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Out in Oxford: An LGBTQ+ Trail of the University of Oxford’s Collections

Out in Oxford: An LGBTQ+ Trail of the University of Oxford’s Collections

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.

Beth Asbury October 3, 2017July 27, 2026 Conference No Comments Read more

Queer Republic of Cork: The development of Cork’s LGBT Community and of the Cork LGBT Archive

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.

Orla Egan September 28, 2017July 27, 2026 Conference No Comments Read more

‘A thousand acres of red fertile earth’: The rural and the urban in 1970s visions of lesbian nation

‘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

Rebecca Jennings September 22, 2017July 27, 2026 Conference No Comments Read more

Parson’s Pleasure, 1845-1992: Homosociality, Oxford, Oral History

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.

George Townsend September 16, 2017July 27, 2026 Conference No Comments Read more

Main Street USA: Incorporating Queer Experiences into Local History Venues

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

Susan Ferentinos August 29, 2017July 27, 2026 Conference No Comments Read more

London: a central place in the creation and consolidation of LGBT+ Jewish identity

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.

Searle Kochberg August 26, 2017July 27, 2026 Conference No Comments Read more

Gay Boyo Nights? Activism and Nightlife in South Wales, 1967-c.1985

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?

Daryl Leeworthy August 13, 2017July 27, 2026 Conference No Comments Read more

‘Even in Arcadia, there am I’: The town of Rye in Sussex and the queering of the English idyll

‘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.

Dominic Janes July 25, 2017July 27, 2026 Conference No Comments Read more

Call for Papers: Queer Localities Conference

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

Justin Bengry February 16, 2017July 27, 2026 Conference No Comments Read more
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Queer beyond London is an AHRC-funded collaboration between Birkbeck College, University of London and Leeds Beckett University to explore the local LGBTQ histories of Brighton, Leeds, Manchester and Plymouth.

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