Jeff Mefk
@jeffmeek.bsky.social
As a historian, something of a curate’s egg. LGBTQ history.
www.queerscotland.com
www.queerscotland.com
Who will be remembered here: Queer Spaces in Scotland www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...
Queer heritage across Scotland explored in brand new book | Historic Environment Scotland
Featuring 14 authors including Ali Smith, Damian Barr, Rona Munro and Louise Welsh.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Who will be remembered here: Queer Spaces in Scotland www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...
Found a photo (poor quality) of me working on the Whithorn Dig in the mid 1980s. Loved it.
November 14, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Found a photo (poor quality) of me working on the Whithorn Dig in the mid 1980s. Loved it.
New followers: I also created the website www.queerscotland.com with latest articles including Dr Michael Shaw on homosexuality in the Scottish Press, 1880-1930. queerscotland.com/2024/10/04/h...
Homosexuality and the Scottish Press 1880-1930
A guest post by Dr Michael Shaw, Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. In his History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault famously critiqued the ‘repressive hypothesis’. Far f…
queerscotland.com
November 13, 2024 at 5:10 PM
New followers: I also created the website www.queerscotland.com with latest articles including Dr Michael Shaw on homosexuality in the Scottish Press, 1880-1930. queerscotland.com/2024/10/04/h...
Every family has its own ‘mysteries’. I was intrigued by my grandmother’s reluctance to speak of her family history as it was ‘too painful’. I think I found out why - this happened to her grandfather.
November 12, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Every family has its own ‘mysteries’. I was intrigued by my grandmother’s reluctance to speak of her family history as it was ‘too painful’. I think I found out why - this happened to her grandfather.
For new followers: I’m an alleged historian of sexualities; male sex work in the 20s/30s; gay & bisexual men’s experiences in post-war Scotland. Add to this a historian of marriage (co-authored book forthcoming) and more recently, investigating Scottish university ‘gaysocs’ in the 1970s and 1980s.
November 12, 2024 at 8:42 PM
For new followers: I’m an alleged historian of sexualities; male sex work in the 20s/30s; gay & bisexual men’s experiences in post-war Scotland. Add to this a historian of marriage (co-authored book forthcoming) and more recently, investigating Scottish university ‘gaysocs’ in the 1970s and 1980s.
Sudden bump in followers which means a) I’ve been mistaken for somebody much more interesting or b) I’m on a list.
November 8, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Sudden bump in followers which means a) I’ve been mistaken for somebody much more interesting or b) I’m on a list.
That awful feeling on realising that I am older than Therese Coffey.
November 8, 2024 at 5:57 PM
That awful feeling on realising that I am older than Therese Coffey.
‘Homosexuality and the Scottish Press’ a guest post from Dr Michael Shaw of Stirling University on QueerScotland: queerscotland.com/2024/10/04/h...
Homosexuality and the Scottish Press 1880-1930
A guest post by Dr Michael Shaw, Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. In his History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault famously critiqued the ‘repressive hypothesis’. Far f…
queerscotland.com
October 4, 2024 at 11:20 AM
‘Homosexuality and the Scottish Press’ a guest post from Dr Michael Shaw of Stirling University on QueerScotland: queerscotland.com/2024/10/04/h...
Niche post, but i had no idea that Joan of Arc in the OMD (one of the best bands of the 80s) music video for Maid of Orleans was played by Julia Tobin of Auf Wiedersehen Pet fame. youtu.be/6X_NFYsbaMQ?...
INCREDIBLE!| FIRST TIME HEARING OMD - Maid Of Orleans REACTION WITH FOUNDING MEMBER Andy McCluskey
YouTube video by Rob Squad Reactions
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September 28, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Niche post, but i had no idea that Joan of Arc in the OMD (one of the best bands of the 80s) music video for Maid of Orleans was played by Julia Tobin of Auf Wiedersehen Pet fame. youtu.be/6X_NFYsbaMQ?...
I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather be at the moment than here.
September 19, 2024 at 10:23 AM
I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather be at the moment than here.
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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the excellently excellent @jeffmeek.bsky.social about his work on the history of cottaging in Scotland.
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Cruising & Cottaging: Sex in Public Places | Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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September 17, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the excellently excellent @jeffmeek.bsky.social about his work on the history of cottaging in Scotland.
shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...
shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...
Did a thing: Betwixt the Sheets: Cruising and Cottaging shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...
Cruising & Cottaging: Sex in Public Places | Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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September 16, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Did a thing: Betwixt the Sheets: Cruising and Cottaging shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...
Reposted by Jeff Mefk
CALL FOR PAPERS: Sport, “islands”, people, and politics
Saturday, 28 June 2025: the St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney.
Jointly supported by the Scottish Society of Northern Studies (northernstudies.bsky.social) and the British Society of Sports History.
Saturday, 28 June 2025: the St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney.
Jointly supported by the Scottish Society of Northern Studies (northernstudies.bsky.social) and the British Society of Sports History.
Call for papers: Sport, “islands”, people, and politics
The St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney Saturday, 28 June 2025 A joint one-day conference supported by the Scottish Society of Northern Studies and the British Society of Sports History Plenary speaker...
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September 3, 2024 at 3:26 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS: Sport, “islands”, people, and politics
Saturday, 28 June 2025: the St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney.
Jointly supported by the Scottish Society of Northern Studies (northernstudies.bsky.social) and the British Society of Sports History.
Saturday, 28 June 2025: the St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney.
Jointly supported by the Scottish Society of Northern Studies (northernstudies.bsky.social) and the British Society of Sports History.
Currently writing a memoir style chapter for a LGBTQ arts and heritage collection. I’m finding it incredibly difficult/uncomfortable inserting myself into this particular history despite being ‘there’.
September 3, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Currently writing a memoir style chapter for a LGBTQ arts and heritage collection. I’m finding it incredibly difficult/uncomfortable inserting myself into this particular history despite being ‘there’.
And currently preparing my Sexualities hons course (UK LGBTQ history, 1885-1990) for its 5th running. Did a judicial theatre performance based on Queer Trades (dir. Kfir Lapid). Thinking of bringing elements of this into a seminar.
August 29, 2024 at 8:51 PM
And currently preparing my Sexualities hons course (UK LGBTQ history, 1885-1990) for its 5th running. Did a judicial theatre performance based on Queer Trades (dir. Kfir Lapid). Thinking of bringing elements of this into a seminar.
Had a great holiday in Sutherland recently. Stunning.
August 29, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Had a great holiday in Sutherland recently. Stunning.
I’m recording a Podcast on cottaging this afternoon. In some ways I am glad my grandparents are no longer around to know this.
a woman with a ring on her finger is covering her mouth
ALT: a woman with a ring on her finger is covering her mouth
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August 29, 2024 at 9:15 AM
I’m recording a Podcast on cottaging this afternoon. In some ways I am glad my grandparents are no longer around to know this.
And contentment within academia is sometimes accepting you will never be the greatest or most intellectually invigorating writer. The odd bit of praise is often manna from heaven.
August 28, 2024 at 5:17 PM
And contentment within academia is sometimes accepting you will never be the greatest or most intellectually invigorating writer. The odd bit of praise is often manna from heaven.
I know it’s been discussed to death but imposter syndrome never really leaves most of us in an academia. You also sometimes need a Teflon-coated ego. Not everyone will enjoy your output and criticism can be hard to take sometimes.
August 28, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I know it’s been discussed to death but imposter syndrome never really leaves most of us in an academia. You also sometimes need a Teflon-coated ego. Not everyone will enjoy your output and criticism can be hard to take sometimes.
Always interested in how people came to academia. Me: from a solidly w/c background. Got my PhD at 40. Previously worked in retail/call centres. Spent much of the early 90s ‘on the dole’.
August 27, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Always interested in how people came to academia. Me: from a solidly w/c background. Got my PhD at 40. Previously worked in retail/call centres. Spent much of the early 90s ‘on the dole’.