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Conor Brockbank @conorbrockbank.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar this Friday from QUB’s @jamielukas.bsky.social. Do note the room change for this week only. Honoured to be asked to chair the seminar this week. More details & sign up to join online via link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, Matt!

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · 8d

Nearly four years of work wrapped up with one e-mail! The thesis is officially off my desk 😌🎉

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · 16d

How I feel visiting my family in the rural West Midlands

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · 17d

Had a great week doing thesis edits in pubs and bars around London! And yes, I giggled at the last picture because I have the humour of a 12 year old.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · Aug 9

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · Jul 29

A fun (yet very, very posh) read!

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · Jul 29

Had an absolutely fantastic time at Belfast Pride with the team at @cara-friend.bsky.social !

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Cara-Friend @cara-friend.bsky.social · Jul 9

The hugely successful 'Founding Cara-Friend' exhibition will be hosted by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland for the month of July! This exhibition features a selection of portraits and stories of some of the volunteers who worked to establish Cara-Friend in the 1970s and 1980s!

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 15

A long time ago we used to have a lecture room with maps of Ireland on the wall, this would have been a great addition!
Well done to all involved and hope your map finds a good home: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
PS: We would also have gladly helped 'empty' the Smarties tubes used for Giant's Causeway

Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland

A huge wool map of Ireland, which took four years of knitting and crocheting to complete, is in search of a new home to go on public display.

www.rte.ie

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 14

A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80

History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · Jul 14

💼 Job spotlight of the week:
Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict at the Imperial War Museum, London (FT, £31-34k, Permanent)

imperialwarmuseums.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict - IWM

Title: Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict . Location: IWM London. Application Deadline: 11/08/2025, 09:00

imperialwarmuseums.tal.net

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · Jul 15

Intention to submit posted. Caffeine guzzled. Edits in progress.

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · Jul 8

Been working with these folks for a while now (although officially for the last few weeks) and it's a great environment!

Cara-Friend @cara-friend.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are seeking to recruit a Community Engagement Officer to join our team! This post will have a key role in the Belfast LGBTQIA+ Community Engagement Project, funded by #PEACEPLUS, in partnership with The Rainbow Project and HereNI. For an application pack, please contact: [email protected]!

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · Jun 21

This was a black and white slide but apparently my ambient homosexuality was enough to make the projector gay.

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · Jun 21

Had a great time presenting in the @ssnci.bsky.social conference! Aberdeen, as a city, is often taken for granite in my opinion.

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · Jun 12

Someone needs to stop me sending this to my friends every time I do something mischievous

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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · Jun 9

“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.”

Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.

Urnings, in Ireland and Illinois

"It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life."

www.nacbs.org

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · May 27

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS ARCHIVES PSA 📣

Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen??

(I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · May 27

Today at 4pm

publichistoryqub.bsky.social @publichistoryqub.bsky.social · May 10

Join us on 27 May for a talk by Prof Mark McGowan, Uni of Toronto, on Indigenous aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. Cohosted with @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social and @irishheritage.bsky.social . Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-mcgow...

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · May 27

Heartened to receive a gift in the post from lovely academic friend. Very cool.

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · May 2

This year's Wiles Lectures in History will be given at QUB on 28-31 May by Prof Sven Beckert of Harvard, on ‘Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism’. There are 4 free public lectures over 4 days: details at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · May 20

Applications are open for the 2025-26 AHSS Global Fellows Scheme at QUB, funding visits by established academics of 4-12 weeks to Belfast. Specialists in Irish Studies are welcome to contact us at [email protected] before 30 May. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/about/Leader...

AHSS Global Fellows | About | Queen's University Belfast

www.qub.ac.uk

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · May 19

Finally managed to get the pigeons out of the attic and patch the roof... but now the pigeons think that they should be living in the house. I can no longer have my windows open without having to escort some feathered fuck back out through it 30 minutes later.

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Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social · May 17

A beautiful day for solidarity in Belfast today!

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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