🎉 The 2026 Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival starts TODAY! Join us for a day of conversation, ideas and research - from medical and health humanities and the Vatican Archives to imagining Ireland’s future and exploring great lost inventions. www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

The schedule for the TCD Early Modern History Research Seminar is now up. Join us for the first seminar on the 5 October: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University): “Race, Slavery, Religion, and Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1655-1762: Ireland, Jamaica, and the family of Francis Williams”.

Department of History, Trinity College Dublin@historytcd.bsky.social · 5d ago

This term's schedule for the Early Modern History Research Seminar is here: www.tcd.ie/history/rese...

Oct 1st, Save the date! Rosamund Oates will be talking about ‘Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England' at @ihrscb.bsky.social in-person @ihr.bsky.social & online. #EarlyModern 🗃️ Booking details will soon be on: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/ihr-seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800

On the morning of 22 September I will finally be presenting my 'Thesis in Five [minutes]' if you want you are around and want to hear a proper 'elevator pitch' of my research!

Trinity Long Room Hub@tlrhub.bsky.social · 5d ago

What is democracy made of? Can machines know you better than you know yourself? Who gets to decide what matters? The Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival returns from 18-28 September, exploring some of the biggest questions of our time.

What is democracy made of? Can machines know you better than you know yourself? Who gets to decide what matters? The Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival returns from 18-28 September, exploring some of the biggest questions of our time.

This term's schedule for the Research Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Irish History is here www.tcd.ie/history/rese...

This term's schedule for the Early Modern History Research Seminar is here: www.tcd.ie/history/rese...

Term begins!

If you are interested in the larger historical currents behind the EU referendum and Icelandic history generally:

The myth of Icelandic insularity

As Icelanders prepare to vote on resuming EU talks, the island's elites have spent centuries managing external influence to their advantage.

engelsbergideas.com

Matthías Aron Ólafsson@matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today’s result will mark a watershed moment in Icelandic history.

Today’s result will mark a watershed moment in Icelandic history.

Icelanders go to polls in EU membership talks referendum

Voters in Iceland will take part in a referendum on whether or not to revive membership talks with the European Union, more than a decade after they were frozen.

rte.ie

Tim Curry 🌹 1946 - 2026 🥀

Finally got myself a copy of this! Can't wait to get started and rediscover my adopted city.

The Dalkey Lobster Festival was incredible. I was completley lobstered

A tour of history's great republics, ancient and modern, shows that civic education is the best defence against decay. Republics fall when they forget the past | Max Skjönsberg engelsbergideas.com/reviews/repu...

Republics fall when they forget the past

A tour of history's great republics, ancient and modern, shows that civic education is the best defence against decay.

engelsbergideas.com

At Jhonny Paranza’s kiosk by the harbour in Livorno you get the world’s best fritto di paranza. This place only opens when the catch comes in, and then it’s fried and sold while supplies last. First come, first served. Sapori di mare!

Went on my own Odyssey early this morning and drove to Prato to see the 9:10 undubbed screening of The Odyssey. Definitely a different experience witnessing something like this before noon on a Monday. If you haven’t already, see it on the biggest IMAX screen you can find!

A hidden gem in Pisa. On display inside the Church of San Sisto is the Kufic Epitaph of Emir Ibn Aglab al-Murtaḍā of the Balearic Islands, from 1094. It ended up here as plunder from an 1114 Catalan-Pisan crusade waged against the islands but was only discovered in 1937. Anyone here know Kufic?

Catch of the day in Livorno

As Icelanders prepare to vote on resuming EU talks, the island's elites have spent centuries managing external influence to their advantage. The myth of Icelandic insularity | Matthías Aron Ólafsson engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

The myth of Icelandic insularity

As Icelanders prepare to vote on resuming EU talks, the island's elites have spent centuries managing external influence to their advantage.

engelsbergideas.com

Best Goodreads review of all time.

In light of the EU referendum in August, I wrote this short piece on Iceland’s relationship with Europe over the centuries and the enduring myths surrounding the island’s insularity.

The myth of Icelandic insularity

As Icelanders prepare to vote on resuming EU talks, the island's elites have spent centuries managing external influence to their advantage.

engelsbergideas.com

Office of the day!

Never forget!

New Sweden: The US's long-lost 'secret' colony

It was the smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived colony in the US. But despite being virtually unheard of today, it helped shape the nation's birth 250 years ago.

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Great new job as Professor of Early Modern Irish History at Dublin City University advertised today. universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...

What a privilege it is to jump in the Ligurian Sea and watch the sunset after a hard day’s work in the sweltering heat here in Toskana.

Riposa in pace Carlo Ginzburg.

In 'Guarding the Revolutionary Carceral System: Parisian Prison Concierges, 1789–1795' Leon Hughes explores how revolutionary authorities used carceral institutions to (re)produce social and political order in the volatile years of the Revolution doi.org/10.1215/0016... @leonhughes.bsky.social 4/7

This is such a beautiful cover for a history book. Forest and Brännvin! We need more covers like this.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Colleagues might consider signing this petition against the downgrading of AHSS research by Research Ireland openletter.earth/concern-abou...

Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan

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