Matthew Kelly

@matthewjkelly.bsky.social

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Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Dec 23

We can all identify with this harassed fella. ‘The Minor Official’ from George Birmingham’s ‘Irishmen All’ (1913). Illustration by Jack B. Yeats.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 1d

When your Polish mother-in-law takes charge of Wigilia (Xmas eve meal), nothing left to chance. I’m sure she’ll be impressed by today’s M&S Xmas lunch…

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An extensive hand written list of ingredients for the various dishes for a Wigilia Xmas Eve supper.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 3d

Yum. That combination, in all its varieties, cannot be beaten.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me about the raisin bread!

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 5d

You telling us to ‘snap out of the gloom’ Glen carries a certain irony!

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 6d

When Clag was Clean: The Environmentalism of Railway Modernisation…

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not going to spend the evening reading this stuff. Definitely not.

www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.p...

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 6d

Now I know about the trade off between power, maintenance costs, and visibility.

Reposted by Mark Rubin, Du Plessis, Greg Walker , and 1 more Mark Rubin, Du Plessis, Greg Walker, Matthew Kelly

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d

;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3

‘Beware trade-offs’ of removing REF funding for 3* outputs

Review of formula used to allocate £2 billion QR funding could downgrade or withdraw money for ‘internationally excellent’ research, some fear

www.timeshighereducation.com

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 10d

Ah, that’s a good reason. I feared it might be a question of propriety.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 10d

This is most disappointing.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 10d

I had a long session with Microsoft help. In short, they had to take control of my computer and download an earlier version. Guy was very helpful & understanding.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, for something that’s a bit of fun, that strays into poor taste.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 12d

Northumberland beaches massively overrated.

Cold and bleak.

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 13d

In Issue 26 we have ranked the Ceremonial Counties of England, from top to bottom...

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 12d

Blair was deeply unpopular in the Labour Party after Iraq but it was hard to imagine who would be better at the job. Starmer’s acute vulnerability reflects the basic fact that enough MPs and party members now think there are several people who would be better at the job than him.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 12d

Learning about a band through a Guardian end of year round up isn’t very hip, but it’s got me to Geese.

The sound is New York in obvious ways, but they’re messing very nicely with those influences.

Plus, they’re a bunch of mates from school playing instruments together. Proper.

Reposted by Matthew Kelly, Katrina Navickas

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 13d

In Issue 26 we have ranked the Ceremonial Counties of England, from top to bottom...

Reposted by Mary Bosworth, Richard S.J. Tol, Howard Williams , and 35 more Mary Bosworth, Richard S.J. Tol, Howard Williams, Dave O’Brien, Jonathan Wolff, Joanna Bourke, Elizabeth Stokoe, Martin Paul Eve, Charles West, Helen King, Lynn Abrams, Malcolm MacLean, John Foot, Jonathan Hopkin, Mike Rowe, Ben Worthy, Duncan Bell, Holger Nehring, Keith Lilley, Tom Griffin, Matthew Kelly, Adrian Vickers, Margot C. Finn, Michael H. Whitworth, Jonathan Birch, Laura Kelly, Pratik Chakrabarti, Stuart White, Katrina Navickas, Kathleen Kennedy, Mary Burke, Hayley Bennett, Pascale Aebischer, Kate Bradley, Stijn Smismans, Renaud Morieux, François Guesnet, Andrew Perchard

lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 15d

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 16d

That‘s kind Fredrik, thank you. Lovely to know The Women have made it into a classroom.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 23d

‘Rook go home, rook go home.’

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 23d

How can the broad framing & method discussed here be placed in dialogue with current work in Irish environmental history? Thinking here of the current project of momoulton.bsky.social, kevinosullivan.bsky.social, & erikahanna.bsky.social.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 23d

One of the strengths of the piece, I think, is that it doesn’t see the most productive current work as a break with revisionism (dropping the scare quoted & ‘so-called’) but as an evolution, albeit one by no means beholden to an older generation of authority figures.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 23d

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great historiographical piece by Lindsey Earner-Bynre, Roisin Higgins & Carole Holohan. Subtle on revisionism, really helpful discussion of method, and powerful on the intersection between work on respectability, the experiential turn, & the unofficial archive.

Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century

www.cambridge.org

Reposted by Matthew Kelly

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 23d

Please do chip into the National Trust’s crowdfunder to help manage the land around the Cerne Giant for chalk wildflowers and butterfly species like Duke of Burgundy here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...

Donate to the Cerne Abbas Nature Appeal

Donate to the Cerne Abbas Appeal so together, we can help restore the land, habitats and species that live there.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 27d

The greatest made-for-TV series ever? Not Hollywood…

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 27d

Amazing stuff, Damian. Admit I’ve not dug into your findings. Do these pensioners have implications for political activism, IRB, Land League etc?

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 27d

Sounds brilliant!

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 28d

Very odd for a good writer to resort to the ‘nowhere’ trope. This calls for one of those droll LRB letters. The storied ground of nowhereland…

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Nov 26

Ahem. I do. Probably about one set a year. I find settling down to it, following the instructions, using my hands, therapeutic, mindful I suppose, offsetting stress of work.There‘s a formal beauty to the adult sets, seeing how they come together. I don’t have kids, that might be a factor.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Nov 25

Look at the bone structure, the brow…

Gosh, the Daly papers. Looked at those for my PhD research. I thought the picture looked familiar.

Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · Nov 25

Cd the guy on the right be John MacBride?

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