Michael Lawrence
@mpalawrence
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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
RT @thelinenhall: Sex, Love, and Everyday Life: A History of Northern Ireland before Gay Liberation.23rd July – 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm.£5.00 – £….
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If I had a nickel for every time I’ve found records of a blackmail gang who targeted homosexual men in public bathrooms in the 1930s while pretending to be Irish I’d have two nickels, which isn’t that much but it’s weird that it happened twice.
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Had a fantastic time in Aberdeen speaking at the @SSNCI_tweets annual conference! Believe it or not, this was a black-and-white slide but my radiant homosexuality was enough to turn the projector gay.
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Love this but regret looking at the comments on this. Boring hatred and bigotry that stems from a baby-like level of egocentrism and a complete lack of any sense of appreciation of heritage.
I’m immensely proud that today I unveiled our new LGBTQIA+ stained glass window in Belfast City Hall. This is hands down one of the highlights of my term as Lord Mayor, sending a powerful message that our city is an inclusive, welcoming city.
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RT @HAPPatQUB: Professor Sven Beckert (Laird Bell Professor of American History, Harvard University) will deliver this year's Wiles Lecture….
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With that, my organising stint for the QUB History Seminar Series is at its end! Had some amazing speakers over the last two years, and the wine wasn’t bad either! Thank you so much to Conor Brockbank for my gift, and for taking over the seminar series from me! 💖
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Come along tomorrow and join us in welcoming Professor Alex Lichtenstein at QUB for his talk on curating an anti-lynching exhibition!
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Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled because of illness! Next week, we'll have another QUB Public History Seminar featuring Prof Alex Lichtenstein on 'Creating a Public Anti-Lynching Exhibition'!.
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 👉.
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RT @HAPPatQUB: Please join us for tomorrow's History Seminar where Dr Livi Dee will be presenting her paper: "A pregnancy, I suppose, ends….
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RT @norrehl: Call for papers! PGR Conference at QUB on 7 May 2025 "The Self Under Siege: Re-thinking Selfhood Across Disciplines". Submissi….
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RT @therlwrites: IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COU….
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RT @HAPPatQUB: This week's History Seminar, Tash Walker (Aunt Nell) presents: 'Archiving Queer Audio with Aunt Nell'. 📅28/02, 4pm.🏛️27UQ/01….
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Happening at 4!.
Join us for this week's History Seminar with Professor Matthew Hilton (QMUL): 'British Humanitarianism, Southern Africa and the Racist Politics of Charity'. 📅21/02, 4pm.🏛️27UQ/01/003. All welcome!. Sign up 👉
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RT @LGBTQHISTORYA: The LGBTQ+ History Association statement on our outrage and call to update National Park Service (NPS) websites after th….
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RT @HAPPatQUB: For this week's History Seminar, Professor Bryant Simon (Temple University, Philadelphia) joins us for: 'Disappearing Acts:….
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Happening today!.
Another seminar advertisment! Next Friday we'll have Dr Liam Liburd from Durham University presenting his research on prisons, race, and fascism in 1970s Britain -- hope you can make it! Register here:
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