#HistoryEducation anyone seen this in UK?

Constructions of "Celtic" history and identity in Britain in the eighteenth century.

The Public Scholar publishes one week from today. Please consider pre-ordering and/or asking your library to order. Authors really need your pre-orders to make a book go.

I think it's a useful book! More importantly, so do real scholars and writers!

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

It's on at most of the mainstream cinemas near me (in Dublin), e.g. at Cineworld, Vue, etc.

‘Muslim kids are really underrepresented’: the animated movie where medieval maths meets eager young minds Time Hoppers: The Silk Road is a time-travel adventure whose child heroes must save the legacy of Islamic scholars who shaped modern science. Its makers reveal their inspiration, and reflect on their ...

They encounter ... "Al-Khwarizmi, considered the “father of algebra”, Ibn al-Haytham, a pioneer who explored the camera obscura, and Mansa Musa, ruler of the Malian empire ... & Maryam al-Astrulabi, a 10th-century Syrian woman who developed the astrolabe astronomical instrument."

#MedievalSky

Banned from the radio after Princess Diana died: how Levellers made What a Beautiful Day ‘Its release seemed timely as the Tories had just left office. But then Diana died and all cheerful songs were taken straight off the radio. Boom! It disappeared’

"I still think What a Beautiful Day is relevant. But I don’t think we need a revolution. We just need to be a bit nicer to each other. That would be a revolution in itself."

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Arsenal inspired the 🫠 emoji, I'm sure

Winning things is over-rated anyway, isn't it. ISN'T IT?! (I wouldn't know). 😭

The stress ... 😱

Yesterday I also found a great-grandfather with a birthplace in England recorded - a huge surprise! 🤯

French man, 86, issues historic apology for family’s role in transatlantic slavery Pierre Guillon de Prince believed to be first in France to formally apologise for ancestors’ connections to slavery

'Guillon de Prince said on Saturday that other French families must confront their historical allegiances to slavery and the state should go beyond symbolic gestures to address the past, including through reparations.'

Asha Bhosle, Bollywood singer, 1933-2026 Her voice soothed, seduced and helped define the Indian nation over an eight-decade career

'In Cornershop’s 1997 tribute to her, which rose to top UK charts, they sang: “She’s the one that keeps the dream alive/From the morning, past the evening/Till the end of light.”
...For India’s growing diaspora, her voice over the radio brought solace.'

Gift link

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Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time

“The clock sings / I count the hours mechanically / Seven o’clock; twelve o’clock / It’s all the same / I am not here / It is the mark of flesh / That I left behind when I departed / So as to know my place / Upon my return.”

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

How To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI | NOEMA The most prized workers will be those who can decode a sea of outputs, spot the meaningful signal and translate it into action that others understand and trust.

Here @nilsgilman.bsky.social, a historian who spent years working in Silicon Valley, makes the case that a liberal arts education will be ~more~ valuable in the near future www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera...

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Can you DIG it? 🎵🎶😎🎶🎵
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

I'm hooked too! I just learned that my paternal great-grandmother was a Buckley from Dunmanway, West Cork! 🤯

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right It starts with a ‘back in my day’ nostalgic meme – then suddenly your elders are sharing AI-generated ‘boomerslop’ and repeating conspiracy theories …

Fascinating.

Census return for my great-grandfather's household in Carleton Road, Marino, Dublin, listing Reginald White and his wife, Catherine White, and their six children: Louisa, Margaret, Ernest (my grandfather), Gladys, Kathleen and Eileen.

Ireland's 1926 census records are available to search online from today! (The photo here is of my family's entry - head of household was my great-grandfather, whose occupation is listed as a chef at the Kildare St Club).

#Spéirghorm #Speirgorm

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Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

"She tutored the activists on immunology and virology and schooled them in the intricacies of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process and pharmaceutical research protocols."

[Gift article]

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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My partner is really into them at the moment! (Angine de Poitrine, that is. Not fish.)

A cartoon showing a viking building a large ship from Lego. Two other vikings are standing in front of the ship-in-progress, one of whom is saying "I tell you, Lego Legosson, your method of building will never catch on".

Talked about vikings a lot in my lecture this afternoon. Happy Friday, everyone!

Latest death toll released by the Lebanese ministry of health includes the grim milestone that 100 medics/first responders have now been killed in Lebanon by Israeli attacks since March 2. I wrote about attacks on healthcare a few weeks ago, when it was 42 www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

There are so many absolutely egregious cunts involved in fucking over this father and his disabled child that I actually lost count.

Pasts Imperfect (4.16.26) This week, scholar of the ancient Mediterranean and India Tejas S. Aralere discusses ancient astrology in South Asia. Then, what medieval chess can tell us about race relations in the Middle Ages, new...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, Tejas S. Aralere discusses ancient astrology ♌️ in India. Then, medieval chess & race relations, new interactive maps, encouraging Classics in China, remembering @averilcam.bsky.social, new ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.

'Enormous' cave under Pembroke Castle could rewrite history, researchers say Archaeologists have so far uncovered "extremely rare" evidence of early humans and animals at the cave.

"Small digs of the cave under Pembroke Castle, known as Wogan Cavern, have so far uncovered "extremely rare" evidence of early humans and animals - including the bones of a hippopotamus which roamed Wales 120,000 years ago."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Rare Greenland Shark that washed up in Sligo could be 150 years old The Greenland shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species, living up to 500 years in some cases.

"They reach sexual maturity around 150 years of age and female sharks have a gestation period of between eight to 18 years."

The Greenland shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species, living up to 500 years in some cases. www.thejournal.ie/rare-greenla...