Piers Haslam 🌺
@phghaslam.bsky.social
PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social | Queer and gender historian | Researching confirmed bachelorhood in England 1880–1960 | they/them
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Piers Haslam 🌺
@phghaslam.bsky.social
· Aug 9
Debating the Bachelor Tax: Masculinity and the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1894–1920
Abstract. ‘Bachelor tax’ was a popular shorthand for controversial changes in government policy regarding income tax and marital status. From 1918, men wer
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My first article is out! It examines the conjunction of fiscal policy and gender politics, highlighting the moment in 1920 when different income tax rates for the married and unmarried were first introduced into the British tax system 🧵 1/7
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University of Glasgow Library has a remarkably generous visiting research fellowship scheme - come hang out with me in Glasgow! Get funded! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Library - Research Fellows
www.gla.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
University of Glasgow Library has a remarkably generous visiting research fellowship scheme - come hang out with me in Glasgow! Get funded! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3
Early Career Researcher Network: key information for ECRs
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3
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We're in court today and tomorrow, taking on the EHRC's (now withdrawn) interim guidance, issued in haste following the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.
In accordance with our general practice, we are publishing the Skeleton Arguments of the Parties. goodlaw.social/h3nw
In accordance with our general practice, we are publishing the Skeleton Arguments of the Parties. goodlaw.social/h3nw
We’re taking on the EHRC interim guidance in court
After more than six months of disruption unleashed by the EHRC’s guidance, we’re arguing at the High Court that it is legally flawed.
goodlaw.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
We're in court today and tomorrow, taking on the EHRC's (now withdrawn) interim guidance, issued in haste following the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.
In accordance with our general practice, we are publishing the Skeleton Arguments of the Parties. goodlaw.social/h3nw
In accordance with our general practice, we are publishing the Skeleton Arguments of the Parties. goodlaw.social/h3nw
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Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉
Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
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Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
bacls.org/news/187/
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉
Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
bacls.org/news/187/
Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
bacls.org/news/187/
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
A moving little article - it captures the personal feelings that emerge when connecting with the trans past, while also paving the way for a productive reappraisal of Ed Wood's life and work.
lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
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Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns
Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A moving little article - it captures the personal feelings that emerge when connecting with the trans past, while also paving the way for a productive reappraisal of Ed Wood's life and work.
lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
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I listened to this Gender Reveal episode excerpt with @cassiusa.bsky.social the other day: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... and was struck by his point about grad students doing trans studies work in depts where they might be the only one/not adequately supported with field expertise!
Bonus: Cassius Adair + new book tour stops!
Podcast Episode · Gender Reveal · 10/27/2025 · Bonus · 24m
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October 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I listened to this Gender Reveal episode excerpt with @cassiusa.bsky.social the other day: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... and was struck by his point about grad students doing trans studies work in depts where they might be the only one/not adequately supported with field expertise!
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Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk.
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk.
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
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"I hope your rabbits die"
Well, thank you Ethel!
Well, thank you Ethel!
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"I hope your rabbits die"
Well, thank you Ethel!
Well, thank you Ethel!
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If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture.
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
History and Politics Seminar Series | Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
Michaelmas Term Seminars All meetings will take place in the Knox Shaw Room at Sidney Sussex College on Wednesdays at 5:30pm, except for the conference on 13 November, which will be held at Churchill ...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture.
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
Immediately found some amazing stuff. Go and explore this incredible collection for LGBT+ histories!
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Immediately found some amazing stuff. Go and explore this incredible collection for LGBT+ histories!
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This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media
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My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
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All of us who teach Raewyn Connell's work will be interested to read this new interview with her! In which she also reveals that she's currently working on a trans book! www.smh.com.au/national/rae...
Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal
Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.
www.smh.com.au
September 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
All of us who teach Raewyn Connell's work will be interested to read this new interview with her! In which she also reveals that she's currently working on a trans book! www.smh.com.au/national/rae...
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Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham
Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
I'm surely late to the party, but @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts are so good! I'm getting so many bite-size intros to books I've been meaning to read
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I'm surely late to the party, but @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts are so good! I'm getting so many bite-size intros to books I've been meaning to read
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Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Queer London
In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big ci...
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September 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this:
I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.
I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.
September 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this:
I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.
I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.
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Had a spare five minutes, so taking the chance to boost mine and @medhistoryman.bsky.social's open access article on a sexual scandal from the 1820s! If you are teaching 19c sexuality, politics, masculinity, or religion why not add it to your reading list!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Radical exposure: religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal
This article considers a hitherto neglected sexual scandal involving the Congregational minister William Bengo’ Collyer and two young men at a public swimming baths in Camberwell (then in Surrey) i...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Had a spare five minutes, so taking the chance to boost mine and @medhistoryman.bsky.social's open access article on a sexual scandal from the 1820s! If you are teaching 19c sexuality, politics, masculinity, or religion why not add it to your reading list!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hello modest number of followers: there is movement toward translating Feminism Against Cisness into Spanish and ppl have expressed enthusiasm abt translating The New Woman. If anyone knows of any presses or translators who might be into it please dm.
August 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hello modest number of followers: there is movement toward translating Feminism Against Cisness into Spanish and ppl have expressed enthusiasm abt translating The New Woman. If anyone knows of any presses or translators who might be into it please dm.
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Can anyone recommend readings on *premodern* disability and sexuality, and/or disability and queerness? #disabilitystudies #history #queerhistory #lgbthistory #earlymodern
August 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Can anyone recommend readings on *premodern* disability and sexuality, and/or disability and queerness? #disabilitystudies #history #queerhistory #lgbthistory #earlymodern
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If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
The Women’s History Network Annual Conference
Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections Reg…
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August 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
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a fun book to review and delighted to (probably) be the first to get the phrase "demon twink" into an academic journal
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History
Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
a fun book to review and delighted to (probably) be the first to get the phrase "demon twink" into an academic journal
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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If your research centrally involves the 19th-c. British press, you should for sure consider applying for a Curran Fellowship. Anybody can apply, and the process is blessedly straightforward. My late friend Eileen Curran would be proud to see all the fine projects that her generosity has assisted in.
📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
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August 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
If your research centrally involves the 19th-c. British press, you should for sure consider applying for a Curran Fellowship. Anybody can apply, and the process is blessedly straightforward. My late friend Eileen Curran would be proud to see all the fine projects that her generosity has assisted in.