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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

📢Applications are open for researchers seeking to be hosted by CLAS for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2027. Internal deadline: 12 noon, 23 October 2026. Eligibility and application details: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/leverhulme-t...

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to Jimmy Kelly’s festschrift

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you are at a loose end come and listen to me talk about the history of Halloween at Ulster Folk Museum, on 29 October, 2pm, ticket price gets you into museum as well! nationalmuseumsni.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket... @usihs.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social

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Buy From Samhain to Witches: A History of Halloween in Ireland Tickets online - National Museums NI

View From Samhain to Witches: A History of Halloween in Ireland from National Museums NI.

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Darth Manu @darthmanu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Il y a ça en accès libre jusqu'au 15/10: Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World, de Andrew Sneddon, chez Cambridge Elements: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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This Element argues that early modern witchcraft (discourse, visual imagery and trials) in Scotland, England, Ireland and America demonised, devalued and disqualified non-normative bodies and minds. Using interpretative frameworks of monstrosity and deformity, while working within wider religious and medical understandings of disability, physical, cognitive, and sensory difference was read as inner corruption, sin or divine punishment or medicalised and pathologised as something to be fixed. The witch's body became monstrous through association with demonic creatures and physical transformation, while visible physical difference offered sought-after physical evidence of witchcraft. Intersecting with social status, reputation, and gender, disability therefore explains why some individuals were accused of witchcraft. Disability could also hamper a suspects' ability to defend themselves during interrogation and trial. Their victims, the bewitched, however, used witchcraft accusations to navigate discriminatory narratives and treatment of disabling conditions and to find ways to cure or mitigate them.

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Available free to download until October 15: Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World by Andrew Sneddon www.cambridge.org/core/element... #History

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Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A spectral black dog, believed to be a witch, Moll Bloxham, once haunted Warwick Castle. Moll was angry that her concession for selling the castle’s surplus dairy produce had been withdrawn. After an exorcism the dog leapt from Caesar’s Tower into the river 🧵 #SpookySunday

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Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

On the HGN blog: an interview with @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social & Dr Victoria McCollum @ulsteruni.bsky.social on the amazing Witches of Islandmagee project. Huge thanks to Kirstin Mitchell (HGN Research Assistant Extraordinaire) for leading this conversation! www.historicalgames.net/interview-wi...

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Interview: Witches of Islandmagee Project | Historical Games Network

This interview features Dr Victoria McCollum and Dr Andrew Sneddon (Ulster University) in conversation with Kirstin Mitchell (PhD student with Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru/Research Assistant...

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My week book ‘Magic and disability in the early modern world’ out with Cambridge is free to download until 15 oct 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element... It’s free , help yersel

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Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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

Exterior view of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, red brick, neo-Gothic-ish architecture with many windows.

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

See link to research profile in my blurb, it’s on there but it’s a.sneddon@ulster.ac.uk

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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/

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GRAPHIC NOVEL

A brand new supernatural graphic novel that is absolutely loaded with haunting visuals set in a misty isolated town off the coast of County Antrim. It’s 1711, a woman with demons of her own –…

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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...

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On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion

This two-day event focuses on exploring the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion.

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Vault of Culture @vaultofculture.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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...

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NST #1169: Cain's Book (1960/1981) — The Vault of Culture

The 1981 Grove paperback edition of Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book (1961) features string on its collage cover.

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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...

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On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion

This two-day event focuses on exploring the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion.

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On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion

This two-day event focuses on exploring the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion.

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Wild ponies in the Mourne Mountains, Co. Down

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. - Jack Kerouac

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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

Page of a book with a black and white illustration of a unicorn standing next to a small waterfall.

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/04/2025

'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

Graphic for RHS article in History Workshop, 'Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society'.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 07/04/2025

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. 🗃️

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AHA Resource Library - AHA

Explore All Resources Search Resource Type Thematic AHA Topics Geographic K-12 Education Undergraduate Education Graduate Education Professional & Career Resources Academic Department Resources Histor...

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

His handwriting is awful! Gave me a big headache back in the day!

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

#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

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Witches of Islandmagee

This site is dedicated to uncovering the importance of the witch trial that took place in 1710–1711 in Islandmagee, Ireland.

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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/...

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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.

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Cathal McManus @cathalpmc.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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AN TAIBHSE (The Ghost) - Irish Language Horror Film Official Trailer

YouTube video by Cathal Fitzpatrick

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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

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Witches of Islandmagee

This site is dedicated to uncovering the importance of the witch trial that took place in 1710–1711 in Islandmagee, Ireland.

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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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.....

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The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition

Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and an...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/03/2025

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

Graphic showing raised hands and speech bubble with the text: RHS Scouloudi Panel Grants, 2025. New funding programme, closing date Friday 23 May.

Graphic of the word 'History' composed of people with the additional text: Applications invited for RHS Scouloudi Public History Grants, 2025. New funding programme, closes 23 May'.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Would'st thou like to live deliciously?

strawberry blonde baby goat with very long ears and the derpiest smile

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