Heike Bauer

@heikebauer.bsky.social

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Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland .. more

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 8d

Today! 6pm at Birkbeck. Hope to see some of you there!

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 9d

This week Wednesday at Birkbeck, right in the heart of Bloomsbury: join us for thought-provoking talk by the brilliant Julia Laite on the history of Newfoundland, home of one of the British Empire’s most remote settlements where one of its most complete genocides took place. Free but pls register

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Annual Graduate Lecture 2025 - Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829

Join us for an exploration of ways of mapping and knowing Newfoundland in the 18th & 19th centuries delivered by Julia Laite

www.bbk.ac.uk

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 8d

Sorry, this is an in-person event only.

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 9d

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Annual Graduate Lecture 2025 - Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829

Join us for an exploration of ways of mapping and knowing Newfoundland in the 18th & 19th centuries delivered by Julia Laite

www.bbk.ac.uk

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 13d

Join us on 19 Nov for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture featuring Julia Laite on the difficult history of Newfoundland, home to one of the British Empire’s oldest & most isolated settler populations where one of its most totalizing genocides took place. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Annual Graduate Lecture 2025 - Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829

Join us for an exploration of ways of mapping and knowing Newfoundland in the 18th & 19th centuries delivered by Julia Laite

www.bbk.ac.uk

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Oct 23

Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'.

19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London.

All welcome but please register:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Oct 17

Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Oct 16

Vienna!

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · Sep 30

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

University English Funding

universityenglish.ac.uk

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Sep 21

Did you colour coordinate with Robyn? Looking good and great to see you out and about together, Martin!

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Sep 15

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

Reminder: Journal of the History of Sexuality seeks new editor(s) | H-Net

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is seeking new editors. The JHS, which was founded in 1990 and is published by the University of Texas Press, is the oldest journal devoted to the history of se...

networks.h-net.org

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Sep 8

A familiar London panorama looking particularly bright today

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Sep 6

Beautiful Gothic moon over the Surrey Hills

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Aug 27

My paperback is being launched tomorrow at the Holloway bookshop in Norwich. Do come along!

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · Aug 25

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography now live! 🏳️‍🌈

Thank you to all of the collaborators who made this resource happen! And what a resource it is! Let us know if and when and how you use it!

Check it out!

#BookHistory #QueerBookHistory #LGBTQIABooks #Research

sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography – SHARP NEWS

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Painterly morning view in the Surrey Hills

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 16

Head in the clouds

Photo of a white cat sitting on a windowsill taken from outside the window. Her black head markings are merging into the clouds reflected in the window pane.

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Aug 14

I can't wait to speak at this year's Gloucester History Festival on Monday 15 September at 12pm.

Find out more and book your tickets:
www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/marga...

#GlosHistFest25

Instagram: @gloshistfest
Facebook: /gloucesterhistoryfestival
X: @gloshistfest

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 9

A lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on South Beach in Troon on the west coast of Scotland. One of the largest jellyfish, it is a beautiful if intimidating presence for those of us who swim off this beach or walk on the shore: the tentacles can reach 3m & will sting long after they’ve been stranded

A big red brown and white lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on a beach with a green slider in the foreground for scale

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 7

My mother died today. Born in what was then East Prussia, her childhood was overshadowed by WWII. She spent several formative years in refugee camps before being moved to the Black Forest. She was devoted to her adopted home & even more so to my father whose death preceded hers by 14 years. Vale

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 4

So sorry, Bodie

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 4

So sorry, Liz. Such a brutal time in HE

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 4

How sad!

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 3

Currently looks like you’ve got some great weather to look forward to but South Beach is great in all conditions imho!

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 3

Meiner auch!

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sadly didn’t have time this year but last year we took the dogs over for some fantastic walking!

Reposted by Diane Watt, Kathleen Kennedy

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Aug 3

Beautiful sunset in Troon on the West Coast of Scotland with the Isle of Arran a mirage-like shimmer in the far instance

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 26

Fun Home is wonderful and it you haven’t yet read them Are You My Mother? & The Secret to Superhuman Strength are other treats in store for you. But Dykes to Watch Out is the essential prerequisite-reading for Spent IMHO. Enjoy!

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 25

Meanwhile what they don’t show in the news about Trump’s arrival in Prestwick

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 23

West Coast of Scotland sunsets are the best

Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Jul 22

Distant view of Ailsa Craig, where blue hone and common green granite is quarried to make curling stones, on a beautiful blustery day.

Distant view of a small dome-shaped island in grey seas, with white waves on the foreground and a blue, cloudy sky above

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