🌈 Dr Ross Brooks
@rossbrooks.co.uk
Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Tomorrow! 🌈🦋🗃️ #Darwin #histsci #sts #queerhistory #Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks@rossbrooks.co.uk · 2mo ago📣 A date for your diaries . . . I’m looking forward to returning to Oxford's Museum of Natural History on Friday 6 November, 6–7:30pm. It’s free, and everyone’s welcome—but booking is essential. 🌈🦋🗃️ www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/darwin... #histsci #sts #queerhistory #Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social
Pet Classics is here to help calm pets during fireworks season. ❤️ Listen on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and tag photos of your pets listening to the programme using #PetClassics. 📻 Pet Classics | 5pm–10pm on Thursday 5, Friday 6, and Saturday 7 November
Bonfire Night should be memorable for the right reasons. With fireworks displays taking place across London, the London Fire Brigade and RSPCA are urging people to attend organised events. It's the safer choice for pets, your home and your neighbourhood.
Londoners urged to avoid home fireworks over pet and safety concerns
New figures from London Fire Brigade show firework-related calls and incidents have more than doubled since 2018.
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Get 50% OFF thousands of Yale history books with free UK postage in November. Browse the books in the offer: yalebooks.co.uk/history-offer/ #HistBookChat #Skystorians #Medievalsky
Tomorrow! 🌈🦋🗃️ #Darwin #histsci #sts #queerhistory #Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks@rossbrooks.co.uk · 2mo ago📣 A date for your diaries . . . I’m looking forward to returning to Oxford's Museum of Natural History on Friday 6 November, 6–7:30pm. It’s free, and everyone’s welcome—but booking is essential. 🌈🦋🗃️ www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/darwin... #histsci #sts #queerhistory #Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social
Nature supports trans kids. 😡 Lil restock of various zines from Emerald Comics Distro, including the Queer Ecology series by @maloneydoodles.bsky.social !! Get 'em: store.pushpullseattle.com/s/search?q=q...
Pappas: I want to thank the guy next to me, my amazing husband. He's always been by my side. Win, lose or draw, I'm the luckiest guy because I'm married to a man that I love.
Breaking News: Representative Chris Pappas has won a critical race for Democrats in New Hampshire, becoming the first openly gay man to win a U.S. Senate seat. nyti.ms/4k1Yygp
Hey people in Bath!! I am giving a talk about Invisible Rainbows on Friday - come along! www.brlsi.org/whatson/invi...
Invisible Rainbows: Exploring the Universe beyond our senses – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
The powerful phenomena, extraordinary events and prodigious objects that populate the universe
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A curious frontispiece to “volume the second”of Culpeper’s Herbal (c.1798). As a Capricorn, my “celestial influx” points to the knee, however who knows what’s going on with Scorpios! Oh, hang on ….. 😳🤣 #rarebooks #celestialinflux
Our #GoingSouth issue (Nov–Dec 2026) is out in print & online! Discover #queerhistory across the #AmericanSouth. New subscribers take 50% off your 1st year with promo code “Facebook” (6 issues from $8.98, plus full digital archives). Get yours: glreview.org/issue/issue-185 #South
Beyond the Binary: A Symposium on Advancing Sex and Gender Inclusivity in Research. I'm looking forward to speaking at this event, organised by @oxcin.bsky.social, in #Oxford on 27 November. It's free, but do register. 🌈🧬🏳️⚧️🧠 👉 www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/events/beyon... #research #sex #gender #intersex
little piece of queer history I learned about courtesy the Portland Art Museum, and v cool that the wikipedia uses the same painting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femmini...
K9 was my hero. I even had a letter read out on Points of View when he was written out of Doctor Who. I still wear a badge on my coat with him on. John Leeson, thanks for giving this strange boy an unexpected and glorious role model
Been thinking about getting a copy of QUEER ORIGINS, but haven't quite got round to it? Now's a rather good time! It's just £12.50 - with FREE UK shipping - in @yalebooks.bsky.social's annual half-price sale! 🌈📚🎁 👉 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 🦋🗃️🎅 #book #booksky #reading #histsci #queerhistory
Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life - Yale University Press London
A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to DarwinWhat did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of ...
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It’s been a very long time coming but I recently published my first journal article! I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me and my work over the years and especially to my two brilliant editors @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and @ruthdav.bsky.social who are truly a dream team
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I was interviewed for this article; hopefully a more considered (and ultimately impactful) conversation about redress might emerge in the coming year…
No homosexual offence disregards since law introduced in Northern Ireland
Three people have applied to the pardons and disregards scheme since the law's introduction in Northern Ireland, however their applications did not meet the relevant criteria.
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My Christmas pride pins are officially back in stock and this year I've made so many more flags for the pride robins! Every sale helps fundraise for my transition so please share! canopyrobin.etsy.com
It's Halloween! The vampire squid wouldn't say BOO to a goose, but its Latin name sends shivers down our spines! Vampyroteuthis infernalis is a spooky species, but this cephalopod is no bloodsucker, instead a detritus feeder. Illustration by Carl Chun (1909) who discovered and named the species.
Happy Halloween from us and this definitely very anatomically correct walrus that will not at all haunt your dreams.
🦇🩸⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛🩸🦇 Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! This more recent study records such behaviours in 22 species: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex.... #Halloween #Halloween2026 #bats #histsci #queerhistory #science #nature 🌈🗃️
Recent access restrictions to the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham represent a serious threat to scholarship in modern British history. My new article explores the history of the WAC, including debates over access and ownership of its collections
A ‘public service’ archive? The BBC’s Written Archives Centre, Caversham
Abstract. The BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is home to a vast collection of correspondence, staff files, policy documents, newspaper clippings, and s
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It’s with great sadness that we learn of the death of our patron, Sir Patrick Stewart, aged 86. A giant of stage and screen, and a friend to humanists everywhere. Our thoughts are with his wife Sunny, his family and his friends.
Fans across the world mourn the passing of a true and irreplaceable legend. As Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart took the starship Enterprise to places it had never gone before.
NEW: the 'Festival of History 2027', convened by @royalhistsoc.org and @ihr.bsky.social. Between 5-16 July 2027 we're convening a nations-wide Festival to celebrate the 'how of history' and value of historical expertise: bit.ly/4eXGzUI Join with us to host an event #MakingHistoryFest #Skystorians
Festival of History
Celebrate the craft and practice of history at the Festival of History, running 5–16 July 2027 across the UK.
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The Coast is Queer festival, hosted in Brighton, held its seventh annual event this October. This year topics covered by the festival included representation for trans authors, the value of independent presses and the future of queer literature. 👇
‘Publishing could be leading the way against tokenism,’ The Coast is Queer Festival hears
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Student Placement at UK National Archives From Report to Reform: 70 Years of Wolfenden & 60 Years of the Sexual Offences Act offers an opportunity to work with original records that chart the journey to the Sexual Offences Act 1967 & specialist staff. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...
From Report to Reform: 70 Years of Wolfenden and 60 Years of the Sexual Offences Act
Promote access to the newly transferred ‘Private Act’ of Parliament records relating to naturalisation, property, and divorces.
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