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Cover of the edited volume Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World: New Approaches to print Sources published by Palgrave. The cover image is a 35mm black and white photo of a show in a queer club with two individuals in pup wear reading media during the performance.

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

I'm sure someone must have looked into this! I've become an armchair phonetician after watching Geoff Lindsey's videos. I really recommend a website called Youglish, where you can compare pronunciations across YouTube videos to get clues on contextual patterns (place, age, etc)

I think that's a mispronunciation (but clearly now on the rise in the US, so perhaps in line for dictionary legitimacy). I wonder if it's case of the written word impacting speech, like with tortoise and mischief, or a remnant of an earlier pronunciation (in German, Volk is pronounced with the L)

Amazing! Many congratulations

My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!

This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

Congratulations :')

So exciting!

Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.

All of us who teach Raewyn Connell's work will be interested to read this new interview with her! In which she also reveals that she's currently working on a trans book! www.smh.com.au/national/rae...

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Particularly enjoyed this one on @hannahcharnock.bsky.social's new book newbooksnetwork.com/teenage-inti...

I'm surely late to the party, but @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts are so good! I'm getting so many bite-size intros to books I've been meaning to read

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Queer London In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big ci...

It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative.

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Yes!

This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this:

I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.

Radical exposure: religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal This article considers a hitherto neglected sexual scandal involving the Congregational minister William Bengo’ Collyer and two young men at a public swimming baths in Camberwell (then in Surrey) i...

Had a spare five minutes, so taking the chance to boost mine and @medhistoryman.bsky.social's open access article on a sexual scandal from the 1820s! If you are teaching 19c sexuality, politics, masculinity, or religion why not add it to your reading list!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hello modest number of followers: there is movement toward translating Feminism Against Cisness into Spanish and ppl have expressed enthusiasm abt translating The New Woman. If anyone knows of any presses or translators who might be into it please dm.

Can anyone recommend readings on *premodern* disability and sexuality, and/or disability and queerness? #disabilitystudies #history #queerhistory #lgbthistory #earlymodern

The Women’s History Network Annual Conference Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections Reg…

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

a fun book to review and delighted to (probably) be the first to get the phrase "demon twink" into an academic journal

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If your research centrally involves the 19th-c. British press, you should for sure consider applying for a Curran Fellowship. Anybody can apply, and the process is blessedly straightforward. My late friend Eileen Curran would be proud to see all the fine projects that her generosity has assisted in.

a pointing fingerin a 19th century newspaper Manhood how lost, how restored. Just published in a sealed envelope on the nature, treatment and radical cure of spermatorrhorea, or seminal weakness, sexual debility, nervousness, and involuntary emissions, inducing impotence and mental and physical incpacity."

19th-century ads indistinguishable from suggested videos on YouTube

Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Available to read Open Access!

I'm going to @thenacbs.bsky.social this November (wahoo) in Montreal. My own funds are quite tight, does anyone know of funds available to ECRs to support attending I'd be really grateful!

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Thanks to all who helped make this happen and to the Open Access Team at Cambridge for making it available to everyone!

For queer historians, I include thoughts on the "queer bachelor" on page 11. I'm eager to develop this theme more fully elsewhere, but suffice it to say that I believe bachelor masculinities are too complex and diverse to be placed somewhere on a queer/not-queer binary. 6/7

Debates around income tax were as much about men's self-understandings as they were about the development of fair fiscal policy. 5/7

For historians of masculinity, the article points towards those "relational categories"—of income, place, and marital status—through which all masculinities were constructed and experienced. 4/7