In a brand new publication in #PER online, Neil Johnston (@nejohnst.bsky.social) reviews 'Empire and enterprise. Money, power and the Adventurers for Irish land during the British Civil Wars' (Manchester University Press, 2020) by David Brown. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Needless to say I’m delighted about this. It was super to work with Simon Neal, who re-catalogued more than 70 volumes; to collaborate with Eamonn Kenny @adaptcentre.bsky.social who knocked the data into shape; and to incorporate it into the Knowledge Graph we’re building, based on @dib.ie entries

#TNAConnections Another great Gold Seam you can explore on the VRTI is that of the State Papers Ireland, 1660–1715 (TNA SP 63), an assembled collection of official letters, private papers, and correspondence that is held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy. virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/s...

Over 20,000 item descriptions have been added to REQ 2 (Court of Requests proceedings) since March 2024. An absolute treasure trove for Tudor historians. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Really impressive work transforming Sweetman’s Calendars into computational data

It was a pleasure to collaborate with Paul Dryburgh (TNA, UK) on this blog on the fascinating life of H.S Sweetman. More to come so watch this space! @historytcd.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP

Podcasts from this year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference @ucddublin.bsky.social are now available. Thanks to Mike Liffey @historyhub.bsky.social for making us all sounds so crisp historyhub.ie/tudor-and-st...

This Fri, 19 September: Join Paul Dryburgh, medieval collections specialist @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, for "England's first colony: medieval Ireland, 1171-1500". An overview of English intervention in Ireland and its role in the political development of the British and Irish isles.

A link to the online version: historyireland.com/a-sea-of-par...

A final bump for this. Closing date is Sunday, 31 August

Phenomenal @newyorker.com piece capturing the scale and scope of the solar energy revolution: "The power is there [...] Our local star, which already provides heat and light and photosynthesis, is prepared to offer us all the energy we could ever use" www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Our Element on Macmorris’s Deep Map has just been published and is open-access until the end of the month. Really enjoyed the collaborative process involved in both the building of the map and the writing of this book!

We have now published the programme for the 2025 Tudor & Stuart Ireland conference at UCD on 21-22 August. All details can be found here: tudorstuartireland.com/2025-confere...

Ben Healy abú. What a stage win Ireland's Healy storms to Tour de France stage victory www.rte.ie/sport/cyclin...

If you're in Britain and want to watch the hurling. Up the Dubs www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

@virtualtreasury.bsky.social is front page news! And with a nice quote about the medieval documents too.

Today’s exhibition is @spchendriks.bsky.social and the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social’s Collecting Ireland’s History at the Royal Irish Academy. It’s so much fun to see the documents in person! And yes, the fire of 1922 was a national calamity [and] like a nightmare (Walter Fitzgerald).

Delighted to see our (Brendan Twomey and myself) new Curated Collection on the Registry of Deeds up on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll.... @historytcd.bsky.social

As part of TNA's collaboration with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social we are running an online event on Friday 20 June at 2pm, providing guidance on how to trace your Irish ancestors across TNA's, the VRTI's and any number of other collections. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-his...

To have an office like St Jerome is the dream

Tudor & Stuart Ireland 2025 is shaping up into a brilliant conference @ucddublin.bsky.social on 21-22 August. We've had a super response to the CFP, so if you're interested in speaking, please submit your proposal by Friday, 7 June. All the details can be found at tudorstuartireland.com

A short film I did with the TNA Education team on the (so-called) Glorious Revolution. With lots of extra materials for teachers and history students. Based on the Declaration of Rights issued by the Westminster Parliament in Feb 1689 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/st...

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

Curious about medieval Co. Longford? Step into the middle ages with VRTI Medieval Research Fellow Dr Lynn Kilgallon at our Longford Roadshow — Longford Library (N39 HK76), Thurs 1 May, 7:30pm. 🏰📜⚔️ Attendance is free but booking is essential: (043) 3341124 or [email protected].

The CFP for the 2025 Tudor & Stuart Ireland conference is now open. TSIXIII will take place at University College Dublin on 21-22 August, so please join us. All details are in the link, but get please get in touch if you have any questions. tudorstuartireland.com

PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international

Launching this beauty tonight! @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social #history #irishhistory #research

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a fantastic medieval map of Ireland from a 15th-century navigational chart, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1352, f. 3r ☘️🎉

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

Honoured to be invited by NI Science Festival and PRONI to speak on the technology behind the VRTI today. Great turnout + interesting questions (and our youngest ever audience member! 🤗👶) @timvrti.bsky.social @bookandpaper-ni.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

We're headed for #Carlow! Our next #Roadshow will be Thursday, 27 February at @carlowlibraries.bsky.social, Tullow Street (R93 K126). Watch this space for more information in the coming weeks! ❤️ 💛 💚 @cwallacedublin.bsky.social @briangurrin.bsky.social

If you are interested in Wikidata, historical knowledge, and how the two interact (TL;DR: the structures of the present have a habit of imposing themselves on the past), then this article in IJDH - from me and my colleague Ammandeep K. Mahal - may be of interest. doi.org/10.1007/s428...

Have you browsed through our newest gold seam yet? The Fiants of Tudor Monarchs are all here, organised by reign: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/f...

One of the very cool ways in which heritage scientists at TNA work with researchers to make collections available.

Want to hear more about my new research on migrants' lives in Elizabethan London? I had a great time talking to Emma Briffett from the BBC History Extra podcast about strangers, city spaces, gossip, and the diversity of sixteenth-century London.

Hi @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social, I was at Wonderlab today with my kids. You nailed it. Great demos, super staff, brilliant interactive space. My 7 year old said it was phenomenal. Thank you

Cool to be reminded of our event last Feb

Slipping in under the wire is my last piece of writing for 2024 - a preview of an article that will come out in, wait for it, summer 2026. It's a #medievalSky argument about women and the political community as seen through exchequer records.

Plan of the Crown office where records of the Court of King's Bench were kept in the 18th Century [TNA KB 15/54]

John Bargrave's description of the varieties of grape grown in France, their appearance on the vine, and a lovely accompanying drawing. All from his travels in the late 1670s. #earlymodern #skystorians

On Thursday, 28 November, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), in collaboration with VRTI Research Fellow @timvrti.bsky.social, hosted a one-day symposium on Spying on Hibernia: Intelligence Gathering in Ireland, 1660-1900. Read more here: virtualtreasury.ie/news/proni-s...

Thanks Joel. What a cool day

Really looking forward to taking part in this one day symposium at #PRONI tomorrow. Speaking about Catherine Lucas, an Irish woman who acted as an agent for the exiled Stuarts in the early eighteenth century. Great to revisit #Jacobite #history! #LoveIrishResearch @researchireland.bsky.social

Spying on Hibernia: Intelligence Gathering in Ireland, 1660-1900 Psssst! Check out the great line-up at this fascinating symposium tomorrow (Thursday, November 28) in PRONI, Belfast 🤫🧐🔎 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spying-on-...

Apparently it is Icelandic Language Day + National Compliment Day, so we'll mark both with this entry from the Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland: Index 2 (1877). What excellent work Mr. Magnússon! We love it! 😊👍 @theul.bsky.social librarian. www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/PUB-MED...