Helen Yates

Congratulations to Dr Helen Yates on the successful defence of her PhD thesis today! Dr Yates' thesis was titled "Staying Alive: Crime, Agency, and Trauma during the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852"

Today I have come across the interesting occupation of 'engine smith' in some convict records for 1849

Booking now for this symposium on 25 April, featuring @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social @mwait13.bsky.social @tortietabby.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social and others working on Ireland in the 1970s beyond. Hoping for some interesting discussion! @iaphistorians.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

Sheila Fitzpatrick 'a spy in the archive' absolutely brilliant book!

Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949 "Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.

Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl...

@dgb-history.bsky.social

Investigating the ‘Assault Deficit’ By Cassie Watson; posted 30 March 2025. According to Robert Shoemaker, quoting an eighteenth-century observer, “the vague legal definition of assault meant that ‘any injury done to a man in an angr…

My latest blog post asks why historians tend not to study the crime of (common) assault:
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...

There's now a live map of job losses in Britain's universities. As the retreat unfolds hour by hour, hopefully we'll be able to follow it here. Or maybe not hopefully. ☹️

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📢Bookings for our 2025 conference are now open!

⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
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More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach: a statement The following is a joint statement (issued 26 February) from the Historical Association, History UK, Institute of Historical Research, and the Royal Historical Society following the most recent mee…

An important statement from the heads of the leading organisations serving British historians including @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org & @histassoc.bsky.social. www.history-uk.ac.uk/2025/03/08/m...

Postgraduate essay 2025 POSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE The Editors of the interdisciplinary Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (AJIS) and the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand are pleased to announc…

Postgraduate essay prize in Irish Studies. Entries close 31 March. isaanz.org/ajis/postgra...

Viva prep Viva prep: .Value-added and originality · What are the most original (or value-added) parts of your thesis? · Which propositions or findings would you say are distinctively your own? · How ...

If you're starting to think about your viva, a long while ago now Old Twitter offered me lots of advice and suggestions. Here's a google doc that summarised a lot of the different Qs that were sent to me, just in case anyone else might find it helpful #phdchat docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Book titled America in Ireland: Culture and Society 1841-1925, published by Cambridge University Press.

My books finally arrived! Very grateful to the team at @cambridgeup.bsky.social for the superb production and supporting the project.
Thinking today of the late David Fitzpatrick who began this project and to whom it is dedicated, and also of my mother who would have loved to see it in print.

@irishstewpodcast.com @theirishstory.bsky.social @passportirish.bsky.social

#IrishFamine #speirgorm

The FREE Early Irish Marriage Index is unique to the IGRS, covering the period 1660 to 1863 it draws on a wide range of original records, including newspapers & journals, land deeds, court bills, army records and old age pension applications.
www.irishancestors.ie/search/marri...

Using Don MacRaild et. al.'s 'The Death Census of Black '47' today to get students discussing famine deaths, charity and relief, disease, and emigration. It offers an excellent primer on the Famine and all the compiled primary sources, all of which is OA! 🗃️
www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Transatlantic slave routes—View the Movement of 31,041 Slave Ships. Never forget.

Thank you so much for sharing!

Sorry, I've checked with my supervisor but he says the files have gone missing

Our history department students all wrote a piece about this at the time. If you're interested I'll try and find the link

3/3 Those who tried to ensure that the events of the first half of the 20th century were never to be repeated must be turning in their graves

2/3 I feel that we are closer to total war today than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, not to mention a global economic depression and massive negative environmental impact).

1/2 Does no-one in the American government understand that tarrifs led to the world wide depression of the 1930s? Or that appeasement contributed to world war two? NATO was created to provide global security and is now being eroded.

Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

Periodical Famines Long recognized as Ireland's greatest demographic disaster in recent history, the Great Famine of 1845–1851 has shaped Irish identities around the world. F...

Thank you to Dr Lindsay Janssen for giving such a wonderful @ssnci.bsky.social
annual lecture yesterday! We highly recommend her book 'Periodical Famines'! iupress.org/978025307190...

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country.
They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

Another world wide great depression caused by tarriffs, increasing problems with global climate change, and an erosion of women's rights. Most, if not all, major changes in America will impact the rest of the world :(