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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Classic Christmas cake
Bake this festive fruit cake in advance of Christmas and feed it regularly with rum, brandy or whisky to build the flavour and keep it moist
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November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Good old auntie beeb! www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/make...
yup. maybe some stem subject colleagues will find decent work outside academia, but your run of the mill humanities academic? pipe dream
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
yup. maybe some stem subject colleagues will find decent work outside academia, but your run of the mill humanities academic? pipe dream
Feeling very pleased with mine baked today, but going to have to ‘feed’ more regularly if you’ve been going two weeks already!
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Feeling very pleased with mine baked today, but going to have to ‘feed’ more regularly if you’ve been going two weeks already!
same vibe as in the UK, where the Labour Party critiques right wing parties on their approach to refugees through the prism of “workability” rather than the fact the policies are fucking evil
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
same vibe as in the UK, where the Labour Party critiques right wing parties on their approach to refugees through the prism of “workability” rather than the fact the policies are fucking evil
I’m sure you’ll get over it, “Reggie Perrin”. In the meantime, you still have the option of fucking off!
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I’m sure you’ll get over it, “Reggie Perrin”. In the meantime, you still have the option of fucking off!
It was a tweet dashed off at midnignt, not a public pronouncement, you absolute prat
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
It was a tweet dashed off at midnignt, not a public pronouncement, you absolute prat
there’s a strange, rude tone to your reply that implies you (erroneously) think I would for some reason downplay sectarianism. I’ve no idea who you are, because, like a coward, you use a pseudonym, so you can “fuck off”
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
there’s a strange, rude tone to your reply that implies you (erroneously) think I would for some reason downplay sectarianism. I’ve no idea who you are, because, like a coward, you use a pseudonym, so you can “fuck off”
For interested observers: there were already two other university colleges of Queen’s, both in Belfast - St. Mary’s and Stranmillis.
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
For interested observers: there were already two other university colleges of Queen’s, both in Belfast - St. Mary’s and Stranmillis.
That is scandalous. Redefining ‘research’ as ‘money’ is a huge attack on the basics of what it is we do.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
That is scandalous. Redefining ‘research’ as ‘money’ is a huge attack on the basics of what it is we do.