This 13th annual Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer History conference focuses on community history, collecting, caring for, sharing and understanding our heritage, inspired by the Speak Out oral history project.
Find out more here: https://speakoutlondon.wordpress.com/
The conference will have a particular focus on history held in the memory of buildings and places and how this can be lost, re-discovered and preserved.
The programme for the day includes talks and workshops featuring:
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This 13th annual Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer History conference focuses on community history, collecting, caring for, sharing and understanding our heritage, inspired by the Speak Out oral history project.
Find out more here: https://speakoutlondon.wordpress.com/
The conference will have a particular focus on history held in the memory of buildings and places and how this can be lost, re-discovered and preserved.
The programme for the day includes talks and workshops featuring:
Presentations and shared experiences around Speak Out London – Diversity City, an LGBTQ oral history project being run through London Metropolitan Archives
Pride of Place https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/lgbtq-heritage-project/
Recording and mapping places and experiences
Working on an autobiography
Talks / presentations / performed lecture:
Adrienne Adams: How do communities-based archives remember the lives of black queer subjects
Catherine O’Donnell: Redisplaying equality at People’s History Museum
Marian Larragy: London Friend – Place, Memory and Activism
Siobhan Fahey: London Rebel Dykes of the 1980s http://www.rebeldykes1980s.com
Performance:
Excerpt from ‘All the Nice Girls’, written and performed by Alison Child and Rosie Wakley. This show has been to the Edinburgh Festival and has toured all over Britain, receiving excellent reviews.
The story of forgotten lesbian Variety stars Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney seen through the eyes of male impersonator Ella Shields.
Farrar and Blaney met and fell in love just behind the lines in WW1 as members of Lena Ashwell’s concert parties for the troops. They quickly adapted their classical cello and piano act into a comic turn, sending themselves up and singing the popular love songs of the day to each other.
Fifteen years later they filled the London Palladium for their farewell performance. But why was it goodbye?
Stalls and information
Other speakers and activities will be announced in due course.
Heritage Lottery funded