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Jack @archival_dodger

Melbourne-based, doing my PhD in colonial queer/LGBT history.

Melbourne, AU

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A not-so-busy day in Adelaide.

Back on campus, back on Collective! I’ve been having a social media break but couldn’t resist the lure of my favourite online gay space.

Back on campus again this morning.

Tankard of morning coffee before I start work.

A true blast from the past, found in a secondhand bookstore in the tiny town of Talbot.

My partner and I at ChillOut Festival in Daylesford.

My favourite 19th century description of the relationship between two men is “a singular, limpet-like intimacy.” The things you find in archives.

My favourite image from my research trip to Adelaide last year. Some bored clerk in the 1800s drew this rather handsome fellow on court documents.