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Clodagh Tait

@clodaghtait.bsky.social

Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore. https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait

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Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 12h ago

It was only a matter of time before the knives were out for Re-Turn, a project that puts the entire burden of waste management on the consumer and gives businesses no incentive to improve their packaging.

Helen Shaw - Athena Media@athenamediaie.bsky.social · 13h ago

"The not-for-profit company paid out total compensation of €700,000 to Foley and private sector executives from Coca-Cola HBC Ireland, Britvic, Heineken, Musgrave and Diageo who sit on its board": Coca Cola, number 1 plastics polluter/ no bio for board on website www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 23h ago

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Clodagh Tait@clodaghtait.bsky.social · yesterday

Delighted to see my and Judith Hurley's article on ceremonies of churching in Ireland live @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social. Thanks to Cara Delay, special issue editor, and all the journal team! doi.org/10.1080/0961...

Mothering, matrescence and the changing meanings of ceremonies of churching after childbirth in Ireland, c.1800–2000

Ceremonies of churching tend to have a negative reputation, as rituals imposed by clerics on women in the vulnerable time after childbirth. Their perceived associations with ‘cleansing’ or ‘purific...

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Catherine Fletcher@catherinefletcher.info · yesterday

Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

Lecturer in Public History and Heritage - (9363) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

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Clodagh Tait@clodaghtait.bsky.social · yesterday

Delighted to see my and Judith Hurley's article on ceremonies of churching in Ireland live @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social. Thanks to Cara Delay, special issue editor, and all the journal team! doi.org/10.1080/0961...

Mothering, matrescence and the changing meanings of ceremonies of churching after childbirth in Ireland, c.1800–2000

Ceremonies of churching tend to have a negative reputation, as rituals imposed by clerics on women in the vulnerable time after childbirth. Their perceived associations with ‘cleansing’ or ‘purific...

doi.org

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 2d ago

“a detail is itself a kind of argument” cracking piece from @joemoransblog.bsky.social on detail in history writing 🗃️

...... a detail is itself a kind of argument and thus, since beauty and elegance in writing derive from economy, a way of making a point without belabouring it. Through the selection and arrangement of detail, you can redirect the reader's attention, which is naturally drawn to the eye-catching or the obviously consequential. You can make something that seemed peripheral seem suddenly important.
Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 5d ago

"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

Opening page of the Transactions article 'On Detail in Historical Writing' by Joe Moran. Full abstract: "This Comment considers the role of detail in historical writing, inflected through my own experience of writing ‘trade’ books for a general rather than specialist readership. I argue for the value of the detail that is slightly recalcitrant, that is more than just flesh on the bones of an argument or evidence marshalled to make a point. Detail is itself a kind of argument and thus, since beauty and elegance in writing derive from economy, a way of making a point without belabouring it. The gratuitous fact can be seductive, suggesting that the world has a randomness and overabundance that can't easily be rounded up into a dataset. Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience. They correct our tendency to fixate on one story, to focus on the eventful at the expense of the marginal, and to invent a false unity of experience that erases social differences. With their obdurate specificity, they can shatter our presumptions about the past. I explore these ideas with reference to modern literature (Flaubert, Chekhov), the Mass-Observation archive and examples from my own work in contemporary cultural history and family history."
Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is how I found out! I'm a historian, pretending people were decent just becuase they are dead is poor practice. My suggestion would be that if you are friends with gross abusive bigots you should yourself 'be kind' by being silent rather than trying to deny their harmful words and actions.

post from Ben Goldacre, with labels marking him as Private School and Magdalen College School. Text reads "Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind."
Clodagh Tait@clodaghtait.bsky.social · 3d ago

There's a story on FB about a teenager who's made a load of money reselling lego online, and asked what he wants to do in uni says a history degree because he needs a backup profession. Go him!

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Leanne Calvert@leannecalvert.bsky.social · 3d ago

Such a waste. Thinking of my friends & colleagues in History & across Hums. UH History is where I really learned *how* to teach & how to drive my teaching with my research. A dept that really cared about their students. So many brilliant & talented people in my old dept.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3d ago

In late 2023, the Society spent a day with Hertfordshire’s historians. We saw the quality, creativity and distinctiveness of teaching, research and engagement. We were told by a (now departed) senior manager that History was ‘a portfolio the university will guard very carefully’. bit.ly/4hLediN

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Thinking through the unedifying, un-evidence-based rush to an undefined, apparently unmodelled paradigm of 'specialisation, what's being lost/threatened? Herts History was an excellent example of performing to a top standard in REF, but also much more than that. Questions to think with include: 1/4

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

Pam Lock@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 3d ago

You might like my recent article with my colleague Iain Smith then, which mentions this and other medical and literary cases - I love this public battle too! 2025 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library share.google/08PlJQfWtAL4...

How did investigations into spontaneous human combustion influence alcohol medicine? An examination of the medical and literary discussions that brought the two together

Background and Aims The presence of sections or chapters on spontaneous human combustion in more than half of the key texts in English on the action of alcohol on the body and mind in the first half...

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