Anna Walsh
@annaannawalsh.bsky.social
Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.
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Anna Walsh
@annaannawalsh.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Just signed contracts on my book, Narratives of Irish Leeds. Due January ´26 with Liverpool University Press. I hope this picture will be the cover! Let me know if you want to hear about it! (Also please send good writing vibes)
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The @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Enslavement and Empire project launched this week, providing a digital archive that reveals how LJMU’s history is tied to the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans.
We face our past to shape our future.
#research #history
The @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Enslavement and Empire project launched this week, providing a digital archive that reveals how LJMU’s history is tied to the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans.
We face our past to shape our future.
#research #history
The LJMU Enslavement and Empire Project
The LJMU Enslavement and Empire Project
www.ljmu.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/pub...
The @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Enslavement and Empire project launched this week, providing a digital archive that reveals how LJMU’s history is tied to the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans.
We face our past to shape our future.
#research #history
The @ljmuhistory.bsky.social Enslavement and Empire project launched this week, providing a digital archive that reveals how LJMU’s history is tied to the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans.
We face our past to shape our future.
#research #history
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Bilingualism is a super power. I am furious that the curriculum has minimised teaching modern foreign languages in state schools.
December 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Bilingualism is a super power. I am furious that the curriculum has minimised teaching modern foreign languages in state schools.
Samantha is working on a fascinating topic for her PhD. Get in touch with her if you want to know more!
Hello! I’m seeking volunteers to be interviewed for my PhD thesis on the cultural significance of the tailored suit within queer communities during the 1970s and 1980s. If you’re interested and would like more information, please contact me. Thank you, and feel free to share this with your networks!
December 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Samantha is working on a fascinating topic for her PhD. Get in touch with her if you want to know more!
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you are a good cat and a great friend
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
you are a good cat and a great friend
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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It would help me massively at this particular moment that if you have been unsure about subscribing to The Anfield Wrap you give it serious consideration now.
Either via the app or here:
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December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It would help me massively at this particular moment that if you have been unsure about subscribing to The Anfield Wrap you give it serious consideration now.
Either via the app or here:
www.theanfieldwrap.com/subscription...
Either via the app or here:
www.theanfieldwrap.com/subscription...
Sundays with Sinéad
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Sundays with Sinéad
Really sad to hear this. Such an important photographer. RIP
Martin Parr, photographer acclaimed for observations of British life, dies aged 73. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Martin Parr, photographer acclaimed for observations of British life, dies aged 73
Known for acute observations of class system, Parr’s images were often in vivid colour with more than a dash of humour
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Really sad to hear this. Such an important photographer. RIP
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On behalf of the committee and all of the members of the WHAI we would like to thank Diana Urquhart for her support as president of the association over the past five-years. Congratulations too to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social our new WHAI president.
December 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
On behalf of the committee and all of the members of the WHAI we would like to thank Diana Urquhart for her support as president of the association over the past five-years. Congratulations too to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social our new WHAI president.
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What the British government is letting happen to universities is unconscionable
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
What the British government is letting happen to universities is unconscionable
Really enjoyed reading this
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Really enjoyed reading this
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Same! Also loved having an office next door to the chocolate making and patisserie classes where students would leave their leftover delights with us
Speaking as someone who used to work at an FE College with a Fine Dine restaurant where catering students learned to cook, this is a great idea. I miss eating at the fine dine for the cost of a McDonalds.
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Same! Also loved having an office next door to the chocolate making and patisserie classes where students would leave their leftover delights with us
Ain’t nobody like Joe Gomez
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Ain’t nobody like Joe Gomez
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The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
'Science minister Patrick Vallance has rejected concerns that focusing on “doing fewer things better” in research will lead to funding being concentrated in larger research-intensive universities from the Russell Group.' 1/3
Post-16 plan ‘not recipe for Russell Group domination’ – Vallance
Science minister dismisses as ‘bizarre’ fears that government push for ‘teaching-only’ specialists will further concentrate research activity in small number of institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
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Despite the fact that it has been the case for at least 40 years, I'm sure most Brits have no idea that overseas students massively subsidise home students – and that far from taking up places that home students are being denied, they are creating *more* places for home students.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Despite the fact that it has been the case for at least 40 years, I'm sure most Brits have no idea that overseas students massively subsidise home students – and that far from taking up places that home students are being denied, they are creating *more* places for home students.
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Miss Piggy has yet to marry because her fella has kermitment issues.
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Miss Piggy has yet to marry because her fella has kermitment issues.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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If you feel you must put this owl on the wall of your toilet, despair not, for I can draw one for you! www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
October 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
If you feel you must put this owl on the wall of your toilet, despair not, for I can draw one for you! www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
Questions please (so delighted to have the captaincy today)
AFQ AFQ AFQ
Getting in early.
Walsh A. (c)
Blundell
Biggane
Walsh K.
Get your questions in...NOW!
Getting in early.
Walsh A. (c)
Blundell
Biggane
Walsh K.
Get your questions in...NOW!
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Questions please (so delighted to have the captaincy today)
Love this poem of Seán’s. It’s so beautiful.
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Love this poem of Seán’s. It’s so beautiful.
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
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The grotesque spectacle of a Labour government — a Labour government! — promoting the idea of stealing from refugees to appease the far right
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The grotesque spectacle of a Labour government — a Labour government! — promoting the idea of stealing from refugees to appease the far right
Have you got any Andrew Lloyd Webber?
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Have you got any Andrew Lloyd Webber?
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We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵