Sarah Baccianti

Join us for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition! Our panel of experts will 'dissect’ the medieval body, revealing how our ancestors thought their bodies functioned.

⏰12 August, 7-8pm
📍Online
🔗Register: https://loom.ly/ck4iTmI

The opening page of lecture slides from 2016 on the topic of "Making Plague's Story Modern: A Local-to-Global Analysis." Besides the rat on the side, there are two images: a crowded cemetery scene from a 14th-century manuscript describing the Black Death; and an outline map of Arizona, showing the counties were plague is already enzootic (persisting in rodent populations).

School's out now in most places, so teachers won't need to explain the plague stories in the news to their students soon. But in case they're looking for a way to bring Global Health into local perspectives, these teaching notes on plague in Arizona might help: www.academia.edu/26423493/ 🧪🗃️

One for @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social 🏔️

I wonder if you're enjoying the cooler temperature in Zermatt!

Giant Irish deer in field with birds

Ichthyosaur underwater

Sea Eagle flying by cliff with birds

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is wildlife and the environment for Wild Ireland: Past, Present, Future @ulstermuseum.org‬ 🦌🌿

The exhibition features over 50 paintings by renowned wildlife painter, Julian Friers

Julian Friers (b.1956) 📷 National Museums NI

While working on the #NIPrisonServiceCollection, Rebecca Laverty, Curator of Modern History, discovers a fire extinguisher with "IRA" scratched into the side.

Watch our videos on this documentation project here → bit.ly/43Y4Cwq

#UlsterMuseum #BehindTheScenes #TroublesAndBeyond

Seven of the 20 contributors to the volume are present at the current workshop:
Sharon Arbuthnot, Deborah Hayden, Joseph Flahive, Sarah Baccianti, David Stifter, Siobhán Barrett, Conan Doyle @conandoyle.bsky.social.
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...edited by Deborah Hayden and Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social, the proceedings of two conferences stretching from 2018-2021.
More info at @brepols.net: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10....
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Such a joy to see this out in the world at last - and now available fully #OpenAccess from @brepols.net!

Huge thanks to my co-editor @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social, all our contributors, & @researchireland.ie for making this project possible against all odds 🎉🥂

www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...

Team effort between us, you and your team! 🤓

What the postman brought today:

Many congratulations to the editors @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social and @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social for this splendid and comprehensive volume on "Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World".
Online at: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
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Book cover. Purple with cover image of circular diagram representing Microcosmic Man. London, British Library MS Sloane 282, fol. 18.

Publication day! Huge thanks to all our contributors and especially to @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social for steering the ship these past couple of years. Grateful to her LEIGHEAS project funded by #ResearchIreland for covering open access with @brepols.net! #medmedhistory www.brepols.net/products/IS-....

One for you and your team @hmbarber-james.bsky.social

Great news! I am recruiting a(nother) PhD student!

'Ulster Americans' is a collaborative PhD with National Museums NI, specifically the Ulster American Folk Park, and is open to home and international students so please spread the word! More details in the link.

www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

Delighted to partner with #UlsterMuseum to offer 4 yr PhD at @qmul.ac.uk funded by @ukri.org from Oct 2025. Please alert anyone with interests in natural history and Ireland in c18-c19. Potential focus on #DigitalHistory #HistSTM #EnvHums. Apply by 23 May @ 5pm.

www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...

😂😂👏🏼👇🏼

One Dime, 1900.

We have an exciting CDP studentship opportunity at the Ulster American Folk Park in partnership with Queen's University Belfast exploring Ulster immigrant life in an American city tenement, 1840-1910. For further details visit: www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

Woodland

Sunrise and trees

Tree and sunrise

Much needed morning walk after a sleepless night #dawn #CoDown

In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

Really interesting read.
'In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA' 👇🏼
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Brepols catalogue

Page with picture of front cover of Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World

Saturday's mail.... It's getting real! Just a "few" long pages of indexing left. That's our weekend "fun" sorted @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social @brepols.bsky.social

@sarahbaccianti.bsky.social and I may be in the throes of indexing one whopper of an edited volume today, but just *look* at this gorgeous list of manuscripts 😍

Exciting things coming soon for fans of medieval medicine! 📖📜🎉

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Huge congratulations to my colleagues @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social, #TríonaWhiteHamilton, #AgrippaNjanina & the communities they worked with for the project #GlobalVoicesLocalChoices shortlisted for the 2025 #MuseumsHeritageAwards! 👏
#NationalMuseumsNI

awards.museumsandheritage.com/2025-shortlist

6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish 6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish was published in Sub-Indo-European Europe on page 157.

@davidstifter.bsky.social research referenced in the article can be found here: '6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish' www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland? The rise of the precursor to the Irish language remains a historical mystery that linguists, geneticists and archaeologists continue to debate

The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland? Interesting research by @davidstifter.bsky.social explored in this article in @theguardian.com #StPatrick #Ireland #Celtic
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Corner Shop frontage, green in colour.

Picture House frontage, black and white sign.

Pub frontage, pink, cream and white sign.

Shoemaker's shop frontage, burgundy and white sign.

Men's names may well be above the doors of these premises but it is the women who helped to run them and/or their households that I'll be focusing on at the Womenfolk event at the Ulster Folk Museum on Saturday 8th March. Catch my tours at 12pm and 2pm: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/whats-on/wom...

Proofs!! 😀🎉

@sarahbaccianti.bsky.social

Call for proposals: Humanities Futures book series - University of London Press We are delighted to announce the details of our exciting new book series, Humanities Futures, and to invite book proposal submissions.  Humanities Futures is a new book series that advocates powerfull...

'Humanities research is dynamic, its boundaries porous, and its impacts significant and varied.'

– Professor Jo Fox, Pro-Vice Chancellor at @uolondon.bsky.social and Dean and Chief Executive of the School of Advanced Study.

uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call...

#HumanitiesFutures #OpenAccess

"Regardless of style and tactics, everyone in the American scientific community must hold to the principles of independence, peer evaluation, and inclusion." This is an excellent summary for humanists to read, too, of the dire situation for science right now.

Doctoral fellowship opportunity in African collections at the British Library Asian and African Collections is hosting a doctoral fellowship. The project focuses on cataloguing two donations of material from the South African elections held in 1994. These donations provide inte...

Doctoral Fellowship opportunity in African Collections at the British Library - a chance to learn about collection management and library cataloging systems while researching South African political history.

Deadline Tues 18 March. More information & application form: blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af...

Young woman at a lectern on a stage. Presentation on screen behind has the title ‘Digging into the Bog: Archaeological Finds and the work of Seamus Heaney’

An excellent event at the Seamus Heaney Homeplace, with a focus on the bog-preserved remains found in Bellaghy in 2023. Now revealed to be an Iron Age young woman, it’s been fascinating to hear about the research by a range of experts, coordinated by my colleague, Niamh Baker.

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"