William Sheehan
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Historian of Empire, War, and Crime. Passing interest in public policy and politics. A few books!
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The Open University Library
about 5 hours ago
Want to explore the history and impact of feminist movements? Our International Women’s Week resource list highlights books and research that celebrate women’s voices and explore the journey toward gender equality... 👇
https://ow.ly/72j750YzCzT
#WomenEmpowerment
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Kori Schake
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“My country right or wrong: when right, to be kept right, when wrong, to be put right.” - Major General Carl Schurz 🇺🇸
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Royal Historical Society
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Our prize announcements were preceded last Wednesday by the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture given by Prof Rebecca Earle on: 'The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’
bit.ly/4pjdlnz
Our great thanks to Rebecca for her excellent lecture
#Skystorians
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Rebecca Earle gives the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture - RHS
On Wednesday 1 July, we were delighted to host Professor Rebecca Earle FBA to deliver this year’s Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture: 'The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in t...
https://bit.ly/4pjdlnz
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Urban History
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☎️ Calling all urban historians, we're looking for new members to join our International Advisory Board. Details 👇
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📢 We're hiring!
#HumanGeography
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RUSI
2 days ago
#HIRING
Join RUSI as our Senior Research Fellow for Latin American Security. Lead research on geopolitics, defence & security, build international partnerships, and shape UK-Latin America security debates. Apply by 22 July:
https://bit.ly/4eXImZq
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Dr Sophie Michell
3 days ago
What a day!
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Firestorm Books
3 days ago
Hell yeah we are
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Asheville bookstore sues SC Corrections for destroying their books
Asheville shop Firestorm Books is suing South Carolina prisons over a policy that destroys books not from approved vendors.
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/crime/2026/07/01/asheville-bookstore-sues-sc-prison-system-for-destroying-their-books/90707985007
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Prem Thakker ツ
3 days ago
The US Presbyterian Church has just voted to divest from Palantir & GE Aerospace; recognize the genocide in Gaza; and call for an arms embargo and boycott of genocide-complicit Israeli companies. Cites Palantir & GE's tech being used by human rights violators like ICE, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
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Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
3 days ago
Just under two weeks now until this year's Evidence-Based Policing Conference. This year we will explore the global issues in policing, and how evidence-based policing can challenge them. We will have 42 experts in all subjects to explore this. Register here:
www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/evide...
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Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS
3 days ago
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John O'Donovan
3 days ago
So on foot of today's news from the Vatican:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
It's opportune to remind people that they have been active in Cork City and west Cork for a long time now:
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Jonathan Boff
4 days ago
Oooh this looks good
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Dr Mary McAuliffe
4 days ago
Upcoming Conference: Eva Gore-Booth: Centenary Celebration of A Radical, Rebel and Reformer at Lissadell House, Sligo on 24/25 July on the life of Eva Gore-Booth. Further details, including the full programme, available on the Society website
www.irishlabourhistorysociety.com/eva-gore-boo...
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Eva Gore-Booth: Centenary Celebration of a Radical, Rebel and Reformer - Irish Labour History Society
https://www.irishlabourhistorysociety.com/eva-gore-booth-centenary-celebration-of-a-radical-rebel-and-reformer/?fbclid=IwdGRjcASx_atwZG9mA2ZkaWQWUJuOUkmGHIaEmAHF65SJlF4Kzqqt_GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR7HVRyuqw0bo_NjEemMi1XJivS1fDa3_UCLmj3Eg4Z8olDpn4aUwnB0K5gP6w_aem_1cytPKbVQplxhsmXKjLAVw
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Sarah Roddy
4 days ago
The Catholic Historical Society's annual conference 2026 is on 19 Sep at DCU-St. Pat's. Theme 'Irish Catholic Spaces: Pasts and Futures. Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/chsi-annua...
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CHSI Annual Conference, 2026. Irish Catholic spaces: pasts and futures
Join us for the annual conference of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/chsi-annual-conference-2026-irish-catholic-spaces-pasts-and-futures-tickets-1992909233164?aff=ebdsshother&utm_share_source=listing_android
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May I remind you that it's your party in Government.
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British Online Archives (BOA)
4 days ago
New primary source collection coming soon—The Slave Trade, c. 1830–1893: British Foreign Office Confidential Print. It contains over 31,000 images from Foreign Office files at The National Archives (UK). Learn more and register your interest at
britishonlinearchives.com/collections/...
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The Slave Trade, c. 1830–1893: British Foreign Office Confidential Print - Overview
Britain’s role in the history of slavery is long and complex. After decades of abolitionist campaigning, the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807 ended Britain’s involvement in the…
https://britishonlinearchives.com/collections/140/the-slave-trade-c-1830-1893-british-foreign-office-confidential-print
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RTÉ News
5 days ago
Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public
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Almost 200,000 Irish historical records released online
Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0630/1581016-historical-records-release/
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Thank you, France. But this is a national disgrace!!!!
www.thejournal.ie/french-milit...
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French air defence warship takes up position to protect Dublin during EU Presidency events
The ship arrived over the weekend.
https://www.thejournal.ie/french-military-help-off-dublin-7084639-Jun2026/
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National Library of Ireland
6 days ago
📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026:
https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland
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Mel Brooks showing he's really from Cork.. A master of the "I will..ya."
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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research)
7 days ago
I wrote a chapter for the new Anarchism textbook!
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Mr. Dan Zak
7 days ago
"You could have been born at any point in time, but here you are, alive when ice cream, antibiotics, and indoor plumbing have all been invented, and Mel Brooks is turning 100."
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Thank God for Mel Brooks
Happy 100th birthday to the funniest man who ever lived.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/06/long-live-mel-brooks/687730/?gift=4QfSWyPVV95tk3w2EN6hQpzo5gMcGlNOYiHR_-mcNgo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Angry Staff Officer
7 days ago
Happy 100th birthday to Cpl Melvin Kaminsky aka Mel Brooks - the Mensch of Mensches When speaking of his service with the 78th Infantry Division in WWII, he reportedly said, “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering.”
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Roy Bennett
7 days ago
Utterly brilliant, we need more of this. Fancy being on the end of this, I would never be able to show my face again. 🤣🤣🤣
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Boom, expect this lawsuit to be dropped ASAP!!!!
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All the cards you say.....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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JD Vance claims US holds all the cards in Iran and will win ‘either way’
Vice-president appeared on Bill Maher’s show hours before more military strikes were exchanged in strait of Hormuz
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/27/jd-vance-bill-maher-iran-war
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William Sheehan
Hurst Publishers
9 days ago
Out Now ⬇️ 'A powerful contribution to the history of colonial violence and warfare.'
@philipwblood.bsky.social
'Empire with a Vengeance’ by Mark Condos is an absorbing new history of European colonialism from 1815–1914. Get 20% off w/code CONDOS20 ➡️
tinyurl.com/4f6rwus3
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Damn....
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Row... Row...Row...Row...
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Zero judgement, zero understanding, zero morals....
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Aparna Nair
9 days ago
www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
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And what's the downside here?
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Love this...... ❤️
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Ireland have beaten India in the most boring sport in the world. Go us!!
www.rte.ie/sport/cricke...
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Ireland stun world champions India at Stormont
The Ireland men's cricket team have beaten T20 world champions India by 34 runs at a sweltering Stormont - their first win over them in their 20th meeting across all formats including nine T20 interna...
https://www.rte.ie/sport/cricket/2026/0626/1580533-ireland-stun-world-champions-india-at-stormont/
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Dr Sophie Michell
9 days ago
My thesis is now available open access because they wouldn't let me embargo it (
oro.open.ac.uk/110434/
) Or you can just come to my paper at BCH in September and I'll give you the 15 minute version.
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The Open University
https://oro.open.ac.uk/110434/
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Irish Association of Professional Historians #IAPH #Skystorians
15 days ago
Join us for the
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of
#IAPH
on Fri 10 July kindly hosted by our good colleagues
@ria.ie
. AGM will commence at 6pm followed by our Annual Lecture given by Prof Helen Parr
@unioflimerick.bsky.social
#Skystorians
#ProfessionalHistorians
#Historians
#MedHums
#HistMed
#Speirgorm
#HSTM
#Archaeology
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John Scalzi
10 days ago
Look at the fucking racist
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So much taking back control.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/25/eu-to-punish-british-farmers-in-reset-talks-with-burnham/
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Royal Historical Society
10 days ago
Over the coming week, we feature the 8 monographs shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book Prize. Today: 'Slave Trading in the Early Middle Ages: Long-distance Connections in Northern and East Central Europe',
bit.ly/3QpqkHf
by Janel M. Fontaine (Manchester University Press) 1/2
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Ian Bond
10 days ago
In 2016 hardly anyone in the Leave campaign paid any attention to Brexit's possible effects on Northern Ireland, despite warnings from John Major and Tony Blair. Where do things stand ten years later? Hear from
@otoolematthew.bsky.social
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@adampayne26.bsky.social
at
@centreeuropeanref.bsky.social
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Rick Herrera
10 days ago
CFP:
www.show.org.uk/2021civilwar...
@smh-historians.bsky.social
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Call for Papers | Society for the History of War (SHoW)
https://www.show.org.uk/2021civilwarsconference
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Justin F Jackson, Ph.D.
10 days ago
Great conference! Apply!
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A strategy to reduce his sentence, one suspects. But your honour, look what I've already lost....etc..etc..
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Dr Francis Young
11 days ago
If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities
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Catherine Fletcher
11 days ago
This year's
@sochistorywar.bsky.social
conference is in Limerick, 26-27 November. Check out the call for papers on our website. Closing date 3 July.
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Society for the History of War
Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.
https://www.show.org.uk
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Chris Sprigman
11 days ago
NY-10, my district, is the most Jewish congressional district in the country, w/about 25% of voters identifying as Jewish. And yet tonight the district threw out pro-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman, and elected Brad Lander, who calls Gaza a genocide and favors an cut-off of weapons to Israel, by 30+ pts. 1/
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Utterly disgraceful.
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Chris Kempshall
12 days ago
Absolutely. There’s essentially no such thing as a permanent job in academia anymore.
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