Dr Helen Yates
@helenyates.bsky.social
Thesis title - Staying Alive: Crime, Trauma, and Agency during the Irish Famine of 1845-52. Research is my happy place!
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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"
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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
April 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Today I have come across the interesting occupation of 'engine smith' in some convict records for 1849
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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
Upcoming symposium, 25th April, on Contemporary Irish History. www.eventbrite.ie/e/new-direct...
New Directions in Contemporary Irish History
A symposium to showcase and discuss new approaches to 'recent' histories of Ireland.
www.eventbrite.ie
April 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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
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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
@dgb-history.bsky.social
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.
brill.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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
@dgb-history.bsky.social
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My latest blog post asks why historians tend not to study the crime of (common) assault:
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...
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…
legalhistorymiscellany.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My latest blog post asks why historians tend not to study the crime of (common) assault:
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...
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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. ☹️
This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map:
‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...
‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...
British University Redundancy Map - Google My Maps
Mapping redundancies from 2023
maps.app.goo.gl
March 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK
👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a...
🗃️ History Humanities
⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK
👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a...
🗃️ History Humanities
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socialhistory.org.uk
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
📢Bookings for our 2025 conference are now open!
⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK
👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a...
🗃️ History Humanities
⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK
👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a...
🗃️ History Humanities
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@irishstudieswue.bsky.social @irishstudiesshu.bsky.social @irishinstitute.bsky.social @leabhairnua.bsky.social @cirishcaceres.bsky.social @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
@efacis.bsky.social
@smuhalifax.bsky.social #Ireland #theIrish #conflict #19c #SSNCI #IrishStudies
@efacis.bsky.social
@smuhalifax.bsky.social #Ireland #theIrish #conflict #19c #SSNCI #IrishStudies
And now we've got our cover. Check it out!
Courtesy of @ssnci.bsky.social and three exceptional (if I do say so) staff from ucddublin.bsky.social and a dozen of their genius peers via @livunipress.bsky.social #ssnci #ireland #conflict
Courtesy of @ssnci.bsky.social and three exceptional (if I do say so) staff from ucddublin.bsky.social and a dozen of their genius peers via @livunipress.bsky.social #ssnci #ireland #conflict
March 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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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...
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…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
March 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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...
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Postgraduate essay prize in Irish Studies. Entries close 31 March. isaanz.org/ajis/postgra...
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…
isaanz.org
March 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Postgraduate essay prize in Irish Studies. Entries close 31 March. isaanz.org/ajis/postgra...
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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...
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 ...
docs.google.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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...
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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.
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.
March 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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.
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.
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I'm giving a talk on Irish pauper removals during the Great Hunger/an Gorta Mór at The London Archives in May. It's a hybrid event, so if you can't make it in-person you can still listen to the talk!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/famine-and...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/famine-and...
Famine and the Removal of Irish Paupers from London (In-person)
This talk will discuss how and why Irish paupers were removed from London.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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...
www.irishancestors.ie/search/marri...
Irish Genealogical Research Society
www.irishancestors.ie
March 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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...
www.irishancestors.ie/search/marri...
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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...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
The Death Census of Black '47
Cambridge Core - European History: General Interest - The Death Census of Black '47
www.cambridge.org
March 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
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Transatlantic slave routes—View the Movement of 31,041 Slave Ships. Never forget.
March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Transatlantic slave routes—View the Movement of 31,041 Slave Ships. Never forget.
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.
March 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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.
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Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
March 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
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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...
annual lecture yesterday! We highly recommend her book 'Periodical Famines'! iupress.org/978025307190...
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...
iupress.org
March 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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...
annual lecture yesterday! We highly recommend her book 'Periodical Famines'! iupress.org/978025307190...
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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.
They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.
February 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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.
They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.