Tag: London

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’. […]

Lines of Dissent at London Metropolitan Archives: Finding and Creating LGBTQ Histories

By Claire Hayward December 18, 2014 Dispatches, LGBTQ Comments are Disabled

Claire Hayward On Saturday 6 December, historians, archivists and activists joined together at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) to discuss ‘Lines of Dissent’. The 12th LGBTQ History and Archives Conference at LMA chose queer inheritance as its theme this year, which was run in collaboration with the Raphael Samuel History Centre (RSHC). (Disclaimer: […]

Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916

By Julia Laite November 11, 2014 Sexual Labour, United Kingdom 0 comments

Julia Laite The world has just commemorated the 100th annivesary of the beginning of the First World War. While most historians have come to categorize the war as, in the words of Richard Evans, ‘the seminal catastrophe of the entire period’, ideologically driven government officials and some military historians insist that […]

‘In the manner of a woman’: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Inessentiality of Gender

By Kim Racon April 1, 2014 LGBTQ, Medieval 4 comments

Kim Racon On what was likely a cold Sunday night in Cheapside, London, in December 1394, John Britby passed through the high road, catching the eye of a woman called Eleanor. She was bundled up but still held his attention. He approached her and asked her to have sex with […]