Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us." northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Just over two weeks to go until 'We Can't Keep Waiting', a day of action and collaboration to push for trans healthcare in Scotland. We're collaborating with some incredible community organisations and groups - sign up for your ticket here! www.outsavvy.com/event/30917/...

Modern British historians: favourite examples of work that takes the UK as the category of analysis, and is not *imperial history* per se, but acknowledges the UK's situatedness within an empire, while not making an argument specifically about the relations between metropole and empire?

NEW QUEER HISTORY ARTICLE from me & @charlielynch.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'! There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too. #HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex

What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

The asserted ownership by antitrans activists of the "meaning" of the Supreme Court decision, to "mean" something that the Supreme Court explicitly declared it DID NOT MEAN, is a masterclass in the aggressive seizure of a public agenda by wishes in place of facts.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

This is my commute!

NHS Sussex blackmailed a GP practice with withdrawal of contract unless they shared data of Trans patients against the wishes of those patients & families. - Pre determined outcome - Staff concerns ignored - Families traumatised - NHS Sussex refuse to meet with families - Trans youth at risk

We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy to answer any questions via DM or email

Something interesting about this report! The researchers received a large number of malicious responses to their online survey - and they analysed those responses too, which provide an interesting window into anti-trans activists' delight at their perceived blanket permission to harass us.

So great that this is out in the world after years of hard work! My chapter, 'Contestations', is about the global history of home economics as a university subject, and what that tells us about institutional reform, gender, and empire at the turn of the 20th century.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

I listened to this Gender Reveal episode excerpt with @cassiusa.bsky.social the other day: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... and was struck by his point about grad students doing trans studies work in depts where they might be the only one/not adequately supported with field expertise!

Two teenagers were radicalized by the transphobic political climate into seeing a 15 year old girl as less than human. They killed the girl, and then the girl's grieving mother chose to embark on a moral panic crusade against "self-harm", acquitting the actual perpetrators of her daughter's demise.

Solidarity with striking BL workers!! A backbone of our national research & knowledge infrastructure and they deserve better!

As a once (& future?) library worker and current @ucu.org.uk member, I stand with striking BL staff. Library, and especially special collections, workers are often told they should accept low wages because they get “a dream job:” but any job needs to put food on the table & pay rent.

This is an excellent piece of student journalism that clearly spells out how troublingly ignorant the University of Cambridge seems to be of some basic facts concerning the legal status of the EHRC's now-withdrawn Interim Code of Practice!

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

On Tuesday we launched the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies! Thank you to everyone who came to the launch event & my fellow co-directors. It was a great evening & the first of what Iam sure will be many fantastic GLINTS events.

‘Vicki’s letters bring to light the mismatch between infantilizing notions of adolescents which position them as incapable of making their own decisions, and the physical reality in which their bodies are undergoing lasting changes which denote the young adults that they in fact are’

We're excited to be collaborating with some incredible community organisations for 'We Can't Keep Waiting', they'll be running workshops for trans people from across Scotland to come together and work out how we can care for eachother, and push for the healthcare we vitally need.

Reviving this, my best joke, in honour of teaching Between Men today

This year one of the great joys of my work has been contributing to the advisory board for a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. And last week the exhibition officially opened!

Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.

Thanks to everyone who came to the GLINTS launch yesterday. Great to see so many academics, students & supporters. Excited for the possibilities of this new space. Thanks to @echomikeromeo.bsky.social @notrightruth.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & co-directors not on here

A reminder that if you're in the area it is not too late to join us at the Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies launch event tomorrow afternoon! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glints-lau...

A scheduling accident means that I am spending my Sunday prepping *two different* PGT-level intro to trans history class sessions for tomorrow!

I like this short guide about "finding your people" - drive.google.com/file/d/1iK83...

So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare. I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.

*downs a glass of non-alcoholic fruit drink* alright, let's fucking go

This is going to be an outstanding resource for teaching - thanks to the editors!

It is a shocking indictment of rampant institutional prejudice & contempt for trans communities that Trans Safety Network are having to spend time critiquing the harmful actions of an entity, here Healthwatch, who is supposed to be advocating for trans people.

We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

🚨 Hundreds, possibly thousands, of GPs are refusing Trans+ adults their healthcare We always said the Trans+ Healthcare scandal would get worse "Given the complexity and unique medical considerations involved in hormone therapy [we're no longer authorising your prescription]" - GP

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. static1.squarespace.com/static/68bf2...

Latinx communities across the USA have been targeted by ICE. This summer, four LA historical and cultural institutions spoke out in solidarity, amongst silence in the museum sector. Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:

NHS England will soon be publishing its review of adult gender services. Trans Healthcare Coalition have created a breakdown of what the review is about, what outcomes we’d like to see, and more. Find the full breakdown here: tinyurl.com/LevyExplaine... #transhealthcare #NHS #LevyReview

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.

In October 1986, Enoch Powell did a tour of UK universities, amidst a backdrop of protesting students and a debate about laws to protect free speech on campus. This post from 2019 looks at Powell’s visit to Bristol University and the reception he received. hatfulofhistory.com/2019/04/13/n...

I did not know that Glasgow played a pivotal role in Rocky Horror!

Israel has committed atrocity after atrocity, war crime after war crime & they've slaughtered 70,000 people (the real death toll is far higher). The highest global court says what Israel has done is plausible genocide & the UN says it is genocide The UK govt: Hamas must disarm