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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This looks like a cool queer history conference!

Call for Papers: Queer Rural History Symposium
Date: Monday 15th March 2027
Venue: The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, RG1 5EX
Lunch to be provided for all attendees
About the Symposium
Until recently, studies of queer history have focused almost exclusively on the urban sphere, given the greater availability of archival material evidencing queer lives in the city. The few queer rural histories which have been popularised in public consciousness are those of aristocrats in country homes, such as Anne Lister and Vita Sackville-West. However, it goes without saying that people with dissonant sexualities and gender identities lived and loved in all corners of society throughout the centuries, including the countryside. As such, there is a growing appetite for broader research into this area. How did queer people meet those who were like-minded in regions of scarce population density? What forms did their relationships take against a backdrop of criminality and stigma? And how did rural attitudes towards queer people differ to those in the city?
This one day symposium aims to bring together researchers of all backgrounds, and at any stage of their work, to share ideas and discuss methods on this emerging field of study. It works towards the goal of not just filling gaps in academic knowledge that exist for both rural history and queer history, but also to show queer people living in the countryside today that there is, and always has been, a heritage and a place for them.

Proposals
We invite proposals on themes such as, but not limited to, the following:
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Queer histories of the working and middle classes in rural areas
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Methodologies for recovering queer rural histories, such as the use of museum and archive collections
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Queer rural networks: how they met and flourished
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The response of rural communities to queer relationships
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Migration of same sex couples from the city to the countryside and vice versa
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The ways in which museums and archive services respond to queer rural history
If you would like to submit a proposal, please send an abstract (max 250 words) along with a short bio (50 words) to symposium organisers Tim Jerrome and Esther Rutter at t.jerrome1@uni.brighton.ac.uk. It is preferable that these come in the form of a Word document attached to the email. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Sunday 6th December 2026.
If you would like to attend the symposium without presenting a paper, let us know via the above email as we need to ensure we do not go above capacity.
We are currently applying for funding to help cover travel costs for those who need it. Please let us know if you would like to attend but would require assistance with travel costs to do so. Priority will be given to attendees where cost would otherwise be a barrier to participation.
Many thanks to Rainbow Canopy (The LGBTQ+ network of Forestry England), the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, and the staff at The MERL for helping us to fund and organise the symposium.

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

CFP: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland - Annual Conference 2026 (4-5 Dec. at TCD). Paper proposals should be sent to Dr Anne Dolan adolan@tcd.ie by 23 October.

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Irish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks to Queen's University Belfast History Professor Fearghal McGarry for his thoughtful reflections on our Look Back to Look Forward exhibition. If you missed the exhibition in Belfast, you can access our online version here: bit.ly/HeritageExhibition

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 04/08/2026

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on recording community histories through the Bengali Photo Archive and the extraordinary work of Lloyd Gee.

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Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I spoke to @france24.com this evening about the racist riots in Belfast. These are the images of the city being broadcast to audiences across the world. youtu.be/sxvZtVefF0c?...

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UK watchdog warns online platforms as Belfast riots go viral • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 10/06/2026

Belfast City Centre a complete ghost town tonight. Nearly all the businesses closed earlier this afternoon. City holding its breath for what might or might not happen this evening, with endless fake threats of road closures doing the rounds from the far right.

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨 🎉 Launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" (Special Issue) & "Unmarried Sisters" (Podcast Series) 📆 Friday 10 July (early evening) 📍 The James Joyce Centre, Dublin 🗣️ Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, Deirdre Foley, Maureen O'Connor & more

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

With the Modern British Studies conference at Birmingham again next week, it was a pleasure to write this blog about my past research on multicultural Britain and my new project which takes me back to my Irish roots modbritstud.org.uk/notes-from-t...

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Notes from the North of Ireland - The Modern British Studies Association

In January 2015 I took up my first permanent academic job as a lecturer in contemporary British history at Queen’s University Belfast. A few months earlier I had made the trip over from Birmingham, w...

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Was good to join Shane Beatty on the Newstalk podcast to discuss our new project on 100 years of Irish diversity. Listen below www.newstalk.com/podcasts/new...

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The Long History of Multiculturalism In Ireland | Newstalk

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I was on BBC Radio Ulster Talkback today with @williamcrawley.bsky.social talking about "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" - listen here from 12:47pm! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Radio Ulster - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio Ulster on BBC Sounds

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Excellent piece by @kieranconnell.bsky.social on Ireland’s multicultural history in @irishexaminer.bsky.social. I’m so thrilled to be CI on this AHRC-funded project and to get to work with Kieran and @jcrangle.bsky.social on uncovering Ireland’s rich history of diversity over the past 100 years.

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Chairing this online session at 5.30pm. All welcome!

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England" New #openaccess article by our Dr Barry Hazley, co-authored with @jcrangle.bsky.social, Graham Dawson, Liam Harte + Fearghus Roulston in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England - Volume 65

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Excellent opportunity! Hannah is fab! #skystorians

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

early thoughts on ‘Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation’! 🥰 I am hearing that copies are starting to land stateside already… official publication date is April 15 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Belfastmen by Tom Hulme | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Belfastmen reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay righ...

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Daniel Carey @danielmcarey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Come join us @oralhistoryie.bsky.social for #oralhistory training in Maynooth!

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I’m chairing an online seminar by Sue Bishop (University of Leicester) tonight at 5.30pm. ‘Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries’. All welcome. Please book in advance. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Tiger Bay, 1950, Cardiff's oldest multi-ethnic community, photo by Bert Hardy for Picture Post.

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Shane Lynn @shane-lynn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Many thanks to @jcrangle.bsky.social for this generous appraisal.

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thanks so much @niamhcullen.bsky.social for the lovely review of my book ❤️

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

📣 We’re hiring! The History of Parliament are seeking a Research Fellow for our House of Lords 1660-1832 project. @georgianlords.bsky.social We’re looking for a historian with a PhD in 18thC British political or cultural history to join our expert team. 🔗 Details below: #AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs

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Job Vacancy: Research Fellow, 1660-1832 House of Lords - The History of Parliament

The History of Parliament are excited to advertise for a research fellow to join our House of Lords 1660-1832 project.

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Thank you Charlie - all the best for 2026!

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Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Looking forward to chairing this online event tomorrow. Lots of fascinating research in this book. All welcome.

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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 🎬

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

All set for this evening’s seminar for @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social with Dr Katerina Papakonstantinou. Looking forward to hearing her fascinating paper, & thanks to our fab Chair Prof Pat Thane & Term programme organiser @helenglew.bsky.social

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning" In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social

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Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning

This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

QUB History research seminars - Fridays at 4pm starting 26 September. All welcome!

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The Irish Story @theirishstory.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Article by @brian-hanley.bsky.social Hanley on events across Ireland in the long hot summer of 1935. July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’ www.theirishstory.com/2013/01/07/j...

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A few tickets left for this talk next week for Belfast Pride 2025! Come hear about a ‘female husband’ dockworker (1880s), a scandalous Victorian male brothel, Jazz Age gay novels, a trans woman in mid 20th c. Ballycastle, & NI’s (sadly forgotten) 1st lesbian activist! linenhall.com/event/sex-lo...

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Sex, Love, and Everyday Life: A History of Northern Ireland before Gay Liberation - The Linen Hall, Belfast

Ask the average person on the street what they know about Northern Ireland’s LGBTQ+ or ‘queer’ history, and they will likely mention the Reverend Ian Paisley’s notorious campaign to ‘Save […]

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I am signed up for a few events this autumn to talk about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Come along if you’re in Sheffield, Cambridge or Dublin. Possibly more to come - keep an eye on my website for more info! www.kieranconnell.com/events

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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is saima.nasar@bristol.ac.uk

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism. www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...

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Northern Ireland has a long history of immigration and diversity. And of racism.

Dr Jack Crangle discusses recent anti-immigration disorder in Northern Ireland, and places it in historical context.

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Natalie O'Regan @natalieoregan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Funny, i can think of one that happens every year.

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Green Party Northern Ireland @greenpartyni.org · 11/06/2025

Call it what it is. Racist violence in Ballymena is the toxic legacy of 27 years of failure by DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP, UUP, and Alliance. 1/4

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Politicians need to call racism racism. LEAD They’re all well able to say when something is sectarian. Talking about real or imagined sectarianism keeps most of them elected. They need to find the courage of Anna Lo when she was basically a lone voice calling out racism even when it was v dangerous

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed

Poster advertising an oral history project on South Asian Medical practitioners in Scotland. Please get in touch with monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk if you know anyone who worked/studied in the medical field in Scotland who is of South Asian heritage.

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