Naomi Petropoulos
@n-petropoulos.bsky.social
Queen's University Belfast PhD History Candidate specialising in the history of Derry and its shirt-making industry.
Views expressed are my own.
Views expressed are my own.
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Don't miss the @deindustrialpol.bsky.social virtual roundtable this Friday!
Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time
Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time
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Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time
Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time
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#envhist #envstudies
Virtual Event - Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
7 November 2025 - This session brings together eight scholars whose research examines the intersections of industrial decline, environmental activism and remediation, and policy responses by a variety...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Don't miss the @deindustrialpol.bsky.social virtual roundtable this Friday!
Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time
Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time
niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v...
#envhist #envstudies
Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time
Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time
niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v...
#envhist #envstudies
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IN PICTURES: ‘Did ye hear about?’ series in Derry’s Gasyard busts myths about immigration
IN PICTURES: ‘Did ye hear about?’ series in Derry’s Gasyard busts myths about immigration
The latest in the series of the Connections Peace Barrier Project’s ‘Did Ye Hear About?’ at the Gasyard Centre saw host and former Derry Journal editor, Pat McArt joined by Gaelle Gormley of the North...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
IN PICTURES: ‘Did ye hear about?’ series in Derry’s Gasyard busts myths about immigration
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Talk on the archaeology of the A6 Drumahoe to Dungiven road to take place
Talk on the archaeology of the A6 Drumahoe to Dungiven road to take place
Held this Monday, November 3 at 7pm in the Lecture Room of the Central Library, Archaeologists Katy McMonagle and Johnny Barkley will be giving an illustrated talk on the A6 project
The next meeting of the Foyle Family History Society will focus on the archaeology of the A6 dual carriageway b
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October 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Talk on the archaeology of the A6 Drumahoe to Dungiven road to take place
www.facebook.com/share/v/1B7u... 🎶 absolutely love this song! 😅 Derry women are formidable after all 🤷♀️😂 🎶
Redirecting...
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September 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
www.facebook.com/share/v/1B7u... 🎶 absolutely love this song! 😅 Derry women are formidable after all 🤷♀️😂 🎶
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Radical Readings 2025: An Afternoon of Inspiration & Resistance
Join us for an afternoon of powerful performances, traditional folk music, and bold storytelling that celebrate working class voices.
🗓️ Sunday 16th November, 2PM
📍 Maxwell Hall
🎟️ Follow the link wcml.org.uk/event/radica... to book
Join us for an afternoon of powerful performances, traditional folk music, and bold storytelling that celebrate working class voices.
🗓️ Sunday 16th November, 2PM
📍 Maxwell Hall
🎟️ Follow the link wcml.org.uk/event/radica... to book
September 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Radical Readings 2025: An Afternoon of Inspiration & Resistance
Join us for an afternoon of powerful performances, traditional folk music, and bold storytelling that celebrate working class voices.
🗓️ Sunday 16th November, 2PM
📍 Maxwell Hall
🎟️ Follow the link wcml.org.uk/event/radica... to book
Join us for an afternoon of powerful performances, traditional folk music, and bold storytelling that celebrate working class voices.
🗓️ Sunday 16th November, 2PM
📍 Maxwell Hall
🎟️ Follow the link wcml.org.uk/event/radica... to book
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A reminder that the next CHOMI seminar is on 18 Sept at 4pm in K114, Newman Bdg, UCD:
Prof Mary E. Daly (UCD): Not 'Goodenough' - Migrating doctors, medical schools and Dublin voluntary hospitals in the mid-20th century
If you cannot join in person, join on Zoom at ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Prof Mary E. Daly (UCD): Not 'Goodenough' - Migrating doctors, medical schools and Dublin voluntary hospitals in the mid-20th century
If you cannot join in person, join on Zoom at ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CHOMI Seminar - 18 September 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Professor Mary E. Daly (University College Dublin)
Not ‘Goodenough’ - Migrating doctors, medical schools and Dublin voluntary hospitals in the mid-twentieth century.
ucd-ie.zoom.us
September 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A reminder that the next CHOMI seminar is on 18 Sept at 4pm in K114, Newman Bdg, UCD:
Prof Mary E. Daly (UCD): Not 'Goodenough' - Migrating doctors, medical schools and Dublin voluntary hospitals in the mid-20th century
If you cannot join in person, join on Zoom at ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Prof Mary E. Daly (UCD): Not 'Goodenough' - Migrating doctors, medical schools and Dublin voluntary hospitals in the mid-20th century
If you cannot join in person, join on Zoom at ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
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For details of all seminars in our series, please visit our website: www.ucd.ie/chomi/resear...
Current Seminar Series - UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland
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September 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
For details of all seminars in our series, please visit our website: www.ucd.ie/chomi/resear...
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We are accepting submissions to recognize the best in #PublicHistory for 2026! Many awards have deadlines in Feb. 2026 to accommodate our later joint conference with AASLH, but the Book Award and Robert Kelley Memorial Award submissions are still due Nov. 1, 2025. https://ncph.org/about/awards/
September 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We are accepting submissions to recognize the best in #PublicHistory for 2026! Many awards have deadlines in Feb. 2026 to accommodate our later joint conference with AASLH, but the Book Award and Robert Kelley Memorial Award submissions are still due Nov. 1, 2025. https://ncph.org/about/awards/
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Along w/ @bloodysundaytrust.bsky.social we will be hosting a 'Know Your Rights Guide to Protest' event at @museumfreederry.bsky.social on 23 Sept from 5.30-7pm.
Authored by @cajni.bsky.social @pilsni.bsky.social @ejni.bsky.social @foeireland.bsky.social.
Info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/know-your-...
Authored by @cajni.bsky.social @pilsni.bsky.social @ejni.bsky.social @foeireland.bsky.social.
Info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/know-your-...
September 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Along w/ @bloodysundaytrust.bsky.social we will be hosting a 'Know Your Rights Guide to Protest' event at @museumfreederry.bsky.social on 23 Sept from 5.30-7pm.
Authored by @cajni.bsky.social @pilsni.bsky.social @ejni.bsky.social @foeireland.bsky.social.
Info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/know-your-...
Authored by @cajni.bsky.social @pilsni.bsky.social @ejni.bsky.social @foeireland.bsky.social.
Info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/know-your-...
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Bloody Sunday families, friends, supporters and justice campaigns gather Royal Courts of Justice Belfast Monday 15 Sept as Soldier F finally faces trial for multiple murder and attempted murder. Fifty three long years of hope for justice. museumoffreederry.org/2025/09/12/s...
Soldier F on Trial for Bloody Sunday - The Museum of Free Derry
The Bloody Sunday families, together with friends, supporters and representatives of other justice campaigns, will gather at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast next Monday morning, 15 September, t...
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September 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Bloody Sunday families, friends, supporters and justice campaigns gather Royal Courts of Justice Belfast Monday 15 Sept as Soldier F finally faces trial for multiple murder and attempted murder. Fifty three long years of hope for justice. museumoffreederry.org/2025/09/12/s...
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My Granny came across this fantastic charm bracelet when doing a bit of organising. It was gifted to my Great-Auntie Alice by the City Factory in Derry to mark 32 years of service. I wonder if there are many of these type of gifts still out there hiding in cubbies or drawers?
September 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My Granny came across this fantastic charm bracelet when doing a bit of organising. It was gifted to my Great-Auntie Alice by the City Factory in Derry to mark 32 years of service. I wonder if there are many of these type of gifts still out there hiding in cubbies or drawers?
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If you're interested in deindustrialization and working-class experience, do consider applying for a @deindustrialpol.bsky.social MA fellowship to be held at the @histstudiesunb.bsky.social. Topic is open, to be supervised by Peter Thompson and myself. Details below!
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Graduate Programs | History | Faculty of Arts | UNB
Study in history at UNB at the MA and PhD level under the guidance of highly respected scholars in a collegial and supportive environment. We can offer a range of co-supervisory options tailored to yo...
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September 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If you're interested in deindustrialization and working-class experience, do consider applying for a @deindustrialpol.bsky.social MA fellowship to be held at the @histstudiesunb.bsky.social. Topic is open, to be supervised by Peter Thompson and myself. Details below!
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
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Translink advises of essential works on Derry to Coleraine line over two weekends in September
Translink advises of essential works on Derry to Coleraine line over two weekends in September
Rail replacement buses will operate between: Derry and Coleraine serving Bellarena and Castlerock
Translink is advising passengers to plan ahead as a series of essential planned engineering works will affect services between Derry and Coleraine. To make the most of this closure period and red
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September 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Translink advises of essential works on Derry to Coleraine line over two weekends in September
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IN PICTURES: Scenes and faces from Derry Pride Parade 2025
IN PICTURES: Scenes and faces from Derry Pride Parade 2025
Thousands attended the annual parade throughout the city
xxxx We want your photos to feature on the website via our Camera Club. Do you have a great photo from life in the locality? Whether it’s a party, wedding, communion, landscape, a quirky shot from your archives, or a simple everyday mom
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August 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
IN PICTURES: Scenes and faces from Derry Pride Parade 2025
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IN PICTURES: Thousands attend colourful Derry Foyle Pride Festival Parade 2025
IN PICTURES: Thousands attend colourful Derry Foyle Pride Festival Parade 2025
Foyle Pride Festival featured a packed schedule of events across the city
Foyle Pride parade arriving at the Diamond. (Photos - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics) We want your photos to feature on the website via our Camera Club. Do you have a great photo from life in the locality? Whether it’s a party
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August 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
IN PICTURES: Thousands attend colourful Derry Foyle Pride Festival Parade 2025
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This month's DEPOT deindustrialization blog is on "Proletarian (green) Publics in Transformation: Perspectives from the Ruhr" by Ute Eickelkamp and Stefan Berger.
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deindustrialization.org/proletarian_...
August 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This month's DEPOT deindustrialization blog is on "Proletarian (green) Publics in Transformation: Perspectives from the Ruhr" by Ute Eickelkamp and Stefan Berger.
deindustrialization.org/proletarian_...
deindustrialization.org/proletarian_...
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#PublicHistory Book Club is back! Join in at 6pm ET this Thursday, July 24 for a discussion of Caroline Fraser's book, Prairie Fires: The American Dream of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Register for Thursday and learn more about our upcoming August read at community.ncph.org/event/PHBook.... #virtualprogram
July 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#PublicHistory Book Club is back! Join in at 6pm ET this Thursday, July 24 for a discussion of Caroline Fraser's book, Prairie Fires: The American Dream of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Register for Thursday and learn more about our upcoming August read at community.ncph.org/event/PHBook.... #virtualprogram
Received my certificate so I am officially an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy now 😊 Grateful to those who helped me through the application process including those in Queen's University Belfast's Merit Award team.
July 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Received my certificate so I am officially an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy now 😊 Grateful to those who helped me through the application process including those in Queen's University Belfast's Merit Award team.
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📝 From the Blog: Patrick Cooper-McCann and @arguinn.bsky.social share their research comparing deindustrialization in Detroit and Windsor
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Comparing Deindustrialization in Detroit and Windsor – Deindustrialization
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July 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
📝 From the Blog: Patrick Cooper-McCann and @arguinn.bsky.social share their research comparing deindustrialization in Detroit and Windsor
deindustrialization.org/detroit-wind...
deindustrialization.org/detroit-wind...
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I am signed up for a few events this autumn to talk about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Come along if you’re in Sheffield, Cambridge or Dublin. Possibly more to come - keep an eye on my website for more info!
www.kieranconnell.com/events
www.kieranconnell.com/events
July 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I am signed up for a few events this autumn to talk about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Come along if you’re in Sheffield, Cambridge or Dublin. Possibly more to come - keep an eye on my website for more info!
www.kieranconnell.com/events
www.kieranconnell.com/events
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This is such a great blog on deindustrialization, offering us a geographic perspective. Highly recommended! I've pasted their map below - as it is an integral part of their analysis.
July 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is such a great blog on deindustrialization, offering us a geographic perspective. Highly recommended! I've pasted their map below - as it is an integral part of their analysis.
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Call for reviewers!!
#IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Looking for reviewers for Irish Studies books from around the world for ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World
Some of the books I'm hoping to get reviewed below - email me if you are interested!
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#IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Looking for reviewers for Irish Studies books from around the world for ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World
Some of the books I'm hoping to get reviewed below - email me if you are interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World
If you wish to add your book to this list please contact me _________________________________________________________________________ The Irish Bildungsroman Edited by Gregory Castle, Sarah L. Townse...
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July 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Here's the clip of my contribution to today's feature on the Factory Girl sculpture and workers' representation in public artwork.
July 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Here's the clip of my contribution to today's feature on the Factory Girl sculpture and workers' representation in public artwork.