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List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
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
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
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. His forthcoming monograph is entitled The Pink Pound: Capitalism and Homosexuality in 20th-Century Britain.
Summary
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.
Foreword
Explores the power of locality and regionality in shaping LGBTQ lives and experiences in Britain from the 19th century to the present.
