February is LGBTQ+ History Month

It is an ever-changing world and while some are celebrating the rainbow of LGBTQ+ others are simultaneously trying to wash it away. Here at the HA we are happy to be a champion of LGBTQ+ history. We are committed to a broad and inclusive understanding of history and are pleased to share with you our latest podcast that brings together Queer Britain museum curator Jennifer Shearman and academic Dr Sam Knapton as they discuss collaborative working and exploring this part of human history. Listen to the podcast here

We also have a range of other resources for exploring LGBTQ+ history:

Primary 

• Ideas for assemblies: LGBT History Month (open access for February) (Primary History article)
• 50th anniversary of the UK’s first official Pride march (Primary History article)

Secondary

• What Have Historians Been Arguing About... gender and sexuality (open access for February) (Teaching History article)
• What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Modern British LGBTQ+ history (Teaching History article)
• Carmel Bones with a Cunning Plan… for building difference into GCSE curriculum design (Teaching History article)
• Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945: KS3 resource pack on gender and sexuality (open access)
• Teacher Fellowship resource: Guided watching and listening: What can audio-visual materials reveal about the 1960s? (open access)

General resources

• Recorded webinar with Matt Cook on Queer beyond London (open access for February) 
• Podcast with Gabrielle Storey on Medieval Sexualities: Richard I and Philip Augustus
• Ben Jerritt on Forbidden friendships: taverns, nightclubs, bottle bars and emancipation (Historian article) 
• Harry Cocks on Homosexuality in Britain Since 1967 (open access for February) (Historian article)
• Stephen Bourne on Real Lives: Harry Daley (Historian article)

Podcasts 

• Early Modern LGBTQ+ History 
• British LGBTQ+ History: 1914-1960
• The British LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Movement: 1960-present (open access for February) 
• British LGBTQ+ Community: Changes over the last 200 years
• The Life & Significance of Alan Turing    
• The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism 
• The Origins of the LGBTQ+ Movement in the US
• The US LGBTQ+ Movement from the 1990s
• Medieval Sexualities: Richard I and Philip Augustus