Queer History

‘The heart of the house’: Knole House through the lens of Woolf’s Orlando

by Hannah McCann on August 16, 2021

Vita and Virginia In the summer of 1940, as the German invasion of Britain seemed imminent, Vita Sackville-West sent her most treasured possessions to safety. Vita was living at Sissinghurst, a grand but now ruined Elizabethan house,

A Genealogy of Bisexuality; Androgyny, Behaviour, and Suspicion.

by Rosie Nelson on September 5, 2017

People can be very quick to dismiss the idea of bisexuality as a phase, as greedy, or in some way

Finding my place in queer cultural history through the ‘post-Cold-War’ period

by Catherine Baker on August 14, 2017

II’ve been researching the 1990s since the beginning of my academic career, when I wrote my PhD on popular music

Queering Christ’s Wounds and Gender Fluidity in Medieval Manuscripts

by Sophie Sexon on August 8, 2017

As we mark the 50th anniversary of the (partial) decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, it is an appropriate moment

The Past is Not a Straight Line

by Bodie Ashton on July 13, 2017

This is the first in a series of History Matters blogs by LGBTIQ+ scholars, and about the queer past. As

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What’s the problem with LGBT history month?

by Matt Houlbrook on March 3, 2014

This is the fourth in History Matters’ series of blogs for LGBT History Month. All of the blogs will appear here as they are posted. In his 1932 book The Cloven Hoof the British writer Taylor Croft