Niamh Cullen

Fascinating! @camilleriana.bsky.social

What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...

QUB History will be participating in the 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition. Eligible applicants (post-PhD) with strong proposals should contact a suitable mentor (www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...) to discuss application (EOI closes 5 Nov.)
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew Manchester Jewry has maintained an extraordinarily strong local identity, but is notable in its diversity.

"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...

A poster advertising an event at the Oh Yeah Centre in Belfast on 11th October to raise funds for Palestine.

Here is a small thing you can for Palestine. Come to our event in Belfast on Saturday. Music, poetry and craic to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Please share. Thank you x

@ainepoland.bsky.social

No, you're not going crazy. You did read this and also read about the PSNI arresting people in London for being members of a proscribed organization.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

Congratulations! @lmack.bsky.social

yes, this has always been self evident--they say so openly on Twitter! I don't know why our lords and masters in higher education cannot understand that we are MARKS; that our students are experimental subjects; that this is eventually going to be about the wholesale automation of higher ed.

Congratulations, it looks great!

Amazing news Kieran, congratulations!!

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Frog and Toad look out over Toad's garden. Nothing yet is growing in the dirt. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them. Then your seeds will start to grow.”

Oh I’m visiting there for the first time in a few weeks, it looks lovely!

Yikes, what was the cafe? I’m guessing not a Nero…

Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.

www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

And not on the track 😆

Ha! Lets hope the horses are all asleep by now 😂

And 👋🏻

Ah that’s good! I really wasn’t sure what way it was being ‘removed’ from the line. Commentary was … interesting 🤣

On the same train and also wondering if the horse is ok or not!

It looks wonderful, I can’t wait to read it!

Obviously we all know Bluesky is a retirement home for elder millennials but, if you happen to know any 18-30 people who might like to take a shot at this, do pass it on!

TCD’s Forgotten Tenantry - DRB Patrick Walsh writes: 1923 was a significant year in the life of Thomas Horgan of Ballynaskreena, Co Kerry. His youngest surviving daughter, Bridget (known as Bridie), was born, and he became the firs...

Thrilled to have this piece up on Dublin Review of Books today drb.ie/tcds-forgott... it brings together my own family history and the work we are doing as part of the Trinity Colonial Legacies project.

Congratulations, looking forward to reading!

'Scale of unite the kingdom march shows free speech alive and well in UK, says minister

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

For Dublin-based folks: I’m giving an afternoon talk next month (15 Oct) at Trinity about my forthcoming book (available for preorder for twenty quid).

www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...