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
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For half-term, next Tuesday I’m doing a fun kids’ event at @southbankcentre.bsky.social in London — I’ll be doing a funny talk on the history of Roman Britain, and my ace illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social will do a live draw-along tutorial
Tix cheap!
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...
Tix cheap!
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...
February 9, 2026 at 12:19 PM
For half-term, next Tuesday I’m doing a fun kids’ event at @southbankcentre.bsky.social in London — I’ll be doing a funny talk on the history of Roman Britain, and my ace illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social will do a live draw-along tutorial
Tix cheap!
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...
Tix cheap!
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...
Belfast! I'm BACK on the seminar circuit with my latest project.
All welcome to join me 20 Feb at 4pm for my talk 'First add oats, then kill Hitler: a recipe for resistance in underground Europe, 1920s-1940s'
Plenty of new findings on the correlation between diet and the desire to resist Nazis.
All welcome to join me 20 Feb at 4pm for my talk 'First add oats, then kill Hitler: a recipe for resistance in underground Europe, 1920s-1940s'
Plenty of new findings on the correlation between diet and the desire to resist Nazis.
February 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Belfast! I'm BACK on the seminar circuit with my latest project.
All welcome to join me 20 Feb at 4pm for my talk 'First add oats, then kill Hitler: a recipe for resistance in underground Europe, 1920s-1940s'
Plenty of new findings on the correlation between diet and the desire to resist Nazis.
All welcome to join me 20 Feb at 4pm for my talk 'First add oats, then kill Hitler: a recipe for resistance in underground Europe, 1920s-1940s'
Plenty of new findings on the correlation between diet and the desire to resist Nazis.
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My essay on the Popular Front is now also available in English via the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung website @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
The Popular Front’s Enduring but Ambivalent Legacy - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Unity against the far right is a vital precondition for social transformation, but socialist strategy must go further
www.rosalux.de
February 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
My essay on the Popular Front is now also available in English via the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung website @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
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This documentary was so much fun to make. It’s compiled from audio we gathered across a couple of years and follows two amazing women - Meg and Dympna - all the way to Jamaica, in search of Meg’s ancestor: an Irish Catholic enslaver and coffee planter, Peter Daly
www.rte.ie/radio/docono...
www.rte.ie/radio/docono...
Jamaica Daly
An Irish family learns about their ancestor's past as a slave-owner.
www.rte.ie
January 31, 2026 at 3:56 PM
This documentary was so much fun to make. It’s compiled from audio we gathered across a couple of years and follows two amazing women - Meg and Dympna - all the way to Jamaica, in search of Meg’s ancestor: an Irish Catholic enslaver and coffee planter, Peter Daly
www.rte.ie/radio/docono...
www.rte.ie/radio/docono...
In the years I've worked on the history of the Hotel Lux in the Comintern era, I never imagined I would ever speak with someone who remembered it.
But last week I received an email from someone who is about to turn 100 - and he had a story to share.
So excited to write up this encounter.
But last week I received an email from someone who is about to turn 100 - and he had a story to share.
So excited to write up this encounter.
January 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
In the years I've worked on the history of the Hotel Lux in the Comintern era, I never imagined I would ever speak with someone who remembered it.
But last week I received an email from someone who is about to turn 100 - and he had a story to share.
So excited to write up this encounter.
But last week I received an email from someone who is about to turn 100 - and he had a story to share.
So excited to write up this encounter.
Friends, I have finally found my replacement for the "One Giant Word Doc of Research Notes" process that I always felt was inefficient.
I have spent A LOT of time creating a social network style database of my research notes into 1930s resistance movements. Let me show you how it works 1/
I have spent A LOT of time creating a social network style database of my research notes into 1930s resistance movements. Let me show you how it works 1/
January 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Friends, I have finally found my replacement for the "One Giant Word Doc of Research Notes" process that I always felt was inefficient.
I have spent A LOT of time creating a social network style database of my research notes into 1930s resistance movements. Let me show you how it works 1/
I have spent A LOT of time creating a social network style database of my research notes into 1930s resistance movements. Let me show you how it works 1/
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I would simply like a week where a decade doesn't happen
January 7, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I would simply like a week where a decade doesn't happen
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First of 2026 is The Lux by @mauricejcasey.com.
Fabulous book. Insight on the lives of fascinating people (not characters) + the work of an historian.
The final section was a joy. Don't want to spoil it but felt like I was there at the moment of revelation.
www.connollybooks.org/product/hote...
Fabulous book. Insight on the lives of fascinating people (not characters) + the work of an historian.
The final section was a joy. Don't want to spoil it but felt like I was there at the moment of revelation.
www.connollybooks.org/product/hote...
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism s Forgotten Radicals Maurice J Casey Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their...
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January 7, 2026 at 12:14 AM
First of 2026 is The Lux by @mauricejcasey.com.
Fabulous book. Insight on the lives of fascinating people (not characters) + the work of an historian.
The final section was a joy. Don't want to spoil it but felt like I was there at the moment of revelation.
www.connollybooks.org/product/hote...
Fabulous book. Insight on the lives of fascinating people (not characters) + the work of an historian.
The final section was a joy. Don't want to spoil it but felt like I was there at the moment of revelation.
www.connollybooks.org/product/hote...
heading out on the town with my anarchist sailor pals and we are all wearing this fleece
January 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
heading out on the town with my anarchist sailor pals and we are all wearing this fleece
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!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
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/