by Talking Humanities | Feb 26, 2021 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
Investigating Lesbian responses to the natural world, particularly the ‘back to the land’ movements of the late-20th century, Professor Nancy C Unger, author of Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History, considers how LGBTQ+ experiences...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 21, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
The legal and social pressures exerted on LGBTQ+ people to suppress their desire and loves may have had success in the eyes of their oppressors. But the subcultures it created are rich and varied and recorded in ways that don’t take much to research and share. And an...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 7, 2019 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished
Thirty years after the Cold War barrier was removed, Dr João Florêncio, a lecturer at the University of Exeter, and Ben Miller, a writer and researcher, consider the origins of the ‘legend of Berlin’ and how the newly undivided city provided queer folk...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 9, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, From the Archives, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Image: © Mark Mitchell Dr Richard Espley, head of modern collections at Senate House Library, explores highlights from its collection of queer literature and introduces ‘Queer between the Covers’, the University of London’s latest exhibition and events series...
