Dr Patricia Kelleher
@patkell07.bsky.social
Historian. Hon Research Fellow, Univ of Dundee. Interested in all things historical on medical history of the Highlands.. Former archivist. Crime fiction, The Archers and knitting.
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The monster in the White House.
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The monster in the White House.
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
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RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.
Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI
Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI
Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.
Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI
Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI
Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
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RHS funding opportunity: David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.
The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj
Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026
The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj
Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026
David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS
Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
RHS funding opportunity: David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.
The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj
Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026
The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj
Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026
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this doesn't look like a normal distribution
September 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
this doesn't look like a normal distribution
British History of Medicne Conf in #Leeds underway with a really interesting keynote on monoclonal antibodies and now sessions on Herbs, Potions & Magic Bullets
@britsocmedhistory.bsky.social
@britsocmedhistory.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
British History of Medicne Conf in #Leeds underway with a really interesting keynote on monoclonal antibodies and now sessions on Herbs, Potions & Magic Bullets
@britsocmedhistory.bsky.social
@britsocmedhistory.bsky.social
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Sounds about right.
August 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Sounds about right.
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Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Welcome to the archives.
Congratulations all our our @humanitesUoD Scottish History Masters students graduating today. Also, many congratulations to Sylvia Valentine @Historylady2013 PhD graduate. @dundeeuni #UoDgrad
June 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Congratulations all our our @humanitesUoD Scottish History Masters students graduating today. Also, many congratulations to Sylvia Valentine @Historylady2013 PhD graduate. @dundeeuni #UoDgrad
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Immense dignity and restraint on show from Dr Carla Hayden, in her first interview since being fired by email from her position as Librarian of Congress. #Burningthebooks in full flow in Trump’s America.’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rme21qIbVHM
Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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June 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Immense dignity and restraint on show from Dr Carla Hayden, in her first interview since being fired by email from her position as Librarian of Congress. #Burningthebooks in full flow in Trump’s America.’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rme21qIbVHM
Always great to see our Dundee University Humanities PhD students face to face. David from Arizona on a research visit to #dundee and Victoria, @strathmartine.bsky.social scholarship student presenting her research today in #StAndrews
June 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Always great to see our Dundee University Humanities PhD students face to face. David from Arizona on a research visit to #dundee and Victoria, @strathmartine.bsky.social scholarship student presenting her research today in #StAndrews
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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
February 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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Thanks for the recommendation. #BurningtheBooks was written in part as a warning about the danger of allowing authoritarian regimes to have control of knowledge ... 'there is no political power without power over the archive'....
#Recommended
BURNING THE BOOKS:
A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
by Richard Ovenden
Book:
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Front Matter & Intro:
www.hup.harvard.edu/file/feeds/P...
Audiobook:
www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/bu...
audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/b...
BURNING THE BOOKS:
A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
by Richard Ovenden
Book:
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Front Matter & Intro:
www.hup.harvard.edu/file/feeds/P...
Audiobook:
www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/bu...
audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/b...
February 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Thanks for the recommendation. #BurningtheBooks was written in part as a warning about the danger of allowing authoritarian regimes to have control of knowledge ... 'there is no political power without power over the archive'....
Terrific to be at the early morning opening by the Director of NMS, of ‘Injecting hope: the race for a Covid-19 vaccine at @NtlMuseumsScot yesterday with @Historylady2013, Well worth a visit.
January 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Terrific to be at the early morning opening by the Director of NMS, of ‘Injecting hope: the race for a Covid-19 vaccine at @NtlMuseumsScot yesterday with @Historylady2013, Well worth a visit.
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Trump is exactly twice the age MLK was when he was killed.
I suck.
I suck.
January 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Trump is exactly twice the age MLK was when he was killed.
I suck.
I suck.
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Are you on the pathway to becoming an archivist & looking to put theory into practice? Or perhaps you have previous archive experience & would like to refresh your cataloguing skills &/or gain experience in a different setting?
Find out more & apply here:
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/01/09/a...
Find out more & apply here:
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/01/09/a...
Archive volunteer recruitment | Glasgow Women's Library
GWL houses a truly unique collection of materials relating to diverse women’s lives and contributions. Our collection include materials documenting women’s role in: activism, work…
womenslibrary.org.uk
January 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Are you on the pathway to becoming an archivist & looking to put theory into practice? Or perhaps you have previous archive experience & would like to refresh your cataloguing skills &/or gain experience in a different setting?
Find out more & apply here:
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/01/09/a...
Find out more & apply here:
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/01/09/a...
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If you haven't already, apply for our 2025/26 intake here: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Graduate Trainee Library Assistant - Institute of Historical Research:London Senate House
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
January 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If you haven't already, apply for our 2025/26 intake here: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Cold but beautiful
January 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Cold but beautiful
£11 to park in Edinburgh for 90 mins, seriously @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 10:50 AM
£11 to park in Edinburgh for 90 mins, seriously @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky, new here and already you’re a breath of fresh air. Celebrating with some photos of NW Skye and Harris.
November 14, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Hello Bluesky, new here and already you’re a breath of fresh air. Celebrating with some photos of NW Skye and Harris.
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Briefly dipping my toe back into social medial to re-up this Call for Contributions for a projected edited collection on 'Alcohol in Early Modern Scotland'. Get in touch if you've got some research you'd like to share!
November 13, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Briefly dipping my toe back into social medial to re-up this Call for Contributions for a projected edited collection on 'Alcohol in Early Modern Scotland'. Get in touch if you've got some research you'd like to share!