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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 6d

Today was my first official day working on my AHRC catalyst project — the story of a vegetarian, Esperanto-speaking, anti-fascist organisation.

Grateful for the opportunity to spend three years down these historical rabbit holes

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 7d

I reviewed the riveting Three Revolutions by @simonhallwriter.bsky.social in the latest issue of the TLS - and took the opportunity to talk about my favourite historical film Reds.

www.the-tls.com/history/twen...

Fellow travellers

Warren Beatty’s film Reds (1981), a biopic about the muckraking American journalist John Reed, did something revolutionary. In a daring narrative experiment for a Hollywood romance, snippets from oral...

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 8d

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

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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

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 13d

Happy to be featured in @apollo-magazine.com in brief this month! “Faraday’s revelations – that tapestries were seen as the highest art form in Tudor society, for instance – breathe new life into the familiar stories of Holbein, Hilliard et al.”

Screenshot of a page from Apollo magazine including a feature on The Story of Tudor Art: “This lively analysis of the culture of Tudor England covers all manner of objects, including paintings, jewels and ordinary household objects. Faraday’s revelations – that tapestries were seen as the highest art form in Tudor society, for instance – breathe new life into the familiar stories of Holbein, Hilliard et al.”

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Rachel Collett @racheljcollett.bsky.social · 15d

Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 17d

Join me on Nov 13 for my talk:

A Recipe for Resistance? Vegetarianism and Ethics in the anti-Nazi Underground.

My alternative title was: First add oats, then kill Hitler.

Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 20d

A great lineup for this semester's Department of History Research Seminar in Maynooth. This is open to all so do join us and please share widely.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 26d

Thanks so much Emma!

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 26d

Belfast! Come join me as we collaboratively imagine the concept of a History Open Mic night.

I'll be sharing some of my "Too-Spicy for Social Media" Historical Hot Takes and outlining the MCCU (the Maurice Casey Cinematic Universe - which is not just a conceited term for early C20th Europe!)

History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 26d

As part of our Network Northern Ireland 2025 event @mauricejcasey.com will be hosting our latest History Open Mic Night w/ special guests at The Pavillion pub in Belfast. Open to all.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 29d

it took me too long to get around to reading Hotel Lux by @mauricejcasey.com, but I'm so glad I did because it's one of the best books I've read in a long time. a phenomenal tale of radical lives brought forth from the archives with compassion and wit

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 29d

Thanks so much Dean!

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Sep 5

It's a great read! Do you mean Ruth Kennell? Yes, she did write one but unfortunately it was never published. It's sitting in manuscript form in the University of Oregon Special Collections.

I put together a list of Comintern memoirs here: mauricejcasey.com/2019/09/21/a...

Autobiographical Literature of the Comintern Era

This post is both a resource and a request for info. I am compiling a bibliography of communist memoirs for a future project. Please feel free to comment/email/tweet any sources I will have missed.…

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · Sep 5

NEW POST- Investigating the picture of my great grandfather Bob Stewart, Grigory Zinoviev and Ho Chi Minh. The Tattered Red Flag of the Communards. Hope and despair!
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Bob Stewart, Ho Chi Minh and the Tattered Red Flag of the Communards.

L-R: Bob Stewart, Unknown, Nikolai Antipov, Grigory Zinoviev, Kliment Voroshilov, Ho Chi Minh, Unknown. Partially visible behind L-R: Avel Yenukidze. One of the benefits of researching a distinctiv…

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Specified Purpose, Department of History and the Arts and Humanities Institute | University Vacancies Ireland

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Sep 3

Thanks Peter, I'll track down your writing on Brailsford. He wrote an interesting foreword to this pamphlet, which was the manifesto of a clandestine group composed largely of disaffected SPD and KPD members. Richard Löwenthal, later of the Observer, was a member.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Sep 3

Some very good dark comedy in one detail:

One underground group had a number of psychoanalysts because existing activists breached conspiratorial codes in their therapy sessions and ended up recruiting their analysts.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Sep 3

Finished up a fascinating and surprising few days of research in the wonderful @wienerlibrary.bsky.social - I went down all kinds of unexpected anti-Nazi rabbit holes.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 31

Thanks so much Graeme!

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 28

Just about! But be ready for things to run less than smoothly.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 28

back at it*

*sitting in the British Library Newsroom reading obscure left wing pamphlets

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 28

Just a few days left to grab this deal!

Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 1

Friends, my book HOTEL LUX is currently available for £0.99 on the Kindle Store. An intimate view of the revolution that changed the world, based on 7 years of research in archives across the globe.

Please do check it out! www.amazon.co.uk/Hotel-Lux-In...

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Post-Doctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract), Department of History, Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌈 Some stories were never meant to be hidden. But they were. We’re joining the effort to bring them into the light.
📣 “In Conversation” at Collins Barracks
🗓️ Sept 4 | 🕕 6–7PM | 🎟️ Free
With Dr. El Reid Buckley & @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 25

So great to see Hotel Lux in the window of Hodges Figgis today as Non-Fiction Book of the Month — and in the bestseller chart too.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 20

My first piece in the TLS — a review of a fantastic and pioneering new study of the Paris Commune’s afterlives in Britain and Ireland by @lauracforster.bsky.social

www.the-tls.com/history/the-...

The experiences of Communard refugees in Britain and Ireland

In 1886, Paschal Grousset, once a member of the executive committee of the Paris Commune, found himself troubled by Victorian Dublin’s food options.

www.the-tls.com

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 20

As someone who has travelled to a Pizza Express in service of the author's research into Tudor art, I can confirm Christina is a brilliant storyteller and this is sure to be an A-grade banger.

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · Aug 19

My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.

Red book cover with gold lettering, titled The Story of Tudor Art. Instead of O’s, two portrait miniatures with Elizabeth I and the artist Nicholas Hilliard. In white at the bottom the words “A history of Tudor England through its art and objects”

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