Charlie Lynch
@charlielynch.bsky.social
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics. And for a newspaper.
And that will be the latest editions of Irish Historical Studies and the Journal of the History of Sexuality.
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
And that will be the latest editions of Irish Historical Studies and the Journal of the History of Sexuality.
Quite a paragraph here:
November 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Quite a paragraph here:
From BBC News earlier:
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
From BBC News earlier:
From Andrew Swan’s book:
October 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
From Andrew Swan’s book:
And Barrhill, a fair hike from the village, is centrally located compared to Gatehouse of Fleet, closed 1965, a full seven miles from the settlement and apparently in the middle of nowhere. Even in the 19th century, what was the point of this?
October 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
And Barrhill, a fair hike from the village, is centrally located compared to Gatehouse of Fleet, closed 1965, a full seven miles from the settlement and apparently in the middle of nowhere. Even in the 19th century, what was the point of this?
From today’s (exhausting but amazing) hike. Visit Galloway. Really do visit Galloway.
October 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
From today’s (exhausting but amazing) hike. Visit Galloway. Really do visit Galloway.
Barrhill station, South Ayrshire. Built by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway in 1877, and the only intermediate railway station remaining open from what was once a straggling network connecting Stranraer to the outside world.
October 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Barrhill station, South Ayrshire. Built by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway in 1877, and the only intermediate railway station remaining open from what was once a straggling network connecting Stranraer to the outside world.
Dr Stephan Ehrig of Glasgow University launching his new book on cultural landscapes of modernist architecture in East Germany, Neubau Atmospheres.
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Dr Stephan Ehrig of Glasgow University launching his new book on cultural landscapes of modernist architecture in East Germany, Neubau Atmospheres.
Rural activities of past. Workers at Loch Skerrow, one of the most remote railway communities in Britain, made extra money by salvaging carcasses of grouse which had flown into power lines, sewing them back together and selling them as food. From Andrew Swann’s book, the Port Road.
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Rural activities of past. Workers at Loch Skerrow, one of the most remote railway communities in Britain, made extra money by salvaging carcasses of grouse which had flown into power lines, sewing them back together and selling them as food. From Andrew Swann’s book, the Port Road.
Generating press coverage like this, from 1963:
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Generating press coverage like this, from 1963:
In today’s public history column in the @scotnational.bsky.social I interview @linda83ross.bsky.social about the social history of the coming of nuclear power to the Highlands of Scotland in the 1950s. And why almost everyone at the time seemed to think it was a great idea…
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In today’s public history column in the @scotnational.bsky.social I interview @linda83ross.bsky.social about the social history of the coming of nuclear power to the Highlands of Scotland in the 1950s. And why almost everyone at the time seemed to think it was a great idea…
I went to the shop formerly known as as Homebase to buy some spray paint. There was art for sale, too.
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I went to the shop formerly known as as Homebase to buy some spray paint. There was art for sale, too.
So, a plus point of moonlighting as a history journalist is visiting fascinating places and conversing with their keepers. Today, an 18th century library with a pulpit and a semi-derelict 19th century music hall, astonishingly preserved by having been a shop.
October 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
So, a plus point of moonlighting as a history journalist is visiting fascinating places and conversing with their keepers. Today, an 18th century library with a pulpit and a semi-derelict 19th century music hall, astonishingly preserved by having been a shop.
I’m enjoying this hefty popular history treating with the … complex sexuality of James VI. Some of the descriptions of the Jacobean court are starting to make Blackadder II look like a documentary.
October 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I’m enjoying this hefty popular history treating with the … complex sexuality of James VI. Some of the descriptions of the Jacobean court are starting to make Blackadder II look like a documentary.
A sign of the times in the takeaway.
September 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A sign of the times in the takeaway.
Fire on first time this autumn.
September 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Fire on first time this autumn.
I’m now developing an account for my public history column, follow if you so wish:
September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I’m now developing an account for my public history column, follow if you so wish:
Article in Daily Mail (I know) with following claims. “You forced me to do the racist speech and your friends say I’m a sock puppet”, says leader of country.
September 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Article in Daily Mail (I know) with following claims. “You forced me to do the racist speech and your friends say I’m a sock puppet”, says leader of country.
This year’s Sue Innes Memorial Lecture at @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference given by @vawright10.bsky.social on ‘Housing as a ‘Women’s Issue’: Women and Housing Activism in Twentieth Century Scotland.
September 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This year’s Sue Innes Memorial Lecture at @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference given by @vawright10.bsky.social on ‘Housing as a ‘Women’s Issue’: Women and Housing Activism in Twentieth Century Scotland.
Well, that was the more unedifying biographies I’ve read. Effective as a portrait of a lost social world of bohemian boozing and bitchiness, the book’s subject, profoundly unhappy and certainly disturbed, staggers through life beset by alcoholic disasters, crumbling away, drowned in vodka and lime.
September 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Well, that was the more unedifying biographies I’ve read. Effective as a portrait of a lost social world of bohemian boozing and bitchiness, the book’s subject, profoundly unhappy and certainly disturbed, staggers through life beset by alcoholic disasters, crumbling away, drowned in vodka and lime.