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/...
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Around 10,000 university workers being made redundant this year. Labour policies are definitely cutting through in higher education …
November 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Around 10,000 university workers being made redundant this year. Labour policies are definitely cutting through in higher education …
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
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the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
Duncan Tanner Prize 2025
The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.
academic.oup.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
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Extraordinary story from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social: A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived.
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Extraordinary story from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social: A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived.
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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hOw dO wE wiN YouNg mEn?
please note that answers including "building a multiracial working class majority" will be answered with charges of bigotry but answers including "be racist and transphobic" will be welcomed as Hard Truths that Must Be Heard
please note that answers including "building a multiracial working class majority" will be answered with charges of bigotry but answers including "be racist and transphobic" will be welcomed as Hard Truths that Must Be Heard
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
hOw dO wE wiN YouNg mEn?
please note that answers including "building a multiracial working class majority" will be answered with charges of bigotry but answers including "be racist and transphobic" will be welcomed as Hard Truths that Must Be Heard
please note that answers including "building a multiracial working class majority" will be answered with charges of bigotry but answers including "be racist and transphobic" will be welcomed as Hard Truths that Must Be Heard
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In our new journal article, @tomhulme.bsky.social and I chart the biographies of three queer men who lived in N. Ireland between the 1900s and the 1970s. We show how their lives and sexual subjectivities were shaped by knowledge from beyond Ireland. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
Project MUSE - Queer Men and Networks of Communication in Northern Ireland Before the 1970s
muse.jhu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In our new journal article, @tomhulme.bsky.social and I chart the biographies of three queer men who lived in N. Ireland between the 1900s and the 1970s. We show how their lives and sexual subjectivities were shaped by knowledge from beyond Ireland. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
Project MUSE - Queer Men and Networks of Communication in Northern Ireland Before the 1970s
muse.jhu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
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Nice to receive author copies of the new 3-volume Cambridge Urban History of Europe today. I have a chapter in vol. 3 on the growth and internationalisation of the field. Let me know if you use it in teaching #urbanhistory
October 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Nice to receive author copies of the new 3-volume Cambridge Urban History of Europe today. I have a chapter in vol. 3 on the growth and internationalisation of the field. Let me know if you use it in teaching #urbanhistory
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Cara-Friend staff had a fantastic time tonight at the @rainbowrefugeesni Halloween meet up! 🎃
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Cara-Friend staff had a fantastic time tonight at the @rainbowrefugeesni Halloween meet up! 🎃
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
there's a genre of man that makes it a virtue to hate cats and love dogs, because in their tiny pea-brain the former are girls and the latter are boys
October 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
there's a genre of man that makes it a virtue to hate cats and love dogs, because in their tiny pea-brain the former are girls and the latter are boys
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Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
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📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
fuck, music reviews used to be brutal
October 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
fuck, music reviews used to be brutal
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This is great news - delighted that Sunil will be our visiting Wiles Lecturer in History at QUB next May. The book is outstanding.
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This is great news - delighted that Sunil will be our visiting Wiles Lecturer in History at QUB next May. The book is outstanding.
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"Original and captivating."
The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they have shortlisted Kieran Connell's (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) for the 2025 prize.
The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they have shortlisted Kieran Connell's (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) for the 2025 prize.
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"Original and captivating."
The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they have shortlisted Kieran Connell's (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) for the 2025 prize.
The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they have shortlisted Kieran Connell's (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) for the 2025 prize.
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Public housing posters, 1930s
October 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Public housing posters, 1930s
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
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Okay, I missed the actual anniversary date for this, but it has I realise been THIRTY YEARS! since the late rockstar historian Roy Porter and I published The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
The Facts of Life - Yale University Press London
This remarkable book traces the development of sexual knowledge and guidance in Britain over three centuries. An absorbing, shocking, and often moving narrat...
yalebooks.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Okay, I missed the actual anniversary date for this, but it has I realise been THIRTY YEARS! since the late rockstar historian Roy Porter and I published The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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I wrote about the stupid white paper.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
Somewhere in the Department for Education, a phone is ringing
On October 20th at a bit after 5pm, the UK government introduced its Education and Skills white paper to Parliament, to absolutely no…
hitchcockian.medium.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I wrote about the stupid white paper.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
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Really chuffed that over 40,000 folks have had a read of my piece on the "colourful sex lives of Presbyterians in 18/19 century Ulster" #ICYMI link here 👇#HistSex #NewBook @theconversation.com @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ria.ie
theconversation.com/the-sex-live...
theconversation.com/the-sex-live...
The sex lives of Presbyterians in 18th- and 19th-century Ulster were surprisingly colourful
The Presbyterian church closely regulated the intimate lives of its members through a system of church court discipline.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Really chuffed that over 40,000 folks have had a read of my piece on the "colourful sex lives of Presbyterians in 18/19 century Ulster" #ICYMI link here 👇#HistSex #NewBook @theconversation.com @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ria.ie
theconversation.com/the-sex-live...
theconversation.com/the-sex-live...
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
Really cool work here… returning to a time and place that was a foundational moment not just for urbanising Britain but also for the discipline of urban history and using new techniques to challenge a deeply embedded viewpoint!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Really cool work here… returning to a time and place that was a foundational moment not just for urbanising Britain but also for the discipline of urban history and using new techniques to challenge a deeply embedded viewpoint!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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For this week's #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist showcase, we'll be spotlighting 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' by Kieran Connell (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social)
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners...
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners...
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
For this week's #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist showcase, we'll be spotlighting 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' by Kieran Connell (@kieranconnell.bsky.social) (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social)
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners...
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners...