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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As an affiliate of Irish Congress of Trade Unions, @ucuatqub.bsky.social encourages colleagues to gather in front of the Lanyon Building gates at 12.30 on Friday 28th November to show solidarity with Palestinian trades unionists, workers and the Palestinian people. Hot food & tea/coffee provided!
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As an affiliate of Irish Congress of Trade Unions, @ucuatqub.bsky.social encourages colleagues to gather in front of the Lanyon Building gates at 12.30 on Friday 28th November to show solidarity with Palestinian trades unionists, workers and the Palestinian people. Hot food & tea/coffee provided!
a relatively small point, I guess, but given the underlying right wing politics behind reducing ‘international’ students its grating to see the I using ‘foreign’ instead of that usual term
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
a relatively small point, I guess, but given the underlying right wing politics behind reducing ‘international’ students its grating to see the I using ‘foreign’ instead of that usual term
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i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
the only legitimate pre-December Christmas activity is ‘stir up Sunday’, and I cannot be convinced otherwise
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
the only legitimate pre-December Christmas activity is ‘stir up Sunday’, and I cannot be convinced otherwise
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Featured on the An Saoránach substack (and instagram) today! ansaoranach.substack.com?r=19ozom&utm...
An Saoránach | An Saoránach // The Citizen | Substack
A Progressive Voice For Irish America. Click to read An Saoránach, by An Saoránach // The Citizen, a Substack publication.
ansaoranach.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Featured on the An Saoránach substack (and instagram) today! ansaoranach.substack.com?r=19ozom&utm...
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My new piece on the 2021 BBC documentary ‘Foot and Mouth - The Killing Fields in Wales’, and its revisiting of the impact of the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak and ensuing animal cull on the nation’s farmers. A 🧵 about the programme...
#skystorians #envhum #polisky
#skystorians #envhum #polisky
Foot and Mouth – The Killing Fields in Wales (2021)
This documentary revisited the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak and ensuing animal cull in Wales, and its impact on the country’s farmers, in part through the prism of the recent COVID pandemic.
academicbubble.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
My new piece on the 2021 BBC documentary ‘Foot and Mouth - The Killing Fields in Wales’, and its revisiting of the impact of the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak and ensuing animal cull on the nation’s farmers. A 🧵 about the programme...
#skystorians #envhum #polisky
#skystorians #envhum #polisky
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Have had a busy & enjoyable October/November zipping about for my book! More to come in the next few months 😉#PiousPromiscuous #NewBook #HistFam #HistSex
@unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social
@unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social
Celebrating the launch of Pious and promiscuous by @leannecalvert.bsky.social
The book offers a previously unseen glimpse into how ordinary people navigated life’s most significant events as members of a closely knit religious community. Their stories may make you laugh, gasp or even shed a tear
The book offers a previously unseen glimpse into how ordinary people navigated life’s most significant events as members of a closely knit religious community. Their stories may make you laugh, gasp or even shed a tear
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Have had a busy & enjoyable October/November zipping about for my book! More to come in the next few months 😉#PiousPromiscuous #NewBook #HistFam #HistSex
@unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social
@unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social
I am a wee bit surprised that the Irish Minister for Further/Higher Education has called this "the first all-Ireland university ever"! Irish history did not start in 1922...
The new partnership between Queens University Belfast and Dundalk Institute of Technology is not a "parent child relationship," and represents the first "all-Ireland university", the Minister for Further and Higher Education has said.
'First all Ireland university' as DkIT partners with QUB
The new partnership between Queens University Belfast and Dundalk Institute of Technology is not a "parent child relationship," and represents the "first all-Ireland university ever", the Minister for...
www.rte.ie
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I am a wee bit surprised that the Irish Minister for Further/Higher Education has called this "the first all-Ireland university ever"! Irish history did not start in 1922...
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Industrial action works!
In response to our industrial action, the university proposed a resolution that removed the threat of compulsory redundancies for the next year and introduced a negotiation process over course closures. And at our branch meeting, we accepted this offer.
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Industrial action works!
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Asylum seekers aren't crying and terrified all the time and that makes the Daily Express mad
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Asylum seekers aren't crying and terrified all the time and that makes the Daily Express mad
I was not expecting to open my email this morning to find that the Institute of Technology in Dundalk - a town in Ireland - is to become a University College of Queen’s University Belfast… I’m not an expert in Irish cross-border/unification politics, but it feels like a pretty big deal
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I was not expecting to open my email this morning to find that the Institute of Technology in Dundalk - a town in Ireland - is to become a University College of Queen’s University Belfast… I’m not an expert in Irish cross-border/unification politics, but it feels like a pretty big deal
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Well this is very lovely - Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain named a book of the year by the great @eriklinstrum.bsky.social for History Today!
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Well this is very lovely - Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain named a book of the year by the great @eriklinstrum.bsky.social for History Today!
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Missing the last day of “Queer British History” panels today but leaving #NACBS2025 with lots to think about and weird pictures after spending a day doing Montreal the @tomhulme.bsky.social way. Au revoir, montreal!
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Missing the last day of “Queer British History” panels today but leaving #NACBS2025 with lots to think about and weird pictures after spending a day doing Montreal the @tomhulme.bsky.social way. Au revoir, montreal!
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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