Dr Tara McConnell

Meet the Beautiful Dragonfly That Thrives in Your Pollution

Meet the Beautiful Dragonfly That Thrives in Your Pollution www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/s...

Antiquaries. Blasted ‘correct’!

Superb lecture from Sherlock Holmes’s academic peer, @irishcookbooks.bsky.social at the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland 30 January. Always blown away by Dr Dorothy Cashman’s eye for microscopic detail.

Here’s another shout-out: Don’t endure sexual harassment or worse—as too many women of my generation have—call it out!

Why so not so gloomy looking? 😆

Very much looking forward to reading this!

Great to see another issue of this excellent Open Access journal hit the virtual shelves!

Looking 4 a fireside read over the holidays? "Honest Claret": The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine (www.peterlang.com) is packed/w intriguing facts about the history of wine drinking in Ireland w/emphasis as stated in title. eBook 4 instant gratification. Happy Holidays to All!

She Wrote the Book on Preservation in New York Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel has made it her life’s work to make sure that the city’s landmarks, and the contributions of its residents, are never forgotten.

She Wrote the Book on Preservation in New York www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/r...

Great theme!

Thrilled to see that the editors Dr Dorothy Cashman’s and Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire’s groundbreaking excellent book has received this award. If you’ve any interest in food history check this publication outAvailable open access & hard copy the latter published by the Royal Irish Academy.

Sounds lie a reasonable holiday order. 😊

Also the winner in that category!

Back in stock just in time for Christmas is the Book of the Year nominee Irish Food History - A Companion, published by @ria.ie , edited by @irishcookbooks.bsky.social & Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire. A book for everyone that eats. A book to get lost in. thebookshop.ie/mairtin-mac-...

The Pure Liberation of a Personal Urination Device A plastic aqueduct provides new pathways for relief.

The Pure Liberation of a Personal Urination Device www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/m...

Tackling the Difficult Subject at the Heart of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ A festival devoted to the film usually focuses on its comforting message. This year, it also underscored suicide prevention.

Tackling the Difficult Subject at the Heart of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/m...

Not quite sure but it appears to be rampant.

Reminds me of my experience with Endnote.

Thrilled to see that the editors Dr Dorothy Cashman’s and Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire’s groundbreaking excellent book has received this award. If you’ve any interest in food history check this publication outAvailable open access & hard copy the latter published by the Royal Irish Academy.

Two copies of Metropolitan Science with packaging

So good to receive the physical copies of Metropolitan Science!

For those interested in early modern London and/or #histSTM details here (do let your library know!) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli...

13th century framed illustration of a man desperately showing an open book to a mythical winged beast who is so uninterested it has turned away and stuck its own tail in its ear.

Medieval-looking frame around a dailaogue between an author and reader: Author: I have a new book! Just out in paperback! Reader: Look at this interesting rock... Author: I think you'd like it. It's— Reader: 🎶 La-la-la 🎶 Author: No, really, it's just your sort of— Reader: 🎶 LA-LA-LA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! 🎶 The Reader's dialogue is bracketed by musical-note emojis

Against an azure background meant to look like dyed vellum, the cover of a novel, Menewood by Nicola Griffith, and next to in gold text, a quote from Carolyne Larrington, Professor of Medieval Euroipean Literature, University of Oxford, "Menewood is an absolute triumph. Hildl is truly a hero for everywoman, here and now."

Against an azure background meant to look like dyed vellum, two yellow squares side by side, each with a quote. On the left, "Menewood is marvellous…I wanted to read for a thousand pages. Kelly Link, MacArthur fellow and Pulitizer-nominated author of The Book of Love" and on the right, "Redemptoive absorbing, and deeply satisfying, Constance Grady, Vox"

Since clay tablets and papyrus scrolls, the hardest part of being an author isn't writing a book it's selling it. I'm guessing even Bede sometimes despaired. But, hey, MENEWOOD is ready to preorder in the UK in paperback, so Buy My Book! Post has buy links, credits: wp.me/p5F4z1-No

#medievalsky 📚💙

Three Castles Burning Three Castles Burning is a social history podcast, dedicated to the story of the Irish capital. Dublin is a city of many stories, Three Castles Burning tells some of the more forgotten ones.

threecastlesburning.libsyn.com

Irish Food History: A Companion, eds Maírtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman. The winter is long. It's good to have an excellent book on hand that you can dip in and out of. Available Open Access arrow.tudublin.ie/irishfoodhist/ & hard copy shop.ria.ie/products/iri...

Great line-up!

A photograph of St Petrock's Church, Exeter, photo by Robert Cutts from Bristol - , CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43766974

📢 NEW Will of the Month Blog Post! 📢

To mark the new academic year, we look at the will of a man 'local' to the University of Exeter.

Read about the charitable bequests of an Exeter Alderman, his pots & pans, & a box locked with 2 keys 🔑 #history #EarlyModern sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Group picture. Frank Marquardt (black shirt in the back) and Kristin Langefeld (blue shirt) in Prize Papers seminar room with our research students, slides in the background (saying "Prize Papers Project meet Transkribus"), happy students.

Exciting times ahead! Today our research students received an introduction to @transkribus.bsky.social from Frank Marquardt and will now be using it regularly for their work and research. Transkribus is a very helpful tool if you work with documents in at least 19 languages.
#earlymodern #history 🗃️

@archive.org is definitely an invaluable resource for many researchers.

Donegal farmer uncovers 22kg slab of ancient bog butter The accidental discovery could one of the biggest finds of it’s kind in Ireland so far

bog butter

www.irishnews.com/news/ireland...

This is a great resource for anyone who teaches on Renaissance France, early modern Europe and its empires/colonies/contacts, the history of science and technology, and anything related.

There is a row of horse chestnut trees outside the study windows. Writing at my desk, I can see adults picking up conkers, polishing them on their jumpers and stuffing them gleefully into their pockets. The passing school children are too busy on their phones to notice.