Charlie Lynch
@charlielynch.bsky.social
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics. And for a newspaper.
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Charlie Lynch
@charlielynch.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990
www.cambridge.org
“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”
My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I think this counts as successful research impact. Turning your archive work into a bestselling trade book, which is then optioned as a feature film. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film
Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I think this counts as successful research impact. Turning your archive work into a bestselling trade book, which is then optioned as a feature film. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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As an example, in 2015-16 we paid £650 a month for a three bedroom flat on White Street, Glasgow. Today, that should be £895pcm accounting for inflation.
The same flat is going for £1595pcm - *78%* more than in 2015-16, inflation adjusted.
The same flat is going for £1595pcm - *78%* more than in 2015-16, inflation adjusted.
There's also the fact that landlords are not offering people a product at a price they're happy with. Nobody is happy with the price they're paying for housing, or with paying exorbitant costs to pay off a mortgage for someone else.
The rental market is a case study in market failure.
The rental market is a case study in market failure.
Surely there are some better arguments on the pro landlordism side of the debate than implying that if a landlord doesn't own the house, the house ceases to exist??
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
As an example, in 2015-16 we paid £650 a month for a three bedroom flat on White Street, Glasgow. Today, that should be £895pcm accounting for inflation.
The same flat is going for £1595pcm - *78%* more than in 2015-16, inflation adjusted.
The same flat is going for £1595pcm - *78%* more than in 2015-16, inflation adjusted.
Instgram’s tide of tedious lifestyle influencers, especially of conspicuous consumption, active lifestyles, demands a response.
I suggest a cavalcade of non-events, dreary places like the outskirts of Cambuslang, and people in their thirties complaining. That’ll show them.
I suggest a cavalcade of non-events, dreary places like the outskirts of Cambuslang, and people in their thirties complaining. That’ll show them.
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Instgram’s tide of tedious lifestyle influencers, especially of conspicuous consumption, active lifestyles, demands a response.
I suggest a cavalcade of non-events, dreary places like the outskirts of Cambuslang, and people in their thirties complaining. That’ll show them.
I suggest a cavalcade of non-events, dreary places like the outskirts of Cambuslang, and people in their thirties complaining. That’ll show them.
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In our new journal article, @tomhulme.bsky.social and I chart the biographies of three queer men who lived in N. Ireland between the 1900s and the 1970s. We show how their lives and sexual subjectivities were shaped by knowledge from beyond Ireland. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
Project MUSE - Queer Men and Networks of Communication in Northern Ireland Before the 1970s
muse.jhu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In our new journal article, @tomhulme.bsky.social and I chart the biographies of three queer men who lived in N. Ireland between the 1900s and the 1970s. We show how their lives and sexual subjectivities were shaped by knowledge from beyond Ireland. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
The contrast between the Irish Presidency and the bizarre antediluvian living relics and lurid scandal of the British monarchy hardly could be clearer. Embarrassing for Scotland to have such a thing foisted on it.
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The contrast between the Irish Presidency and the bizarre antediluvian living relics and lurid scandal of the British monarchy hardly could be clearer. Embarrassing for Scotland to have such a thing foisted on it.
One of my more niche interests is tracking down obscure social research carried out in Scotland and Ireland in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Often carried out with limited funding by intrepid researchers, sometimes students, they created amazing sources for social history.
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
One of my more niche interests is tracking down obscure social research carried out in Scotland and Ireland in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Often carried out with limited funding by intrepid researchers, sometimes students, they created amazing sources for social history.
In today’s public history column, a feel good story for the feel bad times we live in:
With Prof Chris Whatley, and his new book, I tell of popular protest and legal battles in Glasgow in the 1820s, in which a rich and selfish landowner was soundly defeated. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
With Prof Chris Whatley, and his new book, I tell of popular protest and legal battles in Glasgow in the 1820s, in which a rich and selfish landowner was soundly defeated. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
The Clyde uprising that paved the way for Scotland's right to roam
A NEW book published in the summer revives the memory of one of the more dramatic episodes in the history of Glasgow
www.thenational.scot
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In today’s public history column, a feel good story for the feel bad times we live in:
With Prof Chris Whatley, and his new book, I tell of popular protest and legal battles in Glasgow in the 1820s, in which a rich and selfish landowner was soundly defeated. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
With Prof Chris Whatley, and his new book, I tell of popular protest and legal battles in Glasgow in the 1820s, in which a rich and selfish landowner was soundly defeated. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
Didn’t know this! Historic model railways are often difficult/impossible to move, complex to conserve, tricky to operate, expensive to house. This is why very old layouts often do not survive. Yet here we are! 1951!
Another installment in the surprising reach of the 1951 Festival of Britain: the scale model of the Midland Railway completed for the Festival in the then Derby Borough Museum. Now located in the Silk Mill Museum of Making.
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Didn’t know this! Historic model railways are often difficult/impossible to move, complex to conserve, tricky to operate, expensive to house. This is why very old layouts often do not survive. Yet here we are! 1951!
In our new journal article, @tomhulme.bsky.social and I chart the biographies of three queer men who lived in N. Ireland between the 1900s and the 1970s. We show how their lives and sexual subjectivities were shaped by knowledge from beyond Ireland. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
Project MUSE - Queer Men and Networks of Communication in Northern Ireland Before the 1970s
muse.jhu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In our new journal article, @tomhulme.bsky.social and I chart the biographies of three queer men who lived in N. Ireland between the 1900s and the 1970s. We show how their lives and sexual subjectivities were shaped by knowledge from beyond Ireland. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
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Project MUSE - Queer Men and Networks of Communication in Northern Ireland Before the 1970s
muse.jhu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Good lord. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/raise-the-co...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Good lord. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/raise-the-co...
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I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
What about, for just a second, entertaining the prospect of a tokenistic Scottish monarchy, similar to a ceremonial mayor, with no real powers, which is an elected position open to anyone Scottish with a genealogical link to the Stewarts. The resulting chaos would be fun to watch.
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What about, for just a second, entertaining the prospect of a tokenistic Scottish monarchy, similar to a ceremonial mayor, with no real powers, which is an elected position open to anyone Scottish with a genealogical link to the Stewarts. The resulting chaos would be fun to watch.
English royal family continually fretting over succession and frantically reproducing. Why? There must be hundreds of people in line of succession. In past an almost entirely new royal family was imported from Germany. There is a huge supply of potential monarchs, unfortunately.
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
English royal family continually fretting over succession and frantically reproducing. Why? There must be hundreds of people in line of succession. In past an almost entirely new royal family was imported from Germany. There is a huge supply of potential monarchs, unfortunately.
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This October, in a huge win for tenants, a new Scottish Housing Bill was passed in Holyrood. After almost ten years of pressure from Living Rent, we saw parliament approve the most progress for tenant’s rights in decades bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/31/a...
A Victory for Living Rent
This October, in a huge win for tenants, a new Scottish Housing Bill was passed in Holyrood. After almost ten years of pressure from Living Rent, Scotland’s tenants’ and community union, we saw par…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This October, in a huge win for tenants, a new Scottish Housing Bill was passed in Holyrood. After almost ten years of pressure from Living Rent, we saw parliament approve the most progress for tenant’s rights in decades bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/31/a...
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“The future of the House of Windsor will be a conveyor belt of cloistered and confused men attempting to force consensus on an ungovernable country.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Abolish the monarchy
It’s more than Prince Andrew – the whole House of Windsor is rotten to the core
www.newstatesman.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“The future of the House of Windsor will be a conveyor belt of cloistered and confused men attempting to force consensus on an ungovernable country.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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As the only shop for 20 miles, The Ferry Stores was an essential hub for the 200 inhabitants of the windswept coastal village. Open all year round, providing post office services, petrol and a wide range of groceries
#Ardnamurchan #Kilchoan
#Ardnamurchan #Kilchoan
‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans
@libbybrooks.bsky.social reports 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
The Ferry Stores, in the remote village of Kilchoan, will shut its doors after struggling to fight off the decline in footfall and the advent of home delivery services
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
As the only shop for 20 miles, The Ferry Stores was an essential hub for the 200 inhabitants of the windswept coastal village. Open all year round, providing post office services, petrol and a wide range of groceries
#Ardnamurchan #Kilchoan
#Ardnamurchan #Kilchoan
The utterly charming, yet hard hitting, 1972 documentary about the railway to Kyle of Lochalsh. m.youtube.com/watch?v=AVN8...
The Line To Skye Kyle Line 1972
YouTube video by ageofthe train
m.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The utterly charming, yet hard hitting, 1972 documentary about the railway to Kyle of Lochalsh. m.youtube.com/watch?v=AVN8...
Why do not like writing books:
Fix floor in someone’s house - get paid. 👍
Fix someone’s car - get paid. 👍
Write complex history book in own time at much effort causing stress. Do NOT get paid. 👎
Fix floor in someone’s house - get paid. 👍
Fix someone’s car - get paid. 👍
Write complex history book in own time at much effort causing stress. Do NOT get paid. 👎
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Why do not like writing books:
Fix floor in someone’s house - get paid. 👍
Fix someone’s car - get paid. 👍
Write complex history book in own time at much effort causing stress. Do NOT get paid. 👎
Fix floor in someone’s house - get paid. 👍
Fix someone’s car - get paid. 👍
Write complex history book in own time at much effort causing stress. Do NOT get paid. 👎
Halloween appropriate lecture: Scottish Necromancers and Elite Magic, with Prof Julian Goodare and Dr Louise Yeoman. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JoJE...
Scottish Necromancers and Elite Magic
YouTube video by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
m.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Halloween appropriate lecture: Scottish Necromancers and Elite Magic, with Prof Julian Goodare and Dr Louise Yeoman. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JoJE...