Trainee Tuesday: The importance of community archiving
Turning paper graveyards into community hubs Following the post from my fellow trainee Kasia about her work with the Polish community in Leicestershire, I would like to expand upon the topic of...
View ArticleClaiming, celebrating, creating!
“Claiming our history, celebrating our past, creating our future!” is the motto of LGBT history month which begins today. LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) history has been in focus...
View ArticleDocumenting LGBT history across the UK
Collecting, reflecting We’re now well into LGBT history month, celebrated by The National Archives and many other heritage organisations and communities across the country. It seems like a good moment...
View ArticleTrainee Tuesday: Brave New Worlds
LGBT History and Education at London Metropolitan Archives This year’s LGBT History Month has been a special one for us at London Metropolitan Archives, marking the 10th year of our London...
View ArticleDiversity Week: celebration and commemoration
I’m particularly looking forward to the range of external talks we have organised this year, covering a breadth of subjects and archival collections. Tomorrow, Stephen Bourne will be discussing his...
View ArticleLGBT History Month at Gloucestershire Archives
LGBT History Month is here again and archives across the country are celebrating the diverse contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to our communities, societies and...
View Article‘Lady Austin’s camp boys’
I had always heard an archive myth of the red silk pyjamas held in our collections, so I felt for this year’s LGBT History Month it might be time to...
View ArticleLGBT history in The National Archives’ Library
February is LGBT History Month. LGBT history is often hidden but there are a wide variety of books on the history of these communities in The National Archives’ Library. Male homosexuality was illegal...
View ArticleTransforming archives: Archives+, Manchester
For the past nine months, I have been the Transforming Archives trainee at Archives+ in Manchester, with the focus of my traineeship being digitisation, digital and community engagement. My interest...
View ArticleLGBT History Month: archives inspire creative writing
Our annual Diversity Week culminated in a creative writing workshop, using facsimiles and originals of archival material to inspire writing…
View ArticlePride of Place: putting LGBT history on the map
We look at public and domestic spaces LGBT people have created for themselves…
View ArticleTransgender visibility in our collections
We highlight transgender histories you can find in a government archive, to increase the visibility of gender identity in the past…
View ArticleQueer and the State: Join our youth events panel and lead the conversation
Are you interested in the history of queer communities? Are you aged 16-25? Do you want to develop new skills…
View ArticleQueerly complicit at Holland Park
In late 1932, two plain clothes police officers were welcomed into a drag party at 27 Holland Park Avenue, London…
View ArticleExploring LGBTQ spaces and places in history
I was drawn to a set of documents on the 1930s club called The Shim Sham Club, a gay-friendly jazz club that originally opened in 1935 in Soho…
View ArticleBringing Oscar Wilde’s words to life
We have key documents in our collection relating to Wilde’s trial and imprisonment…
View Article‘London’s greatest bohemian rendezvous’: the Caravan Club
Our documents reveal a surprising openness around sexuality in a time before some homosexual acts were decriminalised… The post ‘London’s greatest bohemian rendezvous’: the Caravan Club appeared first...
View Article1967 Sexual Offences Act: 50 years on
This Act of Parliament decriminalised homosexual acts between two men over the age of 21 years and applied to England and Wales… The post 1967 Sexual Offences Act: 50 years on appeared first on The...
View ArticleThe long road to reform: the Wolfenden report
The Cabinet appointed the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in order to assess the requirements for law reform... The post The long road to reform: the Wolfenden report...
View ArticleThe passing of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act
This Thursday marks a monumental moment: 50 years since homosexual acts between men were partially decriminalised... The post The passing of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act appeared first on The National...
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