If you were going to hear from someone about the revolutionary war-- the war itself? Rick Atkinson is top of my list. Lucky to have him joining us for the second of our JCB resource events tomorrow @ 4 part of our series for the Revolution is News. Join us! jcblibrary.org/events/rick-...
Padhraig Higgins
@phillypaddy.bsky.social
Historian, eighteenth-century Ireland. Cycles around Philadelphia and New Jersey.
READ: “While I know that driving is a necessity for some, for me, it has been 1st and foremost a habit. My experience of driving less has reminded me that when we can, it’s worth questioning our habits…because what’s comfortable doesn’t necessarily make us feel happy or free.” How change can start.
You should read this. It’s excellent communication & story-telling. “I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more. Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off...” #UrbanTruth From @irishtimes.com
Research article, 'The experimental non-experimental committee': governing the workhouse in late-eighteenth-century Dublin', by Padhraig Higgins is available here: @universitypress.cambridge.org
‘The experimental non-experimental committee’: governing the workhouse in late-eighteenth-century Dublin | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
‘The experimental non-experimental committee’: governing the workhouse in late-eighteenth-century Dublin
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@septa-social.bsky.social any idea what's happening on the B line? Disaster for kids coming home from school.
@septa-social.bsky.social are the buses running yet? Trying to catch the 42 on Locast.
Simon Harris called it so early even Trump was like "hey let us count some votes first Simon!" The little toady shite.
I have fond memories of the carrot cake in Marx Bros. Great piece by @frankie49.bsky.social on the closure of Simon's and 'dusky beauties' of George's St. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
Simon’s swansong – Frank McNally on the passing of a much-loved Dublin café
Cherished cafés come and go, like the generations that love them
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