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Caitríona Beaumont

@caitbeaumont.bsky.social

Prof Social History LSBU | Female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | History of Experience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism & #Afterlives | Visiting full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social

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Looking forward to this ‘Women in War’ conference and participating on the panel with my colleagues @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

03.03.2026 21:52 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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All set for France and Boulogne-sur-Mer tomorrow for the 'Women in War' conference. Looking forward to hearing all the great papers & to our panel on Irish #Afterlives with @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & @lloislanel.bsky.social. @whaireland.bsky.social
femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/home/

03.03.2026 19:39 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Women's Grassroots Activism - Toolkit 100+ Launch (IWD 2026) Launch of the 100+ Toolkit for Women's Grassroots Activism. A 2026 IWD Event hosted by London South Bank University.

📢 Just one week to go now to launch of our #Womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit to celebrate #IWD2026 & #womenshistorymonth📢.
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (via Zoom)
We still have some spaces left so come & join us by registering 👇. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

03.03.2026 12:23 — 👍 10    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Current exhibition | LSE Library Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨
The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections.
Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

02.03.2026 16:47 — 👍 32    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 1

This sounds really interesting congratulations to all involved. And there is 30% off!

02.03.2026 13:26 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 New book alert 📢 via @manchesterup.bsky.social. New insights into #womenshistory #Irishhistory via lens of leisure. My chapter argues how Irish Countrywomen's Association created opportunities for fun & leisure for rural women. Afterword by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social. @whaireland.bsky.social 🥳

02.03.2026 12:39 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
Book cover: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod. It has an orange border with text in black and yellowy orange and features a black and white photograph of two men embracing each other as they stand in a kitchen.

Book cover: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod. It has an orange border with text in black and yellowy orange and features a black and white photograph of two men embracing each other as they stand in a kitchen.

Front cover of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany by Samuel Clowes Huneke

Front cover of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany by Samuel Clowes Huneke

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

Book cover: My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan. The bright yellow cover features a marble stature of two men suggestively wrestling, on top of which sits an unspooling mix tape.

Book cover: My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan. The bright yellow cover features a marble stature of two men suggestively wrestling, on top of which sits an unspooling mix tape.

LGBTQ+ History Month (UK) is almost over, but #queerhistory is being made all year round! 🌈📚🗃️

Here are just a few fab-looking books that will be published in the coming months by wonderful authors @grindrod.bsky.social, @schuneke.bsky.social, @tomhulme.bsky.social, @hughryan.bsky.social . . . 1/2

26.02.2026 10:08 — 👍 54    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 0
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Love #FamilyHistory? Love family history societies? Societies always need help. Consider volunteering with your favourite society for a fun and rewarding experience! #GenHour www.familyhistoryfederation.com/find-a-society

26.02.2026 19:03 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 3
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Lovely to spend time with my team in Edinburgh
Bonus point for having a sneak peak of the excellent Prison Nursing exhibition which launches tonight www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

26.02.2026 14:21 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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University of Galway plans to end and replace arts course amid fall-off in interest ‘Urgent’ reform aims to meet changing needs of students as they seek ‘direct routes to employment’

Worrying headline today in Irish Times. Experiencing maelstrom of cuts to humanities & social sciences in UKHE at first hand means that this is a clear warning sign that the crisis could spread to Ireland. Ignore at peril to these subject areas & the right to study them. @royalhistsoc.org @ria.ie

27.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
Department of LINCS at Heriot-Watt under threat of cuts and closure We have launched a Save LINCS petition because the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University finds itself under threat of: Losing 11FTE jobs, one third of ...

biggest solidarity to the Department ot Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh): heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/04/d...

please sign their petition and send them any support they need, this is part of a UK-wide attack on languages education!

27.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 2
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Fab as always meeting up with colleagues on #Afterlives project & meeting at @ucddublin.bsky.social means I get to see the chimneys from hotel windows ❤️. @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social @tiinalintunen.bsky.social @corinnepainter.bsky.social @profingrid.bsky.social

27.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

26.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 75    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 0
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My wonderful PhD student @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social aced her viva today: beyond proud.

26.02.2026 19:19 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

‘Twas a joy to examine this thesis along with @caitbeaumont.bsky.social well done @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social

26.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It was a wonderful experience & can’t wait to see what you do next.

26.02.2026 20:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Viva = defended 🍾 thank you @lloislanel.bsky.social

26.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 34    🔁 3    💬 12    📌 0
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Congrats to @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social on passing her PhD viva today with aplomb 👏. Brilliant project making significant interventions into how we conceive of veterans & the gendering of that category. & 👏 to her fab supervisor @lloislanel.bsky.social. #Afterlives @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

26.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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And feeling very nostalgic here at @dculibrary.bsky.social to see this childhood book on display, I still have a copy back at home in London, bit battered & scribbled on & was always a bit afraid of this bonkers egg scéal ❤️🇮🇪.

26.02.2026 12:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just arrived at @dculibrary.bsky.social to examine a PhD shortly & what a beautiful sculpture sits outside the library, ‘Teachers’ by Sandra Bell.

26.02.2026 12:23 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research - LSE Impact What can oral histories tell us about the tacit knowledge required for successful collaborative environmental and sustainability research.

👀ICYMI: "Through the oral histories, we capture aspects of the experience of research that might be difficult to access in other ways."

✍️ @angecass.bsky.social & Paul Merchant

#ResearchMethods #Sustainability #AcademicSKy

25.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 4

The scale of job losses in the sector is a disaster for research capacity everywhere, not just in so-called 'research intensive' universities. Research is not confined to these institutions and the work that does happen there often relies on research done elsewhere.

25.02.2026 08:19 — 👍 52    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0
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Dr Frank Prochaska (1941-2026) - Somerville College Oxford We are deeply saddened to pass on the news of the death of Dr Frank Prochaska on Sunday 15th February, his 85th birthday. Frank was an accomplished historian of modern Britain and a valued member of t...

Frank Prochaska (1941-2026) - always amusing, often shrewd, articulate and perceptive historian of philanthropy in modern Britain. www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...

21.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 36    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 5
Screen shot from the RHS website from the Join Us page. Text reads: 

Join the Royal Historical Society

Closing dates for next applications:
Mondays 9 March and 11 May 2026
 
The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

Screen shot from the RHS website from the Join Us page. Text reads: Join the Royal Historical Society Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 9 March and 11 May 2026 The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

Our 250 new Fellows and Members practice history in the UK / worldwide (in 16 countries in this today's intake). If you'd like to join them, please see our Join Us page bit.ly/4tHkAHH.

Next closing dates for applications (for historians at all career stages and backgrounds) are 9 March & 11 May 2/2

20.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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AFTERLIVES - History Hub The aim of the AFTERLIVES project is to uncover the life stories and contributions of rebellious women in the wake of revolution and civil war in Ireland, Finland and Germany 1918-1980s.Supported by U...

Off to Dublin ❤️ tomorrow for 3 days thinking & talking about #Afterlives of women involved in Irish revolution. If interested in these fascinating afterlives listen to our podcast series via @ucddublin.bsky.social @historyhub.bsky.social
historyhub.ie/afterlives. @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

24.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Introduction to Oral History: The Lifecycle Approach – OHNI Training: Introduction to Oral History: The Lifecycle Approach – Maynooth University OHNI Training: Introduction to Oral History: The Lifecycle Approach – Maynooth University, Fri 6 Mar 2026 - OHNI FULL-DAY, IN-PERSON WORKSHOP WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO ORAL HISTORY THE LIFECYCLE A...

⚠️ Places are limited with booking in advance strongly recommended to secure your spot.

🎟️ Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...

#OralHistory #OralHistoryProject #Maynooth #LifeCycle #OralHistoryTraining #OralHistoryWorkshop #MaynoothUniversity

23.02.2026 12:08 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The workshop covers:

Commissioning and Planning an Oral History Project
Interviewing Skills
After the Interview – Editing & Archiving
Using Oral History – Exhibiting & Publishing

23.02.2026 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Event flyer for OHNI Training: Introduction to Oral History at Maynooth University on Friday, 6th March 2026. The graphic features a colourful "Lifecycle Approach" wheel detailing Research, Recording, Editing, Archiving, and Dissemination, with Ethics at the centre. Costs are €50 for members and €70 for non-members.

Event flyer for OHNI Training: Introduction to Oral History at Maynooth University on Friday, 6th March 2026. The graphic features a colourful "Lifecycle Approach" wheel detailing Research, Recording, Editing, Archiving, and Dissemination, with Ethics at the centre. Costs are €50 for members and €70 for non-members.

📢 Join the Oral History Network of Ireland for a full-day, in-person #oralhistory workshop: Introduction to Oral History: The Lifecycle Approach.

🗓️ Date: Friday 6th March 2026
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍Location: Maynooth University, Co. Kildare

🎟️ €50 (OHNI Members) / €70 (Non-members)

23.02.2026 12:08 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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🚨We're hiring! The Research Ireland Centre ADAPT at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a Post-Doctoral Researcher in NLP for Historical Texts and Knowledge Graphs with Prof John Kelleher on the VOICEs project.
💡Find out more here www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/ @researchireland.ie

20.02.2026 13:28 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0