Search results found for: queer clubs Records and research‘Kisses and kind thoughts’: Queer networks and letters between menThursday 24 June 2021The basement flat was home to Bobby, where he would hold parties for a...Records and research‘Corrupting public morals?’ Fitzroy Square and queer desireThursday 10 June 2021It’s December 1927. You stand on a cold street outside a house on Fitzroy...Records and researchBillie’s Club: Queer club culture in 1930s LondonTuesday 25 February 2020Billie’s Club, run by club proprietor Billie Joyce, was located on 6 Little Denmark...Archives and archivistsQueer and the State: Join our youth events panel and lead the conversationThursday 4 August 2016Are you interested in the history of queer communities? Are you aged 16-25? Do...Records and research‘You don’t understand our love’: Lady Austin’s camp boysMonday 13 February 2023Discover London's queer parties of the 1930s, and how the police persecuted these spaces....Records and researchFifty years of UK Pride marches: Pride and defiance before 1972Friday 1 July 2022The 1st July 1972 saw something special: the first UK Pride march. The previous...Records and research‘Importuning men’: Sex work and the male tradeTuesday 14 September 2021The majority of records relating to sex work in the archives are about female...Records and researchLGBTQ+ visibility and archives: History between the linesFriday 6 November 2020Please note: This blogpost will use LGBTQ+ as an umbrella term to describe lesbian,...Records and researchThe Shim Sham Club: ‘London’s miniature Harlem’Wednesday 5 February 2020Queer club culture in the 1930s was vibrant and varied, especially in the growing...Records and researchPolicing the powder puff in 1930s LondonTuesday 3 April 2018On the evening of Saturday 14 November 1936, 28 year old Arthur Agate –...Records and researchRecreating the Caravan: ‘London’s greatest bohemian rendezvous’Wednesday 27 September 2017March 2017: we were sipping 1930s-style cocktails in a small, packed room above Freud’s...Records and research‘London’s greatest bohemian rendezvous’: the Caravan ClubThursday 13 July 2017Our documents reveal a surprising openness around sexuality in a time before some homosexual... 1 2 »