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The words LGBTQ History Month in write, on a purple background
02 February 2026

Investigating How Young People Learnt About Queer Identity in Postwar Britain

At the start of LGBTQ History Month, in this blog Alexandra Wallace summarises her undergraduate research, which explored how young people first learnt about queer identity in postwar Britain, and the implications of her findings for how we think about identity.

‘Storm the NIH’ demonstration ‘die-in’, from Bethesda, Maryland, 1990.
24 November 2025

Uncovering ACT UP: the Queer Community and the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Edinburgh

In this blog post, Poppy Watson discusses the HIV/AIDS crisis in Edinburgh in the 1980s-90s, detailing how the queer community experienced the state’s lack of response. Thinking about affect and queer histories, Poppy scrutinizes whose voices dominate the archival material.

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