"We are not sure what happens next..."
Another update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's appeal for us. Please read and help, if you can.
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
"We are not sure what happens next..."
Another update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's appeal for us. Please read and help, if you can.
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
The Azores-based researchers and educators, Sea-Water Amplification (SWA), have been (re)publishing some of my old writing on the sea and seafaring.
Let them know what you think — and maybe support them too, if you're inclined.
seawateramplification.substack.com
“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”
Can you help us, even just with an RT?
To ease loneliness, Fingal considers piloting “chatty” benches for making connections www.dublininquirer.com/to-ease-lone...
09.10.2025 04:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The skeletal silhouette of a gasometer, across the railway tracks in Ostiense, at dusk.
Even the ugliest views are beautiful in Rome: from the first floor window of my son’s apartment.
20.09.2025 17:44 — 👍 50 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
We should all know the name Ann Burgess.
Much of the techniques and methodology of modern day criminology stemmed from her: FBI Mind hunter profiling, how to interview victims, co-founding r*pe crisis centers & much more.
Today, she is working on a study about missing & murdered indigenous women.
New podcast episode!
I joined the Irish History Students Podcast the Borris Lacemakers to discuss Borris Lace as living heritage
Part of my PhD exploring craft & the meanings of place
@tudublin.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3nwR...
I'm a big fan of these brown signs in France - not just historic places but also local produce, customs & intangible heritage. I'd love to see them in the UK - I reckon @vchlondon.bsky.social, with our networks of local knowledge across England, could do a great job! #history #heritage #local #place
09.08.2025 08:21 — 👍 88 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 2
A series of heritage roadshows are to be held across Stoke-on-Trent, in a bid to find out what people value most about the city's history. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
31.07.2025 21:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This #TechniqueTuesday, we are taking a look at #IrishCrochet. Developed in the 1800's, this #crochet technique uses motifs joined with mesh and can have so many applications. In the #CKCCommunityCollection, we have this stunning use for a #Collar. Learn more in our link in bio!
22.07.2025 23:01 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
All you need to know about the origins of Irish tourism. Mariia Perelygina, Barry Rogers & @samanthamorris.bsky.social @tudublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie look at the major events, colourful characters and curious facts which shaped the early years of Irish tourism www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
30.06.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The undercover vagrant who exposed workhouse life ✍️🏻
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#History
The marble head during the excavations
The marble head during the excavations
New discovery! During excavations in the Via Alessandrina, #Rome, archaeologists have found a large male marble head beneath the Forum of Trajan.
www.ansa.it/lazio/notizi...
🏺 #archaeology
Four wooden bobbins, wooden rods with three discs, one at each end and on in the middle. the ends are hollow, and some have wooden bungs in them.
Check out this load of old bobbins!
The crew of the Mary Rose used them to store their sewing kits (thread around the spindle, needles and pins in a hollow space at the end), which they would use to repair their clothes, as well as the ship's sails, if they got damaged.
Speedwell [Veronica chamaedrys] with a grapevine snail in a blue shell, Book of Flower Studies c. 1510–1515 Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)
16.06.2025 21:03 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of RTE Drivetime web page podcast featuring an interview with Stella McMullan, whose 11 year old daughter was killed after stepping off her school bus in March 2025.
The most powerful interview Stella has done yet. It’ll be 14 weeks tomorrow since our little Caitlin Rose passed away and almost every day since, her mummy has pushed and fought for new laws to make school buses safer for all children ❤️
Listen here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…
A 1908 map (published by l'Istituto Geografico Militare) of the volcano, Vesuvius, as it rises above the Bay of Naples, Italy. It describes, among other details, the historic tracks of lava flow.
02.06.2025 21:38 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The ruin of McDermott's Castle emerges from the trees and ivy over the waters of Lough Key
I'm just back from a fantastic day exploring Lough Key in County Roscommon. Truly beautiful scenery and fascinating heritage.
Looking forward to downloading all the pics tomorrow!
The Oral History Network of Ireland are now here on Bluesky. Make sure to give them a follow bsky.app/profile/oral... #OralHistory #speirgorm #Ireland #IrishResearch
28.05.2025 14:05 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A white hand with a blue human eye in the centre, fingers sprouting colourful flowers, the eye crying blood with the hand emerging from a flouncy white cuff tied with a pink bow and patterned with red hearts, this is made from felt stuck to a black velvet background
Experimenting with making folk horror Fuzzy Felt, combining shapes from vintage sets with cutting my own.
Only a work in progress & a tentative first attempt but I’m enjoying working out the process & possibilities
I wrote about discovering my grandmother’s hair in Harvard’s Peabody Museum in The Trouble of Color. It still haunts me. I salute Tamara Lanier who persisted in her quest to win control of her ancestor’s images from the same museum — and prevailed!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/h...
Via Blindboy over on insta.
24.05.2025 08:58 — 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
The first census carried out by the State will be available online next year, Minister for Arts, Culture and Communications Patrick O'Donovan is expected to tell the Cabinet.
20.05.2025 06:06 — 👍 33 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 5
“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.”
Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
Recent Arts Council England data showed that 91% of charity Trustees are aged 34+. Millions of young people don’t have a voice in the arts, culture & museums sector - and we want to change this.
Apply for our new, free training and networking programme here ➡️
Campop blog #48: Are Mrs and Miss, for married/unmarried women, relics of a patriarchal system? Amy Erickson explains that Mrs used to denote a woman of status irrespective of marital status. Read the blog for the history of Miss!
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...
This is a fantastic story, but it is annoying how news stories such as this are always portrayed as "this item was found in this dusty archive/library/attic" as opposed to "this item was known about and looked at again with a new perspective and expertise".
15.05.2025 07:34 — 👍 75 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 0
