Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. 19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London. All welcome but please register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. 19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London. All welcome but please register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland

Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland

Vienna!

Vienna!

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography now live! 🏳️‍🌈 Thank you to all of the collaborators who made this resource happen! And what a resource it is! Let us know if and when and how you use it! Check it out! #BookHistory #QueerBookHistory #LGBTQIABooks #Research sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

A familiar London panorama looking particularly bright today

A familiar London panorama looking particularly bright today

Beautiful Gothic moon over the Surrey Hills

Beautiful Gothic moon over the Surrey Hills

Dramatic sunrise in the Surrey Hills

My paperback is being launched tomorrow at the Holloway bookshop in Norwich. Do come along!

Painterly morning view in the Surrey Hills

Painterly morning view in the Surrey Hills

Head in the clouds

Head in the clouds

I can't wait to speak at this year's Gloucester History Festival on Monday 15 September at 12pm. Find out more and book your tickets: www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/marga... #GlosHistFest25 Instagram: @gloshistfest Facebook: /gloucesterhistoryfestival X: @gloshistfest

A lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on South Beach in Troon on the west coast of Scotland. One of the largest jellyfish, it is a beautiful if intimidating presence for those of us who swim off this beach or walk on the shore: the tentacles can reach 3m & will sting long after they’ve been stranded

A lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on South Beach in Troon on the west coast of Scotland. One of the largest jellyfish, it is a beautiful if intimidating presence for those of us who swim off this beach or walk on the shore: the tentacles can reach 3m & will sting long after they’ve been stranded

My mother died today. Born in what was then East Prussia, her childhood was overshadowed by WWII. She spent several formative years in refugee camps before being moved to the Black Forest. She was devoted to her adopted home & even more so to my father whose death preceded hers by 14 years. Vale

My mother died today. Born in what was then East Prussia, her childhood was overshadowed by WWII. She spent several formative years in refugee camps before being moved to the Black Forest. She was devoted to her adopted home & even more so to my father whose death preceded hers by 14 years. Vale

Beautiful sunset in Troon on the West Coast of Scotland with the Isle of Arran a mirage-like shimmer in the far instance

Beautiful sunset in Troon on the West Coast of Scotland with the Isle of Arran a mirage-like shimmer in the far instance

Meanwhile what they don’t show in the news about Trump’s arrival in Prestwick

Meanwhile what they don’t show in the news about Trump’s arrival in Prestwick

West Coast of Scotland sunsets are the best

West Coast of Scotland sunsets are the best

Distant view of Ailsa Craig, where blue hone and common green granite is quarried to make curling stones, on a beautiful blustery day.

Looking for summer reading? Alison Bechdel's latest book, Spent, is a triumph: astute, funny & unputdownable! www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page...

Looking for summer reading? Alison Bechdel's latest book, Spent, is a triumph: astute, funny & unputdownable! www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page...

RIP Andrea Gibson, tour de force queer non-binary spoken word poet. Read and listen to their work www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNad...

Delighted to announce that I have joined WeimarCinema.org as Associate Editor, working alongside Anton Kaes & Cynthia Walk! Followers may be interested to read the latest issue which includes a dossier on Pandora's Box by Shoshana Schwebel! www.weimarcinema.org/page/pandora...

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So pleased that we have MA funding available this year for our MA Archaeology & Heritage Programme. Please spread the word (or get in touch if you have questions)! www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

I don't often think in German, but isn't 'fuchsteufelswild' just an excellent turn of phrase? It literally translates as 'fox-devil(s)-wild' and means furious. Bonus 'study of a fox' by the great C19th French animal painter and queer gender nonconforming tour de force Rosa Bonheur

I don't often think in German, but isn't 'fuchsteufelswild' just an excellent turn of phrase? It literally translates as 'fox-devil(s)-wild' and means furious. Bonus 'study of a fox' by the great C19th French animal painter and queer gender nonconforming tour de force Rosa Bonheur

A spectacular West Coast of Scotland sunset

A spectacular West Coast of Scotland sunset

You meet all sorts on the morning commute. Here’s Henry VIII on his way to Hampton Court

Feels a bit surreal but Trans* Geschichten der Moderne is now available for preorders and available open access after June 30: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

"Turning to the history of the sex/gender distinction, we can learn a lot about the ideological dimensions to present day (and past) investments in binary sex as a 'common sense' immutable fact." Emily Cousens on Virginia Prince and the construction of the sex-gender distinction.

You can now listen to the recording here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcS2... 🎓🌈

You can now listen to the recording here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcS2... 🎓🌈

Today! Hear me talk about some of the cats & dogs who roam around modern queer history at the Queer Kinship Network, a collaboration btw the universities of Siena, Oxford & Toronto. Thurs 26 June 2025, 5pm (Italy); 4pm (UK); 11am (Toronto/East Coast). Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcS2...

Hugely looking forward to giving this talk at the Queer Kinship network: “Pets Portraits and Sapphic Modernism: Queer Kinship beyond the Human” Thursday 26 June 2025 5 pm (Italy) - 4 pm (UK) - 11 am (Toronto & East Coast) Join online! 🌈🎓 www.queerkinshipnetwork.com/seminars?fbc...