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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This week I started a new part-time post as Lecturer in Public History at @keeleuniversity.bsky.social! Grim December weather for an exciting new start..! 📚

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Today marks my last day as a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow @liverpooluni.bsky.social! Three years has gone so quickly - I've met such lovely people, had the room and encouragement to expand my research horizons, and set out on so many adventures to trace prisoner journeys all over the world

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Who else is watching the fantastic #Empire series by @davidolusoga.bsky.social? It was a pleasure to be involved in this - dangerous and disease-ridden #prisonhulks were used in England for 80 years from 1776, propping up the rotten system of convict transportation. Check out episode 2 for more!

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Fantastic week at Western Cape Archives in Cape Town. Some great little finds here (researching POWs, convicts and ships) - and lovely people!

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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland CfP for their annual conference deadline 30 September 2025!

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In London on Tuesday 2 September? Interested about the lives of people, ships, and spaces connected to the Thames? Then come join us at London Museum Docklands and hear about the secret lives of the "low water": www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sec...

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Secret lives of the "low water" panel discussion

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14/05/2025

Applications now invited for the Society's two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26 to support PhD students complete a doctorate in #history. The Fellowships are held in conjunction with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

Image of University of London with the text: RHS Centenary Fellowships, for PhD completion, 2025-26. Closing date for applications: 31 May 2025

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

34 degrees at the Huntington Library today..! Great day scoping the collections ☀️☀️☀️

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The afterlives of the prison: a painted button emblazoned with the Paris coat of arms and the words "stone from the Bastille" (with a spelling mistake) made out of stone taken from the demolished Bastille prison, c.1790 (Musée Carnavalet) 🗃️

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Letterhead from All the Year Round, Charles Dickens's weekly journal, 1859. So exciting! #HuntingtonLibrary

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Home for the next 6 weeks - my first day at the #HuntingtonLibrary as an #AHRC International Fellow. Enjoying #Pasadena palm trees, and the incredible San Gabriel Mountains. Foodie and sightseeing recommendations welcome..!

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Dr Adam Prime @primeadam.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Want academic seminars about India and imperial defence? And a tour of Knebworth House, ancestral home of viceroy Lord Lytton? All in one day with lunch thrown in? Then look no further: knebworthhouse.com/Event/public...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Calling all Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers - Join us for IHR@Liverpool on 9 June 2025. A one-day workshop on the subject of Difficult Histories. Travel bursaries available. www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

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IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Checking out some cheery library books @liverpooluni.bsky.social this morning..

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Dartmoor prison is a granite fortress built 1806-9 to house French prisoners of the Napleonic wars. MPs first began discussing high radon levels there in 1987. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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A Dartmoor village is paying Prince William £1.5m-a-year for an abandoned prison - and former inmates say it gave them cancer

As ex-prisoners sue over claims that high levels of radon gas have led to serious illnesses, taxpayers continue to foot the rental bill

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We are looking for 1.500 word articles for our 'Doing History' feature of The Historian (magazine of The Historical Association). Please get in touch if you might like to share an aspect of historical practice with our members. 🗃️ @histassoc.bsky.social

'Doing history for climate action'. Text and images of magazine. Images include people viewing exhibition and a 17th century drawing of Hull.

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

35th Conference of Irish Historians. Hosted by @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of History. Theme 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'. Call for papers closes 31 March @muahi.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @iaphistorians.bsky.social www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

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CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 September, Maynooth University

Irish Conference of Historians CFPDownload

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I started 2025 with a month-long stay at the wonderful @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social as a Leuven Centre for Irish Studies visiting fellow - researching the lives and experiences of Irish convicts in Bermuda - amazing town, tried every cake imaginable

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Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Hello Bluesky! I am VERY late to the party but looking forward to reconnecting and hearing about everyone's research and adventures...!

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

📣 now out in paperback 📚 Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Personal and Political Value of the Miniature, co-edited by yours truly and the amazing Beth Fowkes Tobin from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

A paperback copy of Small Things in the Eighteenth Century in the sunshine in front of King’s Manor in York.

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