Locating Queer Histories

Matt Cook is Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in 20th-Century London (2014) and London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 (2003). Alison Oram is Professor of Social and Cultural History at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is the author of Her Husband Was a Woman!: Women's Gender Crossing and Modern British Culture (2007) and the Lesbian History Sourcebook (2001). Justin Bengry is Lecturer in Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His forthcoming monograph is entitled The Pink Pound: Capitalism and Homosexuality in 20th-Century Britain.

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Introduction

1. ‘Great Expectations: Migrating to Edinburgh’, Alva Träbert
2. ‘The North South Divide? Examining Queer Intersections between Newcastle upon Tyne and London’, Gareth Longstaff
3. ‘Sectarianism and queer lives in Northern Ireland since the 1970s’, Sean Brady
4. ‘Queer Transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s Loves for Men and Alpine Plants (1880-1920)’, Dominic Janes
5. ‘“Cool and Green and Lovely Beyond Anything”: Oxford’s Parson’s Pleasure 1844-1992’, George Townsend
6. ‘Tracing Queer Black Spaces in Interwar Britain’, Caroline Bressey and Gemma Romain,
7. ‘London Suburbs and the Co-Creation of LGBT+ Jewish Identities’, Searle Kochberg and Margaret Greenfields,
8. ‘The queer politics and pleasure of community resistance to Section 28 on Brighton Beach, 1988-1994’, Louise Pawley
9. ‘Taking Pride in Plymouth’s Past’, Alan Butler
10. ‘A “Queer Collection”: The English Colony in Florence, 1890 – 1940’, Rachel Hope Cleves

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