And alien tears will fill for him Pity’s long broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. These lines from The Ballad of Reading Gaol are etched into Oscar Wilde’s tomb at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The inscription is found on the back of the tomb, behind the giant sphinx…
This blog post from Historic England highlights new listings and relistings based on the work that the Pride of Place team carried out last year. Before 1967, homosexuality was illegal. The privacy of the home provided safety and security for many LGBTQ people. via Where the Heart is: 5 Landmark LGBTQ Homes — Heritage Calling
There’s something comforting about picture books. They help us navigate words and worlds when we are learning how to read. For the more mature reader, graphic novels can also have the same impact – big ideas made simple by accompanying images. I recently read Queer: A Graphic History and actually feel somewhat comforted – I think I…
My review essay, ‘Waxworks and Wordless Women: the Jack the Ripper Museum’ was recently published in The Public Historian. The article is available on the TPH website, and a PDF is available to download here (see bibliographic information in text and below [1]). I initially had no intention of visiting the museum (as I wrote about for the National…
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Below is a transcript and the slides for the paper I gave at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) in April 2016. I’ve been meaning to share it (and actually post something on the blog) for far too long. I’d be interested to hear about best practice in sharing presentations and talks – do post…
Originally posted on History@Kingston:
The next talk in the History at Kingston Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 15th March, 2016, 17.00-18.3opm. Claire Hayward, Early Career Researcher and former History PhD Student a Kingston University Will be speaking on: ‘Memorialising Same-Sex Love: Commemorating the Past, Reflecting the Present, Informing the Future’ The Alan…
Originally posted on history riot:
February is LGBT History Month in the UK, so to celebrate we at History Riot have been speaking to heritage practitioners and public history researchers about their work in LGBTQ-inclusive heritage. ? We interviewed Claire Hayward, a public historian, Further Education History Lecturer and the Project Researcher for Pride of Place,…
Originally posted on The Bedford Centre Blog:
by Nicola Raimes and Nicola Phillips Commemorative plaque to Sarah Parker Remond in Rome [Image: Marilyn Richardson, Sarah Parker Remond: a Daughter of Salem] ? Last month Royal Holloway launched the Women Inspire campaign and one of our most inspiring alumna from Bedford College (the first Higher Education College…
The last few months have been mostly typing, editing and coffee drinking as I finish up my thesis. In that time I’ve not been able to keep blogging, but I’ve been involved in some exciting public history events that I’d like to share. I’m part of the steering committee for the Archives, Libraries, Museums and…
EXCUSE ME, WOULD YOU MIND IF I ASKED YOU A FEW PERSONAL QUESTIONS ABOUT SEX? It’s the final section of the ‘Institute of Sexology’ at the Wellcome Collection and I’m greeted by a wall display with “a few thoughts about sex today”, provided by fellow visitors. According to this display, over the last 7 days,…
I’m really excited to be on the steering committee for ‘Without Borders…’, the Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections (ALMS) LGBTQ+ conference taking place in London in June 2016. The call for papers is below – please do submit abstracts and circulate the CFP widely. You can see information about the previous ALMS conference that took place…
One of the most difficult elements of researching and writing about past exhibitions is grasping how they looked and how they felt to walk around. Even though some exhibition plans are available in museum archives, these documents don’t always give a real insight into how the exhibition was laid out, or the route the visitor would…
The wonderful thing about living and studying in London is that there is always something new to see. A few weekends ago after listening to Alan Rice give a fantastic paper about “guerrilla memorialisation” of the slave trade at the UCL based Public History Discussion Group, I headed off to the British Library, which is just…
Originally posted on History@Kingston:
Just before I started my PhD at Kingston University in 2012, I took part in the Kingston Heritage Trails project. The project was a collaborative effort between the Centre for the Historical Record, Kingston’s Sustainability Hub and Kingston Museum. It was part of a bigger project, Kingston Trails, which aimed…
It’s now March, which means it’s also Women’s History Month! A chance to celebrate and remember women and women’s history (though this of course should also happen every month). To kick off Women’s History Month, @MuseumHour asked me to guest host their #MusuemHour, an online chat held every Monday between 8-9pm (GMT). For an hour we…
Art students portfolio of work and reviews!
Online Portfolio
FCoT students write about their experiences at Rushmoor Borough Council
"Without borders" conference June 22nd-24th 2016
Reading Medieval Books
"There is no cure for curiosity." ~Dorothy Parker
Blogging on parliament, politics and people, from the History of Parliament
Heritage, Scale, Time and Place
Exploring the experiences of men living in London and Yorkshire
from the GLBT Historical Society Archives
History Lab is the national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. Based at the Institute of Historical Research, it is an intellectual and social forum designed to meet the needs of the postgraduate history community. Meetings are an opportunity for the next generation of historians to discuss ideas and to drive the study of history forward.
Victorian England's Female Offenders
Working with dead people
Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital
exploring public histories 