Irishman. Associate Professor @UniversityLeeds. Co-editor @HistoricalJnl. Often heard on @BBCRadio3. Historian of language, education, mobility. Dad! 🇮🇪🇪🇺

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Joined September 2010
It's out! 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1600' in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Read to find out how insults and information moved between the city's languages, and to think about how linguistic diversity shaped urban life. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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On the podcast | John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn delves into the multicultural and multilingual world of early modern London bit.ly/4htubM5
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Radio tuned to @BBCRadio4 for this week’s Pick of the Week - huge thanks to @earlymodernjohn for picking @BBCRadio3 Unclassified: A Hymn To The ORGAN 🎹 with Kit Downes, Kali Malone, @sarahdavachi, @pieisflymia … Lovely to be on POTW in the company of @grimmers, @edithmayhall, @ZaffarKunial & @freelancenanse Listen: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026n4… And here’s that Unclassified ep: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020r9…
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Articles in this year's @royalhistsoc Transactions volume include 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1660', bit.ly/4ewYS0B by @earlymodernjohn How far was linguistic diversity a feature of everyday life for #earlymodern Londoners? #twitterstorians
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It's happening: my @ERC_Research Consolidator project 🪶#FEATHERS🪶is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture and manuscript production at @UniLeiden on 7-9 May 2025. See Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts 20 Dec): student.universiteitleiden.n…
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Marvellous new article by @JoshuaRushton8 now out in Cultural & Social History — essential reading for anyone thinking about early modern Catholicism, shrines, miracles, emotions!
Delighted to share that my new article is now out with Cultural and Social History! It asks what made a shrine legitimate in early modern Catholicism arguing for the vital role of emotional practices for establishing spiritual certainty. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Delighted to share that my new article is now out with Cultural and Social History! It asks what made a shrine legitimate in early modern Catholicism arguing for the vital role of emotional practices for establishing spiritual certainty. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Still here, intermittently and not very actively, but increasingly spending time in the other place — same username, largely (regrettably) the same schtick.
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We'd like to invite submissions to the Gordon Forster Essay Prize. It is open to postgraduate students and ECRs. The winner will receive £200 and their essay will be considered for publication in the journal. Deadline: 1 March 2025. Please repost! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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🔵We are pleased to say that our 199th blue plaque for Abolitionists in Leeds has been permanently affixed to Lyddon Hall on the University of Leeds Campus. This plaque was unveiled jointly with @UniversityLeeds as part of black history month.
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Just published online and open access: my article on the seventeenth-century celebrity language teacher Claude Mauger (and his books, students, and readers) in Early Modern French Studies. Loved giving this as my keynote at last year's @SEMFSUK conference! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Just published online and open access: my article on the seventeenth-century celebrity language teacher Claude Mauger (and his books, students, and readers) in Early Modern French Studies. Loved giving this as my keynote at last year's @SEMFSUK conference! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Annoyingly I can't post a neat picture of the title and abstract because my comically long acknowledgements footnote gets in the way. So please do enjoy a picture of that instead.
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How do Christians navigate a world in which many different translations of the Bible coexist...or clash? This blog post introduces my forthcoming article with The Historical Journal which asks how English Protestants responded to this problem 📔📔📔 @HistoricalJnl @CamHistory
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Today is #AllSoulsDay - a day to remember those who have gone before us. My first blog for @VOICES_TCD considers how women in 17thC Ireland prepared for death. Read it here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog…
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On the eve of #AllSoulsDay, take a read of our latest blog by @BA_McShane 'Uncovering women’s voices: Testamentary records and the art of ‘dying well’ in early modern Ireland' voicesproject.ie/impact/blog…
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Delighted to see our @PastPresentSoc Supplement on 'Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World' is now out! Huge thanks to editors @jmulich and Renaud Morieux for their sterling efforts. I'm honoured to have an article in such good company. academic.oup.com/past/issue/…
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📣Out now on #firstview! Eamonn O’Keeffe (@1812andallthat) (@QueensCam) on 'British Military Music and the Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars' #Music #Musicians #Wartime #Bands 🥁🎺 👉Read open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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