Who else is watching the fantastic #Empire series by @davidolusoga.bsky.social? It was a pleasure to be involved in this - dangerous and disease-ridden #prisonhulks were used in England for 80 years from 1776, propping up the rotten system of convict transportation. Check out episode 2 for more!

Fantastic week at Western Cape Archives in Cape Town. Some great little finds here (researching POWs, convicts and ships) - and lovely people!

34 degrees at the Huntington Library today..! Great day scoping the collections ☀️☀️☀️

Letterhead from All the Year Round, Charles Dickens's weekly journal, 1859. So exciting! #HuntingtonLibrary

Home for the next 6 weeks - my first day at the #HuntingtonLibrary as an #AHRC International Fellow. Enjoying #Pasadena palm trees, and the incredible San Gabriel Mountains. Foodie and sightseeing recommendations welcome..!

Checking out some cheery library books @liverpooluni.bsky.social this morning..

..and recently published online is a new @liverpooluni.bsky.social Centre for Innovation in Education case study detailing my 2nd year History module, 'Investigating Journalism: British Newspapers from the Spectator to Stead', which I am so pleased with: www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-i...

..I had an adventure at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social later in March presenting my 'Interdisciplinary Walks' project to a very lovely crowd of researchers based at Durham and Leicester. More about the walks project here: www.leicias.le.ac.uk?cat=3

...before a week-long visiting fellowship at @muahi.bsky.social Maynooth University in March, which was SO excellent and another great chance to think about Irish convicts in Bermuda during the Famine

...then I finally got to carry out some in-person research at The National Archives of Ireland and visited Dún Laoghaire, where convict hulks were moored from 1825-1837

I started 2025 with a month-long stay at the wonderful @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social as a Leuven Centre for Irish Studies visiting fellow - researching the lives and experiences of Irish convicts in Bermuda - amazing town, tried every cake imaginable