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Heike Bauer
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Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland .. more

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 18d
Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'.

19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London.

All welcome but please register:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 24d
Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 25d
Vienna!

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · Sep 30
Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
University English Funding
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Sep 21
Did you colour coordinate with Robyn? Looking good and great to see you out and about together, Martin!

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Sep 15
The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓
Reminder: Journal of the History of Sexuality seeks new editor(s) | H-Net
The Journal of the History of Sexuality is seeking new editors. The JHS, which was founded in 1990 and is published by the University of Texas Press, is the oldest journal devoted to the history of se...
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Sep 8
A familiar London panorama looking particularly bright today

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Sep 6
Beautiful Gothic moon over the Surrey Hills

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Aug 27
My paperback is being launched tomorrow at the Holloway bookshop in Norwich. Do come along!

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · Aug 25
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography now live! 🏳️‍🌈

Thank you to all of the collaborators who made this resource happen! And what a resource it is! Let us know if and when and how you use it!

Check it out!

#BookHistory #QueerBookHistory #LGBTQIABooks #Research

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LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography – SHARP NEWS
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 22
Painterly morning view in the Surrey Hills

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 16
Head in the clouds
Photo of a white cat sitting on a windowsill taken from outside the window. Her black head markings are merging into the clouds reflected in the window pane.

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Aug 14
I can't wait to speak at this year's Gloucester History Festival on Monday 15 September at 12pm.

Find out more and book your tickets:
www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/marga...

#GlosHistFest25

Instagram: @gloshistfest
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 9
A lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on South Beach in Troon on the west coast of Scotland. One of the largest jellyfish, it is a beautiful if intimidating presence for those of us who swim off this beach or walk on the shore: the tentacles can reach 3m & will sting long after they’ve been stranded
A big red brown and white lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on a beach with a green slider in the foreground for scale

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 7
My mother died today. Born in what was then East Prussia, her childhood was overshadowed by WWII. She spent several formative years in refugee camps before being moved to the Black Forest. She was devoted to her adopted home & even more so to my father whose death preceded hers by 14 years. Vale

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 4
So sorry, Bodie

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 4
So sorry, Liz. Such a brutal time in HE

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 4
How sad!

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 3
Currently looks like you’ve got some great weather to look forward to but South Beach is great in all conditions imho!

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 3
Meiner auch!

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 3
Sadly didn’t have time this year but last year we took the dogs over for some fantastic walking!

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 3
Beautiful sunset in Troon on the West Coast of Scotland with the Isle of Arran a mirage-like shimmer in the far instance

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 26
Fun Home is wonderful and it you haven’t yet read them Are You My Mother? & The Secret to Superhuman Strength are other treats in store for you. But Dykes to Watch Out is the essential prerequisite-reading for Spent IMHO. Enjoy!

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 25
Meanwhile what they don’t show in the news about Trump’s arrival in Prestwick

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 23
West Coast of Scotland sunsets are the best

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 22
Distant view of Ailsa Craig, where blue hone and common green granite is quarried to make curling stones, on a beautiful blustery day.
Distant view of a small dome-shaped island in grey seas, with white waves on the foreground and a blue, cloudy sky above

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 18
Looking for summer reading? Alison Bechdel's latest book, Spent, is a triumph: astute, funny & unputdownable! www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page...
Spent by Alison Bechdel | Gay's The Word
From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege?But how can...
www.gaystheword.co.uk

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 15
RIP Andrea Gibson, tour de force queer non-binary spoken word poet. Read and listen to their work

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Andrea Gibson - Orlando
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 14
Great news - congratulations Molly!

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Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social · Jul 14
Delighted to announce that I have joined WeimarCinema.org as Associate Editor, working alongside Anton Kaes & Cynthia Walk! Followers may be interested to read the latest issue which includes a dossier on Pandora's Box by Shoshana Schwebel! www.weimarcinema.org/page/pandora...
Die Büchse der Pandora
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