Historian of Capitalism and the Pink Pound (he/him)
Writer | Speaker | Traveller
Editor: @historyworkshop.org.uk
Founder: @notchesblog.bsky.social
Convenor: @histsex.bsky.social
justinbengry.com
Justin Bengry
Join us 26 May for our next in-person IHR #histsex Seminar.
Birgit Lang : Sex, Psyche, and Politics: Eden and Cedar Paul as Activist Translators of European Modernity
DATE: 26 May 2026 at 5:30pm
LOCATION: N202 Past and Present, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
All are welcome.
New on NOTCHES: “Come to My Cottage: Queer Pleasures and Female Fandom in the Silent Hollywood Era” by Diana W. Anselmo.
Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4UE
#FandomHistory #Herstory #QueerHistory #QueerFandom #HeatedRivalry
The Queer Mundane conference in Bergen, Norway celebrating the conclusion of the Queerdom project. So many new connections & friends, and much to think about. HUGE thanks to Tone Hellesund and her fab Queerdom team! Hopefully just the first of many visits to Bergen!
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
IHR History of Sexuality Seminar
A useful discussion yesterday on Radio 4's Antisocial on Queerbaiting that I was pleased to be part of. I appreciate panellists who shifted discussion from celebrity toward the economic motivations for targetting queer people, and what this means beyond visibility.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Thanks for an amazing time in Scotland sharing A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945 with FAB people in Edinburgh and Glasgow. HUGE thanks to such great hosts at @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social and @lighthousebks.bsky.social in Edinburgh and Category is Books in Glasgow!
A delight to have all of us co-curators of the Queer Scrapbook together in Oxford to talk about its origins and significance at @torchoxford.bsky.social Books at Lunchtime.
l-r E-J Scott, Justin Bengry, @rebeccajennings.bsky.social and Matt Cook
Thanks to @hannahelias.bsky.social for the photo!
Join me in Glasgow Thursday 14th May 2026 at 7:00 PM at Category is Books in conversation with Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo.bsky.social about the Queer Scrapbook. See you in Glasgow soon!
More information and sign up here:
www.outsavvy.com/event/34904/...
@manchesterup.bsky.social
Check out the Queer Scrapbook (@manchesterup.bsky.social) at: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
My furry editor and I are excited to announce the publication of my book, Bisexuality and Beyond: A History of Multiple-Gender-Attraction in Modern Britain!
NOTCHES Blog
Are stars like Harry Styles guilty of it, and should they be called out?
