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Exploring the lives of historical people with diverse sexualities and gender identities can be revealing – but also fraught with difficulties

In the third instalment of History Revealed's 'My life in history' series, Matthew Storey talks about his career as a LGBT+ collections curator for Historic Royal Palaces...

An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky, translated from German by Jackie Smith and published by MacLehose Press, has been announced as the 2021 winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.An Inventory of Losses, first published in Germa

An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky, translated from German by Jackie Smith, named winner of the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

Forty years ago, the UK found itself in the grip of a virus that killed thousands of people and sparked fear, confusion and prejudice – HIV. Janet Weston explores the Aids crisis as it unfolded throughout the 1980s, and how it transformed attitudes about everything from sexuality to healthcare

Recommended by Jen Manion These two books are among my favourites – I teach them all the time and they’re also really accessible. One is Transgender History by Susan Stryker (Seal Press, 2017), which is an introductory overview of the transgender rights movement in contemporary US society.  The other is probably lesser known, but it’s called Queer Injustice (Beacon Press, 2011) and it was co-authored by historians, lawyers and activists. It’s a beautiful synthesis of queer history an...