School of Social and Political Science

Description

Join us for an informal book presentation of A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945, with editor Justin Bengry.

Join us for an informal book presentation of A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945, with editor Justin Bengry. This beautifully illustrated ensemble of histories draws on an eclectic wealth of materials to explore rural and urban postwar LGBTIQ+ lives through four main themes: home and family, socialising and sex, arts and culture, and activism and community. The volume demonstrates how collecting has long been a way for the marginalised to explore and assert identity and community. It celebrates both the intimacy and the diversity of queer and trans lives.

Co-badged with the Histories of Gender and Sexualities Research Group.

Speaker Bio

Justin Bengry is a leading queer historian and the author of numerous publications in the academic and mainstream press. For more than two decades he has written and spoken about gender & sexuality, social & cultural history, capitalism & consumer culture.

Justin is active across digital platforms and co-founded the world’s leading history of sexuality blog NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality. He is also on the advisory board of History Workshop, the digital magazine of History Workshop Journal.

Justin completed a PhD at the University of California in 2010 after which he held postdocs in Canada and the UK. He was Lead Researcher for Historic England’s pioneering digital history initiative Pride of Place: England’s LGBTQ Heritage, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Queer Beyond London.

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