Rebecca Jennings

Book cover: A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945 by Justin Bengry, Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings, and E-J Scott. It features colourful 'scraps' of photographs and printed ephemera.

Book cover: Weimar's Queer Visual Cultures, edited by Brigit Lang, Ina Linge, and Katie Sutton. It features a colour painting of a person dancing on a table as others sit watching.

Book cover: Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain by Rebecca Jane Morgan. It has a blue border with writing in pink and features a black and white photograph of a woman being dragged by the arm by a policeman.

Book cover: How Queer Bookshops Changed the World by A.J. West. It features a picture of a bookshop with a cat and bicycle outside.

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@justinbengry.bsky.social, Matt Cook, @rebeccajennings.bsky.social, E-J Scott, Brigit Lang, Ina Linge, @katielmsutton.bsky.social, @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social, & @ajwestauthor.bsky.social. 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🗃️ #booksky #skybooks #LGBTHM #lgbthistorymonth

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

For anyone who is UK-based and interested, SOAS has a PhD scholarship for ‘Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives’.

Scholarship application deadline: 27 March 2026.

www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen...

@saltatchicago.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social

🚨Job klaxon 🚨
Come and be my colleague at York! We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Modern British History and Public History. Two year post - apply by 19 March. 🗃️
More details here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO971/a...

@lynnabrams.bsky.social book, Feminist Lives and her article in Transactions of the RHS are great on this too.

hand painted uniforms, green leaves, red horse, a puffy skirt, gorgeous green head wrap. My god they are beautiful.

I don't really care much about the Olympics, but Haiti's uniforms take winterwear to epic new levels of awesomeness. The only hand-painted uniforms in the games, for a nation (to quote designer Stella Jean) 'that refuses to disappear.

Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives Principal Supervisor: Dr Anandi Rao (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics; SOAS, University of London) Co-Supervisor: Professor Heike Bauer (School of Creative Arts, Culture & Communic…

Applications are invited for a Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship on Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. Deadline 27 March. Full details in the link 🌈🎓 bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin...

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.

Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

*drum roll*

Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!

I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

Vital case of University of Sussex vs Office for Students is in the High Court this week. The results will matter for all of us given the OfS's overreach and directions of travel.

Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

Archive reveals hidden stories of Queer Norfolk Figures such as Barbara Ross and Anna Gurney were ahead of their time, says archivist Adam Baker.

🤩 This is how it's done, folks!

'A lesbian couple at the centre of their community and a pair of brothers said to have been among the first people to medically transition are among the people whose stories are told in the Queer Norfolk archive.' 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️📜🗃️

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #queerhistory

Opportunities Find opportunities to join UCL History in academic, research, teaching and learning, admin and other capacities below.

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) is excited to announce 3 new roles on our groundbreaking Valuable Lives project!

🔍 Open roles:
• 2 x Research Assistant (Digital Humanities)
• 1 x Research Fellow (Digital Humanities)

🗓 Closing date: 23 Jan 2026

shorturl.at/OCpLP

Imperial Footprints | Hurst Publishers From the Victorian era to Partition, Mukherjee uncovers the unique experiences of the very youngest South Asian migrants to Britain.

Hurrah!!! The brilliant Sumita Mukherjee has a new book out about the lives of South Asian children in Modern Britain in just a few weeks.

I love the cover photo!

A must read so now would be a great time to preorder and commission reviews.

www.hurstpublishers.com/book/imperia...

Thanks so much for these really helpful suggestions. Also, your article in TCBH was great - thanks!

Thanks so much for these suggestions, that's incredibly helpful!

Not at all! It looks fascinating, thanks so much for suggesting it!

Putting together a module reading list on the history of the family in Modern Britain. Anyone got any recommendations of good scholarship on impact of immigration controls on family life in late 20th / early 21st century Britain?

In light of the Levy Review potentially giving transphobes oversight of medical research on trans healthcare, Trans Safety Network recommend English trans people OPT OUT of their healthcare data being used in research.

Information on how to do this can be found in the quoted post and thread.

In the wake of Wes Streeting’s announcement of a review of mental health ‘over-diagnosis’ we have published this new policy paper by Prof Lucy Delap arguing that the government’s priority should be to address the historic stigma against sick & disabled people.

historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

The ups and downs of high-rise living ‘On BBC 2 last Monday,’ noted the Sunday Telegraph’s TV critic Trevor Grove in February 1979, ‘the return of Fawlty Towers was immediately followed by a programme about faulty towers.’ He went on: Thi...

I'm really delighted to have been reviewed so thoughtfully by David Kynaston this week, who paints an excellent picture of the stories and nuances of high-rise Britain
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

I’m contributing to Inherent Vice, a new queer
heritage & arts zine launching in January 2026!

It’s an independent, non-profit project exploring
queer stories, objects, creativity, and community
across the heritage and arts sectors.

www.inherentvice.co.uk

TransLuscent doing their thing: diligent, meticulous information gathering to find the evidence we never doubted.

Nobody’s complaining about trans people taking a pee except GC activists who complain daily into the ether. But even they can’t complain about actual incidents, since there aren’t any.

Programs - School of Advanced Study

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉

universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/

(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)

Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.

www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3

Songs of seven dials, up in the air

Current reading

My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".

But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

Really enjoyed this fascinating podcast from @themerl.bsky.social about how archival and curatorial practice impacts on what queer histories we can tell. Very excited for part 2, where @timjerrome.bsky.social is going to discuss his research on queer rural history merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...