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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Crime scene, Dun Laoghaire style

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mostly talking about this long disappeared Rochdale pub sign

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In Warwick for an excellent Chartism Day’.

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The wait is over - ‘Our Cats’ (1904) has finally joined the BNA www.britishnewspaperarchive.com/blog/cats-co...

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Feeling the need to visit the Ulster Model Railway Expo to appreciate this fine piece of historical re-enactment

Railway diorama labelled ‘Huskisson’s End’

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Posing for International Cat Day (but sure, what day isn’t?)

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Community Verdi with the Polpenazze Banda all’Opera

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Paddling giants, footballing dragons, stabby lions and Roman hares, Sirmione

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Apocalyptic scenes in Bardolino (early 12thC)

Fading medieval frescos in the San Severo church, Bardolino

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Toddler tantrum on Donizetti’s tomb, Bergamo

Stone relief of naked children smashing up instruments

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Absolutely, Robert Seymour's Irish vampires were not just Protestant, but Church of Ireland

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Documentary evidence that werecats are Catholic

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Paying homage to my tribal elder

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Thoroughly enjoyed Jan Carson’s latest - our poisoned inland sea features as a character in itself; may not be so popular with my QUB Anthro colleagues

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs

Red sandstone outcrops with Rocky Mountains behind

Red Sandstone outcrops surrounded by greenery

Sandstone ‘balanced rock’ up close; outcrops in distance

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I’ll be discussing several varieties of Irish vampire on Sunday morning

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

No space for O’Connell the runaway engine in next week’s ACIS talk on Seymour’s Irish cartoons - but too good to put aside! From Figaro in London, 1837

Steam engine with Daniel O’Connell’s face smashes into stage coach

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It was a pleasure & privilege to chair this year’s Wiles Lectures by Sunil Amrith on ‘Towards a History of Repair’, responding to the planetary environmental crisis. Thanks to Sunil, academic guests Glenda Sluga, Prashant Kidambi, Laura Martin, Patricia Clavin, Kiran Kumbhar & trustee David Armitage

A group of academics in the quadrangle of Queens University Belfast

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Sunil Amrith will give his third Wiles Lecture at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social today at 5pm on ‘Repair in the History of Capitalism’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...

Historian giving a lecture behind a desk

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Very sorry to hear of the recent death of Don MacRaild. Don was Professor of History at Northumbria, Wellington, Ulster, Roehampton, and London Met, where he was a PVC before his recent retirement. A leading historian of Ireland’s diaspora, he will be much missed by all who knew him.

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Good to see the minister has found some appropriate socks for National Famine Commemoration Day

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

And south to Dawros and Glencolumcille

View across Gweebarra bay to south Donegal

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Arainn Mhór vista from Tory to Dungloe

View from Arainn Mhór island of the bays and mountains of north Donegal

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My former student Dr Pamela Aveyard speaking today at the EHRI-UK launch event for the digital version of Rabbi Shachter’s archive at QUB

Woman speaking at lectern with picture behind of Jacob Shachter, rabbi of Belfast, 1926-53

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Some stunning Harry Clarkes on display at the NMI

Stained glass of St Brendan arriving by boat to see the ‘unhappy Judas’ (who is consumed by fire)

‘A Meeting’ (1918) - a dancing mermaid and merman

Richard Mulcahy in IFS uniform in a blue and white stained glass surround - made for his family in 1925

The ‘unhappy Judas’ in stained glass about to make a grisly end thanks to an angel suspending a noose

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Transoceanic Fenian swashbuckling - the Catalpa flag briefly on display at NMI for the 150th anniversary of the Fremantle ‘rescue’

Very large US naval flag with 36 stars laid out on the floor at the NMI

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

At Ashok Malhotra’s Booklaunch at No Alibis - as close as we can get to Shangri-La in Belfast

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Brents assembling on the Lough before migrating north

Four Brent geese swimming on Belfast Lough - Jordanstown on far side

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Product placement, 1886 style (Blarney, 19 June 1886)

Cartoon of Gladstone and Randolph Churchill smoking Leahy, Kelly and Leahy of Belfast's 'Great Two D' cigars

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Admiring Mary Daly’s gold Cunningham medal at the RIA

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

‘It was the best of years; it was the worst of years…’

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Many thanks to the Ulster History Circle, North Down & Ards Council, and the Old Inn Crawfordsburn for making all fans of William Sharman Crawford happy today