Tag: public history

Scale – Spectacle – Spectatorship: Space as a Category of Queer Analysis

By notcheseditor March 5, 2015 Dispatches, LGBTQ 0 comments

Andrea Rottmann “Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: Desiring Bodies, Practices and Histories” was the title of a panel sponsored by the Committee for LGBT History at this year’s American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting in New York. One of thirteen panels dedicated to “Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity,” the issues that participants debated ranged […]

Curating LGBTQ Histories: Queer Season at Sutton House

By Sean Curran February 24, 2015 LGBTQ 0 comments

Sean Curran Just a decade ago, the idea of an exhibition addressing LGBT themes in a National Trust house would likely have been dismissed. Today, however, the Trust is desperately trying to eschew its reputation as a stuffy and conservative organisation that, as writer George Monbiot notes, regurgitates a ‘sanitised, tea-towel history’. […]

"Stranger Danger”: the Public Service film and the protection of Child Sexuality

By Jen Baker May 15, 2014 Childhood and Youth 2 comments

Jen Baker Last month it was announced that Charley the cat, hero of the ‘Charley Says’ British public information films in the 1970s and 80s, would return to television screens voiced by comedian David Walliams. Originally only six shorts were produced, each around a minute long, and used an unnamed boy and his […]

Male Order: Tom of Finland and the Queer Iconography of Postage Stamps

By Justin Bengry April 14, 2014 LGBTQ, Modern Europe 7 comments

Justin Bengry On April 13, 2014, Itella Posti Oy, the Finnish postal service, announced the release in September of what are possibly the most openly erotic postage stamps to appear anywhere in mainstream circulation. The series of three stamps commemorate the work of Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), better known as Tom […]

LGBT History Month: Are We Celebrating or Relegating LGBT History?

By Claire Hayward February 3, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 6 comments

Claire Hayward February 2014 marks the ninth celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month. The first LGBT History Month was launched by Schools OUT in response to the repeal of Section 28, which had prohibited the positive discussion of homosexuality in Local Government institutions, including schools. Since that […]

History of Sexuality and Academic Impact

By Gráinne O'Connell January 31, 2014 History of Sexuality 0 comments

Trigger Warning: rape and rape culture. The following blog may be a trigger to some people. Gráinne O’Connell A recent department of Law event held at the London School of Economics on October 30th, 2013 has foregrounded the reach, and ethical implications, of public engagement initiatives in the UK Higher […]