New Campaign: Protect Pride. Protect Democracy! 🏳️‍🌈 I'm so Proud (with a capital 'P') to see this go live. protectprideprotectdemocracy.com

Unfortunately this has been rescheduled to February!

Delighted to share that I will be speaking at the University of Westminster's Queering Academia conference as part of the panel "Queer Lives in London: Community, Survival and Care." For anyone interested in the panel, you can join us at 12 using the link: www.westminster.ac.uk/current-stud...

#TodayInQueerHistory June 24 (1973) New York City hosts the Christopher Street Libertation Day rally. Sylvia Rivera, who helped many in the community, was excluded from speaking by 'white middle class gays.' She takes the mic anyway, and delivers her blistering "Y'all Better Quiet Down" speech.

📣New queer geographies podcast! 🌈🎓 Introducing 'Space & Sexuality': Every 2 weeks, I share conversations with leading & emerging scholars across queer/trans geographies of sex and sexualities. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the first 2 ep's: open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR...

Lovely weekend at home teaching my nieces and nephews to call me doctor uncle Alan now.. I'm not sure it's going to stick but we'll keep trying

Excited to announce that myself and @altirishhistorian.bsky.social are organising a Queer Studies Symposium in the University of Galway on August 4th 2026. See the Call for Papers below if you'd like to get involved! For any questions, please DM me or email [email protected].

Join us for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the issue 📅 16 July, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library, London Free tickets:

So very pleased to share that I successfuly defended my thesis earlier today! Thank you to my wonderful supervisory team for their support over the last few years, and to Al and Craig for coming all the way to Roehampton to speak about my research! It was an absolute joy

New article (open access!!) online now with Contemporary British History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One week until my viva!!

Never in my life did I expect to be so happy to see an episode of doctor who cancelled but if it means THAT show runner is no longer in charge then I'm happy to see my childhood show enter the wilderness years

🚨CFP🚨 “Visual Cultures of Sexuality in Postwar Europe” (Birmingham City University, 19-20 May, 2027)

The sinking in my heart when I opened Instagram after a long day of revising my associate fellowship application to see Anthony Head has left us is indescribable...

Huge congratulations to @joejukes.bsky.social and @rachelbayer.bsky.social on an informative and inspiring presentation on Asexual Geographies for the first @aroaceresearch.bsky.social talk. Very excited to see how and where Asexual Geographies will develop in the future

The Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network's Online Talk Series starts today at 3pm Irish/UK time! Join us as we introduce the emerging sub-field of Asexual Geographies & talk about all things space, place, and asexuality 💜 🌍 ✨ Link here: www.aroaceresearch.com/events

Lots of you have been asking about my new non-fiction book The Queer Bookshelf about the history (and present and future) of LGBTQ+ literature. Today is book launch day in the UK. Anything you can do to help talk about it and make it a moment would make me joyful. And of course, buy the book!

I am not in Birmingham so I can't make this but if any of my followers are please do tag along and let me know how it goes!!

My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very apt that the viva for my thesis, the first critical history of the London Pride March, will be held in Pride month.

We're celebrating Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Browse our curated reading list and use discount code PRIDE30 at checkout for 30% OFF until 30th June 2026. Head to our Blog here to shop now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... @sachacoward.bsky.social @jennychambles.bsky.social #PrideMonth #booksky

Now that’s what people power stopping hate and bringing hope looks like! ✨🌈 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/30/durham-pride-trade-unions-beat-reform-funding-axe

Teaching and learning are radical acts of resistance. Resources for teaching LGBTQ history: chssp.ucdavis.edu/lgbtq-primar... 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #sschat 🍎

👐 How can we build stronger forms of solidarity, support, and belonging for queer diasporic communities in the UK? This Queer@King's workshop brings together activists, researchers, students, and community organisers on 12 June 🌈 🔗 Register ⤵️

We are delighted to welcome @rachelbayer.bsky.social and @joejukes.bsky.social for the first session of the Aro/Ace Online Talk Series who will introduce us to #asexual #geographies! The talk will take place on zoom next Friday, 5 June, at 3pm (UK). Link here: www.aroaceresearch.com/events

While I am still recovering from all the work and excitement that went into yesterday, it's been really nice to feel hopeful about future directions for my work on Pride in London. Even if getting a foothold into academia is difficult right now, there are so many alternate paths I can pursue

I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to present on my research thesis with such a diverse and engaged audience today. My particular thanks go to Pippa and Zoë for their contribution to the roundtable discussion, it was really inspiring to hear them talk about their experience.

One more day!!

Really wanting to practice my script for Friday but there are builders on our roof hammering away so I have instead spent the majority of my day overstimulated, trying to flush the sound out with noise cancelling headphones, and finishing marking the final essay submissions for my module.

ONE WEEK TO GO Interested in learning more about the history of the London Pride March? How LGBTQ+ Communities have used Pride symbols to visualise the politics of their identities over the last fifty years? Then join me on May 22 at 11am BST to find out more. Sign up: forms.gle/ovZ57oMzZgS2...

We have just had a room upgrade!! Rather than GH008, we will now be in the David Bell Building in DB109.

Save the date! June 17, 2026. Thrilled to help launch Matt Cook's new book Writing Queer History at Mansfield College, Oxford together with Jeffrey Weeks (South Bank), Rebecca Jennings (UCL), and Colin Johnson (Indiana State). www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-wri...

Deviants and Trailblazers is now out! 🎉 If you're looking for a long-form, joined-up history of trans activism and trans rights in the UK going all the way back to the 1940s, this is it! D&T covers many events, groups, and people never before chronicled. www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...

We have just had a room upgrade!! Rather than GH008, we will now be in the David Bell Building in DB109.

I have organised a (hybrid) research seminar to talk about the findings of my PhD thesis for May 22 at 11am. I am joined by Pippa Catterall, @frammaturo.bsky.social and Zoë Playdon for a roundtable discussion. Sign-up form, including an abstract for the paper: forms.gle/b5GK8bYye9YD...

Absolutely bewildering that as I finish replacing the battery for my laptop on my own at 23:37 on a Tuesday, I think, for the first time in a long time, how proud my older brother would've been of me. I didn't even feel this when I handed in my thesis. A project I dedicated to him. Grief is strange

I am thrilled to be part of this new forum in German History alongside wonderful colleagues for which I have a lot of respect (even though...yes..we do disagree 😆). Thank you @npapadogian.bsky.social and Craig Griffiths for this opportunity!

“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I have organised a (hybrid) research seminar to talk about the findings of my PhD thesis for May 22 at 11am. I am joined by Pippa Catterall, @frammaturo.bsky.social and Zoë Playdon for a roundtable discussion. Sign-up form, including an abstract for the paper: forms.gle/b5GK8bYye9YD...

Looking forward to sharing details of an upcoming research seminar and roundtable on Monday!

Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is out on 4 MAY 2026! 🎉 Order here: www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...

Strange feeling to be at the end of the week after my final lecture this semester. While organising my first module came with its challenges, particularly juggling it with the final write up of my thesis, it was an absolute joy, and I had an amazing cohort who were both patient and inquisitive.

I have also been MIA from here.. I successfully submitted my thesis on March 27th and took a big step back to rest after the intensity of that final month or so

Great news to see that the Stonewall National Monument's rainbow flag will be restored after a successful lawsuit! May this symbol continue to serve as a rallying point for local LGBTQ+ communities

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