Tom Hulme

Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914* This article considers the political lecture tour, and particularly the travelling socialist caravan tours organised by Clarion socialists at the end of the 19th century, to argue that, for socialist...

I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period

though some people build a social media following (through shitposting, or being sexy, or being funny) and then use it to publish a book that is nothing to do with why people followed them… I do wonder if that still translates into sales

Liberation Past, Present Stagnation: Queer Nostalgia and Memories of the Northern Irish Troubles The troubled past looms large in Northern Ireland decades after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. This article examines how queer memories of the Troubles mobilise nostalgia to contest linear narr...

I’m delighted to share that my first journal article has been published in Ethnos, entitled ‘Liberation Past, Present Stagnation: Queer Nostalgia and Memories of the Northern Irish Troubles’.

hmm I can only guess that, for the purposes of their definition, they see it as American-published in origin? all the website says is "UK published works with an ISBN"... but could be worth investigating, as you'd likely be owed a small fortune...

They only pay out on UK-published work, unfortunately! *cries in Cornell*

Thirty years ago an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. Today, thanks to the miracle of science (not actually a miracle, just feels that way!) and the hard work of many many people, it's a very easily manageable condition

Suck it HIV! I look amazing

(Get tested, sooner you know, sooner you fix it)

Front cover of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson.

Coming soon: the next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series is 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq

Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social on 9 April #Skystorians 1/2

Officers of the UCU at QUB branch proudly displaying bright pink flags emblazoned with the slogan “We are the university”

What a beautiful day on campus for a trial run of our new flags! 😍🌸🌞 #WeAreTheUniversity

it's confusing how different places use the payscale but also makes a bit of a mockery of the ideal (and results) of 'national' pay negotiations

I was out by six years, even though I was living in Leicester at the time! Oops

The devil is going to be in the detail with Ireland's disregard scheme. Past queer scenes were clandestine, which means arrests for sex in semi-public places (i.e. toilets). In UK legislation these cannot be pardoned, because they remain crimes (if under different laws than those originally used).

Even so, there's no doubt the rate of arrests in Ireland for consensual sex went up significantly in the postwar period and remained high until the mid 1970s, due to increased policing (including stings). There were a couple of flare ups in Northern Ireland but the rate was nowhere near as high.

A great article/overview, but those 1950 to 1993 statistics - 941 men convicted - should be treated cautiously: the same laws were used for consensual and non-consensual acts between adults and also for offences towards minors. That's 1 problem of disregard schemes; very hard to 'blanket pardon'.

Opinion: A garda sergeant spied on two adult men having sex. But he wasn’t prosecuted - they were Almost 1,000 men were convicted under anti-gay laws, and 1,700 were prosecuted. Their wait for justice is nearly over

Featuring research by @aearls.bsky.social, whose book - "Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972" - was published last year

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these beasts will outlive democracy

how is he this fucking useless 😭

are you sure this is real? I want to believe - hope - it’s not… but we do live in mad times

Book cover: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod. It has an orange border with text in black and yellowy orange and features a black and white photograph of two men embracing each other as they stand in a kitchen.

Front cover of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany by Samuel Clowes Huneke

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

Book cover: My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan. The bright yellow cover features a marble stature of two men suggestively wrestling, on top of which sits an unspooling mix tape.

LGBTQ+ History Month (UK) is almost over, but #queerhistory is being made all year round! 🌈📚🗃️

Here are just a few fab-looking books that will be published in the coming months by wonderful authors @grindrod.bsky.social, @schuneke.bsky.social, @tomhulme.bsky.social, @hughryan.bsky.social . . . 1/2

Rent and food costs are so high that many of my students are basically working full time during the semester. Pedagogically, judging their assignments is increasingly difficult; how can you criticise an essay for not having enough depth when a student has so little time to read?

Cost of living: Students praise 'essential' food bank service Queen's University Belfast says there were more than 10,500 visits by students to its food bank in the students' union.

Shocking. When I was an undergrad around 20 years ago, a decent summer job & the maintenance loan saw me (carefully) thru a whole year in a provincial city. The cost of living is now so insane that hundreds, maybe thousands, of students in Belfast are using food banks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

First time I've seen this postcard of the Somali village at the 1907 Dublin Exhibition in Herbert Park. #dublin

One of the difficult things with essay marking now is knowing whether a seeming increase in a particular rhetorical/stylistic writing device is due to generative AI or just a broader trend. One I am noticing a lot: "X is not just evidence of Y, but also of Z." Could be innocuous... but...

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

absolutely stunning!

These portraits are beautiful - of their moment yet speaking in such powerful ways to our times.

"John Prescott would be loving this"

👀👀👀

Humiliated in the media, denied healthcare, attacked by the human rights watchdog, shut out by the Supreme Court, bullied by social services and the police, disadvantaged in the jobs market, death figures covered up by the State, harassment de facto legalised, and attackers deified by Ministers.

Race on Screen | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Congratulations to @christinegrandy.bsky.social for the publication of Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain, the latest title in our Cambridge Modern British Histories series. Paperback a snip at £28. #Skystorians

"I am the farm worker going home at evening": gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women's Land Army Archivist Lottie Wood explores gender and landscapes in E. M. Barraud's reflections on her time in the Women's Land Army.

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities.

This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army.

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