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Dr Alistair Malcolm
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Associate Professor, University of Limerick. Lectures in Early Modern British, European and Global History. Researches seventeenth-century political and cultural history of Spanish monarchy
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Join us for the @cemslimerick.bsky.social 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History on 2-3 December in the University of Limerick. Programme and registration here: emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4...
4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2-3 December 2025
Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2–3 December 2025 Special Collections & Archives Training Room, Glucksman Library (GL…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social
AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns.

AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.

#SaveNottinghamLanguages
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
alimalhistory.bsky.social
Please come to our Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies Public Lecture, when Dr Jason Harris (UCC) will be talking about manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: Glucksman Library, 2 December, 5.15pm. All welcome.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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stephengriffin33.bsky.social
Such a great talk tonight by Dr Harold E. Braun tonight in the Hunt Museum organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social and chaired by @alimalhistory.bsky.social. Thoroughly enthralling with great resonance in today's world.
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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alimalhistory.bsky.social
Please come to the annual Bolton-King public lecture on 5 November, at 6pm. Organised by the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies (@cemslimerick.bsky.social), in association with the Hunt Museum
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October 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
alimalhistory.bsky.social
Please come to the annual Bolton-King public lecture on 5 November, at 6pm. Organised by the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies (@cemslimerick.bsky.social), in association with the Hunt Museum
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October 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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georgianlords.bsky.social
We're going to be raising a glass to John Wilkes on his 300th birthday at 17:57.
Do join us, and share a toast to Wilkes and Liberty!
#HistParl
photograph of a glass of wine with books behind it
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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ulenglish.bsky.social
Our second English lunchtime research seminar of the new semester will be delivered by our colleague Prof Michael Griffin, who will speak on Editing the Cambridge Goldsmith. All welcome! #speirgorm #research #English @ulresearch.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Portrait of Infante Baltasar Carlos, son of King Philip IV aged about 11. The prince was b. 17 Oct 1629 and died #otd 9 Oct 1646. He was heir apparent till his death 8 days before his 17th birthday. Attributed to Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (Rijksmuseum)
October 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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📅 September 18, 2025
🕟 16:30 (special time)
💻 Online seminar
🔗Learn More at:
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September 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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✨ Upcoming AGENART Seminar ✨

On September 18, 2025 (special time: 16:30), art historian Peter Cherry (Trinity College, Dublin) will present:
“Velázquez and Royal Women.”
September 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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siga.spainculture.us
#AGENART #Velázquez #RoyalWomen #HabsburgSpain #ArtHistorySeminar #SpanishArt #EarlyModernArt #Queenship #MaterialCulture #ArtHistoryResearch #OnlineSeminar #PhDLife #GraduateResearch #WomenInHistory #VisualCulture
September 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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samuelpepys.bsky.social
Sir John Minnes, both Sir Williams and I to the Trinity House, where we had at dinner a couple of venison pasties, of which I eat but little, being almost cloyed, having been at five pasties in three days.
September 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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eastangliabylines.co.uk
Ratty, the charming water vole from Wind in the Willows, has been in deep trouble for decades.

But now, thanks to UK wildlife trusts, this riverside resident is making a hopeful comeback.

Kate Moore reports
Endangered – the remarkable water vole is making a comeback
Predation, pollution, climate change and habitat loss made Kenneth Grahame's Ratty one of the UK's most endangered species. But wildlife trusts are on the case
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August 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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nationaltrust.org.uk
Exactly 100 years ago today, the Farne Islands came into the care of the National Trust - a whole century of care and conservation!
Two puffins - with their beaks bright in colour - face each other while sat on a white rock An image of the Farne Islands. A rocky coastline, punctuated by sea water, is in the foreground. An old, stone building stands at the top on the small hillside
August 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
"A Prospect of Lymrick." Thomas Phillips, c. 1685 (British Library Maps K. Top. 54. 22.a.) #Limerick
August 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
11 July 1561: b. Luis de Góngora #Spanish #poet & cleric #otd
July 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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alimalhistory.bsky.social
Call for Papers: extended deadline for conference: Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice. Abstracts due by 30 June. For more information, see:         malcontents.hcommons.org/conference/
June 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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#CfP: 'Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice'. Limerick 14-15 January 2026. Abstracts by June 16, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/discip...
The internal jurisdictional autonomy of early modern universities represented a significant inheritance from the medieval instruments of academic freedom. The rise of the territorial university as a model curtailed the independence of these institutions rendering them more directly subject to external political actors, a situation that became more pronounced as a consequence of the Reformation. Despite these transformations, the university’s powers of internal oversight and control of its members remained relatively intact. These powers were set out, instituted and sanctioned in charters, statutes and ordinances. The principal instrument through which the powers were asserted was the academic jurisdiction, i.e. the university court. At one level, these arrangements protected university members, ensuring their protection to a certain extent from external legal threat. However, in adhering to the university jurisdiction, the members submitted themselves to its regulating influence. In this forum, students, professors and the cives academici could be arraigned, prosecuted and sanctioned for minor or major acts of deviancy. Thus, the university court and other instruments of institutional authority could play a central role in the disciplining of university members, defining the parameters of and enforcing normative behaviours. This conference seeks to explore the characteristics of these jurisdictional regimes in the early modern period. Paper proposals that address the following themes are especially welcome: The legal and administrative frameworks of discipline at early modern universities The characteristics of university courts Social disciplining and the normative functions of university courts The pursuit of personal vendettas and factional strife through the instruments of university jurisdiction The limits and limitations of academic disciplinary regimes Subversions of academic jurisdiction
May 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
alimalhistory.bsky.social
Call for Papers: extended deadline for conference: Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice. Abstracts due by 30 June. For more information, see:         malcontents.hcommons.org/conference/
June 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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undisscot.bsky.social
306 years ago today. Spanish marines landed in Loch Duich on 13 April 1719 and took control of Eilean Donan Castle as part of a little-known and short-lived Jacobite uprising. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #EileanDonanCastle #Lochalsh #LochDuich Jacobites #1719 #OnThisDay
Eilean Donan Castle. The image shows a view down onto the castle from higher up the hillside behind it, though part of it is obscured by the top branches of a tree. Beyond the castle are the blue waters of a loch with land rising steeply beyond the loch. The scene is in sunlight.
April 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Born OTD in 1605, Philip IV of Spain. Here by Bartolome Gonzalez in 1615, looking slight beside his sister Anne of Austria (who would become Louis XIV's mother). Girls in that family had the most spirit!
April 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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If you are in Limerick on Tuesday 8 April, please come to our annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich Public lecture in Medieval & Early Modern Local Studies. This is being organised by the Limerick Centre of Early Modern Studies (@cemslimerick.bsky.social), in Association with the Limerick Civic Trust.
March 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The Virgin and Child and the Franciscan St Diego of Alcalá, by Luisa Roldán, Madrid, ca.1690-95 (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
March 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
alimalhistory.bsky.social
If you are in Limerick on Tuesday 8 April, please come to our annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich Public lecture in Medieval & Early Modern Local Studies. This is being organised by the Limerick Centre of Early Modern Studies (@cemslimerick.bsky.social), in Association with the Limerick Civic Trust.
March 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM