Michael Lawrence
@mpalawrence.bsky.social
Queer Historian 🌈| PhD: Male Homosexuality and Irish Migration 1880-1960 @ QUB | Views expressed are not only my own, but are objectively correct 🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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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
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Cara-Friend staff had a fantastic time tonight at the @rainbowrefugeesni Halloween meet up! 🎃
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Cara-Friend staff had a fantastic time tonight at the @rainbowrefugeesni Halloween meet up! 🎃
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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...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...
Nearly four years of work wrapped up with one e-mail! The thesis is officially off my desk 😌🎉
September 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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
September 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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.
September 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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.
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reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
August 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
Had an absolutely fantastic time at Belfast Pride with the team at @cara-friend.bsky.social !
July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Had an absolutely fantastic time at Belfast Pride with the team at @cara-friend.bsky.social !
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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!
July 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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!
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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
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
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.
www.rte.ie
July 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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
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
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A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80
💼 Job spotlight of the week:
Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict at the Imperial War Museum, London (FT, £31-34k, Permanent)
imperialwarmuseums.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict at the Imperial War Museum, London (FT, £31-34k, Permanent)
imperialwarmuseums.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict - IWM
Title: Curator, Second World War and Mid Twentieth-Century Conflict . Location: IWM London. Application Deadline: 11/08/2025, 09:00
imperialwarmuseums.tal.net
July 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80
Intention to submit posted. Caffeine guzzled. Edits in progress.
July 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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!
We are seeking to recruit a Community Engagement Officer to join our team! This post will have a key role in the Belfast LGBTQIA+ Community Engagement Project, funded by #PEACEPLUS, in partnership with The Rainbow Project and HereNI. For an application pack, please contact: admin@cara-friend.org.uk!
July 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Been working with these folks for a while now (although officially for the last few weeks) and it's a great environment!
Had a great time presenting in the @ssnci.bsky.social conference! Aberdeen, as a city, is often taken for granite in my opinion.
June 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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
June 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Someone needs to stop me sending this to my friends every time I do something mischievous
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“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.
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
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."
www.nacbs.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“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.
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
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🏳️⚧️ 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)
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)
May 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🏳️⚧️ 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)
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)
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Today at 4pm
Join us on 27 May for a talk by Prof Mark McGowan, Uni of Toronto, on Indigenous aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. Cohosted with @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social and @irishheritage.bsky.social . Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-mcgow...
May 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Today at 4pm
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Heartened to receive a gift in the post from lovely academic friend. Very cool.
May 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Heartened to receive a gift in the post from lovely academic friend. Very cool.
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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...
May 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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...
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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...
AHSS Global Fellows | About | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
May 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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.
May 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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!
May 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
A beautiful day for solidarity in Belfast today!
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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.
April 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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.