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Jack Crangle

@jcrangle.bsky.social

Historian at Queen’s University Belfast. Research on migration and diversity in Britain and Ireland.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 6d ago

📣 Reminder: 📍Online 📆 Weds 7 October, 2026 ⏰ 5.30pm -7pm 🎟️ Free! but register below to get the Zoom link @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @carorusterholz.bsky.social @jcrangle.bsky.social @helenglew.bsky.social

Caitríona Beaumont@caitbeaumont.bsky.social · last wk.

📣 1st seminar for Term 1 26/27 @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social & it's a great one! We're delighted @carorusterholz.bsky.social will join us (online only) to present her work on 'Young Black Women & Contraception in Britain 1980-2010'. #skystorians @womenshistnet.bsky.social. Book 👇

Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · last wk.

Looking forward to chairing this online seminar on Wednesday. All welcome. Registration required.

Caitríona Beaumont@caitbeaumont.bsky.social · last wk.

Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 2w ago

A joy to review this brill book -"Pious and Promiscuous: Life, Love and Family Life in Presbyterian Ulster" - by @leannecalvert.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Pious and promiscuous: life, love and family life in Presbyterian Ulster. By Leanne Calvert. Pp xxxi, 240. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. 2025. €9.99 ebook; €22 paperback. | Irish Historical Studies | C...

Pious and promiscuous: life, love and family life in Presbyterian Ulster. By Leanne Calvert. Pp xxxi, 240. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. 2025. €9.99 ebook; €22 paperback.

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 2w ago

This looks like a cool queer history conference!

Call for Papers: Queer Rural History Symposium
Date: Monday 15th March 2027
Venue: The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, RG1 5EX
Lunch to be provided for all attendees
About the Symposium
Until recently, studies of queer history have focused almost exclusively on the urban sphere, given the greater availability of archival material evidencing queer lives in the city. The few queer rural histories which have been popularised in public consciousness are those of aristocrats in country homes, such as Anne Lister and Vita Sackville-West. However, it goes without saying that people with dissonant sexualities and gender identities lived and loved in all corners of society throughout the centuries, including the countryside. As such, there is a growing appetite for broader research into this area. How did queer people meet those who were like-minded in regions of scarce population density? What forms did their relationships take against a backdrop of criminality and stigma? And how did rural attitudes towards queer people differ to those in the city?
This one day symposium aims to bring together researchers of all backgrounds, and at any stage of their work, to share ideas and discuss methods on this emerging field of study. It works towards the goal of not just filling gaps in academic knowledge that exist for both rural history and queer history, but also to show queer people living in the countryside today that there is, and always has been, a heritage and a place for them.

Proposals
We invite proposals on themes such as, but not limited to, the following:
1.
Queer histories of the working and middle classes in rural areas
2.
Methodologies for recovering queer rural histories, such as the use of museum and archive collections
3.
Queer rural networks: how they met and flourished
4.
The response of rural communities to queer relationships
5.
Migration of same sex couples from the city to the countryside and vice versa
6.
The ways in which museums and archive services respond to queer rural history
If you would like to submit a proposal, please send an abstract (max 250 words) along with a short bio (50 words) to symposium organisers Tim Jerrome and Esther Rutter at t.jerrome1@uni.brighton.ac.uk. It is preferable that these come in the form of a Word document attached to the email. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Sunday 6th December 2026.
If you would like to attend the symposium without presenting a paper, let us know via the above email as we need to ensure we do not go above capacity.
We are currently applying for funding to help cover travel costs for those who need it. Please let us know if you would like to attend but would require assistance with travel costs to do so. Priority will be given to attendees where cost would otherwise be a barrier to participation.
Many thanks to Rainbow Canopy (The LGBTQ+ network of Forestry England), the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, and the staff at The MERL for helping us to fund and organise the symposium.

History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 4w ago

CFP: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland - Annual Conference 2026 (4-5 Dec. at TCD). Paper proposals should be sent to Dr Anne Dolan adolan@tcd.ie by 23 October.

Irish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social · last mo.

Thanks to Queen's University Belfast History Professor Fearghal McGarry for his thoughtful reflections on our Look Back to Look Forward exhibition. If you missed the exhibition in Belfast, you can access our online version here: https://bit.ly/HeritageExhibition

Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · last mo.

Important new piece in @mbhjournal.bsky.social by my colleague @jcrangle.bsky.social on the experiences of Black and mixed race Irish immigrants in Britain 👇 academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

‘I felt like I just belonged’: urban multiculture and black Irish migrants in post-war Britain

Abstract. This article reevaluates historians’ understanding of the Irish in post-war Britain from the perspective of a previously unresearched population,

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · last mo.

New article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social about Black Irish migration to postwar urban Britain. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

‘I felt like I just belonged’: urban multiculture and black Irish migrants in post-war Britain

Abstract. This article reevaluates historians’ understanding of the Irish in post-war Britain from the perspective of a previously unresearched population,

academic.oup.com

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 2mo ago

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on recording community histories through the Bengali Photo Archive and the extraordinary work of Lloyd Gee.

Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I spoke to @france24.com this evening about the racist riots in Belfast. These are the images of the city being broadcast to audiences across the world. youtu.be/sxvZtVefF0c?...

UK watchdog warns online platforms as Belfast riots go viral • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 4mo ago

Belfast City Centre a complete ghost town tonight. Nearly all the businesses closed earlier this afternoon. City holding its breath for what might or might not happen this evening, with endless fake threats of road closures doing the rounds from the far right.

Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween.@brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Anaka Collective have set up a crowdfund now for helping support victims of the pogrom. chuffed.org/project/1854...

Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨 🎉 Launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" (Special Issue) & "Unmarried Sisters" (Podcast Series) 📆 Friday 10 July (early evening) 📍 The James Joyce Centre, Dublin 🗣️ Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, Deirdre Foley, Maureen O'Connor & more

Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

With the Modern British Studies conference at Birmingham again next week, it was a pleasure to write this blog about my past research on multicultural Britain and my new project which takes me back to my Irish roots modbritstud.org.uk/notes-from-t...

Notes from the North of Ireland - The Modern British Studies Association

In January 2015 I took up my first permanent academic job as a lecturer in contemporary British history at Queen’s University Belfast. A few months earlier I had made the trip over from Birmingham, w...

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Was good to join Shane Beatty on the Newstalk podcast to discuss our new project on 100 years of Irish diversity. Listen below www.newstalk.com/podcasts/new...

The Long History of Multiculturalism In Ireland | Newstalk

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I was on BBC Radio Ulster Talkback today with @williamcrawley.bsky.social talking about "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" - listen here from 12:47pm! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Radio Ulster - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio Ulster on BBC Sounds

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about a new AHRC project I’m proud to be involved in with @jcrangle.bsky.social & @tortietabby.bsky.social on a hundred years of diversity in Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Kieran Connell: Ireland has a long multicultural history. It's time to tell that story

Refugees from Hungary and Belgium; migrant workers from Poland and Germany; doctors from Africa and Asia — over the last century, Ireland was far more diverse than many of us seem to realise

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excellent piece by @kieranconnell.bsky.social on Ireland’s multicultural history in @irishexaminer.bsky.social. I’m so thrilled to be CI on this AHRC-funded project and to get to work with Kieran and @jcrangle.bsky.social on uncovering Ireland’s rich history of diversity over the past 100 years.

Kieran Connell@kieranconnell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Chairing this online session at 5.30pm. All welcome!

Ben Mechen@benmechen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tomorrow at IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social we welcome Lukas Herde for a paper on ageing, sexuality and gender on British television from the 1970s to 1990s. It will be on Zoom at 17.30, all welcome. Register below. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England" New #openaccess article by our Dr Barry Hazley, co-authored with @jcrangle.bsky.social, Graham Dawson, Liam Harte + Fearghus Roulston in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England - Volume 65

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excellent opportunity! Hannah is fab! #skystorians

Gareth Millward@millieqed.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My friend (<- they don't get to deny this) @sexhistorian.bsky.social is advertising for a PhD stipend. It's an amazing project at an amazing department with amazing supervisors, and if you know anyone suitable, let them know. www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 7mo ago

early thoughts on ‘Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation’! 🥰 I am hearing that copies are starting to land stateside already… official publication date is April 15 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Belfastmen by Tom Hulme | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Belfastmen reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay righ...

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Danny Barreto@danburrito.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Congrats! Just finished the intro. Such a caring representation of these men’s personhood and the city. Can’t wait to read the rest when the printed book arrives.

Daniel Carey @danielmcarey.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Come join us @oralhistoryie.bsky.social for #oralhistory training in Maynooth!

Oral History Network Ireland@oralhistoryie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Join the Oral History Network of Ireland for a full-day, in-person #oralhistory workshop: Introduction to Oral History: The Lifecycle Approach. 🗓️ Date: Friday 6th March 2026 🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM 📍Location: Maynooth University, Co. Kildare 🎟️ €50 (OHNI Members) / €70 (Non-members)

Event flyer for OHNI Training: Introduction to Oral History at Maynooth University on Friday, 6th March 2026. The graphic features a colourful "Lifecycle Approach" wheel detailing Research, Recording, Editing, Archiving, and Dissemination, with Ethics at the centre. Costs are €50 for members and €70 for non-members.

Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m chairing an online seminar by Sue Bishop (University of Leicester) tonight at 5.30pm. ‘Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries’. All welcome. Please book in advance. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Tiger Bay, 1950, Cardiff's oldest multi-ethnic community, photo by Bert Hardy for Picture Post.

Shane Lynn @shane-lynn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Many thanks to @jcrangle.bsky.social for this generous appraisal.

Jack Crangle@jcrangle.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Review in IHS of Shane Lynn’s book about Irish nationalists and the South African War. Recommended read.

Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thanks so much @niamhcullen.bsky.social for the lovely review of my book ❤️

Niamh Cullen@niamhcullen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Delighted to see that my review of Laura Kelly’s brilliant book Contraception and Modern Ireland is out with @irishhiststudies.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Essential reading for anyone working on histories of gender, feminism, contraception and Catholicism

Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Review in IHS of Shane Lynn’s book about Irish nationalists and the South African War. Recommended read.

Ireland’s opportunity: global Irish nationalism and the South African War. By Shane Lynn . Pp xiii, 337. New York: New York University Press. 2025. $35 hardback. | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge...

Ireland’s opportunity: global Irish nationalism and the South African War. By Shane Lynn . Pp xiii, 337. New York: New York University Press. 2025. $35 hardback.

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