This sounds like a fantastic experience and so useful. Book sounds great too!
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This sounds like a fantastic experience and so useful. Book sounds great too!
A specimen of the 1841 Census form (not Anne Evett's - it burned in 1922!) I, Anne Evatt, feeble, old, and poor, answer - may the devil scald the framers of this tyrannical inquisition, reminding the afflicted of their sorrows and losses; I lost the bulk of my fortune by the failure of the Grand Canal Company, in the reign of George the Third; I lost 1s. 8d. on every pound note in the reign of George the Fourth; since these losses I have had many sorrows, death having deprived me of many kind friends; a poor widow came to see me this morning, I told her it would cause just grief to three widows of my acquaintance; her eyes filled with tears, and she replied - ‘It will cause heart-scald to many to be obliged to record the deaths of their husbands.’ ‘Can you write’ - ‘can you read’, And whom do you feed? I’ll make you pay if you dare; Keep my little from from me of ev’ry day fare, And say ‘have you married another man’s wife?’ Answer with truth, as you value your life; Or should a wife stray within your walls, Pray send her to the Viscount’s halls.
#IWD2026 Individual acts of resistance.
Anne Evett, Jervis Street, Dublin. condemns the 1841 census: 'may the devil scald the framers of this tyrannical inquisition...'
👉️ virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE...
See the story in ALT text 🧐
Many more women's names 👇️
virtualtreasury.ie/portals/popu...
Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...
while written by a literary scholar much to think about here for social, economic and environmental historians as well as those of interested in understanding the colonial eighteenth century, and its environmental and socio-economic legacies!
Taylor Irish Materialisms
Used reading week to finally finish this excellent book: Colleen Taylor’s Irish Materialisms: The non-human and the making of colonial Ireland, 1690-1830. it uses coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud and pigs(!) to think about material lives of Irish peasants
A great piece in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social today from UL’s Prof Máiréad Moriarty on the increased value of the critical skills gained during an Arts degree in the age of AI - expertise in human complexity will always be required! www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.
An extra ordinary resource for historians of eighteenth century Ireland as well as economic and social historians more generally @eshsi.bsky.social
Well done Brian, a fantastic achievement.
a job! in the 18thcentury! and in IRELAND 💚🍀💚@bsecs.bsky.social @asecsgradcaucus.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social
A map of Ireland showing the scale and type of census returns sent in by local clergymen. https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1766-religious-census
A map showing the extent of recovered names and numbers across the island of Ireland. 50,000 names across 246 civil parishes!
Legend accompanying the map of recovered names and numbers across the island of Ireland. Names of householders or local population numbers.
https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1766-religious-census
Happy 260th Birthday to Ireland's first census! 🎂
Amazing coverage back in 1766 🙂 A tragic loss in 1922 🔥😩
Now available - over 50,000 recovered names! 📜📚5️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🥳
www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1...
📢 More detailed Survivors map coming today! 🔎
Download advice on feeding newborns to teens
Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.
My @historicaljnl.bsky.social article has been published open access alongside great articles by @adambforsyth.bsky.social, @davidandress.bsky.social, and others I couldn't locate here, in the most recent journal issue.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
1 week left to submit paper proposals!
We welcome proposals examining the role of visual and material culture in challenging, reinforcing and subverting the notion of ‘British‘ from medieval to present day, exploring art from Britain, Ireland and former colonial territories.
CFP closes 9 March
Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."
#writerslife
Partitionist history at its best (worst).
In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out.
Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...
VRTI will be posting some information about the 1766 religious census returns over the next few days (260th 🎂 approaching). Keep an 👁️out. We'll be revealing some hidden gems 💎 among the surviving returns.
https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-PRIV-M-5036-A-9 Handwritten copy of the Irish House of Lords resolution on 5 march 1766 ordering the 1766 Religious Census to be taken. Source: National Archives, Ireland, PRIV/M/5036A, p. 13.
https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1766-religious-census The homepage for the 1766 Religious Census on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Every surviving copy census records from over a dozen archives are gathered together and fully searchable here.
Countdown to the 260th anniversary of Ireland's first census. 🕰️ 7️⃣
5 March 1766 the Irish House of Lords orders a census of all householders noting 'which are protestants and which are Papists' (Catholics).
They gave only 61 days to cover the whole country!
virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-PRI...
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Fantastic blog by my former colleague @alanlester.bsky.social forensically refuting the disgraceful attacks on the University of Sussex by the disgracefully ignorant Nigel Biggar.
If you’re interested in protecting academic freedom please do read and share
It’s utterly brilliant. Read it one sitting.
Novella Clear by Carys Davies
By coincidence read this excellent novel Clear over weekend. I’s about clearances on 19th century imagined Scottish island features kelp, wrack and brilliant understand of language and place.
It’s an interesting time for those interested in seaweed, kelp and customary rights. Have a PhD student doing great stuff in this area so have become more than usually intrigued by current attempted corporate takeover of wrack rights. Part of a long story in Ireland and of course in Scotland.
Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.
Brava to this student (a History major, nota bene) for spelling out to the higher-ed suits at her supposedly elite school just how damaging AI is for learning.
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...
In Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry corporations have applications in to harvest seaweed from the coast with absolutely no oversight.
Corporatisation of seaweed harvest would be a significant negative step for the west
Adam Weymouth book: Lone Wolf
Just finished Adam Weymouth’s excellent: Lone Wolf: walking the fault lines of Europe. Fascinating on wolves, climate change, migration and rural life in Central Europe a thought provoking read
Today's Trinity College 22,000-strong student body is roughly comparable to, or could exceed, the entire population of Dublin City at the time Trinity opened in 1592.
🗺️ John Speed's map of Dublin City published in 1611. Trinity College (12 on the map).
#Dublin #History
Jean-Philpope, sorry to see this. Was always great pleasure working with you on the VRTI. Best of luck in your futur endeavours
