Tom Hulme

#OpenAccess Research article, 'Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990', by Charlie Lynch is available through the following link:

@universitypress.cambridge.org

just checked and it’s only got about half the citations of my book… that does make my ego feel slightly more massaged

a brilliant, incisive piece by @earner.bsky.social et al. The focus on “stories that disturb rather than coalesce with grand narratives” - and how such histories might be written - is a vital framing for what we might playfully dub the New Irish Queer History.

#OpenAccess research article, 'Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century' by Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Roisín Higgins and Carole Holohan is available through the following link!

@universitypress.cambridge.org @earner.bsky.social

A festive flyer for the 40% discount on books published by Manchester University Press.

If you're after a festive gift or want to treat yourself @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 40% discount on Songs of Seven Dials at the moment.

A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/

'Love in the Lav' by Dr Averill Earls - Talk and Panel Discussion Irish launch of Averill Earl’s 'Love in the Lav' with Páraic Kerrigan (UCD) and Tom Hulme (QUB).

If you'll be in Dublin at the end of January, come to hear me talk for a bit (and then converse with the wonderful @tomhulme.bsky.social and @paraickerrigan.bsky.social), the eventbrite sign up is now live: www.eventbrite.ie/e/love-in-th...

honestly the most hurtful part of this announcement was the repeated supposed commitment to respecting everyone’s ‘dignity’ while announcing the closure of a campus on said campus in the middle of a teaching day

The HE Ballot failed, now what? If you’re reading this it is because today the UCU’s 2025 national ballot over pay and conditions in universities has failed. The last time…

Unfortunately the HE 2025 ballot failed at 39% turnout. I have written about why and about what desperately needs to change in UCU's national structures off the back of this result. Some HEC members need to chi up and understand their role in all this, and how disconnected they are from members.

I'm kind of surprised it was as high as 39%. It was a crazy time to hold a ballot on pay.

Reader, holding a copy of the book “the modern British city 1945-2000”

just delivered… looking forward to reading! @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social @petermandler.bsky.social

my phone reminds me that four years ago today we were on strike… this prop, which I cajoled my bf into making late the night before, is a very strange time capsule of the pandemic

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Yup, i’m afraid so - usually do to anxiety disorders. I try my best to foster a friendly/inclusive classroom so they contribute voluntarily but… it’s hard!

In case you missed it… Tom Hulme and I’s new article in the Journal of the History of Sexuality. There are three biographical case studies of queer men from N. Ireland who lived between the early 20th century and the 1960s. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Yes, 100%. Just in case it was not clear, I don't recognise the catastrophising totality of the OP thread - like others have said elsewhere, the last year has been a marked improvement on the COVID period. But, if anything, that demonstrates that student engagement *is* effected by context.

Thanks - an interesting suggestion & I haven't tried explicitly before. I do have the problem, though, that roughly 20% of my class now have Individual Student Support Agreements (i.e. mitigations for disability/mental health) that mean I cannot directly question them. But: a way around I'm sure!

I’m wary of “everything was better before” too, but that fallacy isn’t a reason to discount the potential effects of recent major changes - AI, rise of algorithmic video-social media, global pandemic, cost of living crisis… it would be more surprising if students *weren’t* struggling!

But uni isn’t like school, where students have to be there and the onus is on the teachers who motivate them. The minimum standard for an academic teacher is instead to engage those who *want* to be engaged, not to create the desire in the first place. If that’s not happening, it’s worth asking why?

Feeling incredibly proud of Dr @mpalawrence.bsky.social, who has passed his PhD viva with no corrections! An outstanding thesis on queer Irish culture and migration c. 1880 to 1960. Examined by Matt Cook and Fearghal McGarry!

Ahead of Tuesday’s shindig, here’s a video of me talking about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN and what it means to be shortlisted for the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social prize.

A big thank you to Gordon, the videographer who somehow made me sitting in my tiny office look cinematic 🎬

These proposed redundancies are a panicked response to the perilous finances of UKHE, which are as much a result of (former but also current) government policy as they are profligate spending by VCs. Really, it’s the (Labour) universities minister and chancellor that need to be urged!

One person asked “have you read Lefebvre in French? Because I think you’ll find it means something quite different to what you have said” to which Leif replied “I’ve read it in French, AND in German”

Anyone know who the speaker was? I can’t for the life of me remember now

I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”

when do you sleep??

An old black and white photo showing five men in Edwardian clothes, all wearing hates, standing in front of woods.

I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?

"I want to know what it was like to live in those multicultural societies at different points in time."

@kieranconnell.bsky.social on his approach to writing 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.

Classic Christmas cake Bake this festive fruit cake in advance of Christmas and feed it regularly with rum, brandy or whisky to build the flavour and keep it moist

Good old auntie beeb! www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/make...