Today (30th April 2021) is the first international Day of Remembrance for Care Experienced People. Today's remembrance day is the culmination of the first Care Experienced History Month, a series of awareness-raising events by organizations advocating for those who have experienced care recently and in the past. A series of online talks and tweet... Continue Reading →
What Would You Do?
Would you join a militant political movement, risking not only your job but potentially your family, friends and public reputation? What physical and emotional trauma would you be willing to face? These were all questions that faced women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when they joined the emergent women’s rights and suffrage... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History Month Reading Club: The Nineteenth Century
Professor Matthew McCormack recommends: H. G. Cocks, Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century (I. B. Tauris, 2003). This is a fascinating study of homosexuality in late Georgian and Victorian Britain. We usually assume that the modern understanding of the homosexual man was invented at the end of the nineteenth century, with the rise of sexology... Continue Reading →
LGBQT+ History Month Reading Club: The Searchlight Archive
The University of Northampton History department is home to the Searchlight Archive, a unique archive collection of material documenting the activities of British and international fascist and racist organisations from the 1930s onwards. It is one of the most extensive and significant resources of its type in Europe. Daniel Jones, the Searchlight Collections Officer recommends:... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History Month Reading Club: Medieval
Rachel Moss, Lecturer in History recommends: Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages: Robert Mills (Chicago, 2015) Densely written and packed with complex case studies, this lavishly illustrated leviathan of a book requires careful attention; it’s not a casual read. Nevertheless, this sensitive, imaginative work is bound to become a classic among studies of pre-modern gender... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History and the Holocaust
LGBTQ+ History and the Holocaust Associate Professor in History Paul Jackson blogs on LGBTQ+ victims of the Holocaust Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code was established in 1871, and essentially banned male homosexuality. Despite this, by the 1920s Berlin in particular had developed a reputation as a city that turned a blind eye to... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History Month Reading Club: First World War
Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History Jim Beach recommends: Philip Hoare, Wilde’s Last Stand: Scandal, Decadence and Conspiracy during the Great War (1997) My suggestion for this reading list connects with the content of my third-year module HIS3027 Secret State. It is not an academic history, and although some of its statements about intelligence history don’t stand... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History Month Reading Club: Early Modern
Senior Lecturer in History and Programme Leader for BA History recommends: Alan Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England (1982): A pioneering study charting shifting attitudes towards physical and emotional intimacies between men between the late middle ages and early Enlightenment. Judith C. Brown, Immodest Acts: the life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (1986) A good example of the... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History Month: Broadcasting LGBTQ+ Lives
The BBC has been a big part of life in Britain since its foundation in 1922. The BBC’s History of the BBC 100 Voices news and archive site regularly publishes the latest research on how the corporation has envisaged and represented (or misrepresented) its audiences over time. Their LGBTQ+ History mini-site and the BBC Archive... Continue Reading →
Welcome to LGBT+ History Month
February is the UK’s annual LGBTQ+ History Month! Want to get involved but don’t know where to start? Read on! Events will be taking place across cyberspace offering people the opportunity to celebrate, commemorate, and learn more about historic LGBTQ+ experiences and the struggle for recognition and equality. This year is obviously going to be... Continue Reading →
