Fun to be quoted in Cosmopolitan about the newest iteration of so-called 'lavender marriages'. As in the past, even this TikTok phenomenon reveals that looking at precarity, economic security and pragmatism are all important for understanding what's going on. www.cosmopolitan.com/relationship...

Join us 28 October, 5:30pm (UK) for the first IHR History of Sexuality Seminar of the new term! This Early Career Researcher Double Bill is an ONLINE ONLY seminar. For more information and to register in order to receive the Zoom link please go to: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The IHR History of Sexuality Seminar is now on Bluesky! Check out our upcoming seminars at www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Please follow for updates and share widely!

Very excited to see our new book: A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland Since 1945 (with FAB co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings, and E-J Scott) now available for pre-order. www.waterstones.com/book/a-queer...

Join us for Surveillance and Society: Reading Records Against the Grain — an exploration of how historical records reveal power, resistance, and surveillance. November 18 at The National Archives. Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve... #HistoryFromBelow #LGBTQHistory #BlackHistory

Celebration and Resistance: Explore LGBTQ+ collections and more at History Day 2025 🎉 This #HistDay25 we're partnering with @justinbengry.bsky.social to create a Queer History and Heritage Trail highlighting queer stories, figures & collections. Hear from Justin here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Are you coming along to #HistDay25 on Tuesday 4 November 2025? Why not stay at Senate House for my #lecture in the evening, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the public'. Book your free place: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

www.sal.org.uk/event/queeri... Tuesday 27th January 2026 I will be presenting Queering the British Holiday @antiquaries.bsky.social Book tickets (FREE) in person or zoom. NO PASSPORT REQUIRED! 😊

Join me 4 Nov at Senate House for History Day. This year I'm delighted to be working with the IHR to include a Queer History Trail and have a Queer Zine workshop at History Day 2025. Come say Hi and check out the amazing historical work being done around the UK. www.history.ac.uk/news.../even...

A delight to be interviewed by Elisha Pearce for this great piece on rainbow capitalism for Voice Magazine. I'm even happier that it's a publication for young people, engaging with issues that affect them too. www.voicemag.uk/blog/15421/p...

Very pleased to see David Roberts' We Are Your Children: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism published by @twohootsbooks.bsky.social It was a delight to consult on the book & great now to see that the other consultant was @paulaakpan.bsky.social Good company indeed! www.panmacmillan.com/authors/davi...

@historyworkshop.org.uk is seeking to appoint two Editorial Fellows for the period October 2025 to September 2027. This is a paid, part-time role that supports early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

Delighted to be interviewed (in such stellar company with Lillian Faderman) on 'lavender marriages' for Parade magazine. parade.com/living/laven...

Great to see NOTCHES on Bluesky. Get following!

NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about sexuality in the past and in the present. We’ve left Twitter so do follow NOTCHES on Bluesky at @notchesblog.bsky.social Please share widely!

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Following two illuminating articles on nightclub Taboo and iconic doorman Marc Vaultier, today we bring you a new post: “Would You Let Yourself In?” Reflections on Marc Vaultier’s Mirror by Stephen Brogan. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Ni #QueerHistory #HistSex #HistoryofSexuality 1/5

The NOTCHES history of sexuality blog is now on Bluesky @notchesblog.bsky.social Please follow and share widely!

Today is #ThrowbackThursday but, before we get into it, we believe it is important to highlight NOTCHES' ongoing support for the trans community and our commitment to trans scholarship. 1/6

🏳️‍⚧️ How to tell our history stories, so we learn from them At this critical moment, how can we tell stories of @transhistoryweek.bsky.social and apply the lessons from them to today’s fight? 🧵👇

Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection) Abstracts of 500 words and a brief CV (2 pages, single-spaced) to be submitted by 31 May 2025. Complete essays by 1 January 2026. More info and submission info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Tickets to our big community event in LDN are now on sale and we'd love to see you there. Show up for our history. Stand up for our future. Join us on the evening of the 6th of May for and evening in community and in celebration of our history at a time when we're facing down efforts to erase it.

Call for Participants: "I am looking to talk with LGBTQ+ identifying performance makers (of all disciplines) who were educated in England, Scotland or Wales during the span of the legislation (1988 – 2003)." queerdramaturgy.uk/participant-...

The Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN) invites submissions for a special one-day conference Trans Liberation Now! The Trans Liberation Now! conference will be held on Midsummer’s Day, 21st June 2025, in Bush House, Campus of King’s College London. feministgenderequality.network/conference-2...

London's most recent rainbow plaque has been unveiled honouring Lesbian activist Jackie Forster. It's an honour to be part of the Advisory Board for London's Rainbow Plaques. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have a listen to Criminally Queer a podcast from @hughsheehan.bsky.social and BBC Sounds about the Bolton 7, a group of men criminalised in the late 1990s for consensual sex. It was a pleasure talking to Hugh and being a part of sharing this important history. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

My reflections on the importance of queer history, published this week in The Big Issue, have become even more relevant since I submitted the piece just a couple weeks ago. Read it here: www.bigissue.com/opinion/lgbt...

Johnson, DeLarverie, Griffin-Garcy: you can take these gender non-conforming and trans leaders off a website but you will never take their names from people's mouths or their bricks from people's hands.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Conference | 6 – 7 June 2025 | University College London Legacies of Section 28: a two-day event exploring the history and legacy of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, 1988. DEADLINE EXTENDED to the end of February royalhistsoc.org/calendar/leg...

Quoted today in a good piece about lavender marriages and precarity in Cosmo. Have a look: www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a63...

Delighted that we could feature these amazing, newly translated, 19th-century sources on Russian trans history at the NOTCHES blog. Huge thanks to @cherylmorgan.bsky.social, Margarita Vaysman and their collaborators for sharing their important work with us. notchesblog.com/2024/12/10/a...

Looking for radical histories on Bluesky? We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️ & ✊🗃️ go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV

We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...

Celebrated historian and broadcaster David Olusoga will deliver the inaugural National Humanities Lecture! The first of its kind, the lecture will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas are emerging. Find out more and book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

I was the first holder of the Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Britain and the British World) at the University of Saskatchewan from 2010-2012. It's a supportive department and a great postdoc. Do share widely and/or apply! universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

A holding picture from this summer's travels in New Mexico until ... I'm caught up on this platform. Hello all! And goodbye to the other place!