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Historian @ Queen’s Uni Belfast Author of “Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” (Cornell, 2026) & “After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship” (Boydell, 2019) 🏳️‍🌈

Tom Hulme

I have an essay in the Irish Times this weekend reflecting on the intimate practice of writing about queer history in Belfast. Warning: contains pillow talk www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Writing a history of gay Belfast has been an intensely personal and emotional journey

www.irishtimes.com

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

My search for the stories of gay Belfastmen has taken me to some surprising places

Writing a history of gay Belfast has been an intensely personal and emotional journey

www.irishtimes.com

A shocking and shameful night in Belfast; a racist pogrom - no other terms can (or should) describe it.

Tom Hulme

Colin Murray

To put these numbers into perspective: In 2024, the University of Dundee had a bit over 3,000 staff.

Alison Fisk

*Statement in regard to recent racist protests in Northern Ireland* We are shocked and appalled at the racist carnage that took place in pockets of Belfast last night, as well as in other towns and cities across Northern Ireland.

22h

Anaka Collective have set up a crowdfund now for helping support victims of the pogrom. chuffed.org/project/1854...