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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Jul 16

Join us for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition! Our panel of experts will 'dissect’ the medieval body, revealing how our ancestors thought their bodies functioned.

⏰12 August, 7-8pm
📍Online
🔗Register: https://loom.ly/ck4iTmI

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Jul 13

School's out now in most places, so teachers won't need to explain the plague stories in the news to their students soon. But in case they're looking for a way to bring Global Health into local perspectives, these teaching notes on plague in Arizona might help: www.academia.edu/26423493/ 🧪🗃️

The opening page of lecture slides from 2016 on the topic of "Making Plague's Story Modern: A Local-to-Global Analysis." Besides the rat on the side, there are two images: a crowded cemetery scene from a 14th-century manuscript describing the Black Death; and an outline map of Arizona, showing the counties were plague is already enzootic (persisting in rodent populations).

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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · Jul 3

One for @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social 🏔️

I wonder if you're enjoying the cooler temperature in Zermatt!

Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social · Jul 3

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #onlineartexchange is 'Smells in art' for Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850-1915 at Watts Gallery

We've chosen 'Claire de lune sur le Cervin' by Albert Henri John Gos (1852-1942) as we find it hard to look at without smelling the Fir trees the foreground.

Claire de lune sur le Cervin' by Albert Henri John Gos

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is wildlife and the environment for Wild Ireland: Past, Present, Future @ulstermuseum.org‬ 🦌🌿

The exhibition features over 50 paintings by renowned wildlife painter, Julian Friers

Julian Friers (b.1956) 📷 National Museums NI

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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · Jun 20

While working on the #NIPrisonServiceCollection, Rebecca Laverty, Curator of Modern History, discovers a fire extinguisher with "IRA" scratched into the side.

Watch our videos on this documentation project here → bit.ly/43Y4Cwq

#UlsterMuseum #BehindTheScenes #TroublesAndBeyond

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · Jun 6

Seven of the 20 contributors to the volume are present at the current workshop:
Sharon Arbuthnot, Deborah Hayden, Joseph Flahive, Sarah Baccianti, David Stifter, Siobhán Barrett, Conan Doyle @conandoyle.bsky.social.
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · Jun 6

...edited by Deborah Hayden and Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social, the proceedings of two conferences stretching from 2018-2021.
More info at @brepols.net: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10....
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · May 14

Such a joy to see this out in the world at last - and now available fully #OpenAccess from @brepols.net!

Huge thanks to my co-editor @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social, all our contributors, & @researchireland.ie for making this project possible against all odds 🎉🥂

www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...

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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · May 13

Team effort between us, you and your team! 🤓

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · May 13

What the postman brought today:

Many congratulations to the editors @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social and @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social for this splendid and comprehensive volume on "Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World".
Online at: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · May 6

Publication day! Huge thanks to all our contributors and especially to @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social for steering the ship these past couple of years. Grateful to her LEIGHEAS project funded by #ResearchIreland for covering open access with @brepols.net! #medmedhistory www.brepols.net/products/IS-....

Book cover. Purple with cover image of circular diagram representing Microcosmic Man. London, British Library MS Sloane 282, fol. 18.

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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · Apr 24

One for you and your team @hmbarber-james.bsky.social

Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · Apr 24

Big day... My book #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History #Museums is published TODAY.🤩
Over the last 20+ years of working in these incredible institutions, I've noticed some surprising things about them, and this book shares some of these "secrets", as an insider's guide.🧵

The cover of Nature’s Memory – a green snail shell on a black background

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Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social · Apr 8

Great news! I am recruiting a(nother) PhD student!

'Ulster Americans' is a collaborative PhD with National Museums NI, specifically the Ulster American Folk Park, and is open to home and international students so please spread the word! More details in the link.

www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

REF: CDP01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast

www.qub.ac.uk

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Richard Coulton @rxcoulton.bsky.social · Apr 15

Delighted to partner with #UlsterMuseum to offer 4 yr PhD at @qmul.ac.uk funded by @ukri.org from Oct 2025. Please alert anyone with interests in natural history and Ireland in c18-c19. Potential focus on #DigitalHistory #HistSTM #EnvHums. Apply by 23 May @ 5pm.

www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...

John Templeton and the Emergence of Irish Botany (with NMNI) - English and DramaFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok

www.qmul.ac.uk

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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · Apr 15

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Apr 15

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Apr 7

We have an exciting CDP studentship opportunity at the Ulster American Folk Park in partnership with Queen's University Belfast exploring Ulster immigrant life in an American city tenement, 1840-1910. For further details visit: www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · Apr 10

Much needed morning walk after a sleepless night #dawn #CoDown

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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · Mar 23

Really interesting read.
'In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA' 👇🏼
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA

Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

www.motherjones.com

Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · Mar 22

Saturday's mail.... It's getting real! Just a "few" long pages of indexing left. That's our weekend "fun" sorted @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social @brepols.bsky.social

Page with picture of front cover of Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · Mar 21

@sarahbaccianti.bsky.social and I may be in the throes of indexing one whopper of an edited volume today, but just *look* at this gorgeous list of manuscripts 😍

Exciting things coming soon for fans of medieval medicine! 📖📜🎉

www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · Mar 13

Huge congratulations to my colleagues @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social, #TríonaWhiteHamilton, #AgrippaNjanina & the communities they worked with for the project #GlobalVoicesLocalChoices shortlisted for the 2025 #MuseumsHeritageAwards! 👏
#NationalMuseumsNI

awards.museumsandheritage.com/2025-shortlist

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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · Mar 8

@davidstifter.bsky.social research referenced in the article can be found here: '6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish' www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish

6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish was published in Sub-Indo-European Europe on page 157.

www.degruyter.com

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Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social · Mar 8

The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland? Interesting research by @davidstifter.bsky.social explored in this article in @theguardian.com #StPatrick #Ireland #Celtic
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland?

The rise of the precursor to the Irish language remains a historical mystery that linguists, geneticists and archaeologists continue to debate

www.theguardian.com

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Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social · Feb 28

Men's names may well be above the doors of these premises but it is the women who helped to run them and/or their households that I'll be focusing on at the Womenfolk event at the Ulster Folk Museum on Saturday 8th March. Catch my tours at 12pm and 2pm: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/whats-on/wom...

Picture House frontage, black and white sign.

Pub frontage, pink, cream and white sign.

Shoemaker's shop frontage, burgundy and white sign.

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · Feb 28

Proofs!! 😀🎉

@sarahbaccianti.bsky.social

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