Aaron Sheridan
@acsheridan.bsky.social
History PhD at the University of Strathclyde researching social history of council housing in Edinburgh, 1919 - 1999 | Living Rent, Govan and Ibrox branch
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Yesterday was my final day at @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social. Thank you to the librarians, canteen staff, security, and fellow lecturers and researchers for making my time there so enjoyable. Thanks also to the students who kept it entertaining and I can't wait to see what you go on to achieve. ❤️
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Yesterday was my final day at @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social. Thank you to the librarians, canteen staff, security, and fellow lecturers and researchers for making my time there so enjoyable. Thanks also to the students who kept it entertaining and I can't wait to see what you go on to achieve. ❤️
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At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Discovered that my lecture for the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust from 2023 is on YouTube! Its a history of working-class living conditions, renting, the development of slum neighbourhoods and the responses by authorities in Old Edinburgh from c.1750s - 1919.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEXI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEXI...
Tenements, the working class and slum clearance in Old Edinburgh
YouTube video by Scottish Historic Buildings Trust
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Discovered that my lecture for the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust from 2023 is on YouTube! Its a history of working-class living conditions, renting, the development of slum neighbourhoods and the responses by authorities in Old Edinburgh from c.1750s - 1919.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEXI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEXI...
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We've made some progress, thank you so much! I could still use around another £400 if Bluesky can find a way to dig deep this month to help a trans dude get back on his meds.
Folks, I need to ask for some help this month.
My US testosterone scrip has run out & I can't wait the 7+ years it takes to get seen by the UK NHS to renew it. I've been working w private practitioners to fast track getting hormones & this has been an extra £500 this month
Any help is appreciated
My US testosterone scrip has run out & I can't wait the 7+ years it takes to get seen by the UK NHS to renew it. I've been working w private practitioners to fast track getting hormones & this has been an extra £500 this month
Any help is appreciated
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We've made some progress, thank you so much! I could still use around another £400 if Bluesky can find a way to dig deep this month to help a trans dude get back on his meds.
What a horrible decision. The high cost of tuition in England and Wales already saddles students with life-long debt burdens. Raising them further will only widen the attainment gap. All in the name of making students pay off the debts that their institutions have taken on. Shameful.
🚨 NEW: University tuition fees will increase in line with forecast inflation for the next two years
October 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What a horrible decision. The high cost of tuition in England and Wales already saddles students with life-long debt burdens. Raising them further will only widen the attainment gap. All in the name of making students pay off the debts that their institutions have taken on. Shameful.
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The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown.
I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.
I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.
Scottish Workers’ Stories of Life and Labour during Covid-19 from the Workers’ Stories Project
This article explores how Scottish workers narrated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their life and work, by analysing 55 fifty-five submissions to the Workers' Stories Project. Between 2020 and...
scholarcommons.sc.edu
October 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown.
I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.
I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.
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A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.
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I'm very pleased to have received my copy of Ned Newitt's thoroughly researched and finely illustrated history of social housing in Leicester. I recommend it not just to locals but to anyone interested in our housing history. waterstones.com/book/housing...
October 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I'm very pleased to have received my copy of Ned Newitt's thoroughly researched and finely illustrated history of social housing in Leicester. I recommend it not just to locals but to anyone interested in our housing history. waterstones.com/book/housing...
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Really good piece from Jane Bradley and co at NYT.
Earlier this summer Democracy for Sale revealed how anti abortionists, including ADF, were pumping money into the U.K.
Free Speech Union still hasn’t responded to our queries. Funny that…
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
Earlier this summer Democracy for Sale revealed how anti abortionists, including ADF, were pumping money into the U.K.
Free Speech Union still hasn’t responded to our queries. Funny that…
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
October 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Really good piece from Jane Bradley and co at NYT.
Earlier this summer Democracy for Sale revealed how anti abortionists, including ADF, were pumping money into the U.K.
Free Speech Union still hasn’t responded to our queries. Funny that…
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
Earlier this summer Democracy for Sale revealed how anti abortionists, including ADF, were pumping money into the U.K.
Free Speech Union still hasn’t responded to our queries. Funny that…
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...
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“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”
My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990
www.cambridge.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”
My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This is highly disturbing. The IDF have used, among many other third-party digital creations, open-access scans from the Scottish Maritime Museum to construct fictional Hamas compounds and create pretext for their genocide of Palestinians.
theferret.scot/idf-scottish...
theferret.scot/idf-scottish...
The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum’s 3D models in propaganda videos – The Ferret
theferret.scot
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is highly disturbing. The IDF have used, among many other third-party digital creations, open-access scans from the Scottish Maritime Museum to construct fictional Hamas compounds and create pretext for their genocide of Palestinians.
theferret.scot/idf-scottish...
theferret.scot/idf-scottish...
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A supportive, encouraging and inspirational team doing hugely important work. Grateful to have this wonderful institution on my doorstep to learn from! www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...
October 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A supportive, encouraging and inspirational team doing hugely important work. Grateful to have this wonderful institution on my doorstep to learn from! www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...
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And now on website: www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...
Thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre
ORAL history is the practice of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities and participants
www.thenational.scot
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
And now on website: www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...
Great write up from @charlielynch.bsky.social in The National yesterday covering the upcoming 30th Anniversary of the Scottish Oral History Centre. My brilliant advisor and Director of the Centre @ymcfadden.bsky.social front and centre alongside the bona fide legend and founder Arthur McIvor!
October 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Great write up from @charlielynch.bsky.social in The National yesterday covering the upcoming 30th Anniversary of the Scottish Oral History Centre. My brilliant advisor and Director of the Centre @ymcfadden.bsky.social front and centre alongside the bona fide legend and founder Arthur McIvor!
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Jarrow ladies fire brigade, 1916 (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum).
October 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Jarrow ladies fire brigade, 1916 (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum).
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At the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936, at least 100,000 people, including Jewish residents, Irish dock workers, Communists and Labour Party members prevented a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) from passing through the East End...
October 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
At the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936, at least 100,000 people, including Jewish residents, Irish dock workers, Communists and Labour Party members prevented a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) from passing through the East End...
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We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
October 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
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#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...
October 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...
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Confirmation that Trump will be signing an executive order designating "antifa"—i.e., opposition to fascism—as "a domestic terrorist organization."
What this will mean concretely has yet to be seen. For now, read this guide to preparing communities to endure repression:
crimethinc.com/Safeguarding
What this will mean concretely has yet to be seen. For now, read this guide to preparing communities to endure repression:
crimethinc.com/Safeguarding
September 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Confirmation that Trump will be signing an executive order designating "antifa"—i.e., opposition to fascism—as "a domestic terrorist organization."
What this will mean concretely has yet to be seen. For now, read this guide to preparing communities to endure repression:
crimethinc.com/Safeguarding
What this will mean concretely has yet to be seen. For now, read this guide to preparing communities to endure repression:
crimethinc.com/Safeguarding
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Learned a lot from this show sharing music from countries that were colonised by Portugal - Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Angola etc. Lots of great anticolonial tunes soundcloud.com/clydebuiltra...
sangoma! (7/9/25)
Listen to sangoma! (7/9/25) by Clyde Built Radio #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Learned a lot from this show sharing music from countries that were colonised by Portugal - Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Angola etc. Lots of great anticolonial tunes soundcloud.com/clydebuiltra...
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It's publication day for British By-Elections! I publish a lot of writing, but this is the first book contribution I've had published, so it's very exciting!
The perfect accompaniment to party conference season for you politics nerds, you can get a copy at: www.politicos.co.uk/products/by-...
The perfect accompaniment to party conference season for you politics nerds, you can get a copy at: www.politicos.co.uk/products/by-...
September 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's publication day for British By-Elections! I publish a lot of writing, but this is the first book contribution I've had published, so it's very exciting!
The perfect accompaniment to party conference season for you politics nerds, you can get a copy at: www.politicos.co.uk/products/by-...
The perfect accompaniment to party conference season for you politics nerds, you can get a copy at: www.politicos.co.uk/products/by-...
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“We have a new way of understanding the social history of post-war Scotland. Our book challenges and complicates stereotypes, especially of working-class life.”
Historians, Valerie Wright and Alistair Fair spoke to me about ‘Building Modern Scotland.’ 🏴 www.thenational.scot/news/2545606...
Historians, Valerie Wright and Alistair Fair spoke to me about ‘Building Modern Scotland.’ 🏴 www.thenational.scot/news/2545606...
Building of Scotland's modern towns explored in new book
Between the late 1940s and the 1960s, new towns were built in Scotland as part of a government-led programme to provide housing and jobs ...
www.thenational.scot
September 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“We have a new way of understanding the social history of post-war Scotland. Our book challenges and complicates stereotypes, especially of working-class life.”
Historians, Valerie Wright and Alistair Fair spoke to me about ‘Building Modern Scotland.’ 🏴 www.thenational.scot/news/2545606...
Historians, Valerie Wright and Alistair Fair spoke to me about ‘Building Modern Scotland.’ 🏴 www.thenational.scot/news/2545606...
Had a fantastic time presenting and attending the @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference on Saturday. Congratulations to all the speakers and particularly @vawright10.bsky.social for her in depth history of women’s housing activism in Scotland. Thanks to @ymcfadden.bsky.social and the team
September 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Had a fantastic time presenting and attending the @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference on Saturday. Congratulations to all the speakers and particularly @vawright10.bsky.social for her in depth history of women’s housing activism in Scotland. Thanks to @ymcfadden.bsky.social and the team
An underrated thing about coming from Scotland's central belt is that several times in your life there will be a news article on whether or not your hometown is the "ugliest in Scotland".
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now...
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now...
Lanarkshire town with 'war zone' town centre named among ugliest in Scotland
It was also criticised for its "shabby streets".
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
An underrated thing about coming from Scotland's central belt is that several times in your life there will be a news article on whether or not your hometown is the "ugliest in Scotland".
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now...
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now...
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This year’s Sue Innes Memorial Lecture at @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference given by @vawright10.bsky.social on ‘Housing as a ‘Women’s Issue’: Women and Housing Activism in Twentieth Century Scotland.
September 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This year’s Sue Innes Memorial Lecture at @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference given by @vawright10.bsky.social on ‘Housing as a ‘Women’s Issue’: Women and Housing Activism in Twentieth Century Scotland.