You can currently pre-order @leannecalvert.bsky.social's Pious and Promiscuous: Life, Love, and Family in Presbyterian Ulster from the @ria.ie for 20% off shop.ria.ie/en-us/produc...

We are looking for a book reviewer for this brilliant publication by @leannecalvert.bsky.social. Please contact Judy at [email protected] if you are interested. emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Ahhhhhhhhhhh look what just arrived in the post. My BOOK!! It exists 🥰🥰

I'm looking forward to this. I'll be there on Saturday in the "Masculinity and Sexuality" panel sharing research from book 2 on same-sex desire & male intimacy #HistSex

If you're in Limerick on the evening of Thursday 25 September, I'll be sharing research from my upcoming book on pregnancy and paternity disputes in 18th/19th century Ulster as part of the Limerick History Festival. Be lovely to see folks there! #womenshist #histsex #histfam

And what a great day it was for the Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage team. Thanks to all involved for helping make it a success!

Buy Frank toy to keep himself occupied while I try to write... Did not think this through 🔊

Had been trying to track down a sermon preached by a Presbyterian minister in New Hampshire, USA. A copy existed in the National Library of Australia who scanned & sent me a copy for just $38 in 4 working days. Amazing what you can get while sitting like a hermit in your pj's at your desk in Tipp

Niche Q. for #histsex #legalhist folks who can hopefully point me to some reading. I'm working on a case of alleged same-sex activity between 2 men in C18th New Hampshire. Much time is spent asking about *where* emission happened: skin or shirt. Is there a legal difference here re the body? TIA

I want to thank everyone who asked about my boy. Frank had a stroke & bleed on the brain, confirmed with an MRI on Thursday. He is recovering well, thanks to our wonderful vets. Folks with dogs, signs to look out for are a 'drunken' gait, circling, head tilt & lameness. #dogs #jrt

My book is now available for pre-order on the @ria.ie website shop.ria.ie/products/pio... Isn't it beautiful 😍 #PiousPromiscuous #PromiscuousPresbyterians #HistFam #IrishHist #Family #HistSex

If you know me, you know that Frank is my absolute world. He's unwell with sudden onset lameness in one leg. He can walk on it but falls over. Vet sedated & xrayed him yesterday & those are clean except for an enlarged heart. He's on pain meds & v grumpy. Anyone with experience any advice?

A few tickets left for this talk next week for Belfast Pride 2025! Come hear about a ‘female husband’ dockworker (1880s), a scandalous Victorian male brothel, Jazz Age gay novels, a trans woman in mid 20th c. Ballycastle, & NI’s (sadly forgotten) 1st lesbian activist! linenhall.com/event/sex-lo...

Is WWE folklore? If so, who are the 'folk' and what is the 'lore'? These are questions my brilliant Folklore MA student is asking for her dissertation. Please share this and, if you watch WWE, please consider filling in her survey. It would be a HUGE help: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Also huge congrats to @tortietabby.bsky.social for being runner up for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Book Prize, and Michael Roper for winning! #SHSConf2025

Little cover update. Now brighter & with flames 🔥😍#IrishFam #Family #HistFam #HistSex

Dead proud that @unioflimerick.bsky.social are hosting "Camp Dream Speak Live", an innovative camp that supports children who stammer. I volunteered this morning & spoke to 29 kids about why their voices matter ❤️ The kids created posters about what they wished people knew. Posted with permission 👇

Have just received hard copies of my book from Cambridge UP. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...

Just been told that's not the final cover 😅I've been sent a draft of the final cover & it's even better! Will share when I can!

Guess what has appeared for pre-order on the WHSmith website??? My book, published with the Royal Irish Academy 😍 Coming in October! #IrishHist #HistFam #HistSex Isn't the cover divine 💋 www.whsmith.co.uk/Product/Lean...

I won't give advice to Leaving Cert students this week, but that's mostly because I don't really know what the Leaving Cert is. On the invisible borders between north and south, and the eternal mystery of Peig. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Set myself the task of finishing a book chapter before I go on leave next week. Stressing & cursing at the laptop. My co-writer, however, is his usual chilled self. Bored to sleep, I assume, by my talk of whiskey-drinking & pints of rum

That's my "little" brother (otherwise known as the number 2 Calvert) Didn't he go & win the National Undergraduate Neuro anatomy competition & bag the highest score in the competition history 🤓 @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/p/18Pj...

Lads, just got the first proofs of my book. Didn't I do a wee jump! Ats my day looking better than I thought 🤩🥰

Decorating my slides with fancy Frank & reminiscing when he used to let me dress him up. We're currently in the "old grumpy man" phase where I just bring him stuff & he glares at me in return.

Great programme again this year! I'm sharing some research from book 2 on migration & divorce. I'm also part of an ECR advice clinic on "Why researching womens experiences matter". Looking forward to visiting Carlow! #WomensHist #GenderHist

Delighted to be able to join @shannondevlin.bsky.social book launch on siblings remotely 🤩 well done again 🎉🎉

If you're in Mayo and interested in things deathly, I'll be speaking at The Keening Festival 2025. There will be ghosts! www.mulrannyarts.com/the-keening

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with two great scholars of women’s / gender history #history #irishhistory #speirgorm

Can you help out Amy, a public history student, with their project on researching womens histories? A 10 min survey 👇

New account for @ifrwh-offical.bsky.social because someone (maybe me) got locked out of the original one... Please follow! 👇#WomensHist #GenderHist

Funded PhD working with @drdeefoley.bsky.social on experiences of pregnancy and giving birth in Ireland 1950-2020. Begins September 2025; apply now! 🗃️ www.tcd.ie/history/asse...

Thursday, April 24, in Connoly House, Irish Studies & AADS will host a panel discussion on race in Ireland with Emma Dabiri (broadcaster & writer), Kim DaCosta (NYU), Chanté Mouton Kinyon (Notre Dame University), Victor Pacheco (University of São Paulo), & Lorelle Semley (BC).

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨 My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

Growing up my ma just said "do your best" when it was exam time & it used to do my highly strung head in. This past year, all I've said is "im doing my best". So there you have it. If you're doing your honest best, you're doing enough. . (yawns in almost end of semester)...

History of Family folks are in for a treat today, with a special research lecture from @angela-historian.bsky.social on Irish women in late Imperial Russia #WomensHistory #Migration #FamilyHistory

Discrimination against people who stammer is insidious & it's normalised in media & "newspapers" as a bit of a joke. If you feel uncomfortable listening to someone stammer, you need to take a look at yourself. You're the problem. Shared from STAMMA www.instagram.com/p/DIOKW5IsgF...

Want to get some (fashion) tips for #Punchestown Ladies' Day? If so, come hear my lecture to Naas Local History Group tomorrow, Tue 1 April. Details here: www.kildarenow.com/news/local-n... #history #fashionhistory #HorseRacing

Tired but lots brain fizzes after @ulhistory.bsky.social Telling Her Stories event. Couldn't have did today without my fabulous PGR steering group, Rebecca O'Regan, Rachel Beck & Naomi Rice 🤓 Pictured some of our speakers & organisers. Thanks to all woo participated 🤗

History of LGBT Activism in Ireland (3rd April,UCD) the @researchireland.bsky.social LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973–2023 workshops 🔗 Register for Workshop 1 (April 3rd): lnkd.in/epC2rAwG We’re looking forward to this important gathering of activists, advocates, and scholars. #speirgorm

Does anyone know if 'Ulster Folklife' is available to search online? I can't seem to find a way (other than BBIH). I'm looking for folklore on food & courtship/marriage customs with an Ulster focus TIA #Food #Folklore #HistFam #HistFood #FoodHistory Will save me a bit of time...

Room with a view @tcddublin.bsky.social

Call for papers for the 35th Conference of Irish Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities' closes 31 March. Open to historians of any geographic area and period. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

If you're in Dublin this Wednesday, would be nice to see some friendly faces. I'm presenting material from my book (coming in Sept) on paternity disputes in eighteenth century Ulster at TCD www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr... #HistFam #HistSex

On 31 March myself & a fab group of History PGs @ulhistory.bsky.social are hosting a Gender History Salon. We have a variety of papers & you can join us online. Details on registration & the programme can be found here: sites.google.com/view/telling... #WomensHistoryMonth #GenderHist #HistSex

Trip away for human himselfs birthday. The main himself is loving life, see video below 🐕🌊

It exists! My new book is out later this year with Reaktion Books. If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM. #ProtestHistory #Commons reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

A massive team effort. We are happy and very tired after 3.5 years at work on this big beast of an edition, essentially 8 editions in one! Do please have a look. #WomensHistoryMonth @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

omg my first (non student) academic prize!!! 😍 article open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... thank you ACIS!

I'm heading to Trinity College Dublin to talk about Cork queer history and @corklgbtarchive.bsky.social with Q_Soc Trinity LGBTQ and TCD's History Society #speirgorm