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Peter Gray

@petergray47.bsky.social

Historian of 19thC Ireland, QUB. Last book: William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism (2023); working on politics of Irish land reform and the Tenant League(s). Chair of @Irishhistorians.bsky.social There may also be cats.

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Leanne Calvert@leannecalvert.bsky.social · 3d ago

Such a waste. Thinking of my friends & colleagues in History & across Hums. UH History is where I really learned *how* to teach & how to drive my teaching with my research. A dept that really cared about their students. So many brilliant & talented people in my old dept.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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Peter Gray@petergray47.bsky.social · 5d ago

After 10 years at the helm of Irish Studies at QUB, with various ups and downs over the last decade, I’m handing over to our new leadership team from Monday. Many thanks to Peter and @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for stepping up to take forward Irish Studies in Belfast! www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

New Irish Studies Leadership

After 10 years as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Prof Peter Gray is handing over to a new leadership team from the start of August 2026.

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LJMU History@ljmuhistory.bsky.social · 6d ago

We are very sad to learn of the passing of Don MacRaild. Don graduated from our predecessor institution Liverpool Polytechnic and went on to have a distinguished career as a historian and as a scholar supremely skilled in explaining theory and methodology. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Don MacRaild obituary

Other lives: Historian who produced groundbreaking research on Irish Catholic and Protestant immigration, and labour history

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Ciaran O'Neill@ciaranon.bsky.social · last wk.

What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Returning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland

This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...

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Irish Studies at QUB@irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · last mo.

We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting, in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame University, and the WB Yeats Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Sao Paulo, the inaugural Seamus Deane Memorial Lecture Series in Irish Studies.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 2w ago

"To accountants, some courses or departments may be viewed as cost centres. But to lecturers and students, and the places in which they are based, they are cultural resources – repositories of knowledge built up over decades." bit.ly/4gOTZo2 #Skystorians

The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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Graham Jeffery@grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nearly 4,000 academic posts in social sciences, humanities and the arts have been axed in one year alone. In the 12 months to December 2024, just under 3,000 social sciences, 820 humanities and 240 arts jobs went. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

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Karina Bénazech Wendling@karinabwendling.com · last mo.

If you're wondering if buying my book is worth it, read Ian d'Alton's review. Then, you have until July 9 if you want to have 50% off, directly on the website @manchesterup.bsky.social

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Karina Bénazech Wendling@karinabwendling.com · 2mo ago

The first review of Converting Ireland is out, by Dr @Ian d'Alton in the Irish Catholic: www.irishcatholic.com/how-a-europe... It was an honour to have Ian d'Alton as a discussant during the book launch and a pleasure to meet him for the first time.

Samuel Moyn@samuelmoyn.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Hobsbawm’s canonization was a Western tribute to a great historian who had erected a monument to Europe amid its decline, when the lights and shadows of its civilization appeared, in retrospect, as a vanished past, as impressive as it was tragic.’ www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ce...

The Century of Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm’s enduring power lay in his ability to synthesize vast historical processes into compelling narratives that made the modern world legible. Yet, argues Traverso, the celebrated Marxist hi...

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