Earlier this month, I wrote about the Trump Administration's removal of the rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, for History Matters. The post is now available to read: historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive...

Happy thesis submission eve to all who celebrate

Earlier this month, I wrote about the Trump Administration's removal of the rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, for History Matters. The post is now available to read: historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive...

Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put to his head in April 1945. In this timeline, @carolinesharples.bsky.social explores why Hitler’s death was only confirmed in 2018. yalebooks.co.uk/the-long-dea... #skystorians

Join us on Tuesday, 24 March at 4pm UK time for our next online seminar. We will be hosting Dr Ellen Hope Durban who is going to discuss her research on 'Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s'. Read more and sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

I forgot I pre-ordered A Queer Scrapbook! So many incredible queer historical books coming out this year we're so lucky

Time to find those typos and make sure they're absent for the final submission (less than two weeks!)

Refreshing myself on the events and legacies of Chernobyl for next week's lecture has turned this rather dour, cloudy Friday evening back home into quite a hopeless one

@christopherewing.bsky.social and I are looking forward to presenting you all our volume and having some of our wonderful contributors discussing their pieces! Come and join us next month! Friday, April 10, 10:30am-12pm EST/4:30-6pm CET

My 2nd session at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026: EPHEMERAL, EPISODIC & EVENT SPACES FOR SEXUALISED COMMUNITIES Looking for research on temporary spaces & events used by LGBTQ+, cishet, kink, asexual groups, sexual subcultures & more! sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

Good morning! Sharing this again for a little boost at the top of the week

Hello hello! I am looking for London-based scholars working in queer and/or trans* studies who would be willing to participate in a roundtable discussion on a research seminar being planned for May on my thesis, Symbols of Pride & the Politics of Queer Liberation. See below for more information.

Pride has become one of the clearest places to observe civic space across Europe. Our Annual Review traces what these developments reveal about freedom of assembly & the resilience of communities who keep showing up. Read more at ilga-europe.org/files/uploads/2026/02/Annual-Review-2026-Pride.pdf

Misremembered the wordcount for a piece of writing I'm working on so was pretty chuffed I was only 100 words over the 1600 wordcount.. nope it's a 600-1000 word guidance 🤦

Call for Papers: Sexuality and Shame Conference 📅 27-28 May 2026 @exeter.ac.uk Submission Deadline: 27 March This conference explores how sexual shame has been historically produced, regulated, circulated & contested across different periods & social settings exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

London-based #history enthusiasts - there's just over a week to go before my #booklaunch at The Barnes Bookshop and the (free) tickets are going FAST! Don't miss your chance to hear about #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler! Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... #BSkyhistorians #NewBooks

I have just updated the bibliography on lesbian and trans people in Nazi-occupied Europe, now including the online exhibition "Spectrum of In_justice: Gender nonconforming lives under Nazi rule" curated by Kai* Brust sexualityandholocaust.com/bibliography/

Registration for the "Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany's LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures" online conference is now live! Sign up to join us 30 - 31 March (Australia: 31 March - 1 April). With speakers from 6 (!) time zones & keynotes from Jonah Garde & Camilla Smith!

Our 'Picture Me' research project now has a write-up on the German Visual History network's website! We are developing new methods for queer visual and historical research. If you're interested in what I am working on at the moment, check it out: visual-history.de/en/project/j... 🌈🎓

LGBTQ+ History Month (UK) is almost over, but #queerhistory is being made all year round! 🌈📚🗃️ Here are just a few fab-looking books that will be published in the coming months by wonderful authors @grindrod.bsky.social, @schuneke.bsky.social, @tomhulme.bsky.social, @hughryan.bsky.social . . . 1/2

As far as I know, farm archives have never really been used to track queer histories before. Given they mostly record the financial ongoings on a given farm, you can understand why. However, my year of research at The MERL has proved their potential. Find out more in this blog:

📢 Publication day is looming for #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler! You can join me at The Barnes Bookshop, London on Thursday 12 March to hear more about the book, grab your copy - and enjoy some wine in the process! Booking essential via: www.eventbrite.com/e/1983442476... #BSkyhistorians #NewBooks 📚

Actually I do have an abstract to write given that I mentally could not manage that last week alongside all the edits but! it's otherwise a nice quiet week

It's unnerving how quiet my week looks.. Checking over my lecture for tomorrow and writing a blog post. Perhaps I'll get to starting my stack of new books?

Our new series traces the history shaping Trans+ rights in the UK - written by some of the UK’s most respected journalists including  @ludovicparsons.bsky.social, @jessothomson.co.uk and @sasha98.bsky.social 👇 Join 10,000+ readers: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/milestones/

Enjoyed writing about my cultural history approach to #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler in the latest issue to Aspects of History... aspectsofhistory.com/product/subs...

Submitting a full draft of your thesis at nearly 10pm on a Friday when nearly every book you own is scattered around you in piles and there are notes EVERYWHERE was not how I planned for this week to end but I sure am glad that it's over and I'm sure the euphoria will hit me tomorrow after some rest

Nearly everything is on one full coherent document for my thesis and the only thing preventing me from burning out is the sheer excitement of watching it all come together

LEGAL ENTANGLEMENTS: Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989 by Sebastian Gehrig @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social is now available in paperback! Find out more here: bit.ly/45GNX2l Review from @choicereviews.bsky.social #History

My review of Anna Hájková’s @ankahajkova.bsky.social's brilliant book, People Without History are Dust has been published by @holocauststudies.bsky.social You can read my review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

While I appreciate the reasons for sharing drafts or submissions of your text at my University using 1.5 line spacing, it's an absolute headache for me to read my own work with this format for some reason..

Blue Neighborhood turning 10 has made me realise it's nearly been a decade since I came out and that's a strange thought

The High Court has made clear that the draft Code of Practice is wrong about the law. Make sure your MP tells the Minister it now has to be rejected 👇

Very pleased to see that the first media feature pertaining to my forthcoming book is out now with @bigissue.com! Thanks so much for giving me the opportunity to talk about why Hitler has had such a "long death": www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

Let it never be said the rainbow flag cannot be subversive!

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised! New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

My copy of Matt Cook's new book Writing Queer History has just arrived!! I've been looking forward to this book coming out for some time now. It's a shame I am just about to submit my thesis and won't be able to apply it to my current research, but I am excited to see what uses it has in the future

*quickly revises the epilogue to my thesis*

“This is a deliberate act of erasure . . . The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth." gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo... 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍎

As part of our @lgbthm.bsky.social campaign, author Rustam Alexander has written a piece for our Blog about how and why he wrote his latest book, AIDS in Soviet Russia. Read it here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/02... Buy a copy with 30% on our website until 28th Feb. #booksky

Last week it felt like the thesis was going to completely overwhelm me. The conclusion was daunting and I couldn't want to finish and get some rest. But as I'm bringing everything together, I'm remembering just how exciting this project is! I feel like I want to go over everything all over again

🌍🏳️‍🌈 Our Head of Department @myriageorgiou.bsky.social will be speaking at an upcoming @lsegender.bsky.social event on digital borders & #queermigration. 💬 Exploring how technologies shape mobility, belonging and exclusion. 🗓️ Wed 4 Feb 5.30–7pm 👉 Sign up: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

In their new book "Sex Isn't Real," Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Read a Q&A about their bold argument on the blog today. buff.ly/hB1k4Cw

Call for Papers, please circulate! Ethics of queer in/visibility Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026 queer-in-visibility.de Keynote speakers: J Calder (Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder) Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social (History, University of Warwick)

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: “Sappho Was Right”: Gravestones and Afterlives Explore memorials by or for queer women who campaigned for suffrage in Scotland with Dr Keava McMillan at our hybrid event on 12 February: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sappho-was... #LGBTplusHM

🏳️‍🌈 Gay Life during the Norwich Blitz by Piers Haslam. Join us for our next lunchtime talk marking LGBT+ history month, either in person or online. 📅 Wednesday 11 February 2026 ⏲️ 13:00-14:00 🎫 Free, booking essential norfolkrecordofficeblog.org/events-novem... #norwichintheblitz #lgbthistorymonth

What a fun idea! My top 5 undergraduate modules (in no absolute order: 1. Study Trip to Berlin 2. Genocide in Europe 3. Living and Dying under the Third Reich 4. Historical Controversies 5. The Cold War at Home: Soviet Society after 1945

There are many colored photographies here : elierlick.com/color/