Piers Haslam 🌺
@phghaslam.bsky.social
PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social | Queer and gender historian | Researching confirmed bachelorhood in England 1880–1960 | they/them
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!
It's all the more interesting and entertaining knowing that it was something of a hack job—one wonders if allusions to people like "an urning medical man of middle-age" were indeed send-ups of friends of Croft-Cooke and Harrison.
July 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It's all the more interesting and entertaining knowing that it was something of a hack job—one wonders if allusions to people like "an urning medical man of middle-age" were indeed send-ups of friends of Croft-Cooke and Harrison.
It's always exciting to finally get your hands on a book you've only read about. Written by Rupert Croft-Cooke and Michael Harrison in 1932.
July 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It's always exciting to finally get your hands on a book you've only read about. Written by Rupert Croft-Cooke and Michael Harrison in 1932.
I've been feeling angry yet defiant today. Retail therapy has helped, including some outrageous clothes from the kilo sale (scarf pictured) and some rare treasures from the St Botoloph's book sale.
April 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I've been feeling angry yet defiant today. Retail therapy has helped, including some outrageous clothes from the kilo sale (scarf pictured) and some rare treasures from the St Botoloph's book sale.
Outrageously delighted to own this 1979 German edition of The Lord of the Rings. What stunning cover illustrations by Heinz Edelmann.
April 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Outrageously delighted to own this 1979 German edition of The Lord of the Rings. What stunning cover illustrations by Heinz Edelmann.
Oh, to be an exiled eunuch now!
![Picture of a page of Elaine Showalter's "Literature of Their Own" (1977). Chapter on Woolf's supposed "flight into androgyny". The words "They [androgyny and the private room] have a darker side that is the sphere of the exile and the eunuch".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:krdsjtssxpdsvoof7bgt3krg/bafkreif2gdx6s74doblrk2mw5d3g3elskjgw5v7tn57uozg24pqyjeiyou@jpeg)
April 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Oh, to be an exiled eunuch now!
For anyone in Cambridge who missed me last week, come along to hear me speak tomorrow afternoon! 5pm in the Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building at the back of St John's College.
March 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
For anyone in Cambridge who missed me last week, come along to hear me speak tomorrow afternoon! 5pm in the Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building at the back of St John's College.
RIP Cocoa Tea, one of the greats of 80s reggae and dancehall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7F...
March 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
RIP Cocoa Tea, one of the greats of 80s reggae and dancehall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7F...
Sharing from Shon Faye's Instagram
February 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sharing from Shon Faye's Instagram
Imagine reading this title in the year 2005
February 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Imagine reading this title in the year 2005
I'm inordinately excited by the opening of the Seeley Library in its new temporary home, the West Room. It looks great!
January 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I'm inordinately excited by the opening of the Seeley Library in its new temporary home, the West Room. It looks great!
Back to that most demonic of arts, British history 👹
January 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Back to that most demonic of arts, British history 👹
Without downloading new pics what's it like dating you
January 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Without downloading new pics what's it like dating you
I love that even Ancestry is asking "Why didn't he get married? 👀"
January 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I love that even Ancestry is asking "Why didn't he get married? 👀"
Christmas reading
December 25, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Christmas reading
Still one of my favourites from a while ago on the other place
December 23, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Still one of my favourites from a while ago on the other place
When coming up with chapter subheadings, the titles of books I saw on a library catalogue years ago come to me as if in a shamanic trance.
December 11, 2024 at 10:33 AM
When coming up with chapter subheadings, the titles of books I saw on a library catalogue years ago come to me as if in a shamanic trance.
A moment of repose on the last day of term. It's also my last day of teaching, which gets more and more rewarding with every term (I must keep soppiness to a minimum!)
December 6, 2024 at 2:23 PM
A moment of repose on the last day of term. It's also my last day of teaching, which gets more and more rewarding with every term (I must keep soppiness to a minimum!)
My autobiography, etc etc
December 3, 2024 at 9:41 AM
My autobiography, etc etc
Unposted. Stamped "Wilkin's Studio, Park Street, Stow-on-the-Wold".
"Best love to Gladys from Doris[,] Aug 3rd 1919."
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It's a good feeling getting dressed up and enjoying the outdoors in the summertime!
"Best love to Gladys from Doris[,] Aug 3rd 1919."
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It's a good feeling getting dressed up and enjoying the outdoors in the summertime!
November 25, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Unposted. Stamped "Wilkin's Studio, Park Street, Stow-on-the-Wold".
"Best love to Gladys from Doris[,] Aug 3rd 1919."
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It's a good feeling getting dressed up and enjoying the outdoors in the summertime!
"Best love to Gladys from Doris[,] Aug 3rd 1919."
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It's a good feeling getting dressed up and enjoying the outdoors in the summertime!
A great day at Trinity Hall learning to use Handwritten Text Recognition to boost my research. Many thanks to Rachael Griffiths and @mariekem.bsky.social for organising the workshop, and to the librarian for giving us a tour of their beautiful 16th-century library.
November 22, 2024 at 7:11 PM
A great day at Trinity Hall learning to use Handwritten Text Recognition to boost my research. Many thanks to Rachael Griffiths and @mariekem.bsky.social for organising the workshop, and to the librarian for giving us a tour of their beautiful 16th-century library.
The flag at Selwyn College marking Transgender Day of Remembrance.
November 20, 2024 at 3:10 PM
The flag at Selwyn College marking Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Glimpses of 20th-century Dartford. Almost a visual encapsulation of my historical state of mind (I'd elaborate if I could!)
November 19, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Glimpses of 20th-century Dartford. Almost a visual encapsulation of my historical state of mind (I'd elaborate if I could!)