Sexualities and Localities, c.1965 - 2013
Lead Research Organisation:
Birkbeck, University of London
Department Name: History Classics and Archaeology
Abstract
This research examines the complex changes in sexual identities and communities in the contrasting cities of Leeds, Plymouth, Brighton and Manchester since c.1965. It explores the difference locality makes to the ways sexuality is understood and experienced, and so develops an account of particular 'queer' social, radical, and commercial networks. The research will look at how continuities and disjunctions in these local lives and networks articulated with, but also functioned at a distance from, broader currents and accounts of gay and lesbian life in Britain. It considers the local impact and relative significance of famous LGBT landmarks such as the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, the inception of the Gay Liberation Front in 1970, the AIDS crisis from 1981, the activism around Clause 28 in 1988, and the successive pieces of equalities legislation culminating in the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act of 2013. At a detailed and local level, we explore the intersection of sexual, religious, ethnic, class and gender identities and identifications. We will investigate how patterns of local socio-economic growth or decline, of gentrification, of dissent and radicalism, and of migration affected people who identified as gay and lesbian and others who did not but whose sexual, social and community networks overlapped or intersected. In this way we will, firstly, fracture (or 'queer') homogenising general accounts, and, secondly, complicate local community research where identity categories are often the starting point.
This will be the first sustained, contextualised and comparative historical investigation of the local impact of changing cultural attitudes and official policies concerning sexuality, and the first to look at the particularities of lesbian, gay or other queer lives in cities with different subcultural associations and reputations. The project reveals the factors which have modulated queer lives and cultures of rejection, toleration or acceptance in these places and elsewhere. It will contribute to debates about the intersection of sexual and other categories of identity and identification, and about conceptions of community, belonging and cultural change. Crucially it will also feed a broader appetite for accounts of the lesbian, gay and queer past and interrogate the individual, community and political implications of that appetite. The project will bridge a gap between 'popular' and 'academic' LGBT or queer histories, and draw attention to local and national resources, archives, community projects and on-line resources - including at least six HLF-funded LGBT community history projects. It will also garner new testimonies relating in particular to the local impact of those projects on ideas of identity and community.
The research will be undertaken by two leading academics in the field, together with an experienced postdoctoral researcher. The immediate academic outputs will be: 3 journal articles; a co-authored book, 'Queer North, Queer South', by the PI and Co-I providing comparative analysis of the four core themes (see obj.5) in specific relation to the four cities; a companion volume, 'Out of the Archives' - a contextualized selection of extracts from each of the community history projects, co-edited by the PI, Co-I and PDR; an international conference, 'Provincial Queer Lives'; and papers and panels given by all three researchers at 2 international and 3 UK conferences. Impact activities will include a community archive workshop and witness seminar in each of the case study cities, a comparative History and Archive day, and a History and Policy forum with representatives from community groups, the HLF and linked professionals. A series of special blog dispatches, the project web and Facebook presence, and a Twitter feed will foster further engagement in the research.
This will be the first sustained, contextualised and comparative historical investigation of the local impact of changing cultural attitudes and official policies concerning sexuality, and the first to look at the particularities of lesbian, gay or other queer lives in cities with different subcultural associations and reputations. The project reveals the factors which have modulated queer lives and cultures of rejection, toleration or acceptance in these places and elsewhere. It will contribute to debates about the intersection of sexual and other categories of identity and identification, and about conceptions of community, belonging and cultural change. Crucially it will also feed a broader appetite for accounts of the lesbian, gay and queer past and interrogate the individual, community and political implications of that appetite. The project will bridge a gap between 'popular' and 'academic' LGBT or queer histories, and draw attention to local and national resources, archives, community projects and on-line resources - including at least six HLF-funded LGBT community history projects. It will also garner new testimonies relating in particular to the local impact of those projects on ideas of identity and community.
The research will be undertaken by two leading academics in the field, together with an experienced postdoctoral researcher. The immediate academic outputs will be: 3 journal articles; a co-authored book, 'Queer North, Queer South', by the PI and Co-I providing comparative analysis of the four core themes (see obj.5) in specific relation to the four cities; a companion volume, 'Out of the Archives' - a contextualized selection of extracts from each of the community history projects, co-edited by the PI, Co-I and PDR; an international conference, 'Provincial Queer Lives'; and papers and panels given by all three researchers at 2 international and 3 UK conferences. Impact activities will include a community archive workshop and witness seminar in each of the case study cities, a comparative History and Archive day, and a History and Policy forum with representatives from community groups, the HLF and linked professionals. A series of special blog dispatches, the project web and Facebook presence, and a Twitter feed will foster further engagement in the research.
Planned Impact
This project proposes an interweaving of academic research with the public histories already collected by community groups, including those funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). It will develop the interface between academics, public history professionals and third sector groups through partnership work and events while at the same time deepening the critical analysis of this relationship. The PI, Co-I and PDR each have extensive experience of this kind of impact activity (see CVs); the project administrator has a strong track record in organising it.
Who will benefit from this research?
A key aim of this research project is to work together with participating organisations in the public and third sectors, while informing policy making and funding bodies in public history. Specific beneficiaries will include:
1. Professionals working in public history including museum curators, archivists, librarians and heritage managers, and their networks.
2. Third sector/ voluntary groups - including the community groups that have initiated specific projects in the past decade such as Queer in Brighton, Brighton Trans*formed, Pride in Our Past (Plymouth), and the Lesbian and Gay Foundation (Manchester). Other groups and networks will also benefit from the knowledge exchange elements of the project. These include Age Concern UK's Opening Doors network, Brighton's Allsorts youth group, and LGBT History Month (of which Dr Cook is a patron).
3. National and local funding bodies including the HLF, and local authority leisure and heritage services.
How will they benefit?
Our platform for user engagement and co-production will consist of the project web-pages, four local day events (including an archive workshop and witness seminar in each of the case study cities), a comparative History and Archive day (at the London Metropolitan Archives [LMA]), a History and Policy forum, and virtual networking via the LGBT History Month platform, Twitter and the project Facebook presence. More specifically:
1. Archivists and curators, library managers and related professionals will gain access to a wider pool of potential service users. The project will also deepen their professional knowledge of equality and diversity issues, and trial new ways of working with materials. Local archives and collections will be directly enhanced through the depositing of additional interviews in an under-represented area of social history. Their collections will also be networked with those of three other cities, and the LMA in London.
2. Third sector/ community groups. The comparative focus of the project will enable these groups to see their own work in public history in the wider context of the history of sexuality and other facets of local history as well as in comparison to other parts of the country. This will offer new ways of articulating their place-specific experience.
3. LGBT community groups will gain contact with a network of other LGBT projects across the country and with other community history groups.
4. National and local funding bodies such as the HLF and local authority stakeholders will gain by seeing projects in comparative perspective. The research will inform them by:
i. Showing what local communities have gained through these funded projects;
ii. Indicating what methods are especially productive in heritage and public history work;
iii. Understanding how they can effectively meet their obligations under the 2010 Equality and Diversity Act (and similar local government directives);
iv. Showing what networking between projects can yield;
v. Suggesting additional directions for funding policy and practice which go beyond 'identity'.
These activities will contribute in the longer term to the dissemination and preservation of local histories of sexuality in archives, libraries and museums, contributing to the 'care for the future' of sexuality and gender history.
Who will benefit from this research?
A key aim of this research project is to work together with participating organisations in the public and third sectors, while informing policy making and funding bodies in public history. Specific beneficiaries will include:
1. Professionals working in public history including museum curators, archivists, librarians and heritage managers, and their networks.
2. Third sector/ voluntary groups - including the community groups that have initiated specific projects in the past decade such as Queer in Brighton, Brighton Trans*formed, Pride in Our Past (Plymouth), and the Lesbian and Gay Foundation (Manchester). Other groups and networks will also benefit from the knowledge exchange elements of the project. These include Age Concern UK's Opening Doors network, Brighton's Allsorts youth group, and LGBT History Month (of which Dr Cook is a patron).
3. National and local funding bodies including the HLF, and local authority leisure and heritage services.
How will they benefit?
Our platform for user engagement and co-production will consist of the project web-pages, four local day events (including an archive workshop and witness seminar in each of the case study cities), a comparative History and Archive day (at the London Metropolitan Archives [LMA]), a History and Policy forum, and virtual networking via the LGBT History Month platform, Twitter and the project Facebook presence. More specifically:
1. Archivists and curators, library managers and related professionals will gain access to a wider pool of potential service users. The project will also deepen their professional knowledge of equality and diversity issues, and trial new ways of working with materials. Local archives and collections will be directly enhanced through the depositing of additional interviews in an under-represented area of social history. Their collections will also be networked with those of three other cities, and the LMA in London.
2. Third sector/ community groups. The comparative focus of the project will enable these groups to see their own work in public history in the wider context of the history of sexuality and other facets of local history as well as in comparison to other parts of the country. This will offer new ways of articulating their place-specific experience.
3. LGBT community groups will gain contact with a network of other LGBT projects across the country and with other community history groups.
4. National and local funding bodies such as the HLF and local authority stakeholders will gain by seeing projects in comparative perspective. The research will inform them by:
i. Showing what local communities have gained through these funded projects;
ii. Indicating what methods are especially productive in heritage and public history work;
iii. Understanding how they can effectively meet their obligations under the 2010 Equality and Diversity Act (and similar local government directives);
iv. Showing what networking between projects can yield;
v. Suggesting additional directions for funding policy and practice which go beyond 'identity'.
These activities will contribute in the longer term to the dissemination and preservation of local histories of sexuality in archives, libraries and museums, contributing to the 'care for the future' of sexuality and gender history.
Organisations
- Birkbeck, University of London (Lead Research Organisation)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of Copenhagen (Collaboration)
- People's History Museum (Collaboration)
- University of Bergen (Collaboration)
- London Metropolitan Archives (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Brighton Museum and Art Gallery (Collaboration)
- Leeds Museums and Galleries (Collaboration)
- Plymouth City Council (Project Partner)
- West Yorkshire Joint Services (Project Partner)
- The Keep: East Sussex Record Office (Project Partner)
- LGBT Foundation (Project Partner)
People |
ORCID iD |
Matthew Cook (Principal Investigator) | |
Alison Oram (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Cook M
(2020)
Local Matters: Queer Scenes in 1960s Manchester, Plymouth, and Brighton
in Journal of British Studies
Matt Cook
(2019)
Local turns: Queer histories and Brighton's queer communities
in History Compass
Oram A
(2022)
Making Place and Community: Contrasting Lesbian and Gay, Feminist and Queer Oral History Projects in Brighton and Leeds
in The Oral History Review
Cook Matt
(2022)
Queer Beyond London
Description | SUMMARY Through our work with a wide range of evidence - including extensive oral history holdings - we have shown the complex ways in which the local, national and international intersect in LGBTQ lives. We have discovered resonances and dissonances between our four case study cities, and demonstrated the impact of local demographics, geography, topography, economy, reputation, and history. We have shown that locality matters to queer identifications and communities. We have addressed our research questions effectively and are on track to meet (and exceed) our objectives in terms of outputs. We held project workshops in each city, an international conference at Birkbeck College, and a history and policy debate at the British Library. We have presented our research at conferences (nationally and internationally) and have three books and four articles forthcoming. IN DETAIL: CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS * We have presented the results of our research in a range of local, national and international forums, in academic and community settings - including at the Social History Conference, London 2017; Creating the City Conference, Malmo, 2017; Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, New York, 2017; Queering the Museums Conference, Bergen, 2018; Stonewall at 50, Columbia Universit, New York. Workshops and witness seminars in London, Leeds, Brighton, Plymouth and Manchester, all 2017. Seminar papers and lectures at the University of Southampton, University of Gloucester, London School of Economics, University of Essex, University of Lincoln, University of Copenhagen, Queen Mary, University of London. * Queer Localities: the project's conference took place in December 2017 with 150 participants. Enlarged papers from the conference will appear in a forthcoming edited collection (see below) * We launched our project in Nov. 2018 at the British Library before an audience of c.200 people. The event including a presentation of core findings and a panel discussion on their significance to queer history and heritage policy and practice PUBLICATIONS Books: * Matt Cook and Alison Oram, Queer Beyond London. Manchester University Press for publication in 2021 * Justin Bengry, Matt Cook and Alison Oram, eds, Queer lives across Britain: Histories, Cultures, Communities. Contract pending with Bloomsbury Press for publication in 2021 * Justin Bengry, Matt Cook and Alison Oram, eds, A Queer Scrapbook of Britain. Manchester University Press for publication in 2022 Journal articles: * Matt Cook, 'AIDS, Clause 28 and shifting co-ordinates of community in 'the San Francisco of the UK'. History Compass. Publication: 2019. * Matt Cook, 'Local matters: queer scenes in 1960s Manchester, Plymouth and Brighton'. The Journal of British Studies: 2020 *Alison Oram, 'Making Place and Community Over Time: LGBT and Queer Oral History in Brighton and Leeds'. Accepted to Oral History Review for publication 2020. * Justin Bengry, 'Queer and Far: Methodologies for Local LGBT Histories'. In preparation for submission to History Workshop Journal in April 2020. Book Chapters * Alison Oram, 'The Portable Lesbian Party', ed. Chris Brickell, Queer Objects (forthcoming with Otago University Press, Rutgers University Press and Manchester University Press in 2019). * Matt Cook, "The Rotary Dial Telephone', in ed. Chris Brickell, Queer Objects (forthcoming with Otago University Press, Rutgers University Press and Manchester University Press in 2019). COMMUNITY * We have been instrumental in bringing local archives and LGBT community projects into conversation and have provided support for successful LGBTQ community HLF funding bids in Leeds and Plymouth * We have worked with archives in Brighton and Leeds to expand and make accessible LGBTQ materials * We have conducted witness seminars and workshops in each of our case study cities and also in London, drawing large audiences in discussions of their queer local history * We have delivered talks in a range of community setting. DATA We have amassed a database of primary sources relating to each of the four case study cities. These sources have been tagged - enabling effective cross referencing. |
Exploitation Route | Project publications presenting our findings and some of our source materials will appear between 2019 and 2021. We hope they will be taken forward from there by academic and community historians - and be of wider interest too; two of the three books are aimed at a general audience. We hope the project will: * inspire more comparative regional, urban and rural studies. * encourage dialogue between local practitioners, community-based historians, and heritage bodies to re-imagine queer local histories * encourage local and community historians to do more than tell their history against national benchmarks * validate counter-narrative and incite more confident expressions of local and community history |
Sectors | Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | http://queerbeyondlondon.com |
Description | The project has: * raised the profile of local LGBTQ archives and community history projects * has shifted perspectives on LGBTQ history via multiple events * has encouraged local LGBTQ community groups and individuals to think about the particularity of their local queer cultures * has influenced archivists and curators |
First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
Sector | Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
Description | Consultant on queer content of the new Museum of London (Smithfield) general and focussed displays |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
Title | Oral history interviews |
Description | I undertook c.20 oral history interviews with older gay men. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The interviews provided fresh insights into the home lives of gay men between 1950 and the present. They are due for deposit with the LSE's Hall-Carpenter collection in2015. |
Description | 'QUEERDOM: Queer Domesticities and intimacies in Norway', University of Bergen |
Organisation | University of Bergen |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Visiting Researcher and project advisor on this porject focussed centrally on the significance of locality and rurlity to queer lives in Norwat. |
Collaborator Contribution | I attend an annual meeting of the interdsicilinary and corss-sector project team and comment on the work and its progress. |
Impact | I am currently finalising on survey piece which draws on the project work • 'Queer cities, suburbs and countryside', in Howard Chaing and Dominic Janes, eds, LGBTQ History Handbook (under contract with Oxford University Press for 2023). |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Beyond the Binary - steerig group member |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Steering group memebership and guidance (stemming from the conduct of Queer Beyond London) |
Collaborator Contribution | n/a |
Impact | n/a |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Brighton and Hove Museums |
Organisation | Brighton Museum and Art Gallery |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We led a witness seminar and workshop at Brighton Museum - contributing to the profile of their LGBTQ work |
Collaborator Contribution | They provided space and some planning support for the witness seminar and workshop |
Impact | These events provided us with testimonial data which we have used in our written outputs |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Leeds Art Gallery |
Organisation | Leeds Museums and Galleries |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We convened a witness seminar and workshop which contributed to the LGBTQ work of the gallery |
Collaborator Contribution | Leeds Museum and Art Gallery provided a room and support for the workshop and witness seminar. |
Impact | The witness seminar and workshop produced testimonies which have helped with the written outputs of our research |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | London Metropolitan Archive |
Organisation | London Metropolitan Archives |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We contributed half a day of workshops and presentations to their annual LGBT open day event/conference |
Collaborator Contribution | The LMA provided space for us to do the above and provided organisational support |
Impact | We made key contacts at this event which allowed us to pursue various unexpected avenues of research |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | People's History Museum Manchester |
Organisation | People's History Museum |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We ran a witness seminar and workshop at the museum which raised the profile of the museums LGBTQ focus further |
Collaborator Contribution | They provided a room and support for the above events |
Impact | The events provided us with testimonial evidence which has been important to our written outputs |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Steering group member on The Politics of Family Secrecy project at the University of Copenhaghen |
Organisation | University of Copenhagen |
Department | SAXO Institute |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have advised on the project and am due to give a keynote lecture at a project symposium in April 2020 |
Collaborator Contribution | n/a |
Impact | n/a |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Alison Oram & Matt Cook - Making Queer Place and Community: Queer Beyond London - a joint presetnation at the the ALMS conference. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A 'project share' presentation at the Archives, Libraries and Museum conference - attended by A, L and M professionals,community history groups, acadmics and the public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://queeralmsberlin2019.de/interactive-program/ |
Description | Alison Oram - 'Queer Beyond London and Local Oral History' for the Oral History Soc LGBTQ Special Interest Group, 23.2.2021. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was a talk for the Oral History Soc LGBTQ Special Interest Group to mark national LGBT History month |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Brighton Witness Seminar and Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We ran a witness seminar with c.10 people who contributed their memories and experiences in response to primary historical materials we presented to them] This was followed by a larger workshop with c. 35 people in which we presented our findings to date to prompt discussions and debate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | City networing workshop at the London Metropolitan Archive |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We held a carousel of workshops on the LGBT life of our four case studies cities as part of the LGBT archive conference at the London Metropolitan Archive. Following the workshop sessions we had a panel 'summary' session and open discussion. Tis session was both data gathering and dissemination |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Hiostory club talk: Queer beyond London - or why locality matters to queer History |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Approx 20 people came to thsi history club seminar at the university of Essex. The uadience was primarily academic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.essex.ac.uk/events/2019/05/01/history-seminar-series |
Description | Historical Association: talk for teachers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | c.60 teachers and other member of the pulbic attended this online talk organised by the Historical Association on Queer Beyond London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.history.org.uk/secondary/categories/available-courses?sortBy=date |
Description | History of Parliament Trust: local queer life post 1967 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A online talk and debate about the uneven impact of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act across Britain. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | LGBT History MOnth lecture - Lincoln |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | c.70 people attended an LGBTQ history month talk on the project (entitled 'Portable Closets') organised by the University of Lincoln |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/portable-closets-secrets-and-lives-in-queer-britain-since-gay-liberat... |
Description | LGBT History Month talk for Department of Internation Trade (UK government |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This was an online talk with discussion to follow - title: Portable closets: Secrets and lives since gay liberation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | LGBTQ Hsitory Month talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | A talk for the students union at Queen Mary. University of London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Launch events: Manchester, Brighton, Leeds and London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | In each city, Alison Oram and I discussed the relevant part of the Queer Beyond London book in front of an audience, followed by questions and a reception. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://queerbeyondlondon.com |
Description | Leeds Witness Seminar and Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We ran a witness seminar with c. 15 participants reflecting a range of primary source material we presented to them and sharing their memories of LGBTQ life in Leeds over the past 50 years. A larger workshop followed with c. 40 participants in which we presented our project findings thus far and invited discussion and insights. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | MAtt Cook - 'Queer Beyond London' for St Paul's School for Girls |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | An LGBT History month talk for sixth former at this school |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Manchester witness seminar and workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We ran a witness seminar with 4 people who contributed their memories and experiences in response to primary historical materials we presented to them] This was followed by a larger workshop with c. 45 people in which we presented our findings to date to prompt discussions and debate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Matt Cook - 'Queer Beyond London' for IM Proud network for the LGBTQI+ community |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | A talk to this media umbrella (for BBC History, BBC Music, and other publication) to mark LGBT History month 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Plymouth Witness seminar and workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Witness seminar involving c. 10 people discussing Plymouth LGBT 'scene' since 1964 followed by an open panel event and debate on the same topic. This was both a data gathering exercise and a dissemination event for for the project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Portable Closet: secrets and lives in Britain since 1970. Public lecture in Copenhagen (on line due to Covid) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was the public lecture component of a symosium of family cultures at the University of Copenhagen. It reheared 3 case studies from the 'Sexualities and Localities' project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Portable Closets: a public lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I delivered the annual Stonewall Lecutre in Southampton, on the topic of Portable Closet: secrets and lives since gay liberation. It attracted an in person audience of c.100, and an onlone audience of c.200 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.susu.org/event/17989/the-southampton-stonewall-lecture-2022-portable-closets-secrets-and... |
Description | Public lecture: Copenhagen |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An online public lecture convened by the University of Copenhagen |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=18929 |
Description | Stonewall Lecture, University of Southampton |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was a pulbic lecture in the annual series of Stoenwall Lectures run by the university of Southampton. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.susu.org/event/17989/the-southampton-stonewall-lecture-2022-portable-closets-secrets-and... |