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Suburban Birmingham looking like Sandy Row in mid July.

‘Such a mix of people’: Ireland of 1926 was not monocultural, release of census shows Archive is freely available online from 18 April, revealing the lives, occupations and secrets of 2.9m people

So looking forward to digging into the 1926 census!

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

When are you coming to Belfast 👀

Belfastmen by Dr Tom Hulme

A pleasure to buy a copy of BELFASTMEN by @tomhulme.bsky.social from No Alibis, Belfast’s best bookshop. A beautiful book, and one surely destined to become a future classic

A copy of Belfastmen: an intimate history of life before Gay liberation

If you’re Belfast-based, there are paperback copies of my book already on sale in the brilliant indie shop No Alibis!

Israeli settlers have been filmed vandalising a boys’ school in Huwara, spray-painting racist graffiti and raising an Israeli flag on the roof.

The attack comes as settler violence intensifies across the occupied West Bank, with homes and cars set on fire, injuring at least nine Palestinians.

So much wrong with that report Jesus

Apparently even the Spectator likes books that are well researched and accurate.

“Historian” Zoe Strimpel, who for years now has been playing the same grift game as “political scientist” Matt Goodwin, is annoyed that even the right wing press things her new book is rubbish 🤭

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...

Brilliant

For those keeping track, we’re at the “secretary of war announces genocide” stage of the US descent into fascism.

Check out Michael Axworthy’s excellent work particularly Revolutionary Iran

Poor old Matt the Nazi - inject this into my veins

a man wearing headphones is pointing at something in front of a poster that says england ALT: a man wearing headphones is pointing at something in front of a poster that says england

I would love it, love it if we beat them

It’s so good to know that, finally, the grown ups are back in charge 🥴

Tolu Arokodare: Wolves striker sent racist abuse on social media Wolves say they are

Racial abuse is routine for any person of colour in Britain with any kind of profile. Literally nothing is being done about it.

BBC News - Arokodare third player racially abused this weekend
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Surely you’re never wrong

A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | Lucy Pasha-Robinson Many women reading this will have experienced something similar: a warning that sharing public space isn’t a man’s job, it’s a woman’s, says Lucy Pasha-Robinson, a Guardian assistant Opinion editor

A man pushed a woman in a London street to “teach her a lesson”. What the fuck is happening with some men right now

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You need new sources @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social

'UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe In an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years.

"The UK is being colonised"

Sickening language from one of the most powerful people in English football

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Revenge is a dish best served cold

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...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Amazing, I love this

This note is from my English teacher, Miss Fielden. She taught me for 5 years, believed in me and encouraged me to pursue my passions.

More than a decade on, I’ve written my first book.

And you’ve watched loads of Liverpool 🤣

Charity After Empire Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire

I'm really looking forward to reading Matthew Hilton's timely new @universitypress.cambridge.org book Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation, and Development.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...