There is an urgent need for programmes that train people to research Queer History and Black British History. The first masters’ programmes in these areas, at Goldsmiths, now face an existential threat due to the College’s redundancy measures.
Tag: LGBT history
Writing the History of AIDS Activism: Sarah Schulman on ACT-UP New York
How can we write the history of AIDS activism so that all stories are equally important? In this episode of the History Workshop podcast, Sarah Schulman discusses how she navigated that challenge in her new book Let The Record Show: a Political History of ACT-UP New York.
Among the tombs of the dead: Assessing the queer legacy of Alan Bray
“I think I was seeking among the tombs of the dead those lost friends; I would not let them go: and with the guiding hand of scholarship and the eye of a historian, against all expectations I found such friendship there in those monuments” wrote Alan Bray in 2003; Tim Reinke-Williams examines his queer legacy.
EVENT: Stonewall 50 Years On: Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism in its European Context
With this conference, we want to rethink the movements that Stonewall supposedly spawned in Europe. Join us to explore the national, European and transnational factors that gave rise to gay liberation.
CFP: Stonewall 50 years on: Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism in its European Context
CFP: Stonewall 50 years on: Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism in its European Context
S2, E7: Sex, politics, and society
How was our understanding of sexuality in history transformed by the liberation movements of the late twentieth century and by the challenge of the AIDS epidemic? The historian and activist Jeffrey Weeks explores those questions in the latest episode of the History Workshop podcast. Subscribe and listen now on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher.
Virtual Special Issue: History of Sexualities
This Virtual Special Issue of History Workshop Journal brings together 18 articles on the history of sexualities.