6. The fight on this is: A) legal because the code doesn’t meet Human Rights baselines B) practical because being inclusive is still lawful C) by ignoring the code’s attempts to change culture D) on the ground by lawful protest

Read the final part of my archival reflections from @norfolkro.bsky.social, about how rural Norfolk of yesteryear could be quite queer! It made me so happy to find these fabulous photos - I really wanted to share them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 norfolkrecordofficeblog.org/2026/05/21/l...

Read the final part of my archival reflections from @norfolkro.bsky.social, about how rural Norfolk of yesteryear could be quite queer! It made me so happy to find these fabulous photos - I really wanted to share them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 norfolkrecordofficeblog.org/2026/05/21/l...

My furry editor and I are excited to announce the publication of my book, Bisexuality and Beyond: A History of Multiple-Gender-Attraction in Modern Britain!

MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND comes out in one week and I am certainly not freaking out about it! There's still time to get 20% off the hardcover by preordering from Hachette with the code MYBAD20. All my June tour dates are below! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hugh-...

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...

How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...

Join me and @echomikeromeo.bsky.social on 4 June for an evening of trans history at the Birmingham LGBT Centre. Expect fun stories, unexpected connections, serious takeaways, and a little bit of hope. Free but register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-tr...

A new exhibition opening tomorrow will invite audiences to discover the LGBTQ+ history of South East England at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery from 25 April - 30 August 2026.

It's this week #Skystorians, on Thursday 30 April at 6pm at UCL in Bloomsbury. But not to worry if you can't attend: the lecture will be recorded and made available on our YouTube channel ( www.youtube.com/@UCLHistory ).

Manchester University Press is proud to launch Radical Histories, a new series dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged political, social and cultural authority. Call for proposals now open. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

Today is the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, Teaching Gender! It's been fab to hear from people who have read, & taught, it in the last year. If you have institutional access, you can read it here: academic.oup.com/book/59787 - or ask your library to acquire a copy!

Part 2 of my archival reflections from my placement at @norfolkro.bsky.social

This "investigation" is straight-up incitement against people seking asylum, especially LGBTQ+ people. No acknowledgement that LGB asylum claims are LESS LIKELY to succeed than other claims. No acknowlegement that the dodgy lawyers are CLEARLY scamming their clients www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History has been launched, including my chapter 'Women and Divorce Law in England and Wales, 1537–2022'. I had great fun writing it and I'm proud to be published alongside so many amazing authors writing on such importantly and timely topics.

‘Immigrants could be found in every corner of the Irish Free State….the 1920s were quite a globalised world’. (John Gibney)

My first blog post in a series of three sharing some of my research from @norfolkro.bsky.social. This is about friendship and intimacy between women in the 1920s - from Great Yarmouth to Paris!

My first blog post in a series of three sharing some of my research from @norfolkro.bsky.social. This is about friendship and intimacy between women in the 1920s - from Great Yarmouth to Paris!

A fascinating piece of rural trans history

📢 Doctoral and early career historians: submit your abstracts for the 1-day Cambridge-based workshop examining the history of Black health and healthcare in 20th-century Britain. Submission deadline: 1 April Workshop date: 29 May More info and contact info👉 histmed.org/call-for-par...

UPDATE: Historians have not, in fact, got 1066 'all wrong'. www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/did-...

With @tijmenelias.bsky.social I'm hoping to organize a panel on *The History of Queer Nightlife* for @esshc.bsky.social in Lyon (21-24 April 2027). If you want to be part of the fun, get in touch by 1 April! (Reposts also appreciated!) #QueerHistory

A delight to belatedly catch up with the recording of this - such an engaging account of ordinary gay life in the 40s that looks beyond (often atypical) stories of policing and prosecution!

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

📢Conference Call for Papers📢 An Intelligent Interest: Learning and Education in London Seeking proposals for engaging and accessible talks or presentations on any aspect of education and learning in London’s history. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/an-... #history #historyconference #CFP #education

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

Australian historians – I am assuming there must be, but is there an established Australian queer history archive? (Sorry for not knowing- not my area) My aunt just found a cache of letters from my Great Aunt Elizabeth* to her brother George, who was gay, from 1940s-50s. They may be of interest.

Further information about the Haud Nominandum collection (a Latin phrase that broadly translates as ‘that which cannot be named’) is here 👇

My talk is up on YouTube! 🏳️‍🌈

Calling all Thomas Hardy scholars - I bought a book for an obscure Algernon Blackwood story only to discover that it appears to be inscribed by Hardy. Can anyone confirm? And who is Caroline (‘Sammy’)? 🧐

My talk is up on YouTube! 🏳️‍🌈

Possibly the coolest title page I've ever seen

I am giving the Edinburgh Uni LGBTQ+ History Month lecture on the evening of 27 February, with the title 'Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise'. Details and link to register are here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Do come along if you're in Edinburgh!

CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'. A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below, please share.

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

The 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

Piers always gives such beautiful talks, and this sounds like an amazing source: gay diaries from WWII-era Norwich!!

I'm excited to present some findings from my placement at the Norfolk Record Office. You can join remotely, so consider hearing about some sexy gay diaries over lunch!

Queer history types! Can anyone recommend scholarship that looks at asylum / psychiatric hospital records through a queer or trans lens?

RIP Rosa von Praunheim www.bluewin.ch/en/entertain...

In case you were wondering if there was a time when people across the political spectrum used the past to think creatively and constructively about present-day problems, may I present the incontrovertible proof(s)!

📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

Attention Cambridge people who like this sort of thing!! G. David currently have a big stack of 20s and 30s psychoanalysis journals in the basement

#CfP for next year’s SHS conference! Drop me a line if you have any Q about the ‘Lifecycles, Families, and Communities’ strand 📣

Pleased to see that our book Writing Politics in Modern Britain: Genre and Cultures of Publishing since 1900 now has a cover and will be out with Cambridge University Press in January! @richardtoye.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/no/universit...

University of Glasgow Library has a remarkably generous visiting research fellowship scheme - come hang out with me in Glasgow! Get funded! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3

We're in court today and tomorrow, taking on the EHRC's (now withdrawn) interim guidance, issued in haste following the For (Some) Women Scotland decision. In accordance with our general practice, we are publishing the Skeleton Arguments of the Parties. goodlaw.social/h3nw

Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉 Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books! bacls.org/news/187/