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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Oh boy, can't wait to stay up and watch Scotland!

Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Did I tell you about the time I discovered an unknown photograph of a test cricketer and member of Don Bradman's Invincibles? In the spare time, I'm still research, writing (and doing some recording about) the Mandurama Reds rugby league team. open.substack.com/pub/manduram...

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Famous Faces

Ernie Toshack, test cricketer and Mandurama Red.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Irish Times' new mailout setup is painful, I don't need emails that look like they come from journalists!

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Obit I've come across for a former league player who died in 1928. He was young too, 32. Most obits were the same, short but painful illness. Anyone out there able to suggest what illness would have been reported like this? Was it a bad cancer?

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Gave a "mystery lecture" in London last night. Thought I'd lost the crowd but rather they'd taken me up on the challenge of considering a very human perspective of the Troubles. Glad I went before the lecture on pareidolia in everyday objects 🤣 Posting more in 2026, here not there, of course.

Black and white photo taken from high above showing the lawn at Queen's University Belfast filled with neat rows of Red Cross nurses.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My project on the Mandurama Reds has received the Wes Smythe Award (from the Tom Brock Bequest) to further research the history of the village and rugby league team. Lots of connections to labour union history, Irish migration, and rural life in this story open.substack.com/pub/manduram...

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Flatford Mill and Dedham. Beautiful countryside and great @nationaltrust.org.uk spot: 10/10 scones and ice cream

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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The Parliamentary History Essay Prize 2025 is open! The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in our journal! The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2025! For details 👇 🧵1/4 @histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social

'The Right Honorable J. Ramsay MacDonald addressing the House of Commons', by Sir John Lavery, 1923.
Oil on Canvas.
Credit Glasgow Life Museums.
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-right-honourable-j-ramsay-macdonald-addressing-the-house-of-commons-84786

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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🪦 Ever walked through a graveyard & wondered what the stones can tell us? @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Archaeologist Lara Wilgaus shares how graves are recorded, from GPS mapping to grave motifs, in their #ADayInArchaeology blog. 👉

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Grave Recording - How archaeologists record graves!

Learn more about the diverse work we carry out at the CBA.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

We're trying to raise the profile of the work we're doing to support Heritage Work in the London Borough of Islington. Any insta follows would be appreciated! www.instagram.com/islingtonher...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Colonial Networks @colnet.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Got a tour of the Emirates and Arsenal Museum today, caught this reference to Glentoran. Hadn't realised that Arsenal travelled to play the Glens in September of 1969! The night before the match there were attacks on the RUC and churches burnt out!

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

No one: Local Authority Heritage Service: "I've sent you a WhatsApp could you just confirm this isn't poop."

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Historic churches, I'm in search of examples of great brochures, flyers, and design! Does anyone have any they can share? #heritage #churches #history

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Walk and explore around the Reformed Jewish burial ground at Balls Pond Road. Fascinating stuff and a great project underway!

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Corner of Church Rd and High Street, building on the right is now the Boots!

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Moves to London, #Belfast gets all the sun. Am I doomed to gloom forever? Lovely day back running an Intro to Oral History workshop for QUB's Our Place; Our Stories. #OralHistory #History

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Free oral history workshop, Tue 25th at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Plenty of participation, and I'll definitely be available to chat. Made possible through a @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History comment project Sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Three years of freelancing, still find the exact words to politely enquire about remuneration awkward to formulate.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Today I found out I need a root canal and got invited to speak at Kings in London. Swings and round-a-bouts right?

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

whenever i'm up all night writing with the cat i think of Pangur Ban - the cat of an Irish monk who lived in Reichenau Abbey in the 9th century, and the poem the monk wrote about him.

The scholar and his cat, Pangur Bán

(Translated from the Old Irish by Robin Flower.
Click here for the original with a literal translation.)

I and Pangur Bán my cat,
'Tis a like task we are at:
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words I sit all night.

Better far than praise of men
'Tis to sit with book and pen;
Pangur bears me no ill-will,
He too plies his simple skill.

'Tis a merry task to see
At our tasks how glad are we,
When at home we sit and find
Entertainment to our mind.

Oftentimes a mouse will stray
In the hero Pangur's way;
Oftentimes my keen thought set
Takes a meaning in its net.

'Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;
'Gainst the wall of knowledge I
All my little wisdom try.

When a mouse darts from its den,
O how glad is Pangur then!
O what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love!

So in peace our task we ply,
Pangur Ban, my cat, and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine and he has his.

Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;
I get wisdom day and night
Turning darkness into light.

medieval illumination - a cat in a monk robe

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Some heritage that needs saving on #heritagetreasures day: Mountpottinger School, *I believe* the oldest purpose built public education building in East Belfast. Designed by Samuel Close and built in 1896. Derelict today, leased to a furniture shop. Pictured with emoji.

Screenshot of Google Earth showing location of Mountpottinger school. Templemore Avenue and its Baths can be seen a street away.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A local history group has brought the most Australian green grocers to my attention. Davo's Fruit & Veg Mart, Blayney, NSW c. 1980

Streetscape with several 1970 style cars, green, white, and brown, in front of two shop fronts with awnings. On the left is Davo's on the right is a Ford dealership.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Old Donegall Street Congregational Church. Anyone recognise these symbols? Lower appears to be St Patrick's Cross

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

No snow, just rainy in Belfast but the cat buried himself in the doona.

Black and white cat rolled up in doona, you can just see his face in the centre.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Totally acceptable to stay up until 03:30 to watch the Australia v India test when the cat's asleep on you, right?

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A 2025 resolution is to explore BlueSky more. Another is to properly attempt to get into writing up all the bits of Belfast and Irish (and let's face it Australian) history that didn't make their way into work or research already!

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Open to freelance ops! 📚🎙️ I have updated my webpage which can only mean one thing, in 2025 I am open to new freelance heritage opportunities. I currently have space in my calendar for shorter, mostly oral history projects but I am open to any discussion! samguthrie.page

Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Thrilled with this find! Cathal Byrne's "As I Roved Out", £15 at Keats & Chapman. Legendary book and bookshop in #Belfast. A timely find as I plan to step back from EastSide Partnership and take on new heritage projects. Are you working on something with oral history in Ulster? Get in touch!

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I think I accidentally soft launched Doha's next tourism campaign during my TWELVE HOUR layover. #Qatar #Doha

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Sorry for the lack of posts, busy eating everything in sight at the Phuket Old Town markets.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Just Australia's Russell Hobbes British Film Festival excitedly and enthusiastically claiming Saoirse Ronan as British in their copy and audio adverts!

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Finally took one of Jason Burke's First World War Historical Walking Tours around East Belfast. Great walk and greater stories from the Great War.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

@rauchway.bsky.social would love to join the What's History 🗃️ list please!

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Wanted to test out posting the archive emoji! Feels like a training day for BlueSky 🗃️

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

My current obsession is the Recollect Central West platform on Central West Libraries. A great selection of mid-century photos of Orange, NSW. Yes, I'm researching sporting history in my spare time. #RugbyLeague #SportsHistory #Australia centralwest.recollect.net.au

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Welcome to RECOLLECT | Central West Libraries

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

So many notifications and I barely feel like I have something to post 😅

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Talisk are absolutely class. Last night at Limelight was brilliant.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I'm a public and oral historian working in Belfast and across N Ireland. I work with communities to deliver projects, develop ideas, and upskill. Currently supporting the below through my day job, come along if you'd like to learn more or be involved in a community driven project.

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Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Lots of notifications, but too busy having a pie and a pint in Edinburgh.

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