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It’s a fun dynamic to have Neal and Zoe spelling out what’s been plain to see for ages in the opinion pages, while the Guardian politics team are obliged by a combination of cluelessness, lobby omertà and complicity, explain that it’s all a baffling mystery.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer was never meant to be Labour’s prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson
His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the price, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It’s a fun dynamic to have Neal and Zoe spelling out what’s been plain to see for ages in the opinion pages, while the Guardian politics team are obliged by a combination of cluelessness, lobby omertà and complicity, explain that it’s all a baffling mystery.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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BBC article takes "cash in the attic" angle on this, but it's hardly a surprise a painting of this age and quality will fetch a few million
"Insurance and security costs" are quoted as the reason to sell it, but it seems sad its monetary value causes it leave the place it was (probably) painted for
"Insurance and security costs" are quoted as the reason to sell it, but it seems sad its monetary value causes it leave the place it was (probably) painted for
A late medieval altarpiece in St Johns' Almshouse, Sherborne, Dorset, has been identified as produced in Brussels in the 1480s. Traditionally belonging to the almshouse since before the Reformation, then concealed, & re-hung in the C19th.
Now to be sold at Sotheby's.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Now to be sold at Sotheby's.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
BBC article takes "cash in the attic" angle on this, but it's hardly a surprise a painting of this age and quality will fetch a few million
"Insurance and security costs" are quoted as the reason to sell it, but it seems sad its monetary value causes it leave the place it was (probably) painted for
"Insurance and security costs" are quoted as the reason to sell it, but it seems sad its monetary value causes it leave the place it was (probably) painted for
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1798: The Second Defender Rising' (after the 1793 'Militia Riots')? A thread from my book.
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
1798: The Second Defender Rising' (after the 1793 'Militia Riots')? A thread from my book.
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I’m no economist but something that feels instinctively correct to me is: Thatcherism was just staving off the crisis of the 70s by burning the furniture to keep the wealthy happy, and that the entire period from the crash is everyone refusing to admit the seventies are back, minus state capacity.
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m no economist but something that feels instinctively correct to me is: Thatcherism was just staving off the crisis of the 70s by burning the furniture to keep the wealthy happy, and that the entire period from the crash is everyone refusing to admit the seventies are back, minus state capacity.
1798: The Second Defender Rising' (after the 1793 'Militia Riots')? A thread from my book.
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
1798: The Second Defender Rising' (after the 1793 'Militia Riots')? A thread from my book.
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O'Connell was oddly proud of Irishmen putting down the Newport rising in 1839.
!["why do we not boast to the English lubbers of Ireland and the Irish? It was *we* [who] beat the Charists at Newport. Twenty-eight poor raw Irish lads beat five thousand rebels, and then Capt. Stack is a Kerryman, and I do believe a Papist. At all events Sergeant Daly and the privates are all Irish Papists.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vaawjhgwzilckuoc72ovydtt/bafkreieuo6asebu656dhke3j473z2csvwoyc7ts7tbvkre47uocksylwku@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
O'Connell was oddly proud of Irishmen putting down the Newport rising in 1839.
A revolutionary bourgeoisie - the separatism of the United Irish men: what was all that about?
A thread from my book.
A thread from my book.
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A revolutionary bourgeoisie - the separatism of the United Irish men: what was all that about?
A thread from my book.
A thread from my book.
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Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
@historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social
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@historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
@historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
@historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social
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I'll be speaking at the @historytcd.bsky.social Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar tomorrow, Wednesday 12 November at 2.30pm in @tlrhub.bsky.social. I'll be speaking on O'Connellite politics in south Ulster from 1824 to 1844. More information here: www.tcd.ie/history/rese...
Trinity Research Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminars - Department of History - Trinity College Dublin
www.tcd.ie
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I'll be speaking at the @historytcd.bsky.social Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar tomorrow, Wednesday 12 November at 2.30pm in @tlrhub.bsky.social. I'll be speaking on O'Connellite politics in south Ulster from 1824 to 1844. More information here: www.tcd.ie/history/rese...
As everyone knows, Ireland was desperately poor, so when potato blight hit, its thoughtlessly philoprogenitive people were doomed.
But is that quite so ... ? From my book:
But is that quite so ... ? From my book:
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
As everyone knows, Ireland was desperately poor, so when potato blight hit, its thoughtlessly philoprogenitive people were doomed.
But is that quite so ... ? From my book:
But is that quite so ... ? From my book:
Picture of my mother's mother at a military hospital, front centre, 1917.
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Picture of my mother's mother at a military hospital, front centre, 1917.
Does anyone know whether the scripts of the 2018 'Civilisations' TV programme were published or otherwise available? (I know a couple of follow-up books came out).
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Does anyone know whether the scripts of the 2018 'Civilisations' TV programme were published or otherwise available? (I know a couple of follow-up books came out).
A thread from my book on the 'Irish Union' between the bourgeois United Irishmen and the peasant-plebeian Defender1: shorturl.at/wyMWB
At the Rising of the Moon: The Peasantry and Ireland from the Tudor Conquest to the fall of Landlordism
paperback.
shorturl.at
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A thread from my book on the 'Irish Union' between the bourgeois United Irishmen and the peasant-plebeian Defender1: shorturl.at/wyMWB
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Historians have generally argued that the United Irishmen 'took over' the Defenders. I reckon it's much more the other way round: the plebeian and peasant Defenders 'took over' the United Irish. We even have Thomas Addis Emmet trying to tell us this, by almost direct address.
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Historians have generally argued that the United Irishmen 'took over' the Defenders. I reckon it's much more the other way round: the plebeian and peasant Defenders 'took over' the United Irish. We even have Thomas Addis Emmet trying to tell us this, by almost direct address.
Yesterday I wrote something defending the Irish stick-fighting tradition from accusations of barbarity. 'But' - you're thinking - 'what about the notorious Ballyeigh Strand faction fight?' It left 220 dead by later repute (actually about 16)! shorturl.at/gC8M6
Bloody Battle on Ballyeigh Strand - Ballybunion County Kerry Ireland | ballybunion.ie
shorturl.at
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yesterday I wrote something defending the Irish stick-fighting tradition from accusations of barbarity. 'But' - you're thinking - 'what about the notorious Ballyeigh Strand faction fight?' It left 220 dead by later repute (actually about 16)! shorturl.at/gC8M6
Irish stick-fighting in pre-Famine Ireland was not random mayhem, but a martial art. Not significantly more dangerous, I'd say, than pugilism (or horse-racing).
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Irish stick-fighting in pre-Famine Ireland was not random mayhem, but a martial art. Not significantly more dangerous, I'd say, than pugilism (or horse-racing).
How the Irish peasant divided her day:
Day’s dapple
Dawn’s first glimmer
'Ring of the day’
Sunrise
Broad daylight
Breakfast and morning milking
Day dapple
Noon
Dinner time
'Nonetide’
Evening
Sunset
Nightfall
'Man-with-bush’ light
Suppertime
Beginning of night ...
Day’s dapple
Dawn’s first glimmer
'Ring of the day’
Sunrise
Broad daylight
Breakfast and morning milking
Day dapple
Noon
Dinner time
'Nonetide’
Evening
Sunset
Nightfall
'Man-with-bush’ light
Suppertime
Beginning of night ...
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
How the Irish peasant divided her day:
Day’s dapple
Dawn’s first glimmer
'Ring of the day’
Sunrise
Broad daylight
Breakfast and morning milking
Day dapple
Noon
Dinner time
'Nonetide’
Evening
Sunset
Nightfall
'Man-with-bush’ light
Suppertime
Beginning of night ...
Day’s dapple
Dawn’s first glimmer
'Ring of the day’
Sunrise
Broad daylight
Breakfast and morning milking
Day dapple
Noon
Dinner time
'Nonetide’
Evening
Sunset
Nightfall
'Man-with-bush’ light
Suppertime
Beginning of night ...
One thing I've done in my books is to employ as a generic term for popular but covert peasant movements, from the Whiteboys of the 1760s to the Moonlighters of the 1880s. Here's why:
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
One thing I've done in my books is to employ as a generic term for popular but covert peasant movements, from the Whiteboys of the 1760s to the Moonlighters of the 1880s. Here's why:
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“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
Here's a thread from my book on the First Defender Rising (1793) -- I think 'Militia Riots' is too weak.
ttps://shorturl.at/3glHq
ttps://shorturl.at/3glHq
At the Rising of the Moon: The Peasantry and Ireland from the Tudor Conquest to the fall of Landlordism eBook : Mulholland, Marc: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
At the Rising of the Moon: The Peasantry and Ireland from the Tudor Conquest to the fall of Landlordism eBook : Mulholland, Marc: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Here's a thread from my book on the First Defender Rising (1793) -- I think 'Militia Riots' is too weak.
ttps://shorturl.at/3glHq
ttps://shorturl.at/3glHq
Here's a thread on the ideology of the United Irishmen, from my book, 'At the Rising of the Moon'. shorturl.at/Sx1zz
At the Rising of the Moon: The Peasantry and Ireland from the Tudor Conquest to the fall of Landlordism
paperback.
shorturl.at
October 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Here's a thread on the ideology of the United Irishmen, from my book, 'At the Rising of the Moon'. shorturl.at/Sx1zz
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Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
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Not my place, not my period, but I'm looking forward to some "intimate history" in the present tense, in my colleague @tricksterprince.bsky.social's new book.
October 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Not my place, not my period, but I'm looking forward to some "intimate history" in the present tense, in my colleague @tricksterprince.bsky.social's new book.