Niamh Cullen
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine Free Palestine 🇵🇸 https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
📣 PT 3-year #archives job: 'The Living History of the Care Experienced Movement' @lotterygoodcauses.bsky.social HF project archivist 📍 London 🕰️ Apply by 8 September Full details 👇 @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @araukie.bsky.social @oralhistsoc.bsky.social @scotsarchives.bsky.social
Children's charity
Established as the Foundling Hospital in 1739, today we are a group of specialist charities creating better chances for children, young people and families.
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Loved this story about a wacky, surreal and slightly fantastical Dublin. Thinking about how, while there are many set in Dublin there are not that many novels about Dublin, since the obvious of couse
The deadline for our funded PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain is tomorrow! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 | University of Strathclyde
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The @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize opens for submissions on 1 July. The prize aims to recognize and promote high-quality research among PGRs and ECRs working broadly in the field of contemporary European history. You can find the full announcement here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Contemporary European History Prize
A prize aimed at encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career historians.
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Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.
Many women have been horrifically killed here in the past 5 years, including at least 7 who were stabbed multiple times, and their deaths did not receive statements from the PM, debates in the commons, or global news coverage. Nor were there any riots, or condemnations of cultures by politicians.
A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years
In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
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Southampton is a city that has had real problems with racial violence and racist division in the past, but because of this it also has a strong and proud tradition of anti-racist activism. The community will drive this scum out of the city like they chased out Mosley in 1937.
Now 34 years. I will continue to post the story of Giovanni Falcone because even if just one person who didn't know it reads it, learns about this extraordinary man, and maybe shares it with others, the world will be a slightly better place.
Nicholas Whithorn@nickwhithorn.bsky.social · last yr.33 years ago, on 23rd May 1992, Giovanni Falcone is assassinated, along with Francesca Morvillo, Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro. This thread tells the story of how he is undermined, isolated and abandoned to his destiny by the state he so loyally serves >> 1
I loved Marina Zucchelli’s novel Latte about the relationship between a wealthy new mother and the wet nurse she employed in late 1950s Bologna. Such a fascinating exploration of maternity, class and power, I hope it will be translated so I can recommend it to more people
“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
‘Live and let live’: Northern Ireland historian uncovers surprising era of tolerance of gay men
Public records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s
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me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake
Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 6mo agoOne (anonymous) woman's account of navigating the "sexual marketplace" of Silicon Valley ca. 2015, as the rich tech dudes were beginning to get a little fashy.
Does anyone write regularly in multiple languages in Word? I changed my spell check to Italian to write a thing and it won’t change back. Surely it should be normal to be able to switch between supported languages? I have done it before but not super regularly…
Tickets are free but going fast - come along to hear about the secret censors' library. #SpéirGhorm www.eventbrite.ie/e/manuals-of...
Manuals of Immorality: Censoring publications in twentieth-century Ireland
A free public talk by Dr Aoife Bhreatnach, hosted by Dublin City Council's Heritage Office. Part-funded by the Heritage Council.
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Nice to see the new issue of @thedublinreview.bsky.social arrive in the post today, with my essay about the time a pigeon decided to make a nest in my office at work
The Phoenix is great for a load of reasons but last year's (brick-themed) April Fool issue nailed AI far better than most of our prominent satirists. Excuse the state of my kid's copy.
Jamie Smart@jamiesmart.bsky.social · 6mo agoI am not an April fools person, not at all, but The Phoenix is the one exception. Every year they prank kids with a different ‘wrong’ magazine, and every year the dedication to the bit is outSTANDING 🫡
This went down very well in our house too! The Phoenix is great
Willard Foxton@willardfoxton.bsky.social · 6mo agoOk I have seen a GOOD APRIL FOOLS JOKE in the wild. My kids comic (Phoenix - home if @jamiesmart.bsky.social) comes in an envelope every week, we open it, had a fake cover for a soup review mag like we’d been sent the wrong thing. Genius!
📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/
In our latest @uk.theconversation.com article, our Professor Tony Kushner writes about the Golders Green ambulance attack, and how the London suburb became a home for Jews👇 theconversation.com/golders-gree... @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
Golders Green ambulance attack: how this part of London became a home for Jews
Golders Green started to develop as a place of Jewish settlement from the first world war onwards.
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At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!
Brodie Waddell@brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 6mo agoNext month the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social is hosting a Festival of Social History! Come one, come all! 🗃️ Experts! Projects! Zines! Lunch! Wine! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...
This generation of children will never forgive us for this. They will particularly not forgive us if we took all their social media away - which was problematic but at least conversation with real people - and pushed them toward AI chatbots.
REwadent Evil@ewacat.bsky.social · 7mo agoOh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Very pleased to announce that TAKE YOUR RESEARCH PUBLIC is back for 2026. It's a practical course supporting PhD students and academics working on historical topics to translate their work into public-facing scholarship. Runs 2-23 June online. Apply by 20 April @dcahf-met.bsky.social
Take Your Research Public
Take Your Research Public is a free practical course aimed at academic researchers (from mid-PhD onwards) who want to develop writing for magazines, social media, podcasts, radio or the broad trade…
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Hello! During the pandemic, I compiled a collection of digitised Great War primary sources for student research essays. Going through them just now for my current class, loads of those links are now dead. Does anyone have any favourite online source collections (that work)? Will share new list!
