Locating Queer Histories

Places and Traces across the UK

Matt Cook, Alison Oram, Justin Bengry, Matt Cook, Alison Oram, Justin Bengry

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781350252530
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350143746
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history.
The chapters cover a broad range of themes from migration, movement and multiculturalism; the distinctive queer social and political scenes of different cities; and the ways in which places have been reimagined through locally led community history projects. The book challenges traditional LGBTQ histories which have tended to conceive of queer experience in the UK as a comprising a homogeneous, national narrative.
Edited by leading historians, the book foregrounds the voices of LGBTQ-identified people by looking at a range of letters, diaries, TV interviews and oral testimonies. It provides a unique and fascinating account of queer experiences in Britain and how they have been shaped through different localities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Great expectations: Migrating to Edinburgh
• 2 ‘He had a pair of shoulders like the Tyne Bridge’: Queer evocations of the North East and the legacy of Out on Tuesday and Out
• 3 Sectarianism and queer lives in Northern Ireland since the 1970s
• 4 Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880–1920)
• 5 A queer history of Parson’s Pleasure, Oxford
• 6 Tracing queer Black spaces in interwar Britain
• 7 London suburbs and the co-creation of LGBT+ Jewish identities
• 8 Brighton beach: Pleasures and politics of queer community, 1950–94
• 9 Taking pride in Plymouth’s past
• 10 A ‘queer collection’: The Anglo colony in Florence, 1840s–1950s
• Selected bibliography
• Index
• Imprint