It was really moving to get to see the UK AIDS Memorial quilt at Tramway in Glasgow today, and to hear from activists Cleve Jones (who conceived the US quilt in 1985) and UK activists Ian van Tillo and Siobhan Lanigan. A must-see if you’re in Glasgow before 4 Oct. www.tramway.org/event/9948ed...

Our latest Current Debates essay in @jich.bsky.social is now out! In his piece entitled "‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical Context" @brian-hanley.bsky.social explores the evolution of Zionist sympathies in Ireland. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical Context

The belief in a ‘natural’ Irish sympathy with the Palestinian people, based on a shared history of colonisation, is a very widespread one. Indeed, many suggest that the legacy of resistance to Brit...

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Finished your MA thesis and wondering what to do next? Why not apply for a history of health PhD at Strathclyde?

Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth@sexhistorian.bsky.social · last mo.

We are looking for a fantastic person to join us at Strathclyde on a funded PhD studentship looking at the history of unorthodox health activism in the UK after 1948! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... #AcademicSky #HistMed

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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Next time someone asks you the bad faith question “Have any women come forward?”, here you are.

socmot@socmot.bsky.social · last mo.

I despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

Apropos to nothing, dead men can't sue you for coming forward about the sexual harassment you experienced from them. #speirghorm

Important read. At least 859 infants and 19 women are estimated to have died in the Bessborough mother and baby institution. It is likely their remains were buried on the grounds. Planning permission has been upheld for building apartments on this site. [1/2] www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

'Do not bury our history beneath concrete', mother of last baby to die at Bessborough tells Government

Bessborough survivor Cindi Bonny says her daughter was the last baby to die at the Cork institution and urges the Government to halt redevelopment

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📢 Book news!! My new book, Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923, with Oxford University Press is now out online & open access ahead of print! doi.org/10.1093/9780... This image comes from the final chapter on Bolshevik and early Soviet attitudes to Ireland @leverhulme.ac.uk

A few weeks ago, @wellcometrust.bsky.social announced that scholars in the republic of Ireland would no longer be eligible to lead bids to the flagship discovery research scheme. We think this decision is badly flawed, and are asking them to rethink: www.irishhumanities.ie/assets/PDFs/...

#eshs-hss 🤦🏻‍♀️

Laura Kelly@tortietabby.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to be at the #hss-eshs conference in Edinburgh today, presenting with my colleagues on the @europrolife.bsky.social team this morning and this afternoon!

Excited to be at the #hss-eshs conference in Edinburgh today, presenting with my colleagues on the @europrolife.bsky.social team this morning and this afternoon!

Strathclyde history represent! Really enjoyed hearing two excellent papers this morning by my colleagues @annalively.bsky.social (on the Women’s Guild of Empire) and Fearghus Roulston (on anti-dampness campaigns in early 80s Britain). #SHS2026 @strathhumanities.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

Excited to be en route to Lancaster for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference. I’m particularly looking forward to the 70s disco tomorrow night! 🕺 I’m speaking on Friday at 11.15 about my research on Women’s Information Network as part of this fab panel on Feminist Politics.

Social History Society@socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣We're so excited to welcome you to our 50th anniversary conference today!✨ Check out our fabulous programme here: socialhistory.org.uk/wp-content/u...

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

923 children died at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home between 1922 and 1998. Only 64 have known graves. Utterly shameful decision by Cork City Council to build apartments on the site. More erasure of the historical mistreatment and shaming of women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Bessborough vigil hears survivors will chain themselves to diggers to stop building work

140 apartments are planned for the site of a mother and baby home where 923 children died

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There's just under 10 days left to apply for this funded PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed #PhDFunding Strathclyde is a lovely place to work and Glasgow is a seriously great city! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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New article (open access!!) online now with Contemporary British History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘In the eyes of the law I might be a man but what do I look like?’: trans women and sex work in 1980s and 1990s England

This article considers the precarious position of trans sex workers in 1980 s and early 1990 s England by examining the ambiguities of medico-legal interpretations of their identities and labour. D...

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Another life-affirming Sparks gig at Kelvingrove bandstand in Glasgow tonight. 🤩

📣Out now on #firstview! Anna Muggeridge @worcesteruni.bsky.social and Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social on 'Revisiting the Politics of Motherhood in Modern British History' #Motherhood #Political #Maternal #History #Identity 20thc 🗃️👩‍🍼 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Kieran Connell: How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas?

Kieran Connell: How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas?

AI-generated images with the Union Jack and Irish Tricolour displayed side by side circulated on social media before this week’s riots, but loyalists were at the centre of the disturbances

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My copy of Dealing With Drugs. New Histories of Risk and Benefit has just arrived. Very pleased to see my chapter published in this wonderful volume!

I have a new article out on miscarriage in late twentieth-century Ireland. Special thanks to @delaycara.bsky.social for organising a 2024 workshop from which this & the other articles in the special issue stemmed, and for all the support through to publication. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘It’s a really empty feeling’: women’s experiences of miscarriage and pregnancy loss in late twentieth-century Ireland

This article explores women's experiences of miscarriage and pregnancy loss in late twentieth-century Ireland. Drawing on oral history interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, the newsletters o...

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I have a new article out on miscarriage in late twentieth-century Ireland. Special thanks to @delaycara.bsky.social for organising a 2024 workshop from which this & the other articles in the special issue stemmed, and for all the support through to publication. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘It’s a really empty feeling’: women’s experiences of miscarriage and pregnancy loss in late twentieth-century Ireland

This article explores women's experiences of miscarriage and pregnancy loss in late twentieth-century Ireland. Drawing on oral history interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, the newsletters o...

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I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From a friend in Belfast.

Belfast this morning: families evacuated from burned homes. Near the Shankill, the Guardian’s reporter watched masked men storm a house, a woman at the upstairs window, a voice in the crowd saying “there’s wee girls inside.” That was not protest. It was organised racist terror. (1/5) #Spéirghorm

My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This was an amazing day. I learnt so much about histories of infertility and loss from a range of disciplines. Thanks v much to @niamhroisin.bsky.social for bringing us all together and for facilitating the most open and supportive conference I have attended. www.irishhumanities.ie/assets/Locat...

Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman@niamhroisin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What a day at the Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces conference - still just taking it all in but just the most extraordinary research & work shared by scholars, curators, professionals. Such a profound experience - GRMA Ó chroí to all

Absolutely fascinating keynote lecture by @historianjen.bsky.social on early modern understandings of pregnancy loss and its connections with the weather. Excellent start to the Locating Loss conference organised by @niamhroisin.bsky.social at UL this morning. #histmed