The Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, created the University’s first cross-collections trail, Out in Oxford: An LGBTQ+ Trail of the University of Oxford’s Collections.
Queer Republic of Cork: The development of Cork’s LGBT Community and of the Cork LGBT Archive
Many of the ‘firsts’ in Irish LGBT activism happened in Cork.
‘A thousand acres of red fertile earth’: The rural and the urban in 1970s visions of lesbian nation
Concepts of the rural shaped the imagined and actual formation of women’s lands in particular ways in the 1970s and early 1980s
Parson’s Pleasure, 1845-1992: Homosociality, Oxford, Oral History
Oxford’s male-only swimming hole enshrined a tradition of homosocial nude bathing and sunbathing that would continue until the place’s unceremonious demolition in 1992.
Main Street USA: Incorporating Queer Experiences into Local History Venues
An intriguing number of interpretive efforts are now taking place in local history museums and smaller, locally significant historic sites
London: a central place in the creation and consolidation of LGBT+ Jewish identity
London was proving to be THE gay Jewish city in the UK with a growing infrastructure to support a growing community.
Gay Boyo Nights? Activism and Nightlife in South Wales, 1967-c.1985
How did Cardiff transform from a seemingly ‘homophobic’ to a ‘gay friendly’ city?
‘Even in Arcadia, there am I’: The town of Rye in Sussex and the queering of the English idyll
Rye developed as a focus for queer lives and culture in the interwar period.
Call for Papers: Queer Localities Conference
Queer Localities, a two-day international queer history conference at Birkbeck, University of London, 30 November – 1 December 2017