I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries:
Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.
I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census
nationalarchives.ie/collections/...
1926 census entry
1926 Census:
Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry.
30 nuns and over 100 other women.
Occupation entered as: Laundress.
The incarceration of women in the early Free State.
#SpeirGorm
Dracula, Bram Stoker, translated into Irish by Seán Ó Cuirrín, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1933. Design: AóM (Austin Molloy). John Moore/Little Museum of Dublin
Dracula 1933 Irish translation cover
CFP. The Society for the History of Emotions biennial conference. June 2-4, 2027. Vienna. Emotions in Adversity. societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...
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A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.
Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.
Royal Museums Greenwich is advertising for a fully funded collaborative doctorate: Uncharted Voices: Subaltern Cultures and Identities in Global Seafaring, 1880–1950 It looks like a great opportunity and theme to me. www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
On Thursday I will be chairing our online session on writing history aimed at a wider audience with guests Elliot Prior and Sabhbh Curran from Curtis Brown Literary Agency. All welcome - sign up here:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Mary Macswiney! Or Anna Catherine Parnell / Fanny Parnell - would love to see a representation of the Ladies' Land League!
To celebrate #InternationalBagPipeDay here is a pleased looking pooch playing the puppy pipes. M.S. B.11.27 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
What's on at the DEI this March! 🍂
When we were looking for a place in Bristol I randomly clicked on a listing and then clicked out again very quickly.
Cromwell Road.
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️
The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May.
Please circulate widely!
🌍✨ Science in the Global Renaissance ✨🌍
with Dr James Poskett
📅 Thu 19 February
In person or watch online tickets available
www.brlsi.org/whatson/scie...
Was the Renaissance and the birth of modern science really just a European story?
#Renaissance #HistoryOfScience #GlobalHistory #BRLSI
Screenshot from the RTÉ website. "What became known as Skellig Night was a feature of Shrove Tuesday in parts of the south, especially Cork and Kerry. After sunset, noisy crowds went onto the streets of towns in the region and the Skellig night procession was all about loudly slagging off the still- single and telling them to "go to the Skelligs". The Skellig islands off the coast of Co. Kerry were said to still run under the old calendar, therefore Ash Wednesday would arrive later there, hence there would be still time for the single to go there to marry before Lent began. Sometimes, people in disguise would call to the homes of the single and try to take them by force onto the street to be jeered, making as much of a din as possible." #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
Single people after Valentine's Day: Well, at least that's over.
Kerry and Cork on Shrove Tuesday night: Hold my pancake
One for #Skystorians interested in teaching up-to-date histories of slavery in the classroom. From the @royalhistsoc.org blog.
Engraving showing a horse in profile
Happy Lunar New Year! This beautiful specimen is from our 1668 edition of 'Markham's master-piece ... touching on curing all diseases in horses', a seminal text on horse care #LunarYear #YearOfTheHorse
A recruitment graphic announcing a job opening for a Scholarly Communications Librarian. The background shows a person reading an academic book outdoors beside a laptop and smartphone. Text on the image states the position title and the closing date of 24 March 2026.
Recruitment graphic. The text on graphic reads as UCC Library is looking for an exceptional Scholarly Communications Librarian to join our ambitious Research Services team. The Scholarly Communications Librarian will play a vital role in making UCC’s high-quality research publications openly accessible to the benefit of all. In addition, the post holder will develop, assess and lead efforts in improving scholarly publishing across UCC, which will entail further service and policy development in line with the Library’s Vision & Plan 2024–2028
UCC Library is hiring a Scholarly Communications Librarian! Lead Open Research initiatives, manage CORA & UCC Journals, and shape scholarly publishing. Permanent, whole-time. Closing 24 March. More info
www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
Join us for an evening lecture this month with Professor Craig Beall - 26th February!
I love this version of An Poc ar Buile with a young Dáithi Ó Sé!
youtu.be/zAGhiW3qQvQ
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
98% of the difficulty using international social media is trying to figure out whether someone is using the Irish "not mad about it" or the internet/US "not mad about it"
Happy St Brigids day and the first day of spring to everyone in all of Ireland 🇮🇪🌱💐
#StBrigidsDay #StBrigid #HappyStBrigidsDay #Christianity #Priestess #StBrigidsCross #Imbolc #Imbolg #LaFheileBride #Ireland #Traditions #History #God #Christ #Holiday #Celebration #Festival #Irish #Folklore #Holy
Shelf of small books in the Syon Abbey Library. Most have parchment bindings and hand-made modern orange labels created by the community of Syon Abbey.
Shelves of books in the Chris Brooks Collection. The books in this photograph were written for children and young adults in the 19th and early 20th century, and many of them have colourful and illustrated bindings.
Shelves of books in the Hypatia Collection of books and journals by and about women. Many of the books in this photo have colourful or illustrated spines.
Several shelves of old and very large leather-bound books in the Dodderidge (Barnstaple) Parish Library. The books have raised bands or ridges along the spines, which were created during the binding process and show the structure of the cord-bound books.
Library Shelfie Day is always a great excuse to show off the variety of ages, colours, shapes and sizes on the shelves of our rare book collections!
📷 Syon Abbey Library, Chris Brooks Collection, Hypatia Collection and Dodderidge Parish Library
#LibraryShelfieDay #ShelfieDay #RareBooks
📣DEADLINE EXTENDED!
We are delighted to announce that we're extending the deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference!
At this busy time, we want as many people as possible to have the chance to apply.
Now accepting applications until 23 Jan!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...