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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 3d

On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar

Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"

In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning

This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England

www.history.ac.uk

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 13d

QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 28d

QUB History research seminars - Fridays at 4pm starting 26 September. All welcome!

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The Irish Story @theirishstory.bsky.social · Jul 18

Article by @brian-hanley.bsky.social Hanley on events across Ireland in the long hot summer of 1935. July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’
www.theirishstory.com/2013/01/07/j...

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · Jul 16

A few tickets left for this talk next week for Belfast Pride 2025!

Come hear about a ‘female husband’ dockworker (1880s), a scandalous Victorian male brothel, Jazz Age gay novels, a trans woman in mid 20th c. Ballycastle, & NI’s (sadly forgotten) 1st lesbian activist!

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Sex, Love, and Everyday Life: A History of Northern Ireland before Gay Liberation - The Linen Hall, Belfast

Ask the average person on the street what they know about Northern Ireland’s LGBTQ+ or ‘queer’ history, and they will likely mention the Reverend Ian Paisley’s notorious campaign to ‘Save […]

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · Jul 13

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Modern racism has become loud and proud | The Observer

The response to a photo of a class in London shows how ethnic notions of national identity have seeped into mainstream conservatism

observer.co.uk

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · Jul 9

I am signed up for a few events this autumn to talk about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Come along if you’re in Sheffield, Cambridge or Dublin. Possibly more to come - keep an eye on my website for more info!

www.kieranconnell.com/events

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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · Jul 8

I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is [email protected]

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · Jul 1

Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism.

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Northern Ireland has a long history of immigration and diversity. And of racism.

Dr Jack Crangle discusses recent anti-immigration disorder in Northern Ireland, and places it in historical context.

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Natalie O'Regan @natalieoregan.bsky.social · Jun 30

Funny, i can think of one that happens every year.

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · Jun 26

I spoke with Radio France Internationale about this month’s rioting in Ballymena, providing the historical context of Northern Irish immigration: www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/... piece starts around 9.25

Accents d'Europe - Face aux frappes en Iran, les tiraillements du gouvernement allemand

Crainte d'une escalade, et de la fermeture du détroit d'Ormuz par lequel transite 20% du pétrole mondial. Les frappes sur l'Iran se sont poursuivies lundi (23 juin 2025) et les ministres européens des...

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thanks to @markdoyle.bsky.social for a lovely review of my book in The American Historical Review. A very concise summary of the book’s key themes which will leave you (hopefully) wanting to pick up a copy!

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Jack Crangle. Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or ‘Other’?.

For most of the twentieth century, immigrants were invisible in Northern Ireland. This is the starting premise of Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Tw

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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · Jun 11

Call it what it is. Racist violence in Ballymena is the toxic legacy of 27 years of failure by DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP, UUP, and Alliance.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · Jun 11

Politicians need to call racism racism. LEAD
They’re all well able to say when something is sectarian. Talking about real or imagined sectarianism keeps most of them elected. They need to find the courage of Anna Lo when she was basically a lone voice calling out racism even when it was v dangerous

Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · Jun 11

The riots in ballymena are because of racism. The last thing they’re about about women’s safety. Ask @elainecrory.bsky.social about the cross community chorus of men who ring up Talkback to tell her to stop taking about violence against women every time she’s on after a woman is murdered here

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · May 30

My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed

Poster advertising an oral history project on South Asian Medical practitioners in Scotland. Please get in touch with monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk if you know anyone who worked/studied in the medical field in Scotland who is of South Asian heritage.

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks Charlie! That’s very much the vibe of the article…

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Oral History Network Ireland @oralhistoryie.bsky.social · May 28

📣Have you registered for OHNI's 2025 annual meeting taking place 13-14 June, Absolute Hotel, Limerick?

📣Early bird rates available until Friday 30 May.

Looking forward to welcoming @stevenhigh.bsky.social to be our keynote speaker.

👉Register today! oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2025-meeting

Oral History Network Ireland Annual Meeting.
'What we say and how we say it: exploring words, silences and language in oral history.'
www.oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2025-meeting

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · May 13

All of this is brilliant because, yes, we are racist at home as well as abroad #SpéirGhorm

Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · May 13

New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century - Volume 48 Issue 174

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · May 13

Thank you!

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · May 13

Thanks Tom!

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · May 13

New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century - Volume 48 Issue 174

doi.org

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · May 12

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · May 12

The epilogue from my book. Siva said it best - “what Powell says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the day after”

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · Mar 20

Due to where Easter falls, our next USIHS event will be the J.C. Beckett Lecture which will be delivered by Prof. Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social on 22 May at PRONI. More information on the eventbrite www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-anti-a...

The Anti-Abortion Movement in Ireland, c.1972-92

Prof. Laura Kelly will deliver the J.C. Beckett Annual Lecture on 22 May at 6pm. This *in person* event will be held at PRONI.

www.eventbrite.ie

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · Apr 25

THE MO SIEWCHARRAN PRIZE 2025
An opportunity for young writers. That's why I agreed to be one of the Judges this year. Attending the zoom meeting on 30 April will help many.

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