Seán Ó hEinirí - Wikipedia

Oh for sure - plenty of people still for whom these are first languages, Welsh particularly. But I think the last person who only spoke Irish passed in 1998 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A...

Regrettably, I don't think there any monoglot speakers left in Welsh, Irish, Gaelic, Manx or Breton - not sure about Basque. You'd have to be an extremely dedicated diplomat to learn them - my experience of Irish would would put it well into III or IV!

The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

How can we preserve and celebrate trans histories?

If you're in Birmingham on 29 April, come hear about the Digital Transgender Archive.

Speaker: Prof K. J. Rawson (Northeastern University)
Chair: Prof Mo Moulton
Arts 104 University of Birmingham
29 Apr 1pm

www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net

🌈🎓

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.

Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Adderley Park in East Birmingham was donated by Charles Bowyer Adderley, the great-nephew of an uncle with the same name who owned these estates. Among many other civic donations, including a church and a teacher training college.

(see www.rutlandhistory.org/rutlandrecor... for the family history)

Midlands historians have a hard time sometimes convincing people that slavery ran just as deeply through our economy as through Colston's Bristol, say. But here we are: inherited wealth from enslavement in the family history leading to urban change.

This is like, say, a museum Tiktok getting numbers, and the higher-ups thinking they should therefore have an input 👀

It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters.

The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all.

Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.

I love them so much

BREAKING: first swallows of the year spotted

Would 100% support. Throw in greyhound racing and shooting as well.

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

Best performance: The Hives opening for Groop Dogdrill and Wild hearts offshoot The Yo-yos at the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth c2000.
Biggest future name: Muse opening for Feeder and Straw at Southsea Pyramids c1998 (they weren't much good, played a Husker Du cover I think)

As a nominal Saints fan, I'll take that one. I don't often get the chance to watch Southampton on the telly. All I'll say is there's a lot of people I've the crowd that look like they're from Southampton.

Can any historians of empire please recommend reading that connects regional history to global histories of empire? Bonus points if it touches on the role of/ relationship between England's north east or Midlands and the British empire!

Congrats and best of luck!

I suspect it's code for "lives in the countryside with an oil-fired boiler" - I've been skipping baths and turned the heating off the last month! But weird though, most people with oil boilers don't have much choice in the matter.

It's a guess, but the Indian Workers Association worked a lot with students in the West Midlands - their papers are in Birmingham City Archives. There's also the Asian Youth Movement papers in Manchester archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archi...

No?! It's on the list!

Oh no! It's been a couple of years since I was last there, I hope not. Must do a research trip.

A black cat lying down on a pub chair

Cf the Wellington in central Brum

Massive congrats to Marc - this will be the first full book on this subject for almost sixty years I think, and Marc's research is top notch.

Ooh how lovely.

I moved to Stourbridge in 2011 and paid about £450pcm for an entire house with two bedrooms and a long garden. It felt like a dream moving from London. To be on £650 for a single room now is insane.

Ooh or the mezze from Vraisaki.

I left London 15 years ago now and never looked back, BUT I would still consider a day trip back to Wood Green to get fresh pide from Sirwan, Turkish knock off biscuits at TFC, lahmacun from Antepliler on Green Lanes. (Shout out to Rasa in Stoke Newington as well)

A pile of books: A survey of the Irish in England; The Irish in Britain 1815-1914; The Irish Diaspora; Birmingham

I've been trying (and so far failing)to get back to doing something with my PhD research for ages, but I've been asked to do a talk for my Irish language class on the diaspora in the West Midlands, and I've finally been able to get some books back out.