Archive Exploration - LGBTQ+ History Month

Explore LJMU's Special Collections & Archives related to LGBTQ+ history, life, and experiences, in a guided session for LGBT History Month. The session will include a short introduction by the Assistant Archivist, followed by independent exploration of the records in our Reading Room.

Featuring: our newest collection of April Ashley's papers related to her life and career as one of Britain's most historically important trans women; 1800s-1970s crossdressing and transgender history; 1980s-2000s LGBT club culture; queer life in fetish publications; gay life in women's colleges; and representations of LGBTQ+ people and culture in magazines and ephemera. Click here to read more about the archive material to be featured.

Please arrive with clean, bare hands. Please also be advised that some collections contain sexually explicit material.

The Reading Room is located on the Lower Ground floor of Aldham Robarts Library, which is wheelchair accessible. Do let us know in advance if you have any other access needs we need to be aware of via [email protected]

If you are an external user, you will need any form of ID to sign in at the reception desk before heading downstairs to the Archive.

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