Kristina Decker
@kristinadecker.bsky.social
📚Eighteenth-Centuryist
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
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I’m absolutely delighted to receive my contributor copy of ‘Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain’. Thank you to the editors, Markman Ellis and Jack Orchard, and congratulations to all contributors. I can’t wait to read all the other chapters!
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Earlier this year, VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane (@bamcshane.bsky.social) delivered the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference in Leeds, with her paper entitled: 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency and Catholicism in the Early Modern Courts'. Read more here:
Keynote Lecture at the Catholic Record Society Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency, and Catholicism in Early Modern Ireland - VOICES
By Dr Bronagh Ann McShane In July 2025, I had the pleasure of delivering the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference, held at Hinsley Hall in Leeds. My paper, ‘Hiding ...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Earlier this year, VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane (@bamcshane.bsky.social) delivered the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference in Leeds, with her paper entitled: 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency and Catholicism in the Early Modern Courts'. Read more here:
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For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!
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TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025
TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…
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November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...
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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
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In the late 18th century, men were digging a drain at the edge of the lake of Loughnashade in the shadow of Emain Macha, Navan Fort, in County Armagh.
They made a truly spectacular discovery, four enormous sheet bronze horns or trumpets, dating to around 100 BC, along with human remains.
They made a truly spectacular discovery, four enormous sheet bronze horns or trumpets, dating to around 100 BC, along with human remains.
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
In the late 18th century, men were digging a drain at the edge of the lake of Loughnashade in the shadow of Emain Macha, Navan Fort, in County Armagh.
They made a truly spectacular discovery, four enormous sheet bronze horns or trumpets, dating to around 100 BC, along with human remains.
They made a truly spectacular discovery, four enormous sheet bronze horns or trumpets, dating to around 100 BC, along with human remains.
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We're very excited to announce our collaborative PhD with @qubhistory.bsky.social on the residents of The Salvation Army's Bethel Rescue Home in Belfast in the C19th. Supervised by @elainefarrell.bsky.social (@badbridgetbook.bsky.social)
Applications by 13 Jan 2026.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
Applications by 13 Jan 2026.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CSHIS01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We're very excited to announce our collaborative PhD with @qubhistory.bsky.social on the residents of The Salvation Army's Bethel Rescue Home in Belfast in the C19th. Supervised by @elainefarrell.bsky.social (@badbridgetbook.bsky.social)
Applications by 13 Jan 2026.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
Applications by 13 Jan 2026.
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Delighted to see this in the wild and particularly enjoying the lovely visualisation of Hamilton's networks on the cover! #18thC #DH
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
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Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Art and enhancing community engagement with and support for net zero and climate action'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Art and enhancing community engagement with and support for net zero and climate action'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEPOL1 - POL-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Art and enhancing community engagement with and support for net zero and climate action'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Art and enhancing community engagement with and support for net zero and climate action'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Does anyone have any good recommendations for scholarship summarising popular perceptions of the British East India Company & nabobs in Britain in the 1780s/90s?
It’s not my specialism but I’m stuck on a paragraph in my research project until I can find a balanced & reliable appraisal
It’s not my specialism but I’m stuck on a paragraph in my research project until I can find a balanced & reliable appraisal
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Does anyone have any good recommendations for scholarship summarising popular perceptions of the British East India Company & nabobs in Britain in the 1780s/90s?
It’s not my specialism but I’m stuck on a paragraph in my research project until I can find a balanced & reliable appraisal
It’s not my specialism but I’m stuck on a paragraph in my research project until I can find a balanced & reliable appraisal
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Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CSHIS01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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🎉 Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Roundtable
8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT
6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social
More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228
8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT
6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social
More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228
BARS Digital Event: “Romantic Creativity” Roundtable – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🎉 Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Roundtable
8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT
6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social
More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228
8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT
6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social
More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228
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🚨Job Alert🚨
@hhu.de is offering a permanent 80% position as a member of the academic staff in architectural history. Come work with us in our Medieval art history team! #academia #architecturalhistory #arthistory #kunstgeschichte #earlymodern #medievalsky
Link to ad: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...
@hhu.de is offering a permanent 80% position as a member of the academic staff in architectural history. Come work with us in our Medieval art history team! #academia #architecturalhistory #arthistory #kunstgeschichte #earlymodern #medievalsky
Link to ad: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d)
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November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🚨Job Alert🚨
@hhu.de is offering a permanent 80% position as a member of the academic staff in architectural history. Come work with us in our Medieval art history team! #academia #architecturalhistory #arthistory #kunstgeschichte #earlymodern #medievalsky
Link to ad: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...
@hhu.de is offering a permanent 80% position as a member of the academic staff in architectural history. Come work with us in our Medieval art history team! #academia #architecturalhistory #arthistory #kunstgeschichte #earlymodern #medievalsky
Link to ad: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...
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On 25 November, Dr Natalie Garrett will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where they will be presenting on Jane, duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812.
Find out more and how to attend below:
Find out more and how to attend below:
‘The Tartan Rage’: Fashion, High Society, and Scottish Identity in Eighteenth-Century London - The History of Parliament
The Tartan rage has at length reached Paris,’ declared the World in June 1787. Demand for tartan fabric and accessories had swept British high society earlier that year, with the Gazetteer and New…
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November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
On 25 November, Dr Natalie Garrett will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where they will be presenting on Jane, duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812.
Find out more and how to attend below:
Find out more and how to attend below:
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🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
Programs - School of Advanced Study
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November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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New job:
PRODiG+ Postdoc in Diaspora Studies
Binghamton University - State University of New York
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69502
PRODiG+ Postdoc in Diaspora Studies
Binghamton University - State University of New York
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69502
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New job:
PRODiG+ Postdoc in Diaspora Studies
Binghamton University - State University of New York
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69502
PRODiG+ Postdoc in Diaspora Studies
Binghamton University - State University of New York
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69502
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Did an Irish 'nation' ever exist? Who were the Scotti? The Féni? The Gaels? Dr Patrick Wadden, DCU & Belmont Abbey College, provides a masterclass on the written sources and how Irish authors conceptualised Irishness in the early Middle Ages. @maynoothuniversity.ie open.spotify.com/episode/40rP...
Irish national identity in the early Middle Ages with Dr Patrick Wadden
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November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Did an Irish 'nation' ever exist? Who were the Scotti? The Féni? The Gaels? Dr Patrick Wadden, DCU & Belmont Abbey College, provides a masterclass on the written sources and how Irish authors conceptualised Irishness in the early Middle Ages. @maynoothuniversity.ie open.spotify.com/episode/40rP...
I was so sorry to miss the ‘Ireland and the American Revolution’ conference. It’s fantastic to have the keynotes and VRTI panel available online!
📣 The keynotes and a VRTI panel from last month's 'Ireland and the American Revolution' conference hosted with @tlrhub.bsky.social are now available here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Ireland and the American Revolution
A two-day conference organised by The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I was so sorry to miss the ‘Ireland and the American Revolution’ conference. It’s fantastic to have the keynotes and VRTI panel available online!
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📢 Delighted to announce that our Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2026 is now open for applications. Wonderful collections, world-class library & a brilliant @uofglasgow.bsky.social team to support you. Find out more 👇
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📢 Delighted to announce that our Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2026 is now open for applications. Wonderful collections, world-class library & a brilliant @uofglasgow.bsky.social team to support you. Find out more 👇
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The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
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A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
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Great to see this conference series continuing.
Warmly encourage people to submit papers for what looks like a great event.
Warmly encourage people to submit papers for what looks like a great event.
CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Great to see this conference series continuing.
Warmly encourage people to submit papers for what looks like a great event.
Warmly encourage people to submit papers for what looks like a great event.
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CFP: Women, Money, and Markets: Crisis & Resilience (1650-1950) at The Foundling Museum, London UK, June 12-13, 2026
For our 9th interdisciplinary conference we especially welcome reflections on how evolving political landscapes reshape economic power, knowledge access & inclusion.
For our 9th interdisciplinary conference we especially welcome reflections on how evolving political landscapes reshape economic power, knowledge access & inclusion.
Women, Money and Markets 1600-1950
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November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
CFP: Women, Money, and Markets: Crisis & Resilience (1650-1950) at The Foundling Museum, London UK, June 12-13, 2026
For our 9th interdisciplinary conference we especially welcome reflections on how evolving political landscapes reshape economic power, knowledge access & inclusion.
For our 9th interdisciplinary conference we especially welcome reflections on how evolving political landscapes reshape economic power, knowledge access & inclusion.
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Have been sent the clip of Bernese Mountain Dog owners sending off Michael D twice by heart-melted people outside of Ireland.
What a country.
What a country.
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end.
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Have been sent the clip of Bernese Mountain Dog owners sending off Michael D twice by heart-melted people outside of Ireland.
What a country.
What a country.
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Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805
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November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805