Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick

All welcome on Wednesday 5 November at 6pm in The Hunt Museum, Limerick, to the Limerick CEMS Bolton-King lecture, 2025 in association with The Hunt Museum, with speaker Dr. Harold E. Braun (University of Liverpool) on 'War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.'.

Hi Will, thanks for your interest! @alimalhistory.bsky.social - do you know if the lecture will be livestreamed or recorded?

The CEMS 2025 Bolton-King lecture will be delivered by Dr Harald E. Braun @liverpooluni.bsky.social Hunt Museum, 6pm Nov 5th. @ulresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @michistory.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social @ullibrary.bsky.social

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Today's Knowledge Commons share 'Warfare and Peoplehood: The Vikings and the English' from Y. Stouraitis ed. War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages East, West, and Beyond (ARC Humanities Press: 2023) works.hcommons.org/records/sass... #medieval #viking #history #archaeology #warfare

Our second English lunchtime research seminar of the new semester will be delivered by our colleague Prof Michael Griffin, who will speak on Editing the Cambridge Goldsmith. All welcome! #speirgorm #research #English @ulresearch.bsky.social

Traveller traditions to be celebrated at Misleór festival A four-day event to celebrate Nomadic cultures is under way in Galway.

The Misleór festival features discussions, exhibitions, cinema and cultural performances, all aimed at showcasing the lives and experiences of the communities represented at the gathering
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Date for the diary! Our first #English seminar of the academic year takes place 1 October, 12-1, LCB012. All welcome! @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social @ullibrary.bsky.social @ul-gps.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social @ulgeog.bsky.social @ulcigs.bsky.social @jackreid27.bsky.social

Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Conference

We have a big conference this week and the weather is going to be gorgeous. The University of London Senate House looks amazing in the sunshine.

If you are in Limerick on Tuesday 8 April, please come to our annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich Public lecture in Medieval & Early Modern Local Studies. This is being organised by the Limerick Centre of Early Modern Studies (@cemslimerick.bsky.social), in Association with the Limerick Civic Trust.

CEMS is excited to announce the annual Annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich Public Lecture, 8 April, Pery Square. It will be delivered by Prof Tríona Ní Shíocháin of @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Gach duine fáilte! #research
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We are pleased to welcome Dr Imke Lichterfeld to @unioflimerick.bsky.social where she will deliver a seminar on Shakespeare on 25th March at 12. All welcome! @michistory.bsky.social @oralhistoryul.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social

Viva prep Viva prep: .Value-added and originality · What are the most original (or value-added) parts of your thesis? · Which propositions or findings would you say are distinctively your own? · How ...

If you're starting to think about your viva, a long while ago now Old Twitter offered me lots of advice and suggestions. Here's a google doc that summarised a lot of the different Qs that were sent to me, just in case anyone else might find it helpful #phdchat docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Limerick History Research Seminar welcomes Professor Bridget Heal of @standrewshist.bsky.social on 4th March (online) to speak about 'News, Narration, and Religion during the Thirty Years' War'. All welcome! #research @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Library Services in Ireland | Libraries Ireland Welcome to the Library Services in Ireland. With Resources for Business and Employment Support, School Services, Reading Adventure and Digital Reading.

If you’re not a member of your local library then you’re a silly billy. You get free access to online newspapers and a movie streaming service called Kanopy which is a bit like Mubi www.librariesireland.ie

‘That's a powerful map’– shared authority, public engagement, and the archives of the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland This article examines the extent to which the archives of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland (begun in 1824) can be explored through the lens of worldmaki…

Delighted to have this article published in the Journal of Historical Geography with Co-authors Dr Zenobie Garrett & Dr Frances Kane - shared authority, public engagement & the archives of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland - @ulhistory.bsky.social - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The National Humanities Lecture | Professor David Olusoga | 4 February 2025 The National Humanities Lecture is a major new annual event that celebrates the vital role of the humanities in public life. We are honoured to welcome historian, author, and award-winning filmmaker David Olusoga as our inaugural speaker. In his lecture, Professor Olusoga will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas about humanities, heritage and institutions are emerging – from virtual museums, to hyper-local history projects and alternative city tours. What is the public role of the historian in an age of populism and digital disruption? How might museums adapt to our more interconnected world and to the phenomenon of 'contested heritage'? How can the humanities adapt to an era of Podcasts and Substack? And what are the broader intersections between the humanities and public life? Drawing together thinking from history, political culture and public humanities, he will ask what new forms our cultural institutions might take, and how they might support a more equitable, connected society.

Last week @davidolusoga.bsky.social gave the annual National Humanities Lecture at the University of London. This was a superb account of how public history promotes and communicates academic research beyond HE.

David's lecture is now available and is highly recommended bit.ly/3Qd1x5i #skystorians

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Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley

Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...