Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 13hThink I asked this a while back but it anyone has any reading on auctioning the goods of the dead in 16th- and 17th-century London, and/or the role of bellmen and criers around deaths and auctions, I'd be very grateful for recommendations! 22024
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New article just published in ‘Èire-Ireland’ Journal on the queer Irish novel and death in the Irish diaspora #IrishStudies #queerliterature #queernovel #Irishdiaspora 062
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Legacy of Slavery - My family and Bristol 59334
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJune Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My story 'Púca1' is over the line for 'Ag Dul Siar', an anthology published January 2027 by Hotel Doolin and Banner Books, to mark its 20th anniversary. Includes work from writers, musicians, artists, photographers, folklorists and cultural figures, whose work speaks to the spirit of the place. 1218
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 25/09/2026I turned up at Waterstones in Worthing to sign some new stock of QUEER ORIGINS and was absolutely bowled over to be greeted by this in prime position in the shop window! It's so uplifting when booksellers get behind one's book. 💜🌈📚🦋🗃️ #book #books #booksky #authors #reading #histsci #queerhistory 1487
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’ve been wrestling with the villanelle form and am afraid it has broken me! It really doesn’t allow for any give! Anyway, here’s a poem about the oldest tree in Ireland (or so I was told). #villanelle #Kildare #Maynooth #Cromabú #poetry 020
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What a nice surprise - my contributor copy of Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr Volume 41 2026 arrived. Belinda wants me to read it all in one go! #18thcentury #irishstudies 0232
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialDr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...nationalmuseums.org.ukJobs - National Museum Directors' Council WebsiteAssociation of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives. 512099
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Of course AI could wipe out humans. Just look at who created it. 040
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialRebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/ 186414
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721802538
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJoel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The new issue of Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr is out now and open access (not sure if this is temporary or not). Use the link below to view the special anniversary issue. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukContents | Eighteenth-Century Ireland 41,This article surveys writings on the history of eighteenth-century Ireland over the first forty years of the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá Chultúr. Commissioned to mark the journal’s fortieth anniversary, it adopts a cautiously ... 14331
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Leading a creative writing workshop on Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) in Special Collections at Kent, writing objects and subjects big and small. Wed 28 Oct, 2pm until 4pm, Templeman Library. Email D.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk to reserve a place. #CreativeWriting #GulliversTravels 11610
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialBSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026***BREAKING NEWS*** We have extended the deadline on our #CFP by 5 days to give those of you that missed our early deadline another chance! New deadline: 20 September 2026 Get writing! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...bsecs.org.ukBSECS Annual ConferenceBSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference 01524
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialDaniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes: 13597706
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialJessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor - 18th-Century British LiteratureAll Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre... 05152
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialNoah Chaskin @chaskin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Any of my disability studies folks have a favorite reading to introduce students to chronic illness and/as disability? (I use Susan Wendell's "Unhealthy Disabled" and it is good, but I'm doing a lot of updating this semester.) 101
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13/09/2026The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power coupleirishtimes.comThe five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couplePadraic Colum’s death made front-page news in the New York Times in 1972, while F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway feared his wife Mary’s rapier wit 054
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New article out now in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 41): '"A picture presented to all our Senses": Vision in Gulliver's Travels and Michael Clancy's Memoirs'. doi.org/10.3828/eci....doi.org‘A picture presented to all our Senses’: Vision in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Michael Clancy’s Memoirs (1750) | Eighteenth-Century IrelandSir, Some Friend of mine lent me a Comedy, which I am told was written by you: I read it carefully, and with much Pleasure, on Account both of the Characters, and the Moral. I have no Interest with the People of the Play-house, else I should gladly ... 0107
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Launch for Issue 19 of The Alchemy Spoon: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-launch... Register for a ticket. Online event. September 17th 7.30pm GMT #newpoetry #poetryreadings @thealchemyspoon.bsky.socialeventbrite.comThe launch of Issue 19 of The Alchemy SpoonReadings from selected posts and an open mic 010
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9359961596
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialKatherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A very quick turn around because of paperwork, but we're hiring a one year post in Modern British History! Please have a look and share widely with anyone interested! Happy to take informal queries at the email in the job posting! www.winchester.ac.uk/About-Us/Wor...winchester.ac.ukWork with us - University of WinchesterExplore the University of Winchester and discover your new career. We have a variety of positions in academic and professional services. Work with us. 21433
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I am disconcerted by the scenes in Dover and just left thinking that even if small boat crossings were somehow stopped forever today this wouldn’t materially impact upon any of the black cladded ‘protestors’ one jot. Scapegoating is about distraction. It’s a dead end. 1111
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialDr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns 522037941
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialSiobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is what woke took from us. 6427
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialLeonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026As promised (threatened), here is a brief Norman history reading list for those who want to know more. It's not comprehensive becuase i haven't got all day, but it is a starting point normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/l... #Normans #medievalsky #skystorians #BayeuxTapestry.normanlandscapes.wordpress.comLeonie’s Norman History reading list!The blog has been quiet for a while [gestures at UK HE problems], but given BBC Radio 4 is having a Normans day to mark the opening of the Bayeux Tapestry, it seemed sensible to put up some sensibl… 13922
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026www.instagram.com/reel/Dcx-PvN...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 000
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I just received my copy of issue 19 of @thealchemyspoon.bsky.social , which features my poem ‘A Stranger’s Gift’ amongst stellar company. It is a poem about organ donation and if you have time to reflect upon it please do consider your own wishes and let these wishes be known to your next of kin. 041
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialCharlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Let’s try again: I’d like to hear about new research from Scottish historians. Especially ECRs whose work may not get much attention. This is because I have a newspaper column where I publicise new work by Scottish historians! Tell me about your research! 4101109
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialMondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 28/08/2026Israeli restrictions on food entry are stalling recovery from famine in Gaza as malnutrition cases climb, an IPC report finds. Two-year-old Hashem Abu Mustafa, born hungry in a Rafah tent, may already be beyond saving. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/gaza...mondoweiss.netGaza isn’t able to recover from famine as acute malnutrition soars across the Strip, new report findsIsraeli restrictions on food entry are stalling recovery from famine in Gaza as malnutrition cases climb, an IPC report finds. Two-year-old Hashem Abu Mustafa, born hungry in a Rafah tent, may… 55248
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialwill pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026academic freedom: to be clear, of course cofnas shouldn’t have lost his job he should never have had the job. happy to clear that up 38311
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialLaura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It’s quite something seeing the (long) list of people who claim to work on social justice issues in archaeology who are prepared to go to EAA in Athens this year, sometimes sharing sessions with people involved in illegal excavations in the West Bank. bdsmovement.net/news/europea...bdsmovement.netEuropean Association of Archaeologists Is Welcoming Scholars Knowingly Participating in a War CrimeThe EAA is welcoming scholars from Hebrew University, which is partially built on land illegally expropriated from Palestinians in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, to its annual meeting, Sept 2-6. 24322
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialDr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 27/08/2026CFP for the Brontes and the Supernatural symposium for next September in Haworth - deadline New Year’s Evebronte.org.ukHaunt me, then! - The Brontës and the Supernatural Symposium | The Brontë Parsonage MuseumCALL FOR PAPERSThe Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2027 special exhibition will focus on the Brontës’ fascination with the supernatural, and we invite proposals 22714
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Delighted that my poem ‘Red Kite’ has found a home in ‘The AfterShock Review’ #poetry #TheAfterShockReview #disabilitypoetics @maxwallis.bsky.social 1101
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton 24107183227
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026So sad to hear the news. Dolly was one of a kind. 060
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialDanny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️ 14172181756
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I got one of those Sydney Book Club emails! 060
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialDr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026True in UK too 091
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Literal terminal sickness in the sector 030
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialBridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Exasperatedly looking to the sky when asked whether you support Ukraine… The ‘admiration’ for Putin seems to run deep in Reform UK. 35212
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom. 1443981094
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is just going to get more frequent isn’t it? #VoteGreen 010
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialDavid Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Lawks a lumme! A permanent literary studies job in the UK! In British Romantic literature! ‘Earth has not anything to show more fair’! 02813
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 24/08/2026Last call for this fantastic offer as the month draws to a close . . . Several bookshops are discounting QUEER ORIGINS but I think this is still the best price (£17.50 & free UK postage). Make the most of it while you can! #books #booksky #histsci #histsex #queerhistory @yalebooks.bsky.social 🌈📚🦋🗃️ 0117
Reposted by DeclanKavanagh.bsky.socialMatthew Roberts @matqbritholiday.bsky.social · 27/01/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSf_... Thank you @antiquaries.bsky.social QUEERING THE BRITISH HOLIDAYyoutube.comQueering the British HolidayYouTube video by SocAntiquaries 084
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026These proofs were hiding in my junk inbox. This article explores death and dying in the queer Irish novel focusing on the work of Colm Toíbín and Katherine O’Donnell & AIDS representation, the Irish diaspora, and temporality. Out in Éire-Ireland in the coming weeks #IrishStudies #QueerNovel 02410