📢 Prof Renaud Morieux will give the 2026 Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social "Dislocated Families: Women, War & Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions" 📅 12 Jan 2026 ⏲️ 5:30-7pm 🏢 Institut français, London Register below ⬇️

AoR is celebrating its 10th anniversary with some special news/updates! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/12/01/a...

Between this and the Gladiator fiels of wheat photo, he is taking the visual.propaganda seriously

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Going through books and guides to Spatial Humanities and Historical GIS, and most of the links to projects no longer work or exist, even as late back as 2019.

Really interesting to hear about the new HistoryUK resource, 'History in Practice', which is a space to collectively share, reflect, and collaborate on all things related to history teaching in universities 🗃️ #skystorians www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p...

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.

Sans commentaire... No comment... #Marie-Antoinette

How to keep mice and rats out of your cheese chamber: Mix weasel brains with hog suet and scatter them around the room. Problem solved! You're welcome.

New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford! Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...

New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Stunned that Starmer and Reeves have decided on an international student levy that hits the richestuniversities least. Totally out of character for them

New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

Breakfast of champions

Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

Just waitingfor the Sindo article calling for the Treaty ports to be returned to the UK to protect the undersea cables

Naughty goings on in 18th-century Cork

If you missed Catriona Kennedy's talk yesterday on 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution', a recording is now available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dV...

Udo Kier was in Blade, and said the lesson he learned was to not agree to be killed off so.easily. Also, Blade is great

No memory of ever hearing of something called "stir-up Sunday" until this year, and have heard of it twice in 3 days.

We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...

From my book: the aftermath of the 1798 Rebellion. 1/10 The 1798 Irish rebellion was largely crushed, but guerrilla resistance lingered until 1804. The government then launched a strategic de-radicalisation drive, especially targeting the middle-class leaders.

227 years to the day after Wolfe Tone died, we renain as far away from the unity of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter as ever

In this blog, we uncover new information about the provenance of the RIA Library's Haliday Pamphlet and Tract Collections. Charles Haliday MRIA (1789?-1866) was a 19th C book collector whose extraordinary collection of over 25,000 pamphlets is house in RIA Library. www.ria.ie/blog/notes-o...

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉 universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/ (All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.) Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

1832 Committee on Tithes: "The late Bishop of Cork said to me, 'We are in the habit of blaming the Roman-catholics for the resistance to tithes, but I believe, if the real truth was known, there is scarcely any country gentlemen in Ireland who is not in his heart a whiteboy.'"

The second best Northern Star behind the original

Vote Labour

Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

It's 1987. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters. It's 2025. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters.

Walt Disney Presents at Disney's Hollywood Studios now features an exhibit with props and costumes from holiday films like 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' and 'The Santa Clause.'

Want

Never seen this before. A fervent counter-revolutionary

Delighted to lay my grubby little hands on this from James Quinn and @ucdpress.bsky.social

1798: The Second Defender Rising' (after the 1793 'Militia Riots')? A thread from my book.

I imagine this is the jauntiest tune ever written about nuclear tests youtu.be/LkxpsI-VApg?...

Really enjoyed watching Kingdom on BBC IPlayer. A good reminder of why public service broadcasting must be protected

Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

“The Tomb of the Murdered Monarchy” explores Edmund Burke’s tragicomic reflections on the French Revolution. A compelling look at how satire, sorrow, and political philosophy intertwine in the wake of royal collapse. Read part I now! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/10/t...

“.. When all the data centers in New Carlisle are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas.” $NVDA @cwarzel.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏

“It’s kind of a shocking number." The median age of first-time home buyers in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40 in 2025, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. nyti.ms/4hKc58V

Historians have generally argued that the United Irishmen 'took over' the Defenders. I reckon it's much more the other way round: the plebeian and peasant Defenders 'took over' the United Irish. We even have Thomas Addis Emmet trying to tell us this, by almost direct address.

On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Apparently some DUP politician has complained about the price of a sausage supper at a council-run event. It's knowing your audience like this that sees you supplant your rivals in the UUP

just in case you’re somehow wondering why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social affordability/anti-oligarchy message has resonated

Why did the #Irish government embark on a risky commemoration of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the pre-independence police force? Latest from me in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. *Wolfe Tones soundtrack not included. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....