Promotional graphic for the book Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 by Stephen O’Neill. On the left is the book cover, with a dark green top section displaying the title and author, and a colorful stained-glass image below featuring a red hand and a sword among abstract shapes. On the right, yellow text on a blurred stained-glass background reads: “Comprehensively reinterprets the effect on culture of the continuing division of the island of Ireland.” The Liverpool University Press logo appears in the top right.

New in Irish Studies | @oneillsb.bsky.social's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, is the first book dedicated to examining culture and partition in Ireland.

Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

I think this means it's out, so it only remains to say yeooooo

ICYMI: 11 days left to apply for this fully funded PhD at UCL with me and @jameselder.bsky.social working on BT's extraordinary film collection – which records the birth of the information society. For details and how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

4. An oldy but a goody: The Civilian Dead: Counting the human cost of the 1916 Rising. Century Ireland / @rte.ie www.rte.ie/centuryirela... Based on Historical GIS mapping for my MA thesis in 2015 and the excellent work started by the late Shane MacThomas @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social

3. #Womenof1916 and the heritage of the Easter Rising on Twitter. Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe, chapter 11. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

More on online commemoration, affect, absence, the ethical and practical challenges of social media as a source for heritage/history.

2. 'Permanent Reminders': Digital Archives and the Irish Commemorative Impulse. Éire-Ireland (MS version available here: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...)

On the politics of digitisation during the #DecadeofCentenaries and the contingent nature of women's representation in the heritage canon.

1. Twitter and feminist commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. @jdighist.bsky.social.

All about how feminists used the 2016 commemorations to critique present-day inequalities as well as affective honouring of historical women revolutionaries.

journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/S...

Happy (liturgical) 110th Anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Here is my back catalogue of publications concerning its commemoration which may be of interest 10 years on from the big roundy in 2016:

2 people consulting a printed volume on a book cushion

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team.

See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...

🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

Society launches new funding programme for International Fellows and Associate Fellows - RHS The Royal Historical Society is pleased to launch a new programme, from today, to support the work of International Fellows and Associate Fellows. Recipients will be members of the Society, resident o...

We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu

Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

This PhD post looks amazing and the kind of thing I'd love to do if I didn't already have a PhD. So much British and Irish medieval history is conditioned by the decisions made then and the early PRO publications.

📣 Opportunity: Oral History PhD Research Project w/t Imperial War Museums & University of Strathclyde.

An #oralhistory of women paramilitaries during ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland and Britain.

For more information visit: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

#Postgraduate #NorthernIreland #TheTroubles

Love this. History 101. Always check the original source.

It's giving "tobacco company research shows health benefits of smoking"

A detail from the Chronicle of Battle Abbey, showing a historiated initial enclosing a portrait of William the Conqueror, sitting enthroned, wearing a crown and holding a sceptre, with a dog at his feet. The initial is formed from a winged creature.

We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027.

Learn more and apply through the link below!

www.bl.uk/services/res...

The Huguenot Bursary for Historical Research 2026 The purpose of the award is to facilitate the research of the recipient, for example to cover research trips etc.

'Courtesy of the Trust, a bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis.' #Skystorians

Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Saving Cultural Data in Times of Crisis

The third seminar in this year’s @dh-researchhub.bsky.social series on ‘The Fragile Record’ is concerned with ‘Cultural heritage under attack: saving cultural data in times of crisis’, 31 March, 16.00-17.30 BST. Free to attend online, but you’ll need to register.

Wait a Minute…What If I Don’t Want to Use AI? AI is everywhere right now. It writes summaries, explains theories, fixes grammar, and recommends playlists.But here’s the thing nobody says out loud: you’re allowed not to use it. Whether you feel…

Bless the librarians of Aberystwyth University for sending this blog out to their students: "Wait a Minute…What If I Don’t Want to Use AI?"

#LibrarySky

Who's got a piece of Wes Streeting?

Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS.

He doesn't tell the bit about how much he's accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government.

And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir.

#BBCQT

Wagon Wheel

IHR Internships IHR Internships support new researchers to develop their skills and broaden their experience within and beyond the historical research community.

Interested in environmental history? The IHR is offering a summer 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). Apply by 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST. More details at: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3.

#DIBLives Charles Boycott (b. #OTD 1832) believed Irish peasants were prone to idleness and required firm handling. Following an attempt to evict tenants he was subjected to the ostracism advocated by Parnell and the word 'Boycott' entered the English language. www.dib.ie/biography/bo...

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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🙏🏻 Librarians and Archivists with Palestine have also been documenting this librarianswithpalestine.org/gaza-report-...

Selma Dabbagh | Countercurrents When the Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas in March 2001, the destruction was writ large in newspaper headlines and...

‘Since October 2023 five thousand years of cultural buildings and ancient libraries have been bombed into dust in Gaza with hardly a whisper from the international media or cultural institutions.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024 The Green party has pulled off a landmark victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection in a significant blow to Keir Starmer. Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green party councillor, was elected as the party’s first MP in northern England after overturning Labour’s 13,000-vote majority. Continue reading...

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer

Has anyone come across this woodcut before? It may have belonged to Abel Jeffes at some point but not entirely sure. EBBA isn't working for me so any help would be much appreciated!

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles.

www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

📣 We're #hiring: #DigitalArchivist

Libraries don’t just preserve the past, they safeguard the digital present; the NLI is delighted to be accepting applications for the position of Digital Archivist. 🖥️

⭐ Info & apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...

📆 #Apply by: 13 February 2026 at 3pm

Palestine Action ruling: UK government’s defiant response can’t mask the scale of its defeat London high court declares proscription of group under anti-terror laws to be illegal

Palestine Action ruling: UK government’s defiant response can’t mask the scale of its defeat