Charlie Lynch
@charlielynch.bsky.social
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Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics. And for a newspaper.
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“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

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Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990
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Thank you am celebrating with fizzy wine
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The comprehensive railway system aside, 1950s Scotland was an awful, miserable place, a long dreary church service, single mothers being chased down the streets by journalists, spam for dinner before prayers. Thank fuck society moved on.
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tomhulme.bsky.social
New article just published from the ‘Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation’ project. Charlie lays out in brilliant (and often depressing) depth how the complex forces of psychiatry and religion shaped the responses to male homosexuality in the decades after WWII.
charlielynch.bsky.social
“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990
www.cambridge.org
charlielynch.bsky.social
“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990
www.cambridge.org
charlielynch.bsky.social
As an unemployed historian, it gives me great pleasure at this challenging time to finally announce a *new academic publication.* For which I will certainly use the klaxon. 🚨
charlielynch.bsky.social
Oh wow, I spoke too soon, the situation has just changed…
charlielynch.bsky.social
Hey Sam. I have a great desire to see that article published as well… The last I heard was that it might be ‘any day now’ but that there have obviously been production delays. So hopefully very soon…
charlielynch.bsky.social
So, a plus point of moonlighting as a history journalist is visiting fascinating places and conversing with their keepers. Today, an 18th century library with a pulpit and a semi-derelict 19th century music hall, astonishingly preserved by having been a shop.
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Voiceover: “… It was too much even for viewers of GB News… but was hailed as ‘common sense talk’ in Co Tyrone…”
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We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

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charlielynch.bsky.social
Bibliography impressively includes my friend Miles Peterson’s monograph on George Keith, 4th Earl Marischal. Mostly what I remember about this is learning that James habitually referred to George as ‘my fat little pork.’
charlielynch.bsky.social
Having got to the end, my only real issue with any of this is to ask why, in all of the complex terminology of historical sexualities explored in the otherwise very through appendix, did the author resist using the term ‘queer’ and never explain why.
charlielynch.bsky.social
Yes, as the “United Kingdom” slides into fascism, essential services barely work, costs rocket, secure jobs become a topic of nostalgia, I, dear readers, chronicle the culture wars of fifty years ago for no obvious financial purpose!
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Historian social media, imperfect as it is, is totally useful and important in what it does, which is to give immediate connection to a network of geographically dispersed scholars, to promote work which might otherwise sink without trace, and to exchange ideas and knowledge.
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Brief glimmer of sunshine on dark overcast day
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Great write up from @charlielynch.bsky.social in The National yesterday covering the upcoming 30th Anniversary of the Scottish Oral History Centre. My brilliant advisor and Director of the Centre @ymcfadden.bsky.social front and centre alongside the bona fide legend and founder Arthur McIvor!