Tag: LGBTHistory 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 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 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‘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 researchDisappointed and forbidden loveThursday 23 April 2020A lovestruck medieval clerk writing out romantic lyrics as he daydreams. A gay man...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...Records and researchOut of the Archives: Classified adverts at the Royal Vauxhall TavernWednesday 12 February 2020On the 23rd November 2019, The National Archives and Bishopsgate Institute took over the Royal...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 researchErnie and Geof: Love between menWednesday 20 November 2019In November 1920 the youthful Ernest [Ernie] Smyth was arrested. At 22 years old...Records and researchGentleman Jack: Anne Lister – the first modern lesbian?Tuesday 9 July 2019The hugely successful and widely praised TV series Gentleman Jack is a period drama set...Records and researchLGBTQ+ history: Maud Allan and ‘unnatural practices among women’Thursday 14 February 2019It is safe to say that no lawsuit of modern times has attracted such...Archives and archivistsWhat’s new in UK archives?Wednesday 11 July 2018Whether it be a gigabyte of data, a single file or 230 boxes of... 1 2 »
