Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.

My new book 'New Cross, New Cross: a cultural history of London SE14' (2026) is now out in the wild, 300+ pages, £15. Available from The Word bookshop (314 New Cross Road) and Crofton Books (315 Brockley Road). Pubs, music, radical politics, sport and much, much more. (More stockists to come)

This article highlights the 'postcode lottery' - uneven impact - of these new transphobic policies. That was the case for S28 also. It's uneven because some are finding the agency to push back. We all have a responsibility to do this in the spheres in which we have leverage and influence.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 3w ago

Anti-trans rhetoric has been spread across a growing myriad of guidance and documents, with Trans+ children headed back to school facing segregation and teachers banned from “encouraging” them to question their gender. www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2...

"In its ostensible place of origin, the study of sexuality has become—for many elites—not just irrelevant, but an active threat." @aiross.bsky.social reviews the last decade of writing on the history of sexuality in modern France. doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France

Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I

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The Radar Key grants access to public toilets and is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

Radical Object: The Radar Key

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!

Join us for the 2026 Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture! William Whyte, new general editor of the ODNB, asks: what is the future of national biography? 📅 6 October, 6pm 📍 King’s College London 🎟️ Free and open to all www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Always keep a file of the nice things that people say about your work: it’s basic self-care in a profession in which everyone is incentivised to find fault.

We're looking for a fabulous person to join us @strathclydehass.bsky.social on a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith. Are you a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948? Apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Apply for a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

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This is a brilliant (open access!) article by @mauricejcasey.com; it doesn’t just recover a pioneering yet forgotten lesbian activist but uses her story to critique the blind spots of Irish queer historiography more broadly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980

This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such a...

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Happy to make the queer pilgrimage to Edward Carpenter and George Merrill's old house in Millthorpe. It's surprising there's no plaque

he was so clearly vulnerable, and the pleasure people took in bringing him down was palpable. the frenzy was grotesque and cruel. fuck, it’s so fucking sad. fuck the media. fuck racism. He was a person. he deserved better. we need to do better.

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open! If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article on modern British history do consider entering! Deadline Sept 1st. #skystorians 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

The Duncan Tanner Prize

The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.

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Great discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org

Independent Historians Network

The place for independent and freelance historians to connect

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The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.

Wes Streeting as defence secretary

If you can sit in a meeting and cry about what you're being told to do to a child, you can also refuse to do it.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

What’re you doing on 9th September? Will you join our rescheduled mass lobby? The legal framework for our lives is broken, it’s time to push for change: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/ehrc-co...

EHRC Code to come into force: what now?

The current Minister for Women and Equalities, in one of this government's last acts before a change of leadership, has made an order to bring the EHRC's harmful Code of Practice into force.The order ...

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🚨📘 Book Alert! 📘🚨 My first monograph, 'A Science for Everyday Life' is now available for pre-order! Published by @upittpress.bsky.social & released mid-December 2026. US/North America: upittpress.org/books/978082... UK/Europe: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Sent off the final proofs of my, Esme Cleall & Fae Dussart's edited collection, 'Troubling the Island Story: the impact and legacy of Catherine Hall's historical work in and beyond Britain.' Full of joyful, thoughtful & insightful essays on Catherine Hall's work: share.google/LB8ZsycJpXdm...

Very exciting to see a first edition of this after many years thinking about it.

Historians! What should I read on demobilised soldiers/sailors in Britain after World War One? I'm mostly interested in their politics, and how the political parties/wider political system thought about, interacted with or tried to reintegrate them.

Congratulations to Kirstie Stage awarded a Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) PhD Student Award For Applied Research 👏👏 The award recognises outstanding research with real world application - Kirstie explores the Labour and Livelihoods of Deaf and Disabled People, 1970-2010.

For anyone who doesn't know the kind of mindset that fuels state transphobia

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Head of the EHRC really did just say Phrenology will help solve the issue of transgenders in society

And yet we get told that arts and Humanities don't matter in "the real world" or have no capacity of real income generation

ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · 3mo ago

There's still 80,000 people in The Queue to get tickets.

in the event, a great audience of lgbt people and allies of all ages turned up at Clones library… and the angry bigots were nowhere to be seen

Tom Hulme@tomhulme.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Not all in Monaghan looking forward to my talk 2nite... Facebook: "Disgusting vile perverts,leave the children alone" "Sick sick sick mentally ill clowns 🤡" "just disgusting. If people are gay that's fine but stop sticking this in our kids faces.Its getting ridiculous at this stage & alarming." 😬

A fully-funded queer history PhD opportunity!

Economists talk about 'scarring' - long-term effects on a cohort of some short-term phenomenon like a bout of unemployment: even if we pull out of this UK HE crisis soon (doubtful), the whole sector will be scarred for life. (1/2)

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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