Averill Earls

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Historian of sexuality and policing in modern Ireland. Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972 available NOW! Executive editor at Dig: A History Podcast. Layout editor at NursingClio.org. Associate Prof of History at St. Olaf College.
Dig: A History Podcasthttps://digpodcast.org/
Nursing Cliohttps://nursingclio.org/
About Mehttps://www.averillearls.com/
Show threadAverill EarlsAug 18, 2025
@mcmenguc @dig_history Artist unknown, painted around 1825 in New England. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/4334hpr-5f67bd142f9f5f6/
Averill EarlsDec 29, 2023
A satisfying year of reading, mostly for fun and a few work books added in there. Cheers to a new year of enjoying the written word!
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2023/14681794
Averill’s Year in Books

Averill EarlsDec 28, 2023
My 2019 article in the JHS is the focus of today’s @jstor Daily! https://daily.jstor.org/weaponizing-homophobia-in-ireland/ highlight of my month!
Weaponizing Homophobia in Ireland - JSTOR Daily

One of the arguments of Irish nationalism was that English rule was morally corrupting. There was no better example of this than same-sex desire.

JSTOR Daily
Show threadAverill EarlsJul 14, 2023
@Raen @dig_history 🥰
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@Raen @dig_history Beautiful, thank you for sharing!
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@anirvan thank you!!
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@yvonne thank you!!
Averill EarlsJul 14, 2023
Delighted to wake up and learn I’ve been awarded an NACBS-Gale Digital Scholar Lab Fellowship, which will support both research for my book and for generating source material to use in my St Olaf January term study abroad class, Love & Sex in Modern Ireland. Exciting!
Averill EarlsJul 14, 2023
Dig: A History PodcastJul 10, 2023

The History of America’s Changing Political Parties

https://digpodcast.org/2023/07/09/americas-changing-political-parties/

#5CsOfHistory #Change #19thCentury #20thCenturyHistory #AmericanHistory #USHistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons

The History of America’s Changing Political Parties - DIG

In recent years, America’s two party system has seemed more intractable than ever: Democrats vs. Republicans. Now, we have a clear idea of each party’s location on the political map: Democrats are liberal, Republicans conservative; Democrats are left-leaning, Republicans right-leaning. Right now, those truths seems so deeply entrenched that they seem almost natural - it’s

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Averill EarlsJul 10, 2023
At @dig_history we often try to “double-dip” when we write episodes. Usually that means doing episodes that we can / will use for teaching. Occasionally we use these as deep dives into historiographies that are useful to our writing projects. My latest is the latter - I give you Roger Casement! https://digpodcast.org/2023/07/02/roger-casement-over-time/ #Ireland #sexuality #lgbtq #History #pride
Irish Hero, Queer Traitor, Gay Icon: Roger Casement Over Time - DIG

Roger Casement has been a subject of fascination - and controversy - for over a century. During his lifetime, he was an internationally-recognized champion for human rights, and was instrumental in exposing the horrors surrounding the rubber industry in the Belgian Congo and Peruvian Putumayo. Significantly, he spent his life striving to do more than

DIG - History that matters.