Ciara Breathnach
@ciarab.bsky.social
Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en&
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🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
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(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
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Programs - School of Advanced Study
universityoflondon.smapply.io
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
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Amazing experience to bring Dr Bot to Cheltenham Festival on stage with technology journalist Lara Lewington + chaired by the BBC's Claudia Hammond. Great discussions, and a lively audience.
@yalebooks.bsky.social
@yalebooks.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Amazing experience to bring Dr Bot to Cheltenham Festival on stage with technology journalist Lara Lewington + chaired by the BBC's Claudia Hammond. Great discussions, and a lively audience.
@yalebooks.bsky.social
@yalebooks.bsky.social
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Reminder to the #histSTM #skystorian crowd that there's an online, free seminar this pm UK time which feels like it might speak to a lot of contemporary interests (including #EnvHist - see you there!
Planning your week? How you fixed tomorrow, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST?
Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'
Free registration 👇
#histmed #histSTM #matcult
Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'
Free registration 👇
#histmed #histSTM #matcult
SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025
Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…
sshm.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Reminder to the #histSTM #skystorian crowd that there's an online, free seminar this pm UK time which feels like it might speak to a lot of contemporary interests (including #EnvHist - see you there!
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Fantastic story on our homepage this morning about the race to find a polio vaccine, written by a polio survivor happy that she has become a “dinosaur” of the time before we had one. Worth your while: www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...
The Polio Vaccine Was a Miracle—and We Must Not Forget It
As a polio survivor, I am a dinosaur today. My great hope is that our country’s living memory of the disease ends with my generation.
www.thebulwark.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Fantastic story on our homepage this morning about the race to find a polio vaccine, written by a polio survivor happy that she has become a “dinosaur” of the time before we had one. Worth your while: www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...
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AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language
AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language
Chatbots inability to grasp Irish underscores gaps in AI systems
www.irishtimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language
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Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...
IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History Seminar
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...
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Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)
Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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WG1 Seminar resumes next Fri 26 Sep at 1pm CET with Prof Enrique Perdiguero who will speak on Fighting Cancer in Spain in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A First Approach. #skystorians #medhums #histmed #eurohisthealth #CA22159
September 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
WG1 Seminar resumes next Fri 26 Sep at 1pm CET with Prof Enrique Perdiguero who will speak on Fighting Cancer in Spain in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A First Approach. #skystorians #medhums #histmed #eurohisthealth #CA22159
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Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.
Starting this week:
Starting this week:
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
www.history.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!
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Looking forward to launching "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social Sept 19, 7pm w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social &co. 🎉🎉🎉
Join us this Thursday to celebrate the launch of the latest book in the NYU Press Glucksman Irish Diaspora series, Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move. We can't wait to see you all at Ireland House this week 🎉 @nyupress.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Looking forward to launching "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social Sept 19, 7pm w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social &co. 🎉🎉🎉
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#CallForPapers #CFP The Fight against Tuberculosis. Policies, Exchanges, & Representations in Europe &its Colonies, 1850s-1970s
Call OPEN - closes 30 Nov 2025
Zagreb, Croatia (Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts) 26-27 May 2026. Info 👉 tinyurl.com/sjn8wrpc #Skystorians #TB #HistMed #EuroHistHealth
Call OPEN - closes 30 Nov 2025
Zagreb, Croatia (Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts) 26-27 May 2026. Info 👉 tinyurl.com/sjn8wrpc #Skystorians #TB #HistMed #EuroHistHealth
September 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
#CallForPapers #CFP The Fight against Tuberculosis. Policies, Exchanges, & Representations in Europe &its Colonies, 1850s-1970s
Call OPEN - closes 30 Nov 2025
Zagreb, Croatia (Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts) 26-27 May 2026. Info 👉 tinyurl.com/sjn8wrpc #Skystorians #TB #HistMed #EuroHistHealth
Call OPEN - closes 30 Nov 2025
Zagreb, Croatia (Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts) 26-27 May 2026. Info 👉 tinyurl.com/sjn8wrpc #Skystorians #TB #HistMed #EuroHistHealth
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Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social
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September 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...
newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...
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Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.
September 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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#EAHMH25 was a fab conference with an incredible array of fascinating papers, topics & scholars. Finally met some of my @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social colleagues in person. Event better to team up with my other #COST gang @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social #Berlin #Research
September 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
#EAHMH25 was a fab conference with an incredible array of fascinating papers, topics & scholars. Finally met some of my @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social colleagues in person. Event better to team up with my other #COST gang @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social #Berlin #Research
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Super evening with our @costprogramme.bsky.social @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social colleagues. Stories were told, legends were made and plans were mapped. This is what #COST is about - optimising opportunties for collaboration - this time in stereo! #Synergy #COST22159 #EAHMH25 #COST22116 #Research
September 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Super evening with our @costprogramme.bsky.social @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social colleagues. Stories were told, legends were made and plans were mapped. This is what #COST is about - optimising opportunties for collaboration - this time in stereo! #Synergy #COST22159 #EAHMH25 #COST22116 #Research
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Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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This is the year for important edited collections in the history of health and medicine. In my humble opinion, every historian in our field should have these two books.
September 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is the year for important edited collections in the history of health and medicine. In my humble opinion, every historian in our field should have these two books.
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So deeply honoured to be among those participating in this symposium in honour of a truly remarkable man, a brilliant scholar, trusted mentor, and dear friend.
Green Carnations:
Remembering Éibhear Walshe
Wednesday 10 September
University College Cork
www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...
Green Carnations:
Remembering Éibhear Walshe
Wednesday 10 September
University College Cork
www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...
August 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
So deeply honoured to be among those participating in this symposium in honour of a truly remarkable man, a brilliant scholar, trusted mentor, and dear friend.
Green Carnations:
Remembering Éibhear Walshe
Wednesday 10 September
University College Cork
www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...
Green Carnations:
Remembering Éibhear Walshe
Wednesday 10 September
University College Cork
www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...
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Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
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Do you want to strengthen social resilience against the spread of disinformation online? We have the most incredible gig: a 4-year postdoctoral research position focusing on topics like digital literacy, fact-checking, and hybrid threats. Apply! (also repost)
hanken.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
hanken.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Resilience to Disinformation / Postdoktoral forskare inom social resiliens mot desinformation
hanken.rekrytointi.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Do you want to strengthen social resilience against the spread of disinformation online? We have the most incredible gig: a 4-year postdoctoral research position focusing on topics like digital literacy, fact-checking, and hybrid threats. Apply! (also repost)
hanken.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
hanken.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
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This is a huge blow to critical, independent research on the BBC. If you care about maintaining access to the archive of a major cultural institution, please read and sign.
Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign:
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is a huge blow to critical, independent research on the BBC. If you care about maintaining access to the archive of a major cultural institution, please read and sign.
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It's very sad to have the news of Bríd McGrath's death. She was an indefatigable editor for @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social
See our tribute to her here:
www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/
See our tribute to her here:
www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/
Bríd McGrath - Irish Manuscripts
Bríd at the launch of her edition in Clonmel in June 2006. It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Dr Bríd McGrath, editor of four IMC editions. On behalf of the Chair and member...
www.irishmanuscripts.ie
August 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It's very sad to have the news of Bríd McGrath's death. She was an indefatigable editor for @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social
See our tribute to her here:
www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/
See our tribute to her here:
www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/
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Contact Zones: Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the United States, eds. Justin Carville & Sigrid Lien. (Leuven: Leuven University Press). Available in paperback and Open Access at LUP and @jstor.bsky.social
Contact Zones | Leuven University Press
The role of photography in U.S. migrant histories Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United Sta...
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August 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Contact Zones: Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the United States, eds. Justin Carville & Sigrid Lien. (Leuven: Leuven University Press). Available in paperback and Open Access at LUP and @jstor.bsky.social