Tom Hulme
@tomhulme.bsky.social
Reader in History (Queen's University, Belfast).
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" (coming Apr 2026, Cornell University Press).
PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”.
Sec. of UCU branch.
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"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" (coming Apr 2026, Cornell University Press).
PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”.
Sec. of UCU branch.
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Tom Hulme
@tomhulme.bsky.social
· Dec 18
Storytellers - Hidden Belfast, Forbidden Love - Episode 1: A Hidden Man - BBC Sounds
The secret diaries of David Strain reveal a word of hidden passion and illegal sexuality.
www.bbc.co.uk
Some good news: “Hidden Belfast, Forbidden Love” - a drama series based on my research of the gay diarist David Strain - is now on BBC sounds indefinitely! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
interesting piece on social media, public profile & publishing. many followings (I’d observe) are built by being good at shit posting & online activism, or simply being physically attractive… which is jarring when the published topic is then totally different! hate the game not the player I guess?
This is a deeply depressing read by Rachel Hewitt and one that will feel frustratingly familiar to anyone trying to get a book published right now!! Also when she lists the big non fiction sellers - phew.
open.substack.com/pub/rachelhe...
open.substack.com/pub/rachelhe...
NO PLATFORM: something's rotten in the state of non-fiction
In the past, non-fiction writers built platforms by researching and writing books. Now, writers are expected to *already* possess substantial online platforms.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:06 AM
interesting piece on social media, public profile & publishing. many followings (I’d observe) are built by being good at shit posting & online activism, or simply being physically attractive… which is jarring when the published topic is then totally different! hate the game not the player I guess?
wonderful to see this beautifully readable & important biography of a queer Irish figure being republished!
Thrilled to see Eva Gore-Booth biography anniversary edition now included in the @manchesterup.bsky.social trade catalogue 2026. Due in print March 2026!
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January 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
wonderful to see this beautifully readable & important biography of a queer Irish figure being republished!
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Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚🗃️
www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
January 1, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚🗃️
www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...
www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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If a larger share of your vote than the average population are LGBT+, or minorities, or Muslim, and your government is transphobic, anti-migrant, tolerant of brutalisation of Muslims abroad, and you’re not substantially and visibly improving people’s lives in other ways, you’ll be very unpopular!
December 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If a larger share of your vote than the average population are LGBT+, or minorities, or Muslim, and your government is transphobic, anti-migrant, tolerant of brutalisation of Muslims abroad, and you’re not substantially and visibly improving people’s lives in other ways, you’ll be very unpopular!
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Give me your best recent British & Irish LGBTQI+ history recommendations! I'm updating the reading list for my queer & trans history module. Looking for things published in the last 2-3 years. 🌈🎓 🌈 🏳️⚧️ #queerhistory
December 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Give me your best recent British & Irish LGBTQI+ history recommendations! I'm updating the reading list for my queer & trans history module. Looking for things published in the last 2-3 years. 🌈🎓 🌈 🏳️⚧️ #queerhistory
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Join me, @tomhulme.bsky.social & @paraickerrigan.bsky.social in Dublin on Jan 23 at the Irish Georgian Society to talk about my book, Love in the Lav! Tickets scanner.topsec.com?d=1962&r=sho...
December 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Join me, @tomhulme.bsky.social & @paraickerrigan.bsky.social in Dublin on Jan 23 at the Irish Georgian Society to talk about my book, Love in the Lav! Tickets scanner.topsec.com?d=1962&r=sho...
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A free Xmas day dinner put on by my local Belfast Bengali restaurant for people by themselves during the holidays #EverydayMulticulturalism
December 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A free Xmas day dinner put on by my local Belfast Bengali restaurant for people by themselves during the holidays #EverydayMulticulturalism
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I enjoyed speaking to @fieryparticle.bsky.social and @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN, and its relevance for the politics of today
open.spotify.com/episode/59aX...
open.spotify.com/episode/59aX...
Multicultural Britain with Kieran Connell
open.spotify.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I enjoyed speaking to @fieryparticle.bsky.social and @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN, and its relevance for the politics of today
open.spotify.com/episode/59aX...
open.spotify.com/episode/59aX...
A joy to examine this terrific PhD on urban photography & social welfare in the 1st half of the 20th c. The strengths are myriad, but I was most struck by how visual culture informed welfare state narratives; important to remember as modern British urban history is moving to a post-1945 focus.
Thrilled to say that I passed my viva last week! Thank you to my examiners @tomhulme.bsky.social and Keir Waddington for such an enjoyable and constructive conversation, and to my brilliant supervisors @erikahanna.bsky.social and Tom Allbeson
December 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A joy to examine this terrific PhD on urban photography & social welfare in the 1st half of the 20th c. The strengths are myriad, but I was most struck by how visual culture informed welfare state narratives; important to remember as modern British urban history is moving to a post-1945 focus.
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Thrilled to say that I passed my viva last week! Thank you to my examiners @tomhulme.bsky.social and Keir Waddington for such an enjoyable and constructive conversation, and to my brilliant supervisors @erikahanna.bsky.social and Tom Allbeson
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thrilled to say that I passed my viva last week! Thank you to my examiners @tomhulme.bsky.social and Keir Waddington for such an enjoyable and constructive conversation, and to my brilliant supervisors @erikahanna.bsky.social and Tom Allbeson
It's a few weeks away - January 23rd - but it would be great to see a good turnout for this Dublin discussion of Averill Earls' important new book on male same-sex desire in 20th c. Ireland!
If you'll be in Dublin at the end of January, come to hear me talk for a bit (and then converse with the wonderful @tomhulme.bsky.social and @paraickerrigan.bsky.social), the eventbrite sign up is now live: www.eventbrite.ie/e/love-in-th...
'Love in the Lav' by Dr Averill Earls - Talk and Panel Discussion
Irish launch of Averill Earl’s 'Love in the Lav' with Páraic Kerrigan (UCD) and Tom Hulme (QUB).
www.eventbrite.ie
December 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It's a few weeks away - January 23rd - but it would be great to see a good turnout for this Dublin discussion of Averill Earls' important new book on male same-sex desire in 20th c. Ireland!
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a brilliant, incisive piece by @earner.bsky.social et al. The focus on “stories that disturb rather than coalesce with grand narratives” - and how such histories might be written - is a vital framing for what we might playfully dub the New Irish Queer History.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
a brilliant, incisive piece by @earner.bsky.social et al. The focus on “stories that disturb rather than coalesce with grand narratives” - and how such histories might be written - is a vital framing for what we might playfully dub the New Irish Queer History.
come on, lads; we need to up our game.
Scotland continues to be the queerest part of the UK, with 4.2% identifying as LGB, followed by England (3.7%), Wales (3.6%) and Northern Ireland (2.4%).
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
come on, lads; we need to up our game.
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning.
I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss.
We stand with you.
I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss.
We stand with you.
December 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning.
I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss.
We stand with you.
I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss.
We stand with you.
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How come the media isn't reporting what is going on in universities? The implications of this (and this is just 1 of many universities doing the same) are terrifying. For the local populations, for the towns affected, for the next generation, for research & development, for the future! #academicsky
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
How come the media isn't reporting what is going on in universities? The implications of this (and this is just 1 of many universities doing the same) are terrifying. For the local populations, for the towns affected, for the next generation, for research & development, for the future! #academicsky
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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Scotland continues to be the queerest part of the UK, with 4.2% identifying as LGB, followed by England (3.7%), Wales (3.6%) and Northern Ireland (2.4%).
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Scotland continues to be the queerest part of the UK, with 4.2% identifying as LGB, followed by England (3.7%), Wales (3.6%) and Northern Ireland (2.4%).
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#OpenAccess Research article, 'Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990', by Charlie Lynch is available through the following link:
@universitypress.cambridge.org
@universitypress.cambridge.org
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 - Volume 49 Issue 175
www.cambridge.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
#OpenAccess Research article, 'Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990', by Charlie Lynch is available through the following link:
@universitypress.cambridge.org
@universitypress.cambridge.org
a brilliant, incisive piece by @earner.bsky.social et al. The focus on “stories that disturb rather than coalesce with grand narratives” - and how such histories might be written - is a vital framing for what we might playfully dub the New Irish Queer History.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
a brilliant, incisive piece by @earner.bsky.social et al. The focus on “stories that disturb rather than coalesce with grand narratives” - and how such histories might be written - is a vital framing for what we might playfully dub the New Irish Queer History.
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#OpenAccess research article, 'Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century' by Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Roisín Higgins and Carole Holohan is available through the following link!
@universitypress.cambridge.org @earner.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org @earner.bsky.social
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century
www.cambridge.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#OpenAccess research article, 'Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century' by Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Roisín Higgins and Carole Holohan is available through the following link!
@universitypress.cambridge.org @earner.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org @earner.bsky.social
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If you're after a festive gift or want to treat yourself @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 40% discount on Songs of Seven Dials at the moment.
A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/
A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If you're after a festive gift or want to treat yourself @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 40% discount on Songs of Seven Dials at the moment.
A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/
A new history of London and the 1920s and 1930s for the knockdown price of £12: what's not to like?
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/
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If you'll be in Dublin at the end of January, come to hear me talk for a bit (and then converse with the wonderful @tomhulme.bsky.social and @paraickerrigan.bsky.social), the eventbrite sign up is now live: www.eventbrite.ie/e/love-in-th...
'Love in the Lav' by Dr Averill Earls - Talk and Panel Discussion
Irish launch of Averill Earl’s 'Love in the Lav' with Páraic Kerrigan (UCD) and Tom Hulme (QUB).
www.eventbrite.ie
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you'll be in Dublin at the end of January, come to hear me talk for a bit (and then converse with the wonderful @tomhulme.bsky.social and @paraickerrigan.bsky.social), the eventbrite sign up is now live: www.eventbrite.ie/e/love-in-th...
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honestly the most hurtful part of this announcement was the repeated supposed commitment to respecting everyone’s ‘dignity’ while announcing the closure of a campus on said campus in the middle of a teaching day
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
honestly the most hurtful part of this announcement was the repeated supposed commitment to respecting everyone’s ‘dignity’ while announcing the closure of a campus on said campus in the middle of a teaching day