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Piers Haslam 🌺

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PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social | Queer and gender historian | Researching confirmed bachelorhood in England 1880–1960 | they/them

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · Aug 9

My first article is out! It examines the conjunction of fiscal policy and gender politics, highlighting the moment in 1920 when different income tax rates for the married and unmarried were first introduced into the British tax system 🧵 1/7

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Debating the Bachelor Tax: Masculinity and the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1894–1920

Abstract. ‘Bachelor tax’ was a popular shorthand for controversial changes in government policy regarding income tax and marital status. From 1918, men wer

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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 4d

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

Cover of the edited volume Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World: New Approaches to print Sources published by Palgrave. The cover image is a 35mm black and white photo of a show in a queer club with two individuals in pup wear reading media during the performance.

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sure someone must have looked into this! I've become an armchair phonetician after watching Geoff Lindsey's videos. I really recommend a website called Youglish, where you can compare pronunciations across YouTube videos to get clues on contextual patterns (place, age, etc)

Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 7d

I think that's a mispronunciation (but clearly now on the rise in the US, so perhaps in line for dictionary legitimacy). I wonder if it's case of the written word impacting speech, like with tortoise and mischief, or a remnant of an earlier pronunciation (in German, Volk is pronounced with the L)

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing! Many congratulations

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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social · 9d

My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!

This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations :')

Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 20d

So exciting!

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 21d

All of us who teach Raewyn Connell's work will be interested to read this new interview with her! In which she also reveals that she's currently working on a trans book! www.smh.com.au/national/rae...

Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal

Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 25d

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham

Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 25d

Particularly enjoyed this one on @hannahcharnock.bsky.social's new book newbooksnetwork.com/teenage-inti...

Hannah Charnock, "Teenage intimacies: Young Women, Sex and Social Life in England, 1950-80" (Manchester UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 25d

I'm surely late to the party, but @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts are so good! I'm getting so many bite-size intros to books I've been meaning to read

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Sep 9

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · Sep 9

It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative.

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Queer London

In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big ci...

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yes!

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this:

I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.

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Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social · Sep 4

Had a spare five minutes, so taking the chance to boost mine and @medhistoryman.bsky.social's open access article on a sexual scandal from the 1820s! If you are teaching 19c sexuality, politics, masculinity, or religion why not add it to your reading list!
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Radical exposure: religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal

This article considers a hitherto neglected sexual scandal involving the Congregational minister William Bengo’ Collyer and two young men at a public swimming baths in Camberwell (then in Surrey) i...

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hello modest number of followers: there is movement toward translating Feminism Against Cisness into Spanish and ppl have expressed enthusiasm abt translating The New Woman. If anyone knows of any presses or translators who might be into it please dm.

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Maayan Aner @maayana.bsky.social · Aug 26

Can anyone recommend readings on *premodern* disability and sexuality, and/or disability and queerness? #disabilitystudies #history #queerhistory #lgbthistory #earlymodern

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Aug 26

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities
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The Women’s History Network Annual Conference

Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections Reg…

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · Aug 25

a fun book to review and delighted to (probably) be the first to get the phrase "demon twink" into an academic journal

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Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History

Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · Aug 22

If your research centrally involves the 19th-c. British press, you should for sure consider applying for a Curran Fellowship. Anybody can apply, and the process is blessedly straightforward. My late friend Eileen Curran would be proud to see all the fine projects that her generosity has assisted in.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 16

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · Aug 22

19th-century ads indistinguishable from suggested videos on YouTube

a pointing fingerin a 19th century newspaper
Manhood how lost, how restored. Just published in a sealed envelope on the nature, treatment and radical cure of spermatorrhorea, or seminal weakness, sexual debility, nervousness, and involuntary emissions, inducing impotence and mental and physical incpacity."

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Research Fellowships

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · Aug 20

Available to read Open Access!

Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · Aug 9

Debating the Bachelor Tax: Masculinity and the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1894–1920

Abstract. ‘Bachelor tax’ was a popular shorthand for controversial changes in government policy regarding income tax and marital status. From 1918, men wer

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm going to @thenacbs.bsky.social this November (wahoo) in Montreal. My own funds are quite tight, does anyone know of funds available to ECRs to support attending I'd be really grateful!

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