Leanne Calvert

My book is now available for pre-order on the @ria.ie website shop.ria.ie/products/pio... Isn't it beautiful 😍 #PiousPromiscuous #PromiscuousPresbyterians #HistFam #IrishHist #Family #HistSex

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*NEW PRIZE* We are pleased to announce the opening of the Gisela Bock Essay Prize. The prize recognises the outstanding quality of a published journal article that contributes to European women’s and gender history with a comparative or transnational dimension. #WomensHist #GenderHist Please share!

In 2027, the IFRWH will celebrate its 40th anniversary 🎉 We will mark the occasion in Lyon, France in April 2027. Two events for your diaries #WomensHistory #GenderHistory

A joy to review this brill book -"Pious and Promiscuous: Life, Love and Family Life in Presbyterian Ulster" - by @leannecalvert.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/

Publishing in paperback in September, @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social & @odavies9.bsky.social gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore, the definitive guide to folklore both past and present. Pre-order your copy today from all good bookshops. #FolkloreThursday #booksky

I've just heard that the BA/BSc Geography programme is to close at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Geography and Environmental Science (CGES) in Cornwall. This programme was made up of excellent modules with original and content, taught brilliantly—often with real innovation—by extremely 1/9

Lovely weekend at the West Cork History Festival 🤓 I shared research from my book on "Runaway husbands, Unhappy wives and Cheating Spouses: Tales of Marital Disorder in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ulster". Tiny historian came too 👶 @ulhistory.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ria.ie

I see some people are reading this post as being about Exeter but it’s referring to the University of Hertfordshire. And that’s Owen’s point. Less coverage about the axe falling there but it’s equally sad.

Such a waste. Thinking of my friends & colleagues in History & across Hums. UH History is where I really learned *how* to teach & how to drive my teaching with my research. A dept that really cared about their students. So many brilliant & talented people in my old dept.

A new coauthored article just out on open access. Written with Finola O’Kane and Chris Nikkel, it looks at the ways that Irish families with connections to enslavement elide, remember, or forget those connections www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The article was inspired by a call for ‘messier’ histories of the Irish family by @leannecalvert.bsky.social and Maeve O’Riordan in their 2024 special issue of The History of the Family www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/2...

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

16thC outfit courtesy of Melissa Shiels, the roll is surprisingly heavy, but mantle ideal for working from home! @whaireland.bsky.social

I was on BBC Radio Ulster Talkback today with @williamcrawley.bsky.social talking about "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" - listen here from 12:47pm! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Final spaces available for our ‘Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces’ conference next week @unioflimerick.bsky.social - 27 May. Free, all welcome (booking required) - we have a wonderful line-up of speakers on the day - www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Tom Hulme’s ‘Belfastmen’ launched tonight by @sophcocooper.bsky.social at No Alibis

Thinking of my friends & former colleagues at UH in History & broader Hums. An excellent dept who do excellent research, deliver a top programme, & support local students to achieve their full potential. All done in spite of the challenges & obstacles that come their way.

With St Valentine’s Day tomorrow, we’re dipping into some of the courtship rituals and games explored in Pious and Promiscuous by @leannecalvert.bsky.social Find out more about Pious and Promiscuous: shop.ria.ie/products/pious

FINALLY sitting down this evening with @leannecalvert.bsky.social's 2024 article on trans* histories of the family in 18th C Ireland and its absolutely 👌🌟 Also picking up more than a few further reading suggestions! doi.org/10.1080/1081...

Lovely piece on hair gift-giving by @leannecalvert.bsky.social who has been digging around in the hairy archives at PRONI.

Struggling to pick a #ValentinesDay gift? The answer might be atop your head! Little piece from me in @theconversation.com about #hairy gifts & tokens #HistSex @ulhistory.bsky.social @ria.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social theconversation.com/forget-flowe...

*drum roll* Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026! I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

Please send us any photos you have of past IFRWH events! We'd love to show them off as part of our anniversary celebrations 🥰 Please share widely #HistWomen #GenderHist #WomenAlsoKnowHistory

Have you published a book on transnational women's or gender history between 2020 and 2025? Do submit to the IFRWH book prize. Closing date for submissions is end Feb. Full details on eligibility & how to apply below. Please share! 👇#GenderHist #WomensHist

Lovely to see so many abstracts winging in today for the @whaireland.bsky.social conference in Limerick in May 😍 cfp closes 30 January so keep em coming! #WomensHist #GenderHist sites.google.com/view/whai202...

Don't forget! Less than a week to submit your abstract for what promises to be a brilliant conference!

Calling History of Fam folks! UL are hiring an Assistant Professor in Irish History with specialism in #HistFam to cover a period of leave. I'm not on the panel but happy to informally answer qs about the MA HoF programme to anyone interested www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE158/a...

Lovely to see my MA History of Family students sharing their research 🥰 Paula Cronin features in the Kilkenny People with a piece about her grandfather's career in the British Army "From Kilkenny to the Kyber Pass" @ulhistory.bsky.social #HistFam www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/history...

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @maynoothuniversity.ie deadline for abstracts 1 Feb! For more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Request for #skystorians Im finishing a piece on food&sex & looking for scholarship to cite on ingestion as an allegory for intercourse. Partic interested in food moving through the body, changing shape & form. I have Rachel Hope Cleves new book & a super PhD thesis by Catherine Rose Ellis #HistSex

If you’re at a loose end tonight, come along to the first Galway Archeological and Historical Society lecture of the year! I’m speaking on tangled knots of sibling obligation, guardianship, unravelling family reputation and the nephews caught in the crossfire (poor Edmund). The Harbour Hotel at 8pm!

#ICYMI or need something to liven up your week back to work, click below to listen to me chat to Fin Dwyer about the sex lives of Presbyterians in 18th century Ulster. We cover baby daddy drama, masturbation, adultery & more #HistSex @ulhistory.bsky.social #IrishHist #NewBook #HistFam

Join me, @tomhulme.bsky.social & @paraickerrigan.bsky.social in Dublin on Jan 23 at the Irish Georgian Society to talk about my book, Love in the Lav! Tickets scanner.topsec.com?d=1962&r=sho...

'The Secret Sex Lives of Our Ancestors': Listen to Pious and Promiscuous author @leannecalvert.bsky.social in conversation with Fin O’Dwyer on the Irish History Podcast about sex in 18th-century Presbyterian Ulster: from paternity and gossip to adultery and runaway spouses.

& Can't argue with Fin, if you're looking a christmas present with a saucy side, the book can be purchased here shop.ria.ie/products/pious #HistSex #HistFam #IrishHist #NewBook #PiousPromiscuous

Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...