Tag: Gender history 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 researchHidden in plain sight: Finding working-class women in The National ArchivesWednesday 21 December 2022Archival records are a window to the past quite unlike any other. Their ability...Records and researchWomen, Parliament and Political SpaceMonday 21 November 2022How did women’s admission to the House of Commons impact the masculine structure of...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 research‘I need never have known existence’: Radclyffe Hall and LGBTQ+ visibilityThursday 29 April 2021The life and published works of British author Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) were hugely influential...Records and researchFanny and Stella: Piecing together LGBTQ+ histories and telling the storiesTuesday 23 February 2021It has been 150 years since the trial of The Queen v Boulton and...Records and research‘Queer’ history: A history of QueerTuesday 9 February 2021‘I honestly thought you were queer, but different from the others, and I liked...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 researchArchives and agency: Sex work and the stateWednesday 22 July 2020Within the records of government, sex workers lack agency. As with most of our... 1 2 »