Dr Emma J McAlister
@emmajmca.bsky.social
Belfast-based scholar & curator. Researching religion and ritual in museums and exhibiting sacred objects in Western museums and heritage sites. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries. Distracted by the casualised job market.
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I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you!
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January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you!
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If you missed the launch this week of Veronique Altglas's new book 'Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster', a recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9nt...
Irish Studies Booklaunch: Veronique Atlglas 19.1.26
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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January 21, 2026 at 9:57 AM
If you missed the launch this week of Veronique Altglas's new book 'Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster', a recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9nt...
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A new Pub museum? Helping Charo Havermans in her quest to make, preserve and share histories of Pubs.
@ncph.bsky.social @c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Pub #Beer #London
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@ncph.bsky.social @c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Pub #Beer #London
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New PHACS Collaboration in the United Kingdom: The Pub Museum Pilot
The Public History as a New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS) project has the pleasure to announce a new collaboration with Charo Havermans, public historian and historic pub tour guide in London, t...
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January 19, 2026 at 6:44 AM
A new Pub museum? Helping Charo Havermans in her quest to make, preserve and share histories of Pubs.
@ncph.bsky.social @c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Pub #Beer #London
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...
@ncph.bsky.social @c2dh.uni.lu @uni.lu #Pub #Beer #London
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...
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Hello historians - there is a specific purpose role now advertised in UL’s history department - Title of Post: Assistant Professor in Irish History (specialism History of the Family) - all details are over on UL vacancies! Do share! #jobsky #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm
January 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Hello historians - there is a specific purpose role now advertised in UL’s history department - Title of Post: Assistant Professor in Irish History (specialism History of the Family) - all details are over on UL vacancies! Do share! #jobsky #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm
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Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social
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Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2
Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past on JSTOR
This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain's involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the te...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2
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Sorry to read about these thefts from the colonial collections of Bristol Museum, wishing for a speedy recovery
And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hundreds of items stolen in 'high-value' Bristol Museum raid
More than 600 artefacts from the museum's British Empire and Commonwealth collection were taken.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Sorry to read about these thefts from the colonial collections of Bristol Museum, wishing for a speedy recovery
And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
A selection of objects from the 'Changing Ireland, 1900-2020' I digitally curated are available now:
Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...
Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A selection of objects from the 'Changing Ireland, 1900-2020' I digitally curated are available now:
Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...
Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...
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Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CSHIS01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
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How do young people across the UK experience the spaces, services & relationships that shape their social and cultural lives?
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How do young people across the UK experience the spaces, services & relationships that shape their social and cultural lives?
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
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Really enjoyed the new ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition at the @nmireland.bsky.social - Collins Barracks! Lovely integration of commissioned poems by Paula Meehan; fascinating selection of objects, beautifully curated and displayed.
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Really enjoyed the new ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition at the @nmireland.bsky.social - Collins Barracks! Lovely integration of commissioned poems by Paula Meehan; fascinating selection of objects, beautifully curated and displayed.
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"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else
To everyone else they are just "homes"
To everyone else they are just "homes"
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else
To everyone else they are just "homes"
To everyone else they are just "homes"
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Grateful for an awfully slow news day to share my newly published article.
What else would you be reading today?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
What else would you be reading today?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
muse.jhu.edu
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Grateful for an awfully slow news day to share my newly published article.
What else would you be reading today?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
What else would you be reading today?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
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Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
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What does the history of the potato tell us about nationhood and identity?
Professor Rebecca Earle FBA explores what the story of this humble crop reveals about nationhood and identity .
Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/43nRkKm
Professor Rebecca Earle FBA explores what the story of this humble crop reveals about nationhood and identity .
Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/43nRkKm
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
What does the history of the potato tell us about nationhood and identity?
Professor Rebecca Earle FBA explores what the story of this humble crop reveals about nationhood and identity .
Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/43nRkKm
Professor Rebecca Earle FBA explores what the story of this humble crop reveals about nationhood and identity .
Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/43nRkKm
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“France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view”
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France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view
The theft of the Louvre's crown jewels has increased calls for the museum to be more transparent about the colonial origins of the treasures it displays.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view”
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Did medieval nuns care for their appearance? Rings, brooches, combs, manicure sets all found on the site of Barking Abbey.
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Did medieval nuns care for their appearance? Rings, brooches, combs, manicure sets all found on the site of Barking Abbey.
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📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
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October 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Fascinating research! Looking forward to reading 🙂
Looking forward to being in conversation with @niamhroisin.bsky.social on my new book Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921 in Maynooth next week - all welcome!
Thursday November 6 18:00-19:00 Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33.
Thursday November 6 18:00-19:00 Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33.
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Fascinating research! Looking forward to reading 🙂
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It's #AugustCraftMonth!
'Bird' (2018) by Bruce Marks is on display in 'Art of the Possible'.
With 'Bird', Marks has stripped back the form of a bird to its essentials, where it retains its undeniable bird-like quality. The bright red opening of the glass sculpture mimics the gaping beak of a bird.
'Bird' (2018) by Bruce Marks is on display in 'Art of the Possible'.
With 'Bird', Marks has stripped back the form of a bird to its essentials, where it retains its undeniable bird-like quality. The bright red opening of the glass sculpture mimics the gaping beak of a bird.
October 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Love this piece
Another fabulous RUA exhibition at the @ulstermuseum.org an absolute highlight of the cultural calender ✨️
October 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Another fabulous RUA exhibition at the @ulstermuseum.org an absolute highlight of the cultural calender ✨️