Posts by Vicky Iglikowski-Broad Records and researchNarrating ephemeral archival presence: LGBTQ+ histories and Colonial Office recordsWednesday 12 February 2025PhD student Garfield Campbell looks at the challenge of tracing LGBTQ+ lives in colonial...Behind the scenesEducation in exile: Cataloguing Polish refugee education filesMonday 7 October 2024Read personal reflections from Polish refugees who came to Britain after the Second World...Records and researchResearching Section 28Wednesday 15 November 2023Vicky Iglikowski-Broad reflects on researching Section 28 ahead of the anniversary of its repeal....Records and researchHistory’s Lionesses: The British Ladies Football Team and the beautiful game in 1895Wednesday 16 August 2023In 1895, the British Ladies Football Team was causing a stir, showing Victorian spectators...Records and researchSeizing Plato: How a 1934 anti-obscenity police raid caused an outcry in Greece and at homeThursday 29 June 2023The seizure of books deemed obscene became unexpectedly controversial and high profile for authorities....Records and researchApril Ashley: The legal battleMonday 17 April 2023Explore the explosive divorce case between April Ashley and Arthur Corbett, and its legacy....Records and researchApril Ashley: Her early lifeFriday 31 March 2023Explore the early life of April Ashley, pioneering model and key figure in trans...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... 1 2 3 … 8 »