LGBT+ and Queer Histories – Getting Started

by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Resources

This resource is one of several to accompany the RHS LGBT+ Histories and Historians Report, published on 28 September 2020. This page offers some starting points – quick reading (and listening) suggestions and examples of online resources for those who want to...

Queer History in Northern Ireland – Tom Hulme

by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Personal Reflections

Dr Tom Hulme is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. He is a specialist in urban culture (1880-1940), in Britain, the US and (most recently) Ireland; and the popular place of the past in...

From the Hacienda to Hagiography – Bob Mills

by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Personal Reflections

Professor Bob Mills is Professor of Medieval Studies and Head of the History of Art Department at UCL. Between 2015 and 2018 he directed UCL’s queer research network qUCL and has been a member of its LGBTQ+ Advisory Group since 2012. Previously Bob was director of...

On Visibility – Pippa Catterall

by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Personal Reflections

Professor Pippa Catterall is Professor of History and Policy at the University of Westminster, and specialises in modern British political, religious, diplomatic and constitutional history. She also teaches public policy for the Hansard Society. In 1999 Pippa...

Charting a Course: From Shock Cities to Sexy Sailors (and Pilgrim Fathers)

by minifuma15 | 09 Jul 2019 | RHS Publications

Tom Hulme is author of After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship, available now in the RHS Studies on History Series with Boydell and Brewer. In this post for the Historical Transactions blog, he considers how the threads from that...