Maurice J. Casey
@mauricejcasey.com
Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
VERY excited to have a contribution in this issue: a True Crime story of how the 1983 Video Game crash murdered Tipperary town.
Feat. an Atari factory in rural Ireland, a Gamer Priest and a deal for arcade games negotiated with the second-ever woman elected to the Soviet politburo.
Feat. an Atari factory in rural Ireland, a Gamer Priest and a deal for arcade games negotiated with the second-ever woman elected to the Soviet politburo.
🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖
Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
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Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
VERY excited to have a contribution in this issue: a True Crime story of how the 1983 Video Game crash murdered Tipperary town.
Feat. an Atari factory in rural Ireland, a Gamer Priest and a deal for arcade games negotiated with the second-ever woman elected to the Soviet politburo.
Feat. an Atari factory in rural Ireland, a Gamer Priest and a deal for arcade games negotiated with the second-ever woman elected to the Soviet politburo.
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I’ve seen some oddities on the Belfast antique auction sites — spooky porcelain dolls, eyebrow raising WW2 memorabilia, etc — but this is by far the most inexplicable:
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I’ve seen some oddities on the Belfast antique auction sites — spooky porcelain dolls, eyebrow raising WW2 memorabilia, etc — but this is by far the most inexplicable:
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Picked up a signed copy of @mauricejcasey.com ‘Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Conmunisms Forgotten Radicals’ from @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social while in town. Great on his lesser known subjects, archival research & writing history. Right up my garden path at the moment. Loving it.
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Picked up a signed copy of @mauricejcasey.com ‘Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Conmunisms Forgotten Radicals’ from @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social while in town. Great on his lesser known subjects, archival research & writing history. Right up my garden path at the moment. Loving it.
Congrats - and best of luck - to friend and colleague @kieranconnell.bsky.social who features on this fantastic list!
This evening, the winner of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 will be announced live!
Join us in celebrating outstanding history. We will be posting live from the winner ceremony, so make sure you're following @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social and #WolfsonHistoryPrize for live updates throughout the night.
Join us in celebrating outstanding history. We will be posting live from the winner ceremony, so make sure you're following @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social and #WolfsonHistoryPrize for live updates throughout the night.
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Congrats - and best of luck - to friend and colleague @kieranconnell.bsky.social who features on this fantastic list!
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Exciting to see Hotel Lux in Foreign Affairs’ Books of the Year roundup.
Extra exciting to read my research process described as “relentless“‘!
Extra exciting to read my research process described as “relentless“‘!
November 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Exciting to see Hotel Lux in Foreign Affairs’ Books of the Year roundup.
Extra exciting to read my research process described as “relentless“‘!
Extra exciting to read my research process described as “relentless“‘!
Exciting to see Hotel Lux in Foreign Affairs’ Books of the Year roundup.
Extra exciting to read my research process described as “relentless“‘!
Extra exciting to read my research process described as “relentless“‘!
November 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Exciting to see Hotel Lux in Foreign Affairs’ Books of the Year roundup.
Extra exciting to read my research process described as “relentless“‘!
Extra exciting to read my research process described as “relentless“‘!
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A GDR-era plaque for the Kochmanns, executed for membership in the German-Jewish Herbert Baum resistance group that fought Nazis with (among other things) arson, in Berlin Mitte. There’s an obvious tension between how Germany remembers past antifascists and how it speaks of those at present.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
A GDR-era plaque for the Kochmanns, executed for membership in the German-Jewish Herbert Baum resistance group that fought Nazis with (among other things) arson, in Berlin Mitte. There’s an obvious tension between how Germany remembers past antifascists and how it speaks of those at present.
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I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?
Just learned my module “Living the Revolution: Intimate Histories of International Communism” will be offered to QUB History students in the 2026/27 academic year 🎉
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just learned my module “Living the Revolution: Intimate Histories of International Communism” will be offered to QUB History students in the 2026/27 academic year 🎉
Congrats to Mitchell Abidor on publishing this fascinating and revealing biography of Victor Serge. An honour to have my words featured on the cover!
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Congrats to Mitchell Abidor on publishing this fascinating and revealing biography of Victor Serge. An honour to have my words featured on the cover!
Visited an important address from Hotel Lux: Edo Fimmen’s Amsterdam office - reception point for reports from the German underground, coded telegrams from the Spanish Republic and fortnightly issues of the Alpenpost.
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Visited an important address from Hotel Lux: Edo Fimmen’s Amsterdam office - reception point for reports from the German underground, coded telegrams from the Spanish Republic and fortnightly issues of the Alpenpost.
A really thrilling day working on an upcoming documentary for BBC Radio 4: the story of a family history of anti-Nazi resistance.
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A really thrilling day working on an upcoming documentary for BBC Radio 4: the story of a family history of anti-Nazi resistance.
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
1937: Show your solidarity! Send international brigade volunteers a solidarity postcard in Esperanto. Three pence per card.
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
1937: Show your solidarity! Send international brigade volunteers a solidarity postcard in Esperanto. Three pence per card.
I’m in an archive where the rooms are named after Mensheviks and a “Toilet Gazette” updates patrons on collection highlights.
The International Institute of Social History is quickly becoming an all time favourite.
The International Institute of Social History is quickly becoming an all time favourite.
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I’m in an archive where the rooms are named after Mensheviks and a “Toilet Gazette” updates patrons on collection highlights.
The International Institute of Social History is quickly becoming an all time favourite.
The International Institute of Social History is quickly becoming an all time favourite.
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Decided to comment on this - a former Trinity SU president proposing unity between the left and far right- because I've found people curiously quite about it
brianhanleyhistory.wordpress.com/blog/
brianhanleyhistory.wordpress.com/blog/
Brian Hanley, Historian
Modern Irish Historian, historical consultant
brianhanleyhistory.wordpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Decided to comment on this - a former Trinity SU president proposing unity between the left and far right- because I've found people curiously quite about it
brianhanleyhistory.wordpress.com/blog/
brianhanleyhistory.wordpress.com/blog/
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Really looking forward to this tomorrow. Maurice's work is always so fascinating and engaging- marrying the great social and political transformations of the 20th century with the intimate lives of those who have often been marginalised in the Grand Narratives of the past. Please do join us!
Maynooth! Join me for the story of a training school for revolutionaries, a bestselling recipe book and a vegetarian cook who parachuted from a Lancaster bomber into Nazi Germany in 1944.
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Really looking forward to this tomorrow. Maurice's work is always so fascinating and engaging- marrying the great social and political transformations of the 20th century with the intimate lives of those who have often been marginalised in the Grand Narratives of the past. Please do join us!
Maynooth! Join me for the story of a training school for revolutionaries, a bestselling recipe book and a vegetarian cook who parachuted from a Lancaster bomber into Nazi Germany in 1944.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Maynooth! Join me for the story of a training school for revolutionaries, a bestselling recipe book and a vegetarian cook who parachuted from a Lancaster bomber into Nazi Germany in 1944.
When I talk about how the history of progressive/radical movements is tied to a history of intimacy this is what I mean.
Socialism is always both a theory of economic redistribution and a chance to hang out!!
Socialism is always both a theory of economic redistribution and a chance to hang out!!
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
When I talk about how the history of progressive/radical movements is tied to a history of intimacy this is what I mean.
Socialism is always both a theory of economic redistribution and a chance to hang out!!
Socialism is always both a theory of economic redistribution and a chance to hang out!!
In 1917 a foreign-born socialist ran for Mayor of New York City.
Morris Hillquit, born in Latvia, stood on a platform that included opposition to war, economic redistribution and support for a burning global issue: Irish freedom.
Morris Hillquit, born in Latvia, stood on a platform that included opposition to war, economic redistribution and support for a burning global issue: Irish freedom.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In 1917 a foreign-born socialist ran for Mayor of New York City.
Morris Hillquit, born in Latvia, stood on a platform that included opposition to war, economic redistribution and support for a burning global issue: Irish freedom.
Morris Hillquit, born in Latvia, stood on a platform that included opposition to war, economic redistribution and support for a burning global issue: Irish freedom.
ngl when Zohran mentioned Eugene Debs in his victory speech the crowd cheered and I cheered too.
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
ngl when Zohran mentioned Eugene Debs in his victory speech the crowd cheered and I cheered too.
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Exciting news! Filming will soon start on a Bad Bridgets film, inspired by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick's great book. We're delighted to have both Elaine & Leanne on our USIHS Committee (for many reasons, this is just today's extra one) @badbridgetbook.bsky.social
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Daisy Edgar-Jones And Emilia Jones To Star In ‘Bad Bridgets’ From LuckyChap
Daisy Edgar Jones and Emilia Jones are set to star in 'Bad Bridgets', from 'Kneecap' director Rich Peppiatt.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Exciting news! Filming will soon start on a Bad Bridgets film, inspired by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick's great book. We're delighted to have both Elaine & Leanne on our USIHS Committee (for many reasons, this is just today's extra one) @badbridgetbook.bsky.social
deadline.com/2025/10/dais...
deadline.com/2025/10/dais...
I'm doing a side project linked to the cultural history of video games in 1980s Ireland and I'm finding exactly what I expected to find
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm doing a side project linked to the cultural history of video games in 1980s Ireland and I'm finding exactly what I expected to find
Irish-American organiser Elizabeth Gurley Flynn speaks on "The Fascisti and the Klan" - June 1924
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Irish-American organiser Elizabeth Gurley Flynn speaks on "The Fascisti and the Klan" - June 1924