Posts by Vicky Iglikowski-Broad 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 researchThe Royal Vauxhall Tavern: RaidedTuesday 24 January 2023In January 1987 the iconic LGBTQ+ bar and drag venue, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern...Records and researchIntersectional queer lives on the 1921 CensusWednesday 11 January 2023Queer lives on the census are a minority, even more so when combined with...Archives and archivistsQueer, there and everywhere: LGBTQ+ lives and the censusThursday 5 January 2023On Saturday 19 November, we held our event ‘Queer, There and Everywhere: LGBTQ+ lives...Records and research‘Our women on the land’: Women’s Land Army index cards go onlineThursday 22 September 2022The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was established to support the war effort from the...Records and researchEdward Carpenter: Free love advocate and LGBTQ+ rights pioneerMonday 29 August 2022Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was an extraordinary individual for his time. Carpenter was an author,...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 researchLGBTQ+ lives through the censusMonday 28 February 2022Families come in all shapes and sizes. Same-sex couples now have the right to...Records and researchFragmented lives: Migrant sex workers’ lives in the archivesTuesday 11 January 2022As a state archive, The National Archives holds many items relating to the experiences...Records and researchJust a pill: 60 years of the contraceptive pill on the NHSSaturday 4 December 2021On 20 January 1961 Searle & Co wrote to the Chief Medical Officer of...Records and researchPessaries to French letters: Contraceptives before the pillWednesday 1 December 2021On 4 December 1961, the contraceptive pill was introduced on the NHS in the...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... 1 2 3 … 8 »
