Gordon O'Sullivan
@gordonos.bsky.social
History, Historical Fiction, Digital Humanities
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Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language
Watch: TCD debuts world's first film in ancient Sumerian
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language.
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language
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Recordings are now available of Jane Ohlmeyer's excellent RHS Anniversary Lecture: 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland' bit.ly/3MdjXEn
Jane's lecture was given on 21 November and is available to watch or listen to again. #Skystorians 1/2
Jane's lecture was given on 21 November and is available to watch or listen to again. #Skystorians 1/2
Recordings available of the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture, with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer - RHS
On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to give the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture: ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’. Recordings of Jan...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Recordings are now available of Jane Ohlmeyer's excellent RHS Anniversary Lecture: 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland' bit.ly/3MdjXEn
Jane's lecture was given on 21 November and is available to watch or listen to again. #Skystorians 1/2
Jane's lecture was given on 21 November and is available to watch or listen to again. #Skystorians 1/2
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We’ve published a fantastic new primary source collection—"Radicalism and Popular Protest in Georgian Britain, c. 1714–1832”.
Visit the collection landing page at buff.ly/Mf1q0nH.
Visit the collection landing page at buff.ly/Mf1q0nH.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We’ve published a fantastic new primary source collection—"Radicalism and Popular Protest in Georgian Britain, c. 1714–1832”.
Visit the collection landing page at buff.ly/Mf1q0nH.
Visit the collection landing page at buff.ly/Mf1q0nH.
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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GeoHive Hub: This is a free-to-use digital map viewer for historical maps of Ireland, including the 6-inch series from the 1820s to 1840s. While you may be able to view these maps as PDFs, direct download may depend on the specific map.
www.geohive.ie
#SpeirGhorm
#RTEradio1
www.geohive.ie
#SpeirGhorm
#RTEradio1
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
GeoHive Hub: This is a free-to-use digital map viewer for historical maps of Ireland, including the 6-inch series from the 1820s to 1840s. While you may be able to view these maps as PDFs, direct download may depend on the specific map.
www.geohive.ie
#SpeirGhorm
#RTEradio1
www.geohive.ie
#SpeirGhorm
#RTEradio1
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#OTD 1843 Irish nationalist politician Daniel O'Connell was arrested on charges of criminal conspiracy. Find out more about O'Connell's career via his #HistParl biography.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Sex, lies, and the Chevalier d'Eon! You can now listen to my @long18thsem.bsky.social talk on Lord Mansfield and the Chevalier d'Eon on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Sex, lies, and the Chevalier d'Eon! You can now listen to my @long18thsem.bsky.social talk on Lord Mansfield and the Chevalier d'Eon on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Podcasts from this year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference @ucddublin.bsky.social are now available. Thanks to Mike Liffey @historyhub.bsky.social for making us all sounds so crisp historyhub.ie/tudor-and-st...
Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts
Since 2011, more than 200 speakers from a range of disciplines including History, English, Archaeology and Art History, have presented papers at Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences. Download podcasts...
historyhub.ie
October 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Podcasts from this year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference @ucddublin.bsky.social are now available. Thanks to Mike Liffey @historyhub.bsky.social for making us all sounds so crisp historyhub.ie/tudor-and-st...
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A while back Historic England asked for my opinion on which was the oldest pub in London. The result is a new online article that outlines the variables, busts some myths, and points to a couple of genuinely ancient pubs in and around the city...
heritagecalling.com/2025/09/25/w...
heritagecalling.com/2025/09/25/w...
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A while back Historic England asked for my opinion on which was the oldest pub in London. The result is a new online article that outlines the variables, busts some myths, and points to a couple of genuinely ancient pubs in and around the city...
heritagecalling.com/2025/09/25/w...
heritagecalling.com/2025/09/25/w...
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People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
The People of Print
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - The People of Print
www.cambridge.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
#earlymodern #economic #history
#earlymodern #economic #history
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
#earlymodern #economic #history
#earlymodern #economic #history
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A number of Four Courts Press books can now be borrowed on archive.org. Four Courts is a key publisher of works on Irish history, and this means some out of print edited collections on early modern history are now more readily available. And you can read some of my articles there too! For example:
August 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A number of Four Courts Press books can now be borrowed on archive.org. Four Courts is a key publisher of works on Irish history, and this means some out of print edited collections on early modern history are now more readily available. And you can read some of my articles there too! For example:
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Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) – unified access to early European printed works (c.1455–1830) from major European and North American libraries.
Open access, with growing links to digitised copies.
Explore via: www.cerl.org/resources/hp...
Open access, with growing links to digitised copies.
Explore via: www.cerl.org/resources/hp...
July 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) – unified access to early European printed works (c.1455–1830) from major European and North American libraries.
Open access, with growing links to digitised copies.
Explore via: www.cerl.org/resources/hp...
Open access, with growing links to digitised copies.
Explore via: www.cerl.org/resources/hp...
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Since @onslies.bsky.social went to the trouble to compile this thorough list of #earlymodern published primary sources, it should be more widely known: liesbethcorens.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/e...
And @sharonhoward.bsky.social has this page for online resources: earlymodernweb.org/resources/
And @sharonhoward.bsky.social has this page for online resources: earlymodernweb.org/resources/
Early Modern Source Editions
Teaching early modern European history is a joy. And introducing students to a diversity of sources from across the Continent is a joy. But finding those sources can be a bit of a headache… I…
liesbethcorens.wordpress.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Since @onslies.bsky.social went to the trouble to compile this thorough list of #earlymodern published primary sources, it should be more widely known: liesbethcorens.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/e...
And @sharonhoward.bsky.social has this page for online resources: earlymodernweb.org/resources/
And @sharonhoward.bsky.social has this page for online resources: earlymodernweb.org/resources/
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British warship sunk in 1703 storm gives up its secrets three centuries on
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#History 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#History 🗃️
British warship sunk in 1703 storm gives up its secrets three centuries on
Archaeologists in race to study HMS Northumberland as shifting sands expose part of well-preserved wreck
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
British warship sunk in 1703 storm gives up its secrets three centuries on
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#History 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#History 🗃️
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The CCS' James Kelly's article 'Women’s Agency, Discernment, and Choice in the English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800' has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social #firstview #nuntastic #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism Read here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
July 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The CCS' James Kelly's article 'Women’s Agency, Discernment, and Choice in the English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800' has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social #firstview #nuntastic #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism Read here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
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#OTD 1746, the House of Lords convened in Westminster Hall for the trials of three Scottish peers, who had been arrested following the collapse of the Jacobite Rebellion.
Dr Robin Eagles explored the conundrum peers faced attending the trial during a smallpox outbreak in London:
Dr Robin Eagles explored the conundrum peers faced attending the trial during a smallpox outbreak in London:
To attend or not to attend: state trials during an outbreak of smallpox - The History of Parliament
In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles considers the dilemma facing some peers summoned to attend the trials of the Jacobite peers after
historyofparliament.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#OTD 1746, the House of Lords convened in Westminster Hall for the trials of three Scottish peers, who had been arrested following the collapse of the Jacobite Rebellion.
Dr Robin Eagles explored the conundrum peers faced attending the trial during a smallpox outbreak in London:
Dr Robin Eagles explored the conundrum peers faced attending the trial during a smallpox outbreak in London:
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Pleased to see this reported. Imperial War Museums, working with Google Cloud and Capgemini, are using AI to produce transcriptions of 20,000 hours of oral #history held in its archive, and making the transcripts available to the public.
Imperial War Museums, Capgemini, and Google Cloud Make 20,000 Hours of Oral Testimonies Accessible with Cutting-Edge AI
/PRNewswire/ -- Imperial War Museums (IWM), Capgemini, and Google Cloud have today announced a landmark collaboration on the successful AI-powered...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Pleased to see this reported. Imperial War Museums, working with Google Cloud and Capgemini, are using AI to produce transcriptions of 20,000 hours of oral #history held in its archive, and making the transcripts available to the public.
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Happy to report that Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising is now available in a (much more affordable) paperback edition. Thank you Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
www.cambridge.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Happy to report that Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising is now available in a (much more affordable) paperback edition. Thank you Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
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They've got Irish State Papers in here, 1660 to 1720, which is a pretty damn big deal... covering the first Jacobite rebellion, 9 years war, all sorts.
'A pioneering project to fill gaps in Irish history is making 175,000 more records and millions more words of searchable content freely available to researchers and members of the public.' 1/2
Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
They've got Irish State Papers in here, 1660 to 1720, which is a pretty damn big deal... covering the first Jacobite rebellion, 9 years war, all sorts.
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The IHRIM research group is pleased to announce that the British Gazetteer website is now online. It indexes free links to English-language periodicals published between 1700 and 1799, with full or partial access, so far, to 464 titles.
british-gazetteer.gazettes18e.fr
british-gazetteer.gazettes18e.fr
Periodical publications in English | Press18
british-gazetteer.gazettes18e.fr
June 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The IHRIM research group is pleased to announce that the British Gazetteer website is now online. It indexes free links to English-language periodicals published between 1700 and 1799, with full or partial access, so far, to 464 titles.
british-gazetteer.gazettes18e.fr
british-gazetteer.gazettes18e.fr
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Whoa! Here's the link to the English version of the database: projects.tuni.fi/viabundus-fi... #MedievalSky
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Whoa! Here's the link to the English version of the database: projects.tuni.fi/viabundus-fi... #MedievalSky