Charlie Lynch
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics. And for a newspaper.
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- Reposted by Charlie Lynch*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...
- Well, the Cambridge Spies seem like Blue Peter compared to this.
- Reposted by Charlie LynchThe latest issue of History Workshop Journal is out now, and it marks two exciting milestones: 50 years and 100 issues of innovative radical history. You can read the journal on the HWJ website through the link below! academic.oup.com/hwj...
- I had no idea that the aunt of ghastly Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas, Lady Florence Dixie, had been a vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist and feminist, who wrote an introduction to a book by former monk and militant secularist, Joseph McCabe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Fl...
- How exactly has Mandelson ‘dedicated his life to the values of the Labour Party’ as he claims in his latest statement?
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- Apologies for posting the Daily Hate Mail (which I would not normally do) but there is an awful lot going on here. Never before have I read of Oscar Wilde and Osama Bin Laden in the same article. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
- At last some good news. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Great views up here. ⛰️
- Ancient book is highly topical. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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- Might have got a bit carried away here.
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- Reposted by Charlie LynchAn Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October! Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
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- What on earth is the point of academic journals paywalling book reviews? It is bad enough people don’t get paid to write them. A public history review will at least result in some kind of remuneration and more than three people reading it.
- Dismal day, horrid rain, cold, grey. A load of students in this bar have clearly responded by drinking lunchtime pints, and that seems like an entirely justified response.
- Trying to focus on the politics of 1922 amid the politics of 2026 wasn’t easy, but I gave it a go. Today in the column: Churchill in Dundee. I spoke to Prof Jim Tomlinson about Winston Churchill’s time an MP for ‘Juteopolis.’ www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
- Starmer’s Britain. Get qualified, become unemployed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Irvine. Ships / Mud.
- More reading about Marty Feldman, who seems to have been a genuinely lovely man, although also an advert for not smoking very heavily for decades on end. Feldman enjoyed playing a practical joke where he would shout in public places: “No, I am not going back to your place, you filthy man!”
