Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026.
Amber Flood (Ní Mhaoltuile)
@amberflood.bsky.social
History PhD student. Interested in associational culture and knowledge exchange. Funded by the SWWDTP / AHRC. Based at the University of Exeter & Devon and Exeter Institution. I won't bore you with my other interests. She/her 🇮🇪
This month our 'Imprisoned with Oscar' blog series explores the story of the "The Great Silver Robbery". Find out what happened and learn more about George William White, the man at the heart of the case, here: bit.ly/4aQn2ns
Delighted to be involved with this again this year! Looking forward to the next season of lectures📚🎉
The Devon and Exeter Institution@dexinst.bsky.social · 2w agoCALL FOR PAPERS We welcome papers which broadly interact with the theme of "Roots and Networks" for our next season of lectures. More information can be found here: devonandexeterinstitution.org/whats-on/tal... Deadline for abstracts (250-300 words): 21st August 2026. #publiclectures #heritage
Very excited to present and participate in this!!
Daniel Grey@djrgrey.bsky.social · 2w agoExcited to share the conference webpage (plus provisional programme) for "Belonging to the Victorians? — Community, Collections, and Care" on 4 September 2026 at Wilton's Music Hall: belongingtothevictorians.uk Its free to attend and there are some spaces available to delegates not presenting!
With all this talk about Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, we thought we'd cast our minds back to another "modern" representation of the epic poem The DEI holds a late eighteenth century reprint of Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's Odyssey in three volumes (1772; originally published 1725-1726)
"Douglass’s 19-month tour of Britain and Ireland began in Liverpool in 1845 and, for much of the time, Manchester was his base." #slavery #abolition #history www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain
theguardian.com
#DIBLives #OTD 1922 a huge explosion at the Public Records Office in the Four Courts destroyed centuries of Irish administrative, legal & genealogical records. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social has spent years recreating many of these records & made them freely available to the public. virtualtreasury.ie
This heat is not conducive to brain usage... feel like I'm writing up in hell
The School of History and Geography at the University of Limerick (UL) invites applications for the post of Assistant Professor in European and/or Global History (pre-1800). Details can be found at the following link: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #centreforearlymodernstudies #cems #ul
I keep thinking about the UCF students booing the technocratic commencement speaker who was overhyped about AI. And I laugh and laugh. Students rebelling against this terrible technology is *exactly* what we need and what we are seeing more and more. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...
UCF students boo commencement speaker over AI praise
University of Central Florida graduation commencement speaker Glorida Caulfield called AI "the next industrial revolution."
orlandoweekly.com
📢Last few hours to register for the Oral History Network of Ireland's FREE ONLINE #oralhistory networking event this evening! 📌TODAY, 6th May (7pm–9pm) 💻Via Zoom 🎟️FREE TICKETS: tickettailor.com/events/oralh... #OHNI #OralHistoryEvent #OralHistorians
I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries: Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.
I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census nationalarchives.ie/collections/...
1926 Census: Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry. 30 nuns and over 100 other women. Occupation entered as: Laundress. The incarceration of women in the early Free State. #SpeirGorm
CFP. The Society for the History of Emotions biennial conference. June 2-4, 2027. Vienna. Emotions in Adversity. societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...
Royal Museums Greenwich is advertising for a fully funded collaborative doctorate: Uncharted Voices: Subaltern Cultures and Identities in Global Seafaring, 1880–1950 It looks like a great opportunity and theme to me. www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentship: Uncharted Voices
Learn more about and apply for this fully funded collaborative doctoral studentship starting in October 2026
rmg.co.uk
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
404media.co
On Thursday I will be chairing our online session on writing history aimed at a wider audience with guests Elliot Prior and Sabhbh Curran from Curtis Brown Literary Agency. All welcome - sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
How to Reach a Broader Audience: An Introduction to Non-Fiction Trade Publishing in 2026
history.ac.uk
To celebrate #InternationalBagPipeDay here is a pleased looking pooch playing the puppy pipes. M.S. B.11.27 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
