Leanne Calvert

We Presbyterians are a hotbed of sin and fornication. Sounds like a great read.

With St Valentine’s Day tomorrow, we’re dipping into some of the courtship rituals and games explored in Pious and Promiscuous by @leannecalvert.bsky.social

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‘Came to her dressed in mans cloaths’: transgender histories and queer approaches to the family in eighteenth-century Ireland This article engages with queer and trans scholarship to produce a methodological think-piece on how to queer the Irish family. It draws on a case study of alleged crossdressing and attempted intim...

FINALLY sitting down this evening with @leannecalvert.bsky.social's 2024 article on trans* histories of the family in 18th C Ireland and its absolutely 👌🌟 Also picking up more than a few further reading suggestions! doi.org/10.1080/1081...

Lovely piece on hair gift-giving by @leannecalvert.bsky.social who has been digging around in the hairy archives at PRONI.

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Forget flowers: lovers in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland exchanged hair As a physical piece of a person that would outlast their human life, a lock of hair symbolised immortal love.

Struggling to pick a #ValentinesDay gift? The answer might be atop your head! Little piece from me in @theconversation.com about #hairy gifts & tokens #HistSex

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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.

*drum roll*

Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!

I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

Please send us any photos you have of past IFRWH events! We'd love to show them off as part of our anniversary celebrations 🥰 Please share widely #HistWomen #GenderHist #WomenAlsoKnowHistory

Have you published a book on transnational women's or gender history between 2020 and 2025? Do submit to the IFRWH book prize. Closing date for submissions is end Feb. Full details on eligibility & how to apply below. Please share! 👇#GenderHist #WomensHist

WHAI2026 Welcome to the homepage for the next Women's History Association of Ireland conference. Our next annual conference will take place 29-30 May 2026 at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. The conferenc...

Lovely to see so many abstracts winging in today for the @whaireland.bsky.social conference in Limerick in May 😍 cfp closes 30 January so keep em coming! #WomensHist #GenderHist sites.google.com/view/whai202...

Don't forget! Less than a week to submit your abstract for what promises to be a brilliant conference!

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Calling History of Fam folks! UL are hiring an Assistant Professor in Irish History with specialism in #HistFam to cover a period of leave. I'm not on the panel but happy to informally answer qs about the MA HoF programme to anyone interested www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE158/a...

From Kilkenny to the Khyber Pass: Lance Corporal William Ryan and the making of an imperial soldier A family history revealed a surprise Kilkenny connection

Lovely to see my MA History of Family students sharing their research 🥰 Paula Cronin features in the Kilkenny People with a piece about her grandfather's career in the British Army "From Kilkenny to the Kyber Pass" @ulhistory.bsky.social #HistFam

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Don't forget to submit your abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @maynoothuniversity.ie deadline for abstracts 1 Feb! For more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Request for #skystorians Im finishing a piece on food&sex & looking for scholarship to cite on ingestion as an allegory for intercourse. Partic interested in food moving through the body, changing shape & form. I have Rachel Hope Cleves new book & a super PhD thesis by Catherine Rose Ellis #HistSex

If you’re at a loose end tonight, come along to the first Galway Archeological and Historical Society lecture of the year! I’m speaking on tangled knots of sibling obligation, guardianship, unravelling family reputation and the nephews caught in the crossfire (poor Edmund). The Harbour Hotel at 8pm!

#ICYMI or need something to liven up your week back to work, click below to listen to me chat to Fin Dwyer about the sex lives of Presbyterians in 18th century Ulster. We cover baby daddy drama, masturbation, adultery & more #HistSex @ulhistory.bsky.social #IrishHist #NewBook #HistFam

Join me, @tomhulme.bsky.social & @paraickerrigan.bsky.social in Dublin on Jan 23 at the Irish Georgian Society to talk about my book, Love in the Lav! Tickets scanner.topsec.com?d=1962&r=sho...

my ma posted me down proper soda farls & potato bread to keep me going until I get up after christmas. Enjoy!

'The Secret Sex Lives of Our Ancestors': Listen to Pious and Promiscuous author @leannecalvert.bsky.social in conversation with Fin O’Dwyer on the Irish History Podcast about sex in 18th-century Presbyterian Ulster: from paternity and gossip to adultery and runaway spouses.

british history is when you write about england but your footnotes note “may have been different in wales, scotland and ireland”

& Can't argue with Fin, if you're looking a christmas present with a saucy side, the book can be purchased here shop.ria.ie/products/pious #HistSex #HistFam #IrishHist #NewBook #PiousPromiscuous

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The new episode of the Irish History Podcast features me with Fin O'Dwyer on 'The Secret Sex Lives of Our Ancestors'. Listen in to hear more about Presbyterians & their sex lives in c18th Ireland #HistSex #PiousPromiscuous @ulhistory.bsky.social @ria.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social

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Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Frank, a white and tan jack russell terrier stands up to look into a box. You can see Tayto crisps (the real ones not the interlopers) at the top of a bag of presents.

Frank looking happy next to a present addressed to him.

Frank looking over a parcel that contains his Xmas pj's. We have matching ones.

We're staying in Tipp for Xmas. Parents sent us down our Xmas boxes. Frank already in brat mode. As you can see, my ma packed us the essentials 😂 Tayto & soda farls

This is v unfair treatment. We had such a hard time trying to find somewhere to live when we moved because of Frank. I replied to so many daft ads and never got a response once I mentioned him. Very glad to have found our current place. I showed her pics of him & cried when she said yes!