Michael Lawrence

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar this Friday from QUB’s @jamielukas.bsky.social. Do note the room change for this week only. Honoured to be asked to chair the seminar this week. More details & sign up to join online via link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Thanks, Matt!

Nearly four years of work wrapped up with one e-mail! The thesis is officially off my desk 😌🎉

How I feel visiting my family in the rural West Midlands

Had a great week doing thesis edits in pubs and bars around London! And yes, I giggled at the last picture because I have the humour of a 12 year old.

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

A fun (yet very, very posh) read!

Had an absolutely fantastic time at Belfast Pride with the team at @cara-friend.bsky.social !

The hugely successful 'Founding Cara-Friend' exhibition will be hosted by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland for the month of July! This exhibition features a selection of portraits and stories of some of the volunteers who worked to establish Cara-Friend in the 1970s and 1980s!

Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland A huge wool map of Ireland, which took four years of knitting and crocheting to complete, is in search of a new home to go on public display.

A long time ago we used to have a lecture room with maps of Ireland on the wall, this would have been a great addition!
Well done to all involved and hope your map finds a good home: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
PS: We would also have gladly helped 'empty' the Smarties tubes used for Giant's Causeway

A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80

Intention to submit posted. Caffeine guzzled. Edits in progress.

Been working with these folks for a while now (although officially for the last few weeks) and it's a great environment!

This was a black and white slide but apparently my ambient homosexuality was enough to make the projector gay.

Had a great time presenting in the @ssnci.bsky.social conference! Aberdeen, as a city, is often taken for granite in my opinion.

Someone needs to stop me sending this to my friends every time I do something mischievous

Urnings, in Ireland and Illinois "It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life."

“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.”

Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS ARCHIVES PSA 📣

Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen??

(I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)

Today at 4pm

Heartened to receive a gift in the post from lovely academic friend. Very cool.

This year's Wiles Lectures in History will be given at QUB on 28-31 May by Prof Sven Beckert of Harvard, on ‘Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism’. There are 4 free public lectures over 4 days: details at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...

Applications are open for the 2025-26 AHSS Global Fellows Scheme at QUB, funding visits by established academics of 4-12 weeks to Belfast. Specialists in Irish Studies are welcome to contact us at irish.studies@qub.ac.uk before 30 May. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/about/Leader...

Finally managed to get the pigeons out of the attic and patch the roof... but now the pigeons think that they should be living in the house. I can no longer have my windows open without having to escort some feathered fuck back out through it 30 minutes later.

A beautiful day for solidarity in Belfast today!

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Found out my building manager won't fix the crack in my ceiling, unexpectedly didn't get paid my PhD stipend, and I spilled coffee down myself... all within fifteen minutes of each other.

PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.

Partner finally decided to organise his books after moving. We moved in last January.

Today's the big day! There are 22 planned protests all over the UK and even one abroad!

Find out if there's one near you here:

whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Remember deadline to submit your abstracts is 20 April!!