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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Loved this story about a wacky, surreal and slightly fantastical Dublin. Thinking about how, while there are many set in Dublin there are not that many novels about Dublin, since the obvious of couse

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The deadline for our funded PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain is tomorrow! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 | University of Strathclyde

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize opens for submissions on 1 July. The prize aims to recognize and promote high-quality research among PGRs and ECRs working broadly in the field of contemporary European history. You can find the full announcement here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Contemporary European History Prize

A prize aimed at encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career historians.

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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Our children’s morning art session

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

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Luke Butterly @lukejbutterly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Many women have been horrifically killed here in the past 5 years, including at least 7 who were stabbed multiple times, and their deaths did not receive statements from the PM, debates in the commons, or global news coverage. Nor were there any riots, or condemnations of cultures by politicians.

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A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years

In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Southampton is a city that has had real problems with racial violence and racist division in the past, but because of this it also has a strong and proud tradition of anti-racist activism. The community will drive this scum out of the city like they chased out Mosley in 1937.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Now 34 years. I will continue to post the story of Giovanni Falcone because even if just one person who didn't know it reads it, learns about this extraordinary man, and maybe shares it with others, the world will be a slightly better place.

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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I loved Marina Zucchelli’s novel Latte about the relationship between a wealthy new mother and the wet nurse she employed in late 1950s Bologna. Such a fascinating exploration of maternity, class and power, I hope it will be translated so I can recommend it to more people

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Just a reminder, emotions historians take note. Please continue to circulate the cfp.

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Does anyone write regularly in multiple languages in Word? I changed my spell check to Italian to write a thing and it won’t change back. Surely it should be normal to be able to switch between supported languages? I have done it before but not super regularly…

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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Nice to see the new issue of @thedublinreview.bsky.social arrive in the post today, with my essay about the time a pigeon decided to make a nest in my office at work

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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Phoenix is great for a load of reasons but last year's (brick-themed) April Fool issue nailed AI far better than most of our prominent satirists. Excuse the state of my kid's copy.

Spoof advert for an Ai brick called BrAIck. "The ai brick you can mostly trust"

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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This went down very well in our house too! The Phoenix is great

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Caring Communities @caring-communities.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

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University of Southampton News @uosmedia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

In our latest @uk.theconversation.com article, our Professor Tony Kushner writes about the Golders Green ambulance attack, and how the London suburb became a home for Jews👇 theconversation.com/golders-gree... @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

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Golders Green ambulance attack: how this part of London became a home for Jews

Golders Green started to develop as a place of Jewish settlement from the first world war onwards.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This generation of children will never forgive us for this. They will particularly not forgive us if we took all their social media away - which was problematic but at least conversation with real people - and pushed them toward AI chatbots.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 11/03/2026

Very pleased to announce that TAKE YOUR RESEARCH PUBLIC is back for 2026. It's a practical course supporting PhD students and academics working on historical topics to translate their work into public-facing scholarship. Runs 2-23 June online. Apply by 20 April @dcahf-met.bsky.social

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Take Your Research Public

Take Your Research Public is a free practical course aimed at academic researchers (from mid-PhD onwards) who want to develop writing for magazines, social media, podcasts, radio or the broad trade…

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Jennifer Wellington @jenniferwellington.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Hello! During the pandemic, I compiled a collection of digitised Great War primary sources for student research essays. Going through them just now for my current class, loads of those links are now dead. Does anyone have any favourite online source collections (that work)? Will share new list!

Photograph of piles of Australian unit war diaries during taken during the First World War.

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Dr. Stephanie Seul @stephanieseul.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

For the #InternationalWomensDay, I wrote this blogpost commemorating Avis Waterman, the forgotten war correspondent of The Times, who covered the First World War on the Italian front. I have been researching her story during the last 2 years in various archives. stephanieseul.com/2026/03/avis...

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Avis Waterman: The Woman who Covered the First World War on the Italian Front for "The Times" - Stephanie Seul % %

During the First World War, a woman defied the odds and became a foreign and war correspondent for The Times of London, one of the oldest and most prestigious newspapers in the world. %

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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Really important piece considering the further recent developments on AI as war weapon

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 06/03/2026

Yallaa would love 100 responses by the end of today and they're only 10 away. TBH, that doesn't seem like enough voices to me so please complete this and share. They are the best people.

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I’m chairing an online seminar by Sue Bishop (University of Leicester) tonight at 5.30pm. ‘Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries’. All welcome. Please book in advance. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries

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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

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Intl Federation for Research in Women's & Gender History @ifrwh-offical.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Published a book on transnational women's or gender history 2020-25? 🚨Submissions to the Ida Blom-Karen Offen Book Prize in Transnational Women's & Gender History now open🚨You can see the full details on our website: www.ifrwh.com Closing date is 28 February 2026! #WomensHist #GenderHist

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The International Federation for Women's History

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

Tweet from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

For UK and Irish students - scholarships are available for our MA programme in Gender & Sexuality (and other MAs). See www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola... for details.

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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 22/01/2026

Significant harms were raised in the Lords yesterday that do not uniquely apply to people under 16 Then you have this from Kemi 🤦‍♂️ There are incredibly dark and damaging dangers online and this goes much wider than young people The idea that a hard-start at 16 will fix this is for the birds

Text from an article in the Guardian by Kemi Badenoch

“By restricting social media use for children, we aren’t just protecting children. We can also give more freedoms to adults online. We will no longer need to contort digital spaces to be universally “child-friendly”, or impose blanket restrictions on speech and content because children might see it. If we stop treating children like adults, we can stop treating adults like children too.”

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Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History

This is a call for papers for a special issue of gender and history on childhood, gender and crises. For more details email katie.barclay@mq.edu.au

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Femke Nijsse @femkenijsse.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The US is threatening to invade a European country 🇪🇺. One small way to resist: use European alternatives to US big tech: european-alternatives.eu

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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time *sets up school for raccoons against racism*

Man 'trains' crows to attack MAGA hats after saying there's 'no longer a moral option

A man has gone viral after training a murder of crows to swoop down and snatch MAGA hats from unsuspecting Trump supporters, documenting his months-long experiment

Source: Daily Star https://share.google/VB2AOuDvmhM2wn9QH

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️

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Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON

Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...

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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

If he can't get off on a "personal use" excuse then I don't know what Europe's coming to.

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