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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Big thank you & GRMA to the amazing @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social for making my HHF 2026 talk available online "The Reed Celtic Cross: One thousand years of Ireland's history in Abney Park Cemetery" - from the early medieval period to the Celtic Revival #IrishLondonHistory☘️ youtu.be/wBjHq_8oubs?...

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The Reed Celtic Cross: One thousand years of Ireland's history in Abney Park Cemetery - Breda Corish

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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A message from Matthew Stibbe, editor-in-chief, to mark the sudden passing of Don MacRaild. www.tandfonline.com/journals/fim...

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Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Happy to be speaking at #WestCorkHistoryFestival next month on Irish pauper removals from London. The theme this year is ‘boundaries: setting them and crossing them‘. Best part of Ireland in my (very biased) opinion, so come along if you're able! ☘️ westcorkhistoryfestival.org

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 07/05/2026

We are dismayed by news regarding UG History, and other subjects, at Hertfordshire. This follows recent job losses at Essex and elsewhere, and makes clear the crisis in UK HE. The Society is in touch and working with historians at UoH. As ever, we invite contact from others affected #Skystorians

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Could any #Spéirghorm #Gaeilge linguists help with this phrase "Sassenach sarragchows (Protestant wretch)"? Said by the 19th century Irish in the Rookery of St Giles about members of the London City Mission. I know that 'Sassenach' was a synonym for Protestant and English - but what's 'sarragchows'?

Screenshot of a few lines from 'Round the tower; or the story of the London City Mission' (1875) by John Matthias Weylland.
Text reads: "In one of the rookeries the missionary had been badly treated, and whenever he entered the cry of Sassenach sarragchows (Protestant wretch) was raised, and effective visiting became impossible".

Source: https://archive.org/details/MN41578ucmf_4/page/n185/mode/2up?q=irish

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

More #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ at @thelondonarchives.bsky.social exhibition 'Londoners on Trial'. One display explores Removals of poor & destitute Irish from late 18th & 19th century London. And if you look closely at many of the other exhibits, you'll see references to Irish people and surnames. /1

Brochure for the exhibition 'Londoners on Trial: Crime, courts and the public 1244-1924'

Photo of the Irish Removals section in the foyer of The London Archives

An example of an "Irish Pauper" Removal docket

Part of a page of the Middlesex Sessions register showing an "Idle & Disorderly" charge made against Irishwoman Mary Smith

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Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

#LondonIrish event @thelondonarchives.bsky.social next week. Jonah Miller will be revealing an 1851 case of police brutality in an Irish neighbourhood in London, as well as the coverup and (Chartist-led) campaign for justice that followed. See you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-police...

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The Police Outrage: A Killing & Campaign for Justice in 19th-Century London

Join Dr Jonah Miller to explore a forgotten episode in the early history of British policing.

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Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

@thelondonarchives.bsky.social exhibition #LondonersOnTrial is now open! Plenty of Irish vagrancy and pauper removals to explore, and it’s completely free to visit. There’s much more Irish history to explore at TLA, including Fenian activity in Clerkenwell www.thelondonarchives.org/blog/fenian-...

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Fenian London: The Clerkenwell Explosion | The London Archives

In this article from The London Archives, read about the Clerkenwell explosion of 1867.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Thanks to the London Archives for having me along to do a talk about sexuality in the Capital last night. If anyone is looking for an in-depth presentation on the Second World War as a sexual revolution, with a London or more general focus, hit me up!

Luke Turner giving a talk about sexuality during the second world war, background image pictures from letters to London Life magazine, sent by mackintosh fetishists during the war years.

Dancing girls from Soho's Windmill club wearing gas masks, from Film Fun Magazine, 1941

London bomb damage map, streets north of Old Street

members of a Guards regiment, photographed by Montague Glover

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

⚡ Lightning Talks at The London Archives ⚡ Are you a student or ECR? Need feedback on your work? Can you summarise it in 5 minutes? Join us for Lightning Talks at The London Archives - a friendly event open to researchers of London and its history! 📆 Wed 11 February 🕔 5pm

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Lightning Talks at The London Archives - IN PERSON

Are you a student or Early Career Researcher? Need feedback on in-progress research? Can you summarise your research in 5 minutes or less?

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🎉 It's the 100th anniversary of Keats House opening to the public 🎉 ✒️ Down in Clerkenwell we're celebrating with a talk on Keats' Life in London (and if you hop on the Northern Line at Angel you can go visit Keats House in Hampstead after!). 🗓️ 28 August 12:30pm

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Keats' Life in London (In-person Talk)

An illustrated talk about the life of the poet John Keats.

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Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Got invited to speak about #workhouses for the St Marylebone Festival. I'm supplying the archival research and Marylebone are supplying the gruel, made from a recipe in @thelondonarchives.bsky.social collections - at least you won't need a dinner reservation. stmarylebone.org/product/lect...

Illustration of a workhouse casual ward. A blue banner with white writing cuts across it saying 'Labour Stories - The St Marylebone Workhouse'.

Below this it says 'Heritage' and 'St Marylebone Festival'.

2 July 2025, 18:30 - 19:30
Lecture Series: Labour Stories - The St Marylebone Workhouse
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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Transcription work tonight. Had two different letters from Sea Fencible commanders in 1798, one from Edinburgh and one from Folkestone, reporting that either locals or naval signal officers assisted French prisoners to escape to France. I need to follow these up #NavalHistory

Screen grab of one of the affidavits from Folkestone say that: That he William Hall had some months since (with the assistance of other persons) procured a French prisoner by the name of [blank] Edlins to escape to France; and He the said Wm Hall further declared to this deponent, that he Wm Hall caused the said prisoner to be secreted in a certain House, near the signal Post, and in the mean time procured the said prisoner a Boat, and provisions, in order to effectuate such his Escape.

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Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

An unusual Irish pauper removal doc. Hannah Macknamara, 27, refused to be sworn to her examination by Middx JPs. William Diggens was instead examined to determine Hannah’s ‘removability’. He told them she was from Cork having left 2 years before. She was deported 24th July 1847. #LondonIrishHistory

Removal order from the Middlesex Sessions. The text states:

The examination of William Livingston Diggens of Chelsea Workhouse as to the removeability of Hannah Macknamara aged 27 years who refuses to be sworn in her examination - taken on Oath before us, two of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace acting in and for the County of Middlesex, this twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, who on oath saith that according to the best of his knowledge and belief the said Hannah Macknamara was born in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland which she left about two years ago, and hath no settlement in that part of the United Kingdom called England, and hath actually become and is now chargeable to the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea - in the said County of Middlesex and that she hath resided in the County of Cork and is liable to be removed there to.

Signature of William Diggens.

Underneath that is text reading “Removed the within Named Hannah Macknamara for Ireland this 24 Day of July 1847. By me H. Nelson”

Underneath this reads ‘Sworn the day and year first above-written, before us” followed by the signatures of the two Justices of the Peace.

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Kate Wiles @katemond.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It's absolutely not common sense. It's not only historically illiterate, it also ignores the actual status of languages in the parts of the UK that aren't England.

tweet from Kier Starker: 'If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That’s common sense.

So we’re raising English language requirements across every main immigration route.'

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A big thank you & GRMA to @thelondonarchives.bsky.social @racheljbarrett.bsky.social for a fantastic talk today on the Removal of Irish Paupers from London during the nineteenth century 👏 Middlesex Sessions records now on my to do list for #IrishLondonHistory research ☘️

Title slide of talk "Famine and the Removal of Irish Paupers from London"

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

📣#IrishHistory talk alert! ☘️ Thur 8 May @ 12:30pm Famine and the Removal of Irish Paupers from London (In person and Online) Learn about the Irish in London who were sent back to Ireland during the Great Hunger to face an uncertain fate. #archives #speirgorm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/famine-and....

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Famine and the Removal of Irish Paupers from London (In-person)

This talk will discuss how and why Irish paupers were removed from London.

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Our #PopularItem is C18th-19th Sun Fire Office policy registers! Fire was a real threat to property so many took out insurance against it. They weren't just insuring buildings either, here's a 1793 policy for Gilbert Pidcock who has insured a rhino. Yes, you read that correctly... 🦏 📖 #archives30

Photo of policy number 614342 from a Sun Fire Office policy register. The date of the policy, 23 April 1793, is at the top. The policy reads 'Gilbert Pidcock at the Exhibition Room over Exeter Change in the Strand. On a Rhinoceros & Carriage for the same travelling about the country for exhibition not exceeding two hundred pounds'.

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Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Come join me @thelondonarchives.bsky.social on Mon 28th April for this free workshop with @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social. We’ve got some incredible letters in our collections and this is a fantastic chance to explore them whilst contributing to a research project. #archives #LondonHistory

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UCD Archives @ucdarchives.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Easter Sunday 1916, 1.20pm Original holograph countermanding order from Eoin MacNeill to Éamon de Valera.

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hello! We're The London Archives, a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. We look after over 100km of manuscripts, books, drawings, engravings, photos and films spanning 1000 years of London's history! Give us a follow. #archives #history #LondonHistory

A section of the Civitas Londinum map showing the City of London at the top, the River Thames in the middle, and bull baiting and bear baiting rings at the bottom.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 14/04/2025

For any tourists visiting these shores this summer, I recommend this detailed map of Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys, from “Topography Of Ireland” by Gerald Of Wales (1187)

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Aine Doran @ainedoran.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🚨Are you working on Irish Migration or Demography research?🚨 We're hosting a virtual @cephie.bsky.social workshop on May 23rd Full details of the CfP is below. Work from early career researchers is particularly welcome! Please share with anyone who may be interested

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Mike Baldwin @mikebaldwinharp.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My new book, Béara: Rescued Folklore - 4th in the Rescued Folklore series - is available from 31 March 2025. More here: www.mike-baldwin.net/folklore

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a fantastic medieval map of Ireland from a 15th-century navigational chart, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1352, f. 3r ☘️🎉

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Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Many Irish in London during the Great Famine were deported to Ireland. These are (pre-Famine) removal receipts of the Connors from Cork who had left Ireland 5 years before but didn't meet the criteria to be deemed 'settled' in England. They faced starvation and disease on their return.

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Charlotte Hopkins McPherson @charlhopkins.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New exhibition coming on 24 February…counting down! ‘London in the Second World War’ at The London Archives. www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...

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London in the Second World War

In this exhibition at The London Archives explore the experiences of Londoners during the Second World War and the effect it had on the city they knew.

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Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

For generations of readers brought up on the #poetry of 1914-1918, it may come as a surprise to discover that the Second World War produced any poetry at all. Want to know why? Head to #TheLondonArchives for a talk by @timkendall70.bsky.social to find out! #WW2 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-event...

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Book Event - Poetry of the Second World War

Join us as Professor Tim Kendall talks about the Poetry of the Second World War.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

*EXCITING TALK CLAXON* Curious about #EarlyModern London? About #HistKnowledge? And knowledge-in-practice? You can't be in better hands than with @rhiggitt.bsky.social & @jasminekt.bsky.social! 19 February, 5:30, at the London Archives All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/metrop...

Metropolitan Science: London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800
The London Archives, February 19, 2025 - February 19, 2025

Join us at The London Archives as Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin talk us through their new publication, exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London. In this talk, co-authors Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin will introduce the book and reflect on how they made use of archives at The London Archive and Guildhall alongside other sources to draw out the voices of artisans and reveal the roles of knowledge and skill.

About Metropolitan Science:

Beginning with the demographics of London in the 17th and 18th centuries, including its attraction of migrants, importance as a centre of empire, and the role of its institutions in government, the authors analyse how and why London was a unique site of scientific activity. Through the use of case studies, such as the Tower of London’s Royal Mint, and the Livery Company Halls, this book examines the city’s sites of exchange for knowledge and practice and highlights the importance of both public and private spaces.

With exploration of London’s military and colonial history, the authors acknowledge how its port and maritime trade were not only central to growth and protection, but also facilitated the organisation, assessment, valuation, and pursuit of knowledge in the city. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that London corporations produced unique knowledge communities that drew on networks across the city and beyond and uses a variety of spatial and material approaches to reveal the use, representation, and exchange of practice in these collective settings.

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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We are delighted to announce @ssnci.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference will be held at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen on 19-21 June 2025. The conference theme is Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland! See ssnci.org/annual-confe...

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Annual Conference 2025 | The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

[reposted] The storm has broken at Cardiff University. Solidarity to everyone who is going to be affected by leaving the university, or by remaining as part of a substantially weakened workforce. Please join a union.

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Rachel Barrett @racheljbarrett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The London Archives is hosting @rhiggitt.bsky.social and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin to talk us through the roots and development of a scientific culture in C17th-18th London. Sign up to find out where and how modern science developed! #earlymodern #history 19/2/25 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metropolit...

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Metropolitan Science: London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800

Join us at The London Archives as Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin talk us through their new publication.

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Rory Codd @rorycodd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Visited the Lost Victorian City exhibition at The London Archives this afternoon, interesting to see some of the places around the city that have disappeared over time 👀

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Publishing today: The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain by Lewis Darwen and Donald MacRaild, a new addition in the Reappraisals in Irish History series. Discover more here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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