Tony Craig

Helen joined University of Staffordshire as an undergraduate mature student in Modern History and completed her BA, MA, and PhD here with our team. Well done Helen!

Her thesis made use of digitised records of Ireland's judicial and penal systems during this traumatic period of Irish History.
Thanks are also due to Prof James Treadwell, Dr Ciaran McCabe and Dr Sharon Mallon (chairing).

Congratulations to Dr Helen Yates on the successful defence of her PhD thesis today! Dr Yates' thesis was titled "Staying Alive: Crime, Agency, and Trauma during the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852"

A Feast of Festy: A new lease of life for a colourful Irish name Festus, from the Latin for ‘joyful’, is a popular boy’s name in Nigeria

A column from @frankie49.bsky.social that manages to link Festy Ebosele, James Joyce and Wittgenstein, via Connemara
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Excerpt from the article: "The anti-immigrant activists also carried a flag of Jesus of Nazareth – possibly history’s most famous refugee - and Welsh-born immigrant, St Patrick, much to the mirth of onlookers, who posted dozens of bemused videos on Galwegian social media channels regarding the marchers’ misspelled ‘Galimh’ banner. United Irishmen, crowned harps, ‘Erin go bragh’ and Sacred Heart flags were also flown by marchers, who played songs by lifelong socialist, Luke Kelly, amplified through loudhailers. One woman was dressed up as Anglo-Irish nationalist and socialist revolutionary, Constance Markievicz."

"Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway"

Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.

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Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway Galway city centre was especially busy last Saturday, with racegoers, summer tourists and the unusual addition of a march by far-right agitators, met by an anti-fascist counter demonstration, causing ...

If you have to write about awful people gathering and doing awful racist things, then this is absolutely the way to do it. www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

Because they both use Adobe's free cloud it's relatively seamless. Saved me hours making the pdfs alone, the OCR and then search is just a bonus.

It will recognize the text for the first fifty pages on the free version, but if you have full Adobe on your uni laptop that will do anything larger and fairly quickly.

Adobe Scan on my phone has been a game changer for me. Been evangelizing MS OneNote for years but never seen anyone else use it.

An old MI5 officer recalled his recruitment. 'i was tapped on the shoulder in the gentlemen's lavatory of the Royal Bindi Club...'

Oh and look, it's on Amazon too. www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Disp...

And University Press of Kansas have made a beautiful book. @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

Mark Stout and Sarah-Jane Corke have done a great job putting this together and getting it out. @markstout.bsky.social

Need to get a read of Gill Bennett's chapter on disinformation. @gillhistory.bsky.social

Fantastic new book here showcasing the excellent new research out there in intelligence history. So happy my author's copy arrived today. 🙂‍↔️

The official record: oversight, national security and democracy Published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Looking forward to it. I read your preview in this www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AGNEF...

The official record: oversight, national security and democracy Published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2025)

50 free copies of this short review from me of Peter Finn and Robert Ledger (eds),The official record: oversight, national security and democracy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... An even shorter review would be 'go read it'.

If I remember the Newsletter supported US Independence, lots of their readers had relatives among the rebels.

Hey, my diesel MPV seats 7, is ULEZ compliant and gets 50mpg.

Oli North would've used Signal.

He was pivotal to the West's initial understanding of the 1983 war scare, though new sources on both sides have emerged since. One of a handful of people who could at least legitimately claim to have saved the world from nuclear annihilation.

Gordon Correa just now, 'Oleg Gordievsky has died. A KGB officer who spied for MI6, he supplied vital intelligence that helped manage tensions between the West and the Soviet Union in the 80s. Nothing suspicious to his passing, I understand'

Today's fantastic trip to MoD Chicksands and their Military Intelligence Museum, topped with a talk from Defence Intelligence. #universityofstaffordshire #ProudToBeStaffs .

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New Zealand fires UK envoy Phil Goff over Trump comments Phil Goff asked if Trump

I'm not sure I understand, the NZ High Comissioner got sacked because there aren't parallels you can draw between the Munich Agreement (and the Nazi-Soviet Pact for that matter), or because there are. #appliedhistory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Percy Jackson for World Book 2025 and he's nailed the hair.

@helenyates.bsky.social Here you go!

Newsnight - US Votes With Russia at UN Three years to the day since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the US breaks with its Western allies to side with Russia at the United Nations. With Victoria Derbyshire.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social absolutely smashing it last night, right when the world needs clarity, the Newsnight team delivers again. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Could I maybe take this? www.staffs.ac.uk/people/tony-...