Two dates for your diary…for further information and details of other RSHC courses, events and workshops, visit the Centre’s website
Archives Workshop: The Hall Carpenter Archives at the London School of Economics
The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA) are Britain’s major resource for the study of lesbian and gay activism in the UK. This free half day workshop – marking LGBT History Month 2010 – will guide you through some of the highlights of the collection, giving you to the chance to handle leaflets, newspapers, letters, diaries and ephemera from the 1950s to the present. The workshop is led by Raphael Samuel Centre’s Matt Cook and LSE archivist Sue Donnelly
Saturday 20th February 2010, 2 – 5.
London School of Economics Library
10 Portugal Street
London WC2A 2HD
20 places only: to book contact Katy Pettit on k.pettit@uel.ac.uk
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The Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2009
6.30pm, Friday 27th November 2009
Bishopsgate Institute
230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
(near Liverpool Street Station)
Jeffrey Weeks, ‘Making the Human Gesture: History, Sexuality and Social Justice’.
The 1970s saw the rise of new social movements engaged with issues of sexuality. Historians inspired by these movements began writing histories of sexual life. This talk traces the development of sexual history since the 1970s, and shows the impact of changing sexual mores on modern attitudes to human rights and social justice. Jeffrey Weeks is a leading historian and sociologist of sexuality. His 1977 book Coming Out was hugely influential, and he has since published many other landmark works, including Sexuality and Its Discontents (1985), Making Sexual History (2001), and The World We Have Won: the Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life (2007) . Jeffrey Weeks is now Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University.
The lecture is free of charge and open to all, and will be followed by a wine reception