Everything is set up here at the #MandHShow ! Come see us at Stand X10 or at the networking session in the Ambience Lounge at 12:00 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Don't hesitate to send in a submission for #QHCN .
Our AHTHC had an amazing experience presenting there in 2022.
Here is a filmed version of their paper youtube.com/watch?v=uNbsOW…
Kids in Museums Kick the Dust - Norfolk

We’re here at the #MandHShow - come by to see Cesare & I Queer Heritage and Collections Network stand and join us all for #TransInclusiveCulture at 2.45 with EJ, Sarah and Suzanne

Come find us at Stand X10 on Wednesday, 15 May!
We are also excited to be hosting the networking session 'A sector for everyone' (12:00-12:45) with Museum Detox 🌈 #MandHShow
Register for FREE: museumsandheritage24.smartreg.co.uk/Visitors/Visit…

This image shows Kate More who was the co-ordinator of the Gender & Sexuality Alliance, a transgender lobby group based in Middlesbrough/London in the 1990s

We'd love to speak to people that worked with or knew Kate, please get in touch!
#THW24 #TransHistoryWeek Trans+ History Week

Next week 16/5: excited to hear Wendy Moore @lsenews share the lives of Jack and Eve from her new book. Vera ‘Jack’ Holme and Evelina Haverfield were suffragettes, life partners and trailblazing feminists in a remarkable story. Queer Heritage and Collections Network Women's History Network lse.ac.uk/library/events…

🎉PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT🎉

🎨Commemorating Queerness Through Art and Archives🎨

This panel will explore queer representation across museum collections, archival material, oral histories, and art curation.

How can these creative practices enlighten and preserve queer experiences?

Fantastic and important doctoral studentship opportunity with a closing deadline of midday, Friday May 3rd ⬇️

We are looking forward to see you at the Museums + Heritage Show in May!

We will be one of the Sector Support organisations attending on 15 May – come visit our stand or pop by for our Networking session 🌈

An important message from Gay's the Word

Today we remember the 40th anniversary of the raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop

....and how we fought back!

10th April 1984 - 10th April 2024

youtu.be/YGjLX1RsIUw

Outstanding work by Senate House Library 🌈 Please check out their latest online exhibition #SeizedBooks !

An excellent opportunity for regional museum curators!

⏳ The deadline to apply is this week, Sunday 24 March!

It's exactly 10 years today since same sex marriages were first recognised by the UK government. Anjum Mouj, Eva Echo and I will be talking about what queer marriage means for LGBTQ+ people in the UK today Queer Britain this Saturday. Join us here - ow.ly/Ig3550QJqqO

Thank you all for your amazing submissions so far!

Due to a few requests, the deadline for abstracts has been pushed back to 🏳️‍🌈 Sunday 10th March 🏳️‍🌈

2 extra days to submit!

📣 Call for Papers closing this Friday 8 March: Cambridge Queer Studies Conference 2024. Proposals welcome from authors inside and outside academia, and from all disciplines with any relation to the lives of LGBTQ+ people ⬇️

'Just Good Friends'

How often have we heard that when researching into LGBTQIA+ people/relationships from history?

This image of two women dancing is taken from the Redcar Colvile Manuscript. The quote underneath says 'Too close a friendship to look well'

#LGBTHM24

Latest blog post - an updated look at Sally Ryan, inspiration for the Here&Queer project #LGBTplusHM We celebrate their legacy everyday & thanks to Queer Heritage and Collections Network we have this platform to explore queer stories from @newartgallery collections all year round! 🙏 collectionscommunitypanel.co.uk/blog/blog-post…

Our stand is ready to go here at the #QueerHistory Fair 2024! Come say hello to Cesare Cuzzola and Matthew Storey to find out more about the Network's upcoming activities 🌈 Goldsmiths Centre for Queer History