What would be in YOUR LGBTQ Archive? Weβd love to preserve, celebrate & provide a loving home for your badges, banners, letters, diaries, art, books or flyers, physical or digital, in archives @BishopsgateInst. Get in touch!! #everyoneshistoryisimportant
Big thanks to @stefdickers and @BishopsgateInst for taking my gender studies classes around the feminist & LGBTQ archives today. Celebrating & archiving queer communities & histories is more important than ever in a week like this one π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
This LGBT History Month, we're looking back at our archive.
If you're a former staff member or volunteer, help us mark our history at a drop-in at the Bishopsgate Institute, hosted by Sir Nick Partridge.
π 14 Feb
β° 2pm-4pm
RSVP to niamh.glanville-frayne@bishopsgate.org.uk
An amazing friend of the Archives @BishopsgateInst has donated every copy of the legendary Drummer magazine! I canβt say how chuffed we are! Perhaps the only full run in the UK?
The legendary Diana Dors packs them in at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, November 1981. Captured gorgeously by Robert Workman from his archive @BishopsgateInst
ALT A black and white photograph of what looks like a large living room space. There is the corner of a sofa in the bottom left corner of the frame, an iron candle chandelier and a collection of trinkets in the right of the frame. In the centre of the room, a person wearing a dark jumpsuit poses in the spotlight created by two pieces of photography lighting equipment.
Thrilled @BishopsgateInst to receive a Archives Scoping Grant Award from @UkNatArchives to survey the archive of underground club photographer Paul Soso (1963-2020) with his friends and family. Thousands of incredible images from the fetish & underground scene. Thanks so much!
LGBTQIA OBJECT ARCHIVING SESSION! What object do you feel plays a part a significant in your LGBTQIA journey? It could be anything β We want to archive it! The Archives Team & can't wait to meet you! Venue: @bishopsgateinstitute, 4th December, 6-8 pm
This week has been a whirlwind of student tours @BishopsgateInst. We love (on many occasions) being students' first experience of an archive & seeing them come away thoroughly inspired. OK, I suppose we're not your normal archive....let us know if you want to bring a group in...
In addition to charting Holly's extraordinary music career, The Holly Johnson Story explores the impact of HIV and AIDS, particularly in the 1980s. Objects on display are kindly on loan from @BishopsgateInst@SahirHouse and donated by @disheedee
ALT A glass display case containing a blue Merseyside AIDS Support Group telephone and open logbook, AIDS Don't Die of Ignorance leaflet and AIDS Fight the Fear with Facts badges, stickers and leaflets.