📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom. 1/6

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

What I'm reading here is that if you want your concerns addressed you shouldn't throw paint on planes or march peacefully, you should set fire to things and riot.

Rather puts the outrage about free speech and 'self-censorship' in UK universities into perspective. Sections 1, 2 and 5 of the 2023 Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act will come into force on 1 August 2025. Apparently, it will protect our free speech.

Really excited about our upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the 'Legacies of Section 28' in contemporary history, education and activism, which will be held at UCL on 6th and 7th June. For more details and to register for this free event: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.

"Almost all the UK attacks reported in my study centred on LGBTQ+ materials." Meanwhile editors commission dozens more articles about the silencing of, perhaps, Britain's most published academic, Kathleen Stock. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Some 'minorities' are pretty big these days and deserve more history-walks. Recemt walkers were moved to stand where their grandparents took to the streets in the 1980s. Thanks to @londonist.com for listing this unusual walk with optional great pub at the end. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-whit...

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

Who wants to be official historian of UK policy in Northern Ireland during the Troubles? (Don’t all shout at once) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ310/e...

I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...

I watched Love Actually this week, and while I do really like it, it's 20 years old and the only time LGBTQ+ people are mentioned, they're jokes. So I figured this year I'd watch all the queer(ish) Xmas films and post a list. Here's where we are so far:

Only a month to go until the CfP deadline for the 'Legacies of Section 28' conference, which will bring together historians, educators and activists to explore the context and impact of the legislation. Send in your abstracts and please share with your networks! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/leg...

Hiya, just a quick shoutout for this brilliant debut history book, HOTEL LUX by Dr Maurice Casey - I was lucky to read an early copy, and it’s both an enthralling narrative and a fascinating detective story as we follow Maurice into the archives and attics to track down lost letters and photographs

I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded. You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout. go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj

As part new of the Senate House Library exhibition #SeizedBooks  IALS Foreign and International Librarian Hester Swift  has written an accompanying blog post exploring the legal case behind #OperationTiger. Links to exhibition and post here at: ials.sas.ac.uk/blog/prosecu...

As headlines explode all over about the Cass Review, here's what you need to know: it contains not a shred of original data. It is a badly done systematic review that excluded the overwhelming majority of available evidence in favor of smaller studies chosen for specious reasons. That's it.

Postgraduate conference alert! Gender & Sexuality in Modern British History & Beyond, at the University of Birmingham, 3 July 2024. Organised by some really excellent doctoral researchers. Please share widely. #queerhistory

Rather than foregrounding a certain British author of popular children’s books and interminable crime novels whose knowledge of trans history consists of whatever fever dream she’s had today, perhaps let’s focus on the work being done by people who actually know what they’re talking about.

Really pleased to see that this edited collection on Men and Masculinities in C20 Britain is now available Open Access. I love the format which combines research chapters with more discursive reflections. Huge props to Matt, Ben and Katie for their work bringing it together!

I've just published this article on the historical overlaps between trans and cis feminism in Britain. The article argues for a move beyond narratives of inclusion and exclusion and highlights how trans feminists were part of women's liberation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

'Restoring our services – an update' from the British Library Main catalogue searchable from Jan 15 Special collections accessible on-site Acknowledgement of the impact on researchers Accelerated investment in our core technology infrastructure blogs.bl.uk/living-knowl...

Interesting Guardian Long Read. Historians can supplement it with this open access article in TCBH by Grace Redhead, 'A British Problem Affecting British People’: Sickle Cell Anaemia, Medical Activism and Race in the National Health Service, 1975–1993' too: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Just spotted UCL's Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery setting up on Bluesky (cslbs.bsky.social ). If you're not familiar with their database, maps, estates ownership browser etc, you can find them open access here: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

Very excited to receive a box of shiny new books in the post this morning. My new monograph, 'Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life: Desire, Domesticity and Kinship in Britain and Australia, 1945-2000' has finally made it's way out into the world!