For this week's History Seminar, Professor Bryant Simon (Temple University, Philadelphia) joins us for: 'Disappearing Acts: Public Bathrooms and the Making of Public Inequality' 📅07/02, 4pm 🏛️27UQ/01/003 All welcome! Register 👉ow.ly/wm4o50UU7lE

Talk about saying the quiet part loud, sheesh.

The LGBTQ+ History Association statement on our outrage and call to update National Park Service (NPS) websites after the removal of reference to the Transgender (T) and Queer (Q) communities and history.    Please read our full statement: tinyurl.com/LGBTQHistoryre…

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This week's History Seminar, Tash Walker (Aunt Nell) presents: 'Archiving Queer Audio with Aunt Nell' 📅28/02, 4pm 🏛️27UQ/01/003 Register 👉ow.ly/lkmY50V3NrK

IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES

Call for papers! PGR Conference at QUB on 7 May 2025 "The Self Under Siege: Re-thinking Selfhood Across Disciplines". Submission deadline 28 March - scan QR code for more info.

Please join us for tomorrow's History Seminar where Dr Livi Dee will be presenting her paper: "A pregnancy, I suppose, ends in one of three ways": An Oral History of Unmarried Pregnancy in N. Ireland, 1945-2015'. 📅 21/03, 4pm 🏛️ 01/003, 27UQ Register 👉 ow.ly/ihjw50Vl7yT

Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled because of illness! Next week, we'll have another QUB Public History Seminar featuring Prof Alex Lichtenstein on 'Creating a Public Anti-Lynching Exhibition'!

With that, my organising stint for the QUB History Seminar Series is at its end! Had some amazing speakers over the last two years, and the wine wasn’t bad either! Thank you so much to Conor Brockbank for my gift, and for taking over the seminar series from me! 💖

Professor Sven Beckert (Laird Bell Professor of American History, Harvard University) will deliver this year's Wiles Lecture Series on the topic of 'Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism' 📅28-31 May 🏛️Emeleus Lecture Theatre, Lanyon Building All welcome!

Love this but regret looking at the comments on this. Boring hatred and bigotry that stems from a baby-like level of egocentrism and a complete lack of any sense of appreciation of heritage.

Sex, Love, and Everyday Life: A History of Northern Ireland before Gay Liberation 23rd July – 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm £5.00 – £6.50 In this talk, Dr Tom Hulme (Queen’s University Belfast) brings to life a whole host of queer characters and events in Northern Ireland’s past, from the

Had a fantastic time in Aberdeen speaking at the SSNCI: C19th Ireland annual conference! Believe it or not, this was a black-and-white slide but my radiant homosexuality was enough to turn the projector gay.

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve found records of a blackmail gang who targeted homosexual men in public bathrooms in the 1930s while pretending to be Irish I’d have two nickels, which isn’t that much but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Had a fantastic weekend at Belfast Pride with the Cara-Friend team!