Dr Andrew Sneddon

What did I do with my Saturday am (early), cleaned up old #gameboy, replaced screen and now looking good. Next gameboy colour and gameboy advance! The ds’s are all done. Achievements come in weird and wonderful ways!

Exterior view of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, red brick, neo-Gothic-ish architecture with many windows.

Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2

Thanks Shannon!

Brilliant news for our committee member (and past president) @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social !

Thanks Peter!

It’s now official! I’ve been awarded a 12 month @leverhulme.ac.uk Trust research fellowship to look at disability and the supernatural in the early modern world. Quite chuffed tbf @usihs.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social @irishhistsoc.bsky.social

Or dm me, just followed you back

See link to research profile in my blurb, it’s on there but it’s a.sneddon@ulster.ac.uk

GRAPHIC NOVEL A brand new supernatural graphic novel that is absolutely loaded with haunting visuals set in a misty isolated town off the coast of County Antrim. It’s 1711, a woman with demons of her own –…

Absolute snaps to @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social and co-author Dr Victoria McCollum for taking a murky bit of nordie history, which shows the damage one attention-seeking 'ho can do) and making it into something to catch the imagination of younger wans
w1711.org/graphic-novel/

Thanks Rena, much appreciated

The Shropshire Witches Podcast is a romp through History, Folklore and the Wyrd via the lanes of Shropshire. We are passionate about forgotten narratives and hidden histories inside and outside of the County! ✨️💀🪦👻

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#Folklore #History #Podcast
#Witchsky #Pagansky #Witches

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion This two-day event focuses on exploring the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion.

Very excited to be heading to University of Ulster next week to give the keynote talk at the On The Margins #comicsstudies conference! I’m speaking about ‘Playing the Game’ and sports stories in British girls’ comics - so many fab stories to unveil!! www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...

NST #1169: Cain's Book (1960/1981) — The Vault of Culture The 1981 Grove paperback edition of Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book (1961) features string on its collage cover.

The 1981 Grove paperback edition of Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book (1961) features string on its collage cover: www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion This two-day event focuses on exploring the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion.

Get you tickets now for a conference I am organising with Bob Curran & Victoria McCollum,
‘On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion’
Explores the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion
2-3 May, Ulster University, Coleraine
www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...

Wild ponies in the Mourne Mountains, Co. Down

Heading up Slieve Donard looking down on Newcastle, County Down, NI

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. - Jack Kerouac

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Page of a book with a black and white illustration of a unicorn standing next to a small waterfall.

Unicorn, from the work of 16thc physician Conrad Gesner. He wrote that unicorn horn, combined with wine, could counteract poisons and could cure a range of conditions including epilepsy

We’ve extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our colloquium on early modern war narratives! Please share widely and send us your abstracts!

#earlymodern #history

Graphic for RHS article in History Workshop, 'Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society'.

'Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society': bit.ly/4cRjK37

The Society's President, Lucy Noakes, writes today on the profession and discipline @historywo.bsky.social

#skystorians

Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion This two-day event focuses on exploring the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion.

Get you tickets now for a conference I am organising with Bob Curran & Victoria McCollum,
‘On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion’
Explores the intersections of comics, gender, identity, and subversion
2-3 May, Ulster University, Coleraine
www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar...

AHA Resource Library - AHA Explore All Resources Search Resource Type Thematic AHA Topics Geographic K-12 Education Undergraduate Education Graduate Education Professional & Career Resources Academic Department Resources Histor...

Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️

Young Hare, Albrecht Dürer, 1502

(Albertina, Vienna)

The artist died #otd 6 Apr 1528.

I'm giving a #hextag talk about the Basque Witch-Hunt in Liverpool on Thursday 17 April! Everyone is very welcome. 😊

#earlymodern 🗃️

www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/talks/the-wi...

His handwriting is awful! Gave me a big headache back in the day!

#OTD 8 women were found guilty of bewitching the body of 18 year old Mary Dunbar under 1586 Irish witchcraft act. Read about it in the 2nd edition of my book, Possessed by the devil. And check out the website dedicated to the #islandmageewitches :w1711.org

New, revised edition of Possessed by the Devil (December 2024), my book on the Irish, Islandmagee witch hunts (see also our project website w1711.org) out now thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...

Flyleaf with ownership inscriptions

Engraved title page from 1650

This copy of 'Geographia Generalis' from 1650 seems to have passed through a few hands before ending up with Edward Stillingfleet, whose 10,000 books have been on our shelves since we opened in 1707.