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Piers Haslam 🌺
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PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social | Queer and gender historian | Researching confirmed bachelorhood in England 1880–1960 | they/them
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October 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Immediately found some amazing stuff. Go and explore this incredible collection for LGBT+ histories!
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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 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
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May 8, 2025 at 4:33 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.
April 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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
Oh, to be an exiled eunuch now!
April 22, 2025 at 2:59 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.
March 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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
Sharing from Shon Faye's Instagram
February 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Imagine reading this title in the year 2005
February 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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
Back to that most demonic of arts, British history 👹
January 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Without downloading new pics what's it like dating you
January 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I love that even Ancestry is asking "Why didn't he get married? 👀"
January 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Christmas reading
December 25, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Still one of my favourites from a while ago on the other place
December 23, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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
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
My autobiography, etc etc
December 3, 2024 at 9:41 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!
November 25, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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
The flag at Selwyn College marking Transgender Day of Remembrance.
November 20, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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