Keira Gomez

Séamus is getting very good at running conferences. Thanks @oralhistoryie.bsky.social for being so welcoming (and for some really interesting sessions)! #OHNI2025 #oralhistory

Conference Baby in Glasgow!

"Finding your tribe when you've had a baby can be really diffic-"

Séamus is willing to let me keep going to conferences, but there are strict conditions.

Thank you @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social and @nwavc2025.bsky.social for hosting Séamus for his first academic conference! Such a lovely bunch of people and some really interesting papers too! 😊

My child is clearly the star of the conference 😆

I've spent almost a decade researching and writing about incredibly difficult histories. I was always able to compartmentalise and deal with it.

All of a sudden, since coming back from maternity leave, I can't hack it at all. It's all too upsetting.

How can I go back to how I was??

**Call for Papers** Public History in an Age of Anxiety CPH Annual Conference, Belfast, 2025

Grim economic outlooks. Contemporary social historian seeking freelance work - historical research, research and policy, editorial…

I need to find a way of putting on my CV that I'm writing my PhD one handed because I am constantly pumping breast milk 🤔

20/ It’s a Jungle Out There by Ed Miliano
Animals, nature, wonder
Perhaps not as well known, but a real beauty
Age 3+
#discoveririshkidsbooks

3/ and 4/
Time for Bed Fred by Yasmeen Ismail and Be Wild, Little One by Olivia Hope and Daniel Egnéus
Two beautiful picture books for age 3+
# DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

This sounds way more interesting than the usual conversations overheard on public transport!

Which side is winning?

I'm not sure it's the distance that makes following a stranger home creepy 😆

I think you should make it a permanent fixture, it looks cool

You can use a bra for all sorts of things really, like carrying shopping home if you forgot your bag for life, or as a doorstop while you nip out for a fag.

I've started wearing jumpsuits to make me feel sophisticated. Great for breastfeeding, terrible for going to the loo while holding a baby...

Oh I missed the bit about the belt. That's probably a far better rope.

I feel like you should've mentioned the rack/ pannier much earlier.

The jumpsuit is a problem (jumpsuits are usually a problem aren't they) but I reckon if you take your socks off they'll do as a stand in for rope. If they're not long enough you may have to use your bra/ hair

Ok need more deets. Does it have any kind of hook attached?

I spent ten years roaming London and being an alcoholic, this sort of situation is absolutely my forte.

Special thanks to my delightful baby who decided to pull my top down and share his favourite thing in the world (my boob) with everyone on the zoom call 🫠

I grew up in a flat in central London. Moved to a town when I was 12 and my God, I was convinced we were about to all be killed in our beds the first time I heard what turned out to be a pair of loved up foxes

My therapist: Big Lithuania isn't Real. Big Lithuania can't hurt you.
Big Lithuania:

Not to have a go at whoever writes the Birkbeck bulletin emails, but there cannot possibly be "ten things you need to know at Birkbeck" every single week.

Cover of the edited collection Inheriting the Family.

Our edited collection is published Open Access by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 6 February! We have wonderful chapters exploring inherited objects and stories! We loved putting it together @katieebarclay.bsky.social @tanyaevans.bsky.social @ashleybarnwell.bsky.social @lauracking.bsky.social

Inheriting the Family This open access book uses new methodologies from the history and sociology of emotions to analyse why people select specific tokens of family inheritance, and…

Here is the link www.bloomsbury.com/uk/978135038...

the press will call some guy a “controversial conservative journalist” and he’s the senior editor of “phrenology quarterly, an aryan brotherhood publication”

An older woman stands on a street wearing a green dress and posing with a matching green shopping trolley

A middle-aged woman stands outside a block of flats. She is wearing a red jacket and is posing with a matching red shopping trolley.

An older woman stands outside a block of flats. She is wearing a blue jacket and pushing a matching blue shopping trolley.

An older woman stands at the entrance to an alley. She is wearing a pink coat and glasses, and she is posing with a black shopping trolley.

Photographs from Stephen Gill's 2002 series, 'Trolley Portraits'

How Ireland used to celebrate St Brigid's Day in the past From the Biddy boys and Brat Bríde to holy wells and Brigid's crosses, February 1st was marked with great gusto in old Ireland

St Brigid’s Eve - Don't forget to leave a piece of cloth outside to be blessed by Brigid as she passes tonight! This is the brat Bríde, it’ll cure headaches or sore throats and keep you healthy for the year! #speirgorm #brigidsday #stbrigid www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Took the baby to see an art installation in East London.

His face is very, "you call this art??"