Jack Crangle
@jcrangle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Queen’s University Belfast.
Historian of migration and diversity in Britain and Ireland.
Historian of migration and diversity in Britain and Ireland.
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Jack Crangle
@jcrangle.bsky.social
· May 13
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century - Volume 48 Issue 174
doi.org
New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....
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All set for this evening’s seminar for @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social with Dr Katerina Papakonstantinou. Looking forward to hearing her fascinating paper, & thanks to our fab Chair Prof Pat Thane & Term programme organiser @helenglew.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
All set for this evening’s seminar for @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social with Dr Katerina Papakonstantinou. Looking forward to hearing her fascinating paper, & thanks to our fab Chair Prof Pat Thane & Term programme organiser @helenglew.bsky.social
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On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar
Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"
In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
@ihr.bsky.social
Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"
In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
@ihr.bsky.social
Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning
This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England
www.history.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar
Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"
In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
@ihr.bsky.social
Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"
In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
@ihr.bsky.social
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QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST
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QUB History research seminars - Fridays at 4pm starting 26 September. All welcome!
September 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
QUB History research seminars - Fridays at 4pm starting 26 September. All welcome!
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Article by @brian-hanley.bsky.social Hanley on events across Ireland in the long hot summer of 1935. July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’
www.theirishstory.com/2013/01/07/j...
www.theirishstory.com/2013/01/07/j...
July 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Article by @brian-hanley.bsky.social Hanley on events across Ireland in the long hot summer of 1935. July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’
www.theirishstory.com/2013/01/07/j...
www.theirishstory.com/2013/01/07/j...
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A few tickets left for this talk next week for Belfast Pride 2025!
Come hear about a ‘female husband’ dockworker (1880s), a scandalous Victorian male brothel, Jazz Age gay novels, a trans woman in mid 20th c. Ballycastle, & NI’s (sadly forgotten) 1st lesbian activist!
linenhall.com/event/sex-lo...
Come hear about a ‘female husband’ dockworker (1880s), a scandalous Victorian male brothel, Jazz Age gay novels, a trans woman in mid 20th c. Ballycastle, & NI’s (sadly forgotten) 1st lesbian activist!
linenhall.com/event/sex-lo...
Sex, Love, and Everyday Life: A History of Northern Ireland before Gay Liberation - The Linen Hall, Belfast
Ask the average person on the street what they know about Northern Ireland’s LGBTQ+ or ‘queer’ history, and they will likely mention the Reverend Ian Paisley’s notorious campaign to ‘Save […]
linenhall.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A few tickets left for this talk next week for Belfast Pride 2025!
Come hear about a ‘female husband’ dockworker (1880s), a scandalous Victorian male brothel, Jazz Age gay novels, a trans woman in mid 20th c. Ballycastle, & NI’s (sadly forgotten) 1st lesbian activist!
linenhall.com/event/sex-lo...
Come hear about a ‘female husband’ dockworker (1880s), a scandalous Victorian male brothel, Jazz Age gay novels, a trans woman in mid 20th c. Ballycastle, & NI’s (sadly forgotten) 1st lesbian activist!
linenhall.com/event/sex-lo...
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I am signed up for a few events this autumn to talk about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Come along if you’re in Sheffield, Cambridge or Dublin. Possibly more to come - keep an eye on my website for more info!
www.kieranconnell.com/events
www.kieranconnell.com/events
July 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I am signed up for a few events this autumn to talk about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Come along if you’re in Sheffield, Cambridge or Dublin. Possibly more to come - keep an eye on my website for more info!
www.kieranconnell.com/events
www.kieranconnell.com/events
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I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is [email protected]
July 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is [email protected]
Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism.
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...
Northern Ireland has a long history of immigration and diversity. And of racism.
Dr Jack Crangle discusses recent anti-immigration disorder in Northern Ireland, and places it in historical context.
www.qub.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism.
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...
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Funny, i can think of one that happens every year.
June 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Funny, i can think of one that happens every year.
I spoke with Radio France Internationale about this month’s rioting in Ballymena, providing the historical context of Northern Irish immigration: www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/... piece starts around 9.25
Accents d'Europe - Face aux frappes en Iran, les tiraillements du gouvernement allemand
Crainte d'une escalade, et de la fermeture du détroit d'Ormuz par lequel transite 20% du pétrole mondial. Les frappes sur l'Iran se sont poursuivies lundi (23 juin 2025) et les ministres européens des...
www.rfi.fr
June 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I spoke with Radio France Internationale about this month’s rioting in Ballymena, providing the historical context of Northern Irish immigration: www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/... piece starts around 9.25
Thanks to @markdoyle.bsky.social for a lovely review of my book in The American Historical Review. A very concise summary of the book’s key themes which will leave you (hopefully) wanting to pick up a copy!
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
Jack Crangle. Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or ‘Other’?.
For most of the twentieth century, immigrants were invisible in Northern Ireland. This is the starting premise of Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Tw
academic.oup.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Thanks to @markdoyle.bsky.social for a lovely review of my book in The American Historical Review. A very concise summary of the book’s key themes which will leave you (hopefully) wanting to pick up a copy!
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Call it what it is. Racist violence in Ballymena is the toxic legacy of 27 years of failure by DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP, UUP, and Alliance.
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June 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Call it what it is. Racist violence in Ballymena is the toxic legacy of 27 years of failure by DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP, UUP, and Alliance.
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Politicians need to call racism racism. LEAD
They’re all well able to say when something is sectarian. Talking about real or imagined sectarianism keeps most of them elected. They need to find the courage of Anna Lo when she was basically a lone voice calling out racism even when it was v dangerous
They’re all well able to say when something is sectarian. Talking about real or imagined sectarianism keeps most of them elected. They need to find the courage of Anna Lo when she was basically a lone voice calling out racism even when it was v dangerous
The riots in ballymena are because of racism. The last thing they’re about about women’s safety. Ask @elainecrory.bsky.social about the cross community chorus of men who ring up Talkback to tell her to stop taking about violence against women every time she’s on after a woman is murdered here
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Politicians need to call racism racism. LEAD
They’re all well able to say when something is sectarian. Talking about real or imagined sectarianism keeps most of them elected. They need to find the courage of Anna Lo when she was basically a lone voice calling out racism even when it was v dangerous
They’re all well able to say when something is sectarian. Talking about real or imagined sectarianism keeps most of them elected. They need to find the courage of Anna Lo when she was basically a lone voice calling out racism even when it was v dangerous
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My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed
May 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed
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📣Have you registered for OHNI's 2025 annual meeting taking place 13-14 June, Absolute Hotel, Limerick?
📣Early bird rates available until Friday 30 May.
Looking forward to welcoming @stevenhigh.bsky.social to be our keynote speaker.
👉Register today! oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2025-meeting
📣Early bird rates available until Friday 30 May.
Looking forward to welcoming @stevenhigh.bsky.social to be our keynote speaker.
👉Register today! oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2025-meeting
May 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📣Have you registered for OHNI's 2025 annual meeting taking place 13-14 June, Absolute Hotel, Limerick?
📣Early bird rates available until Friday 30 May.
Looking forward to welcoming @stevenhigh.bsky.social to be our keynote speaker.
👉Register today! oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2025-meeting
📣Early bird rates available until Friday 30 May.
Looking forward to welcoming @stevenhigh.bsky.social to be our keynote speaker.
👉Register today! oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2025-meeting
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All of this is brilliant because, yes, we are racist at home as well as abroad #SpéirGhorm
New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century - Volume 48 Issue 174
doi.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
All of this is brilliant because, yes, we are racist at home as well as abroad #SpéirGhorm
New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century - Volume 48 Issue 174
doi.org
May 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....
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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
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The epilogue from my book. Siva said it best - “what Powell says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the day after”
May 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The epilogue from my book. Siva said it best - “what Powell says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the day after”
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Due to where Easter falls, our next USIHS event will be the J.C. Beckett Lecture which will be delivered by Prof. Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social on 22 May at PRONI. More information on the eventbrite www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-anti-a...
The Anti-Abortion Movement in Ireland, c.1972-92
Prof. Laura Kelly will deliver the J.C. Beckett Annual Lecture on 22 May at 6pm. This *in person* event will be held at PRONI.
www.eventbrite.ie
March 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Due to where Easter falls, our next USIHS event will be the J.C. Beckett Lecture which will be delivered by Prof. Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social on 22 May at PRONI. More information on the eventbrite www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-anti-a...
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THE MO SIEWCHARRAN PRIZE 2025
An opportunity for young writers. That's why I agreed to be one of the Judges this year. Attending the zoom meeting on 30 April will help many.
An opportunity for young writers. That's why I agreed to be one of the Judges this year. Attending the zoom meeting on 30 April will help many.
April 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
THE MO SIEWCHARRAN PRIZE 2025
An opportunity for young writers. That's why I agreed to be one of the Judges this year. Attending the zoom meeting on 30 April will help many.
An opportunity for young writers. That's why I agreed to be one of the Judges this year. Attending the zoom meeting on 30 April will help many.
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I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
April 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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It’s 40 years this month since access to contraception was liberalised in Ireland, but that was far from the end of the story! @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social article from myself and Jennifer Redmond - love Gaybo explaining how to use a condom (that was 1987!!) #speirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why access to condoms was such a controversial issue in Irish law
It's 40 years this month since access to contraception was liberalised in Ireland, but that was far from the end of the story
www.rte.ie
March 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It’s 40 years this month since access to contraception was liberalised in Ireland, but that was far from the end of the story! @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social article from myself and Jennifer Redmond - love Gaybo explaining how to use a condom (that was 1987!!) #speirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...