N16Breda Corish
@n16breda.bsky.social
Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ https://www.irishlondonhistory.com/ Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter
#DIBLives Antarctic explorer Tom Crean (d. #OTD 1938) spent more time in the Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton; he was awarded the Albert Medal and the Polar Medal with 3 Antarctic clasps. The Crean Glacier in South Georgia and Mount Crean in Antarctica are named for him. www.dib.ie/biography/cr...
The moon like a searchlight over east London last night
I would enjoy seeing a modern cinema audience react to a faithful ending to a Táin film though. "Then the two magic bulls have a big fight, and you're going to learn a lot about Irish place names"
Rhys Kaminski-Jones@rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2w agoIntro card to Nolan's Odyssey: "In an age of apparent magic" Intro card to the ideal medieval Welsh/Irish adaptation: "Look, this is going to get really weird, deal with it"
Top of the Pops (26th July 1979). The Undertones are at number 39 with Here Comes The Summer.
Birth control before the Pill: "buy a pound of white petrolatum. Mix it thoroughly with 2 Oz boracic acid. Before intercourse, take a piece of cotton about the size od a large egg, put a string around its center, dip...insert. afterwards...remove by aid of string." 🫣
A reminder of how things used to be near St. Anne's church in Limehouse
Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · last yr.London in 1975, a glimpse into a lost world by David Granick. If you are a young photographer remember to photograph the ordinary things around you, the people, places and events we all take for granted. Eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary.
My first ever sighting of the Jersey Tiger Moth - having a good feed by the railway line near Hackney Downs. Lovely to see but also "a reminder of how rising temperatures are altering our natural environment" butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...
This week in #calling353 for @thejournal.ie I reflect on the great question: whether or not to translate Count Binface into Irish, and what questions that translation journey poses. www.thejournal.ie/count-binfac...
Calling 353: How would we translate Count Binface into Irish?
The obvious solution is not to translate at all but in a language where the tradition is to give ‘royalty’ the Gaeilge treatment…
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#OnThisDay in radical history, 1549: Martial law is declared in London, during disturbances in the capital, in the midst of rebellions against enclosures all across south of England/East Anglia. A London battle over enclosure at this time: wp.me/p74yfw-Fe
Today in London radical history, 1549: Londoners demolish rich folk’s gardens in ‘suburban common fields’
“Before this time the inhabitants of the towns about London, ‘Iseldon’, Hoxton, Shoresditch, and others, had so inclosed the common fields with hedges and ditches, that neither the young men of the…
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The AI techbros may be marching onwards in their quest for world domination/benefiting humanity (delete as appropriate) - but doing history in an AI world still looks like this 😀
Sometimes #IrishLondonHistory turns up in the most unexpected places ☘️ On a tour of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich yesterday, the very first object I looked at was this piece of scrimshaw - engraved whalebone - depicting a "Miss O'Neill in the character of Belvidera"./1
Carrie Reichardt, British artist, a figurehead for the Craftivism movement has spent almost 20 years transforming her house on a quiet Chiswick street into a mosaic-covered wonder #womensart #FridayFeeling
Children in Cumberland Street, Dublin, 1940s, photo by Czech photo‑journalist Paul Popper.
An entire thread on how a presumably bewildered world is translating Count Binface
Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 4w agoI have checked what the Japanese media are saying and there seem to be competing names for the man. Some are going with ゴミ箱伯爵 (Gomibako Hakushaku - Count Trashcan) whilst others are using the katakana that you have for foreign loan-words and opting for ビンフェイス伯爵 (Binfeisu Hakushaku).
Any historian of female Catholic sodalities in 19th Britain & Ireland out there who could help w this ref in Mayhew's "London Labour & the London Poor Vol.1" c.1851? An elderly Irish woman joined the "Association of the Blessed Lady" & bought the dress - she says green velvet - but of which order?
#OTD 1922, The armed forces of the Irish Provisional Govt, opened fire on the anti-Treatyites in the Four Courts in central Dublin, kicking off the Irish Civil War. Some shots had been exchanged before, but this marked the start of all out civil war. www.theirishstory.com/2017/06/28/t...
Happy Windrush Day. Today is the 78th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush at Tilbury Docks on June 22nd 1948, an occasion being marked by events and activities around the country.
This is a great listen 👇
Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn 1918 the UK came within hours of abolishing First Past the Post - in the same bill that passed women's suffrage. I joined @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social and @lucyfistsofjustice.bsky.social to explore what happened. Featuring a tame wasp & a dog who learned to read. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Anaka Women’s Collective is a North Belfast community group which supports migrant women building their lives in Belfast. Right now, they're helping to care for people attacked, displaced & traumatised by the racist attacks of the last few days. If you can afford to donate, here's the link 👇
Alliance for Choice@all4choice.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnaka are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast. Donate here chuffed.org/project/1854...
No, BBC News (at 6), innocent families were not “forced from their homes” in Belfast by “masked protestors”. They were attacked by racist thugs. Sort out your language, please.
'Gallery of the Old Bedford', Camden Town (c.1895) by Walter Sickert (Walker Art Gallery)
A great find in the British Library: "A Handy Book of Reference for Irishwomen", published in conjunction w 1881 Irish Exhibition at London Olympia ☘️ Edited by Helen Blackburn, Valentia Island-born suffragist, & backed by Mary Power Lalor, philanthropist, Catholic & Unionist landlord in Tipperary/1
RIP Anthony Head, the greatest librarian of all 🦇💔 Back in 2023 during my mature student days, it was very difficult *not* to roleplay Buffy the Vampire Slayer while visiting the Harry Price Magical Literature collection in Senate House Library 👻
Very much looking forward to Jamie Gemmell (KCL), talking about John Satia and the 1731 City of London ban on Black apprenticeship @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social All welcome in person or online, but please register. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
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'Liverpool Street Station' (1917) by Marjorie Sherlock (Government Art Collection)
@fitzrovianews.com a great article from 2013 includes various B/W photographs of the Gort Estate as was in Fitzrovia. Would it be possible for me to see the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association's archival material? I'm currently researching the Gort/Vereker family. fitzrovianews.com/2013/03/11/t...
Tudor Place and the warren of streets of the Gort Estate off Tottenham Court Road - The Fitzrovia News
It’s hard to believe if you were to walk out of the Time Out building on Tottenham Court Road you would have seen this narrow street. But up until the mid-1970s that is what you would have found. A fe...
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N16Breda Corish@n16breda.bsky.social · 2mo agoYesterday I learned that papers of the Vereker family of Ireland - the Viscount Gort in the Irish peerage - are in the London Archives. It was quite something to handle paperwork from the Encumbered Estates Court in Dublin which expedited the sale of bankrupt Irish estates during the Great Famine /1
Yesterday I learned that papers of the Vereker family of Ireland - the Viscount Gort in the Irish peerage - are in the London Archives. It was quite something to handle paperwork from the Encumbered Estates Court in Dublin which expedited the sale of bankrupt Irish estates during the Great Famine /1
#OnThisDay in London transport history: Police seize a no 11 bus for a mobile custody suite, 2002, after nicking demonstrators in a Whitechapel pub for planning to protest the queens jubilee wp.me/p74yfw-9C
Today in London transport history: Police seize a no 11 bus for a mobile custody suite, 2002.
It’s the question every Londoner should know the answer to – what number bus route runs from Tower Hill, via Shoreditch, Islington, Plumstead, to Walworth? The no 11 of course… well, now and again……
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A timely & sobering listen on BBC Radio 4 - "Weimar" by historian Katja Hoyer. The series covers 1919-1939 through stories of men and women who lived in Wiemar from the new German republic to Hitler's Third Reich as thousands were being killed in nearby Buchenwald. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
BBC Sounds - Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer on BBC Sounds.
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