Thanks to @eicathomefinn.bsky.social for notification of the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall (1933-2025), a great historian of India and Empire, and a pioneering President of the Royal Historical Society. His last book is going to press so there is more of his work still to appreciate.
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The Irish House of Commons, 1776โ1801 - Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
The resource that I've been working on for the past year has recently been released. It gathers the lost debates of the Irish Parliament from 1776-1801 - a period of deep upheaval in Ireland and the Atlantic world. Please explore at: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/i...
07.07.2025 13:19 โ ๐ 95 ๐ 40 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 1
Rituals of Migration
Italian and Irish immigrant experiencesWhen people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. The idea of rites of passageโwith...
๐๏ธ What do migrants think, feel, do, and pack on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? See "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147982513... @gihnyu.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social ๐งต1/5
13.05.2025 13:16 โ ๐ 105 ๐ 43 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 8
This is fantastic! Really looking forward to the release.
16.04.2025 21:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
As we approach a series of 250th anniversaries relating to the period of the American Revolution it is important to interrogate points of connection in Irish and American pasts. This is the focus of โIreland and America: 250th Anniversary Perspectivesโ, hosted by PRONI in partnership with the VRTI.
14.03.2025 13:25 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2
CFP: 'Ireland and the American Revolution'. The organisers invite submissions for papers to be presented at a conference held in the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin on the 9-10 October 2025. If you are interested submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio by the 1 May 2025.
06.02.2025 17:26 โ ๐ 60 ๐ 41 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 7
The issue is a response to the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. It expands on themes tied to the broader context of the the #USA250 commemorations and delves into topics including the memory of frontier conflict and indigenous displacement. 2/2
21.01.2025 15:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Project MUSE - West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies-Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2024
The current issue of ๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ฆ focuses on the legacies of Dunmore's War in central Appalachia. I am happy to have contributed an essay alongside colleagues and former students. 1/2
21.01.2025 15:27 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Excited to read it.
20.01.2025 14:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
REF: CCS01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
I'm delighted to share the advert for a collaborative PhD which I'll be co-supervising with Dr Paddy Fitzgerald of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (Omagh). This project, 'Finding "home" in a cultural landscape of migration & belonging' has a deadline of 10 March
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Historian of technology, & dad joke aficionado who lives w/a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit.
I wonโt share AI generated content, except to critique it.
If you see me in person Iโll be wearing a mask. If you care abt me, put one on too.
www.marhicks.com
SFI-IRC (Research Ireland) Pathway Fellow at UCD School of History. PI on Law versus Practice, a digital humanities project exploring womenโs property ownership in early modern Ireland.
https://www.lawvpractice.ie/
Historian at the University of Mississippi. Author of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (OUP, 2024).
Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and author of 'Technology and the Historian' (Illinois, 2021).
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College
Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
Historian of science interested in 20th c. Europe, Latin America, science, political science, gender & women physicians. I teach at Roehampton University & UNC. Georgetown University Alumni. Avid reader. I love classical music: Handel & Vivaldi.
Former Internet personality
Maps, History, Geography/GIS, Tar Heels. Not always in that order.
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Historian of 18/19c.
Associate Professor (MCF)
@Univ_Lorraine
@IDEA_UL
Horkan Visiting Fellow 2026, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Ass. Researcher LEM-CNRS
Coord. MIRCOM project MSH -Lorraine
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karinabenazechwendling.wordpress.com
Assistant Dean of Research and Professor in English at the University of Limerick. Fan of all things Gothic. Views mine. She/her.
English prof. 17th century stuff. Prairie son. Working on a cultural and material history of the birchbark canoe in the early modern Americas.
Historian of 16th century French natural history focusing on three-toed sloths (Bradypus sp.). Ph.D. Candidate at Binghamton University. Fellow of the Linnean Society. Gaelgeoir. All opinions are my own.
Folklorist/anthropologist. I document from Calabria to Appalachia
Historian | Head of Collections Research at The National Archives (UK) | Maritime & colonial history | History of science & medicine | Currently researching Royal African Company/Company of Merchants.
Boston: Civil War historian, educator, and public speaker. Author: Searching For Black Confederates https://amzn.to/4c2KSuT. Bio of Robert Gould Shaw forthcoming with UNC Press (2026).
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Archive boxes full of preserved stories, sights and sounds from the Appalachian region. Home to the bell hook papers and the Janis Ian Archives.
https://libraryguides.berea.edu/archives
