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Regina Dunne Midlands History
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Historian of Rural women's histories.
Genealogist 🧬
Day job - Regenerative Tourism Activator, supporting businesses to provide a net positive benefit for their business and the community.
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'A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads. The findings nearly double the known length of Roman roads.'
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
midlandshistory.bsky.social
Looking for reading recommendations for Van Diemens land and the 1820s era 63rd West Suffolk, Regiment of Foot (before they were the merged with 96th Regiment of Foot.
And also for Irish serving in India and Burma.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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#BiographyoftheWeek from the Dictionary of Irish Biography.

To celebrate Hallowe'en, this week we are featuring some of the spookier entries in the DIB, starting with writer, barrister, and theatre manager Abraham 'Bram' Stoker, born in Clontarf.
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.

Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Applied History Fellowship launch Event- 19 November 2025: 2.30pm - 4.00pm. Register to join us online: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/applied-history-fellowships
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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#TourismJobs

Company: Tourism Ireland
Role: VP Consumer Marketing, USA
Closing Date: Oct 20th

👉Full description www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Tourism Ireland hiring VP Consumer Marketing, USA in New York, United States | LinkedIn
Posted 10:47:11 AM. Candidates must hold a valid US work visa for this position. Closing Date: Monday 20th October at…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Nobody does fashion tips like my Skye Aunt. 'Oh Peigi, that's such a lovely dress. Usually people who carry excess weight try to squeeze it into clothes that are too small.'
leastactionhero.bsky.social Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · Nov 22
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket. Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's" Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.
August 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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After the warm summer we've had the blackberries must be plump and ready for devouring! These hand-coloured beauties are from Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal #Blackberries #Autumn
Page from a 16th century book showing a hand-coloured woodcut of a bramble bush with text in Latin to the right and below
August 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Some beautiful blooms to brighten your Friday! 💐

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

📷 Illustration of horehound, motherwort and hemp nettle from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain' (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]

#FridayFlowers #FlowerFriday #RareBooks
An opened book showing full-page colour illustration of horehound, motherwort and hemp nettle, decorated in shades of yellow, pink, purple and green.
August 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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If you like browsing unexpected collections of medieval MSS, have a look at the Auckland Council Libraries (NZ). The collection includes images of Aristoteles Latinus MS no. 1936 (Metaphysica, Physica, Meteora, transl. William of Moerbeke)! #medievalsky
kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...
July 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Wild strawberries on a beautiful summer's day!
From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.
16th century book open to a page with hand-coloured woodcut of strawberries
July 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
midlandshistory.bsky.social
So nice to spend the weekend stuck back into some #genealogy for a client! Love when the records show some insights into the #socialhistory of a family! I love how social history and genealogy go hand in hand!
July 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Jul 2
Tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 9am on BBC Radio 4 — In Our Time discusses civility with Teresa Bejan (@tmbejan.bsky.social), Phil Withington, and me! Listen live or after broadcast at the link below.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Civility: talking with those who disagree with you
On the value of keeping conversations going with opponents, from the Reformation onwards
www.bbc.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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#IrishGenealogy #FamilyHistory
megansmolenyak.com Megan Smolenyak @megansmolenyak.com · Jul 2
I can't recommend TransAtlantic by @irishacw.bsky.social & Fin Dwyer enough. It focuses on Irish American #history, but the episode I'm sharing is about US Civil War pension files, so even if you don't have a drop of Irish blood, you'll find it interesting. #genealogy
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US Military Pensions: A Window into 19th century Irish Life. | Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast
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July 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."
June 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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When computer science, history, and archivists merge, you achieve a work of art! Hats off to the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social team and all involved!! Down the rabbit hole I go to explore the newly added content 🙌 #Irishhistory
Image shows a laptop screen with the Virtual Treasury web page open saying Browse the Treasury
July 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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@virtualtreasury.bsky.social Happy new releases day! www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025... #IrishGenealogy
Worldwide interest expected as 19th-century Irish census records recovered and put online
Almost all 19th-century census records were destroyed but some have been recovered as part of the Virtual Treasury project
www.irishtimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Release day at the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (@virtualtreasury.bsky.social) is fast approaching. Some amazing material coming your way on the 30 June. Stay tuned at virtualtreasury.ie.
Home - Virtual Treasury
Welcome to the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland — an all-island and international legacy for the Decade of Centenaries.
virtualtreasury.ie
June 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Mapping more accurately than ever Ireland's peatlands, which are vital as carbon sinks but whose boundaries can be hard to determine, could help fight global warming, researchers say.
Mapping Ireland's peatlands to help cut carbon emissions
Mapping more accurately than ever Ireland's peatlands, which are vital as carbon sinks but whose boundaries can be hard to determine, could help fight global warming, researchers say.
www.rte.ie
June 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Work to allow for the excavation of a burial ground at the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, will begin next Monday.
Pre-excavation work due at former mother-and-baby home
Work to allow for the excavation of a burial ground at the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, will begin next Monday.
www.rte.ie
June 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
midlandshistory.bsky.social
Honoured, a little shocked, but delighted too, to be awarded a first class honours for my thesis.
This study traces the hugely pioneering work of the United Irishwomen- the precursor to the well-known Irish Countrywomen's Association and is a fascinating topic!
Bound Thesis on The United Irishwomen of the Southeast 1910 to 1935
June 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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We are delighted to be hosting the Kathleen Lonsdale touring exhibition in the Royal Irish Academy this week to tie in with the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize Ceremony. Thank you to Riverbank Arts Centre and Kildare Library Service and artist, Maeve Clancy.
June 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I'll admit I don't really understand how these things work but my upcoming monograph seems to now be up on the *Amsterdam* University Press website, though not yet on the Leiden one (it's an LUP title). Anyway, coming in September (probably)!
Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge
This book provides a fresh reinterpretation of the global spread of modern leisure travel in the middle of the nineteenth century through a critical comparative reading of twenty-two works of popular ...
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June 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science!
What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA?
Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland
Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
#NMIBlog #MuseumBlog
The mid-8th-century ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; the Evangelist Mark and the incipit/beginning of his Gospel. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51, pp 78–9. Photo: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen
June 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM