Ida Milne
Historian unashamedly obsessive about anything to do with 1918-19 flu pandemic. Or weissbier. Also interested in history ofepidemics, vaccination, southern Irish Protestant identity, newspapers, oral history, current affairs…and I love good company.
- Reposted by Ida MilneApplications are invited for the 2026 CISS Scottish Writing Fellowship at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. Flights, accommodation & stipend for 2 months at the Caselberg House near Dunedin. Apply at the link below by 31 October. Good luck…! www.otago.ac.nz/ciss
- Reposted by Ida MilneToday, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
- Well called. If we want to move forward, we need to respect all traditions. Border lives are complicated. And reporters need to understand that better, and ensure their reportage does not look like bias.
- maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/ca… call for papers for the 35th Conference of Irish Historians in Maynooth on 12 and 13 September 2025. Theme is Inner Lives and Outer Realities. @MaynoothHist @historians_ie
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- Reposted by Ida MilneCFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities', 12-13 September, Maynooth University www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...
- Reposted by Ida MilnePASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!
- Really looking forward to this ISAANZ conference and delighted to be asked to do one of the keynotes. Join us! Cfp open for another few days .
- Interested in history if science, technology, medicine, maths? Come and join us in Belfast for our 2025 conference!
- HSTM Network Ireland Conference 2025 Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 21 March 2025 using this Google Form: forms.gle/bn5G8K3m8chDUj…
- Women’s day is great. And we need it. But wouldn’t it be lovely to live in a world where we didn’t need it! That would be the ultimate success of the day.
- Reposted by Ida MilneCFP: Public History in an Age of Anxiety, QUB, 9-11 Sept. 2025
- Reposted by Ida Milne#OtD 5 Mar 1943 a strike broke out at the Fiat Mirafiori plant in Turin. The strike spread and, within a week, 100k workers were out. Authorities arrested 850 workers but were forced to concede. Learn more about the Italian resistance to fascism here: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-it...
- Great to see this in our @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social series!
- This Thursday! 🕛1-2pm 📍 Via Zoom Dr Sorcha O’Brien (Lecturer in Design History & Theory , IADT) 'Kitchen Power: Rural Electrification, Women and Electrical Appliances in 1950s and 1960s Ireland' Further information/ register for historians.ie/hstm-network-i…
- Reposted by Ida MilneGood morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
- Bird food. Fascinating to watch in the early morning. I reckon my hedge is one of the best avian restaurants in town.
- I think it’s a cotoneaster . I used to cut it tight every autumn but I cut it earlier this year and the berries grew
- Reposted by Ida MilneIt is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
- Hearts of stone, for the day that’s in it!
- When I walked by it last night Bríd I was thinking that the stonemason must have had fun placing those, and wondering if anyone would notice!
- Reposted by Ida Milne“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
- Reposted by Ida MilneIt's staggering to consider the number of people who will become gravely ill or die because of RFK Jr.'s appointment to HHS Secretary.
- Call for papers for our annual History of Science, Medicine and Technology Ireland network conference is open! 9/10 may 2025 in Belfast campus, Ulster university.
- HSTM Network Ireland Conference 2025 Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 21 March 2025 using this Google Form: forms.gle/bn5G8K3m8chDUj…
- Reposted by Ida MilneOn Wednesday next, 12 February 5-7pm, I'll be holding another #AldiWineClinic both here and on Twitter simultaneously. All your questions answered, just use the hashtag (this is important) and if you repost too you could win a €100 voucher.
- Looking forward to hearing the responses to this…I think!
- The latest #ARINS podcast is now available! Listen to Ian d’Alton and Ida Milne on the lives of Southern Irish Protestants now: 🎙️Spotify: spoti.fi/3WL3hqk 🎙️Soundcloud: bit.ly/3WRqkQ9 arinsproject.com @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @ria.ie @idamilne.bsky.social
- The latest #ARINS podcast is now available! Listen to Ian d’Alton and Ida Milne on the lives of Southern Irish Protestants now: 🎙️Spotify: spoti.fi/3WL3hqk 🎙️Soundcloud: bit.ly/3WRqkQ9 arinsproject.com
- Reposted by Ida MilneMore than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war in Gaza, according to a new study. It suggests that the Hamas health ministry tally, a figure the UN relies on, is a significant undercount. nyti.ms/4fZxCIv
- Three wonderful days of student dissertation presentations in Carlow College. Really struck by the support they give each other, and the many trials they individually have endured to get this far. Such background stories!
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- Reposted by Ida MilneOn December 9th, 1979, the World Health Organization officially declared smallpox eradicated. This historic achievement, marking the end of a disease that had plagued humanity for centuries, remains one of the greatest successes in global public health. #StayCurious #Skystorians #DiveIntoDiscovery
- Reposted by Ida MilneToday’s IPT judgement must mean a different approach and a renewed committed to press freedom. I am pususing this and related issues through the NI Affairs Committee at Westminster.
- Reposted by Ida MilneVolodymyr Zelenskiy said he told the Ukrainian government to set up supply mechanisms to deliver food to Syria after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad reut.rs/3ZRFzdP
- Reposted by Ida MilneWE ARE STILL IN THIS. Wipe your tears. This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation. We do not give up. We run through the tape. Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉 Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.
- Reposted by Ida MilneA very important reminder for all of us.
- Brilliant opportunity, well done to those who organised.
- Please circulate: These @UlsterUni online workshops will train historians in working with television. Learn how to use historical research to develop and pitch screen-based ideas. Talks by industry experts and experienced historians. Suitable for ECRs, PhDs and MA researchers tinyurl.com/4r5bhxcp
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- Reposted by Ida MilneCheck out "The history of Christmas in Ireland: Switzer’s, pantos and crane for dinner" from our colleagues in the Dictionary of Irish Biography, posted on @thejournal.ie this weekend #Christmas #Christmas2024 jrnl.ie/6563953
