

Here’s a talk I gave recently at Norfolk Record Office #witches #history This one’s free to access and deals with Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk witchcraft suspects youtu.be/SuvyLNYGwTU?...

Was great to talk to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social about Irish #witches on Not Just the Tudors podcast: out a couple of days ago ! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Beautiful article here by @sadhbhoneill.bsky.social & a great exercise. Find the old native trees in your environment, notice & appreciate them. 'Here is a challenge: where is the oldest, native tree closest to you? How does it make you feel to stand beside it?' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Reminder about this! Please do share with anyone else you think this might be of interest to! (On or offline!)

The AI DJ on Spotify just said ‘and next up Mercury Reverend’ !!!!!

New interview with Simon Bown and Our Paranormal Afterlife podcast. Simon also reads an extract from the new book (link in comments -- and wherever you listen to podcasts). www.ourparanormalafterlife.com/near-death-e...

Anyway, I've big shoes , belonging to @dberryman.bsky.social to fill as I now formally take over editor of the @ulster-archaeology.bsky.social newsletter. SO!!! #Irish #Archaeology I want to know all the things you're up to! Talks, events, lectures, experimental seisuns - beep me here initially!

Call for Papers: Lying in Legend and Tradition: The Nineteenth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society will be held on Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th September 2025 at Tullie House, Carlisle. Submission deadline: 1st July 2025. folklore-society.com/event/lying-...

Back on the socials now with exciting new lecture series for @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social . More to follow. It's free to come along #Dublin #Irishhistory