Niamh Cullen
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
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Niamh Cullen
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
· Aug 30
New Irish Writing: Come Away, O Human Child by Niamh Cullen
1. It was a long time since Niamh had felt the warmth of a man against her body. Her sisters didn’t understand the longing. Why bother, Síobha said, when they are so impatient and skittish, their live...
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My strangle little retelling of the Niamh and Oisin story appears in the Independent’s New Irish Writing series today. Very pleased it found a home there m.independent.ie/entertainmen...
Really interesting thread about history, gender and biography
Thought Anna Funder’s Wifedom brilliant. Perhaps the most effective dissection of patriarchy I’ve read. Here’s some reasons why I liked it as a historian.
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Really interesting thread about history, gender and biography
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We will respect them but also, have you taken the two minute silence to really think about the value of your property? It's what the fallen would have wanted. They gave their tomorrow so we can tout for your business today.
Even by estate agent standards. That's low.
Even by estate agent standards. That's low.
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We will respect them but also, have you taken the two minute silence to really think about the value of your property? It's what the fallen would have wanted. They gave their tomorrow so we can tout for your business today.
Even by estate agent standards. That's low.
Even by estate agent standards. That's low.
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Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
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@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Fascinating
In the 1600s, thousands of people were buried in crypts under a Milan hospital & preserved by unusual conditions. “What is striking is how much you can extrapolate from an ancient body,” says one researcher, “and how much you can understand from that about the period they lived in." @science.org
Thousands buried in 17th century Italian crypt reveal lives of working poor
Remains recovered from beneath a Milan hospital shed light on health, diet, and drug habits during the 1600s
www.science.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Fascinating
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Spent a lovely few days in Milan researching feminist ideas and activism about maternal and child welfare in the 1970, and planning out the research for my @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship. Now looking forward to talking about my work at the University of Padova this afternoon
October 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Spent a lovely few days in Milan researching feminist ideas and activism about maternal and child welfare in the 1970, and planning out the research for my @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship. Now looking forward to talking about my work at the University of Padova this afternoon
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❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
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For Dublin folks, I will be @tcddublin.bsky.social on Wed 15th Oct, 2.30pm, giving an early taster of the intimate queer stories of men who feature in my forthcoming book... www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation
A lecture by Dr Tom Hulme (Queens University Belfast) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.
www.tcd.ie
October 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
For Dublin folks, I will be @tcddublin.bsky.social on Wed 15th Oct, 2.30pm, giving an early taster of the intimate queer stories of men who feature in my forthcoming book... www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
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Abolish the Home Office
October 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Abolish the Home Office
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📣📣Call for papers
sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...
Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)".
27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow.
Please share!
sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...
Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)".
27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow.
Please share!
Motherhood Without Poverty 2026
Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)
Call for papers
A One-Day Hybrid Workshop at the University of Glasgow
Frid...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
📣📣Call for papers
sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...
Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)".
27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow.
Please share!
sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...
Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)".
27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow.
Please share!
Happy to see my story make the shortlist!
We’re delighted to announce the shortlist for our short story competition as selected by judge @roisinodonnellwriter Thanks to everyone who entered, the standard was extremely high! @writing.ie @irishpen.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Happy to see my story make the shortlist!
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The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...
What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham
I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview
www.thenewworld.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...
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QUB History will be participating in the 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition. Eligible applicants (post-PhD) with strong proposals should contact a suitable mentor (www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...) to discuss application (EOI closes 5 Nov.)
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
QUB History will be participating in the 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition. Eligible applicants (post-PhD) with strong proposals should contact a suitable mentor (www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...) to discuss application (EOI closes 5 Nov.)
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
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"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...
Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew
Manchester Jewry has maintained an extraordinarily strong local identity, but is notable in its diversity.
theconversation.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...
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Here is a small thing you can for Palestine. Come to our event in Belfast on Saturday. Music, poetry and craic to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Please share. Thank you x
October 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Here is a small thing you can for Palestine. Come to our event in Belfast on Saturday. Music, poetry and craic to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Please share. Thank you x
The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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No, you're not going crazy. You did read this and also read about the PSNI arresting people in London for being members of a proscribed organization.
October 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
No, you're not going crazy. You did read this and also read about the PSNI arresting people in London for being members of a proscribed organization.
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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩🔬🧪🔭⚛️
ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
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yes, this has always been self evident--they say so openly on Twitter! I don't know why our lords and masters in higher education cannot understand that we are MARKS; that our students are experimental subjects; that this is eventually going to be about the wholesale automation of higher ed.
This is the plan B for OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, etc. If they cannot make a product the public will buy, then the next best thing is a big contract to provide “AI Services” to the government, higher education, and public institutions. At least with the Tulip bubble people still had flowers
October 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
yes, this has always been self evident--they say so openly on Twitter! I don't know why our lords and masters in higher education cannot understand that we are MARKS; that our students are experimental subjects; that this is eventually going to be about the wholesale automation of higher ed.
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When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
September 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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Obviously we all know Bluesky is a retirement home for elder millennials but, if you happen to know any 18-30 people who might like to take a shot at this, do pass it on!
September 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Obviously we all know Bluesky is a retirement home for elder millennials but, if you happen to know any 18-30 people who might like to take a shot at this, do pass it on!