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Leanne Calvert
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Historian of the Family @UL Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary

Out Now! *Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love & Family in Presbyterian Ulster* https://shop.ria.ie/products/pious-and-promiscuous
my ma posted me down proper soda farls & potato bread to keep me going until I get up after christmas. Enjoy!
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This is v unfair treatment. We had such a hard time trying to find somewhere to live when we moved because of Frank. I replied to so many daft ads and never got a response once I mentioned him. Very glad to have found our current place. I showed her pics of him & cried when she said yes!
December 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Pious and promiscuous
Pious and promiscuous – Life, love and family in Presbyterian Ulster will be published on 15 October 2025.  Join us for the book launch in Belfast at the end of October - details here Leanne Calvert w...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
@jayroszman.bsky.social PS hope writing is going well 😅 I am trying to get back in the zone myself with marking looming in the background...
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
But then you read over your pile of words, decide you don't like said words, cut & paste them into your document for 'drafts' that contains all the drafty words, start again, lie on the floor & contemplate life, & then repaste drafty words back in... just me?
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Our Newsletter editor & web officer is Prof Heidi Hannele Kurvinen (Uni of Bergen, Norway). She is a gender and media historian who has mostly focused on the post-war period in Finnish and Nordic history #WomensHist #GenderHist
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Our Treasurer is Dr Shannon Devlin who is new to IFRWH this term @shannondevlin.bsky.social Shannon is a social & gender historian with a focus on sibling relationships, cousinhood & the family in C19th-20th Ireland #GenderHist #WomensHist
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM