Erika Hanna
@erikahanna.bsky.social
Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
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This was a hugely energising two-and-a-half days. Big thanks to Greywood Arts Centre for hosting us, to this/OUR for the collaboration, and to everyone who came along to participate. It's the first workshop I've been to where we've managed to spend half of the time outdoors - as is only fitting.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This was a hugely energising two-and-a-half days. Big thanks to Greywood Arts Centre for hosting us, to this/OUR for the collaboration, and to everyone who came along to participate. It's the first workshop I've been to where we've managed to spend half of the time outdoors - as is only fitting.
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If you're in the vicinity of @dculibrary.bsky.social, please pop in to see an exhibition selected from the archive material I've donated. It relates to my first book, The Destruction of Dublin (1985), and the Dublin Crisis Conference I helped to organise in February 1986. A blast from the past!
November 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If you're in the vicinity of @dculibrary.bsky.social, please pop in to see an exhibition selected from the archive material I've donated. It relates to my first book, The Destruction of Dublin (1985), and the Dublin Crisis Conference I helped to organise in February 1986. A blast from the past!
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The nice (?) thing about writing a brilliant history book is that it takes SO LONG that even today in the midst of [rolls eyes, looks around, collapses in a faint], great new works are finally making their way into print. Including Rob Priest's Obberamergau book! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The nice (?) thing about writing a brilliant history book is that it takes SO LONG that even today in the midst of [rolls eyes, looks around, collapses in a faint], great new works are finally making their way into print. Including Rob Priest's Obberamergau book! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Get down to the London Irish Centre for launch of 'Photo Album of the Irish', a new photo book & exhibition celebrating lives & stories of Irish families in England across generations, in partnership with Photo Museum Ireland
https://londonirishcentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173668457
https://londonirishcentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173668457
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Get down to the London Irish Centre for launch of 'Photo Album of the Irish', a new photo book & exhibition celebrating lives & stories of Irish families in England across generations, in partnership with Photo Museum Ireland
https://londonirishcentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173668457
https://londonirishcentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173668457
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I’ve started writing about my cycling adventures with my son. It’s a blog/journal with essays on movement, writing, and the art of keeping upright, called “Precious Cargo: A dad and his cargo bike trying to keep their balance”.
And here’s the first post.
electricpunkah.substack.com/p/trying-to-...
And here’s the first post.
electricpunkah.substack.com/p/trying-to-...
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I’ve started writing about my cycling adventures with my son. It’s a blog/journal with essays on movement, writing, and the art of keeping upright, called “Precious Cargo: A dad and his cargo bike trying to keep their balance”.
And here’s the first post.
electricpunkah.substack.com/p/trying-to-...
And here’s the first post.
electricpunkah.substack.com/p/trying-to-...
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I've been watching Numberblocks a bit lately with my kids as they learn their times tables, and I've noticed that they've given '32' an Irish accent, and a vaguely Northern one at that.
Coincidence? Or someone in the production team sneaking a subliminal pro-United Ireland message onto CBeebies?
Coincidence? Or someone in the production team sneaking a subliminal pro-United Ireland message onto CBeebies?
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I've been watching Numberblocks a bit lately with my kids as they learn their times tables, and I've noticed that they've given '32' an Irish accent, and a vaguely Northern one at that.
Coincidence? Or someone in the production team sneaking a subliminal pro-United Ireland message onto CBeebies?
Coincidence? Or someone in the production team sneaking a subliminal pro-United Ireland message onto CBeebies?
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'Chung’s research...finds that more than 60% of buildings housing the wealthiest classes also housed unskilled labourers. In Manchester’s “slums”, more than 10% of the population was from the better-off, employed classes.'
Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
'Chung’s research...finds that more than 60% of buildings housing the wealthiest classes also housed unskilled labourers. In Manchester’s “slums”, more than 10% of the population was from the better-off, employed classes.'
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Today at 3pm BST/4pm CEST, all welcome!
Super excited to talk to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social about Electric Wind in the @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk on Monday Oct 20th. Joun us for the live discussion. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
October 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Today at 3pm BST/4pm CEST, all welcome!
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'Uisce', instigated by @erikahanna.bsky.social, was a great triad! I enjoyed a talk on the historical impact of rain in #Ireland and much more besides today (Erika Hanna), foklore and history snippets (Tom Dillon) and a biodiversity walk by the river Feale (Barry O'Donoghue). #history #biodiversity
October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
'Uisce', instigated by @erikahanna.bsky.social, was a great triad! I enjoyed a talk on the historical impact of rain in #Ireland and much more besides today (Erika Hanna), foklore and history snippets (Tom Dillon) and a biodiversity walk by the river Feale (Barry O'Donoghue). #history #biodiversity
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4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
PhD Opportunity - Trinity East - Graduate Studies | Trinity College Dublin
Professor Timothy Stott and his team are inviting applications to doctoral research on the heritage of Trinity East in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.
www.tcd.ie
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
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my book (!) ‘A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka’ encompassing a decade of research on Tamil photographic practices set against a backdrop of ethno/nationalist conflict & the island’s turbulent post/war out Spring 26 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
A Volatile Picture
uwapress.uw.edu
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
my book (!) ‘A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka’ encompassing a decade of research on Tamil photographic practices set against a backdrop of ethno/nationalist conflict & the island’s turbulent post/war out Spring 26 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Friends in Kerry here's an event about landscape and weather next weekend, you should come
October 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Friends in Kerry here's an event about landscape and weather next weekend, you should come
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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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Very pleased that my piece 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' has been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums
Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity | Urban History | Cambridge Core
Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity
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September 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Very pleased that my piece 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' has been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums
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I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
2025 Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced
The Wolfson History Prize has revealed its 2025 shortlist, with six books in contention for the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
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Electric Wind is here! Thank you for the surprise post @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Available for pre-order and in all good bookshops from 14 October 🙂
September 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Electric Wind is here! Thank you for the surprise post @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Available for pre-order and in all good bookshops from 14 October 🙂
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Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.
September 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.
Prof James Kelly giving a lecture on 'Climate and Society in Eighteenth-Century Ireland' on 16 September, 6-8pm
www.igs.ie/events/clima...
www.igs.ie/events/clima...
>Climate and Society in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
The Irish Georgian Society is Ireland’s Architectural Heritage Society. The Society aims to encourage an interest in and to promote the conservation of distinguished examples of architecture and the a...
www.igs.ie
August 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Prof James Kelly giving a lecture on 'Climate and Society in Eighteenth-Century Ireland' on 16 September, 6-8pm
www.igs.ie/events/clima...
www.igs.ie/events/clima...
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We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September.
Please share widely.
www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...
@muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @benjamin-casey.bsky.social
Please share widely.
www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...
@muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @benjamin-casey.bsky.social
35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities
The 35th annual Irish conference of historians hosted by the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences & Maynooth University Dept. of History
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August 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September.
Please share widely.
www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...
@muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @benjamin-casey.bsky.social
Please share widely.
www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...
@muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @benjamin-casey.bsky.social
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A very early take on 'For Cod and Ulster'? Anon. cartoon in Weekly News (Dublin), 15 March 1875
August 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A very early take on 'For Cod and Ulster'? Anon. cartoon in Weekly News (Dublin), 15 March 1875
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Lovely to see Alice Thornton and @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social getting some love in the press. 'A female Samuel Pepys' Thornton is a bit less self-obsessed! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England
Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Lovely to see Alice Thornton and @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social getting some love in the press. 'A female Samuel Pepys' Thornton is a bit less self-obsessed! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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*first year lecture, academic strides in*
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told
Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
*first year lecture, academic strides in*
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...