Queer Historian 🌈| PhD: Homosexuality in the Irish Diaspora 1880-1960 @ QUB | Views expressed are not only my own, but are objectively correct 🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Joined November 2018
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Michael Lawrence retweeted
My buddy lost his job to AI. It was his job to chug thousands of gallons of water at a data center
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Really looking forward to both attending and speaking at the history seminars for @HAPPatQUB this semester. There is a great range of topics being covered with the usual free snacks and drinks. Come along one and all!
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Does Belfast have the 2nd highest number of asylum seekers in the UK, and do almost a fifth of them live in BT12, as claimed by DUP MLA Edwin Poots?
❌ No.
📊Belfast ranks 20th overall.
👥With 0.6% of the local population (1 in 167 people).
➡️ No data confirms the BT12 claim.
Michael Lawrence retweeted
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 ‘female husband’ who worked in Belfast’s docks in the 1880s to the region’s first lesbian activist in the 1960s; the scandalous discovery of a Victorian male brothel to the homosexual circulation of infamous Jazz Age novels.
Please visit our website for more information:
linenhall.com/event/sex-love…
#LinenHall #OpeningMinds #Belfast
Michael Lawrence retweeted
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!
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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
Michael Lawrence retweeted
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.
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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
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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
Michael Lawrence retweeted
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/LGBTQHistoryresp…
Michael Lawrence retweeted
Talk about saying the quiet part loud, sheesh.
PM Keir Starmer pledges to close loophole which let Gazans settle in UK
bbc.in/419Lons
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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
Michael Lawrence retweeted
📢 BAIS PRIZES 2025: We are pleased to announce our Book, Essay and Bursary prizes for 2025!
The book prize deadline is 7 February and the deadline for both of our PGR prizes is 17 March.
See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility:
bairishstudies.wordpress.com…
Michael Lawrence retweeted
Nothing beats getting home from work, kicking off your shoes, pouring a glass and settling down with a good book
