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Codebreaker - Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy

29 July 2012

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Alan Turing, one of Britain's greatest mathematicians and thinkers, worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War where he broke the Naval Enigma codes, allowing Britain to gather intelligence it needed to win the war. As well as developing plans for the Automatic

Posted by: Alan Ward

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Antinous

09 June 2012

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Last year we stationed a number of poets in the Museums and Archives of London to report back on the queer histories hidden therein. Celebrated poet John McCullough explored the British Museum, where he took a bust of the boy god Antinous as his

Posted by: Babs Guthrie

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The Ballad of Captain Rigby

08 May 2012

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Write Queer London 2012 saw poet Peter Daniels enter the Metropolitan Archives to uncover LGBT history amongst their stacks wherein he made the acqaintance of our tale's hero, the indefatigable Captain Rigby. Captain Edward Rigby was tried for sodomy in 1698, after falling foul of

Posted by: Babs Guthrie

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The Secret Lives of Shirts by Elizabeth (Buffy) Noble - Winning Poetry entry Write Queer London 2012

14 February 2012

Yellow Morphy Richards iron from Geffrye Museum handling collectioncollection

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The secret lives of shirts I am flattened, And again flattened. I am forced. I am heavy as a man, hanging I am heavy as a day. I am made straight. but I have been silk, undone, wettened I have been lovingly dangled I have

by: Elizabeth (Buffy) Noble

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The Pankratiasts by James Duncan- overall winning entry for Write Queer London 2012

14 February 2012

Pankration scene: the pankriatiast on the right tries to gouge his opponent's eye; the umpire is about to strike him for this foul. Detail from an Attic red-figure kylix, 490-480 BC. From Vulci, Italy.

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Squat down, pulling the back of my head onto his bare chest, Erasmus has pushed his left leg between mine. The inside of his thigh is touching the back of my balls. My sturdy left leg knots around his sturdier right. He has

by: James Duncan

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Write Queer London Festival has landed

02 December 2011

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Discovering gay histories across London museums The Museum of London’s Write Queer London festival, which begins in December, brings together writers, poets and LGBT history in London museums for a fourth year. Curator talks, gallery tours, poetry commissions, a writing competition and creative

Posted by: Babs Guthrie

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Write Queer London 2012 is on its way

29 November 2011

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We are really pleased that Write Queer London is back for a fourth year. The recipe goes like this: - Take five or six London museums, with interesting LGBT collections or stories - Add a knowledgeable curator to explain and answer questions - Bring in

Posted by: Kate Smith

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Gay history: now in verse

14 November 2011

Black and white photo shows head and shoulders of poet John McCullough

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As part of this year's Write Queer London we've commissioned three poets to search the collections of three London museums, choose an object or a theme and write a poem. All three poets have just begun their commissions now, and we wait

Posted by: Kate Smith

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Write Queer London 2012: How to enter

08 November 2011

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RULES: Entries in all categories must relate to an aspect of historical or modern Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender London - or objects held in London museums. We will interpret this fairly broadly, but won't consider entries, however good, which are simply 'gay stories

Posted by: Kate Smith

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Traders unpacked: a history of the East India Company at the National Maritime Museum this autumn

12 October 2011

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This autumn the National Maritime museum opens a new gallery, dedicated to the story of British traders with the East who made Britain one of the richest nations in the world and laid the foundations of colonialism. Traders unpacked is a wide-ranging festival of music,

Posted by: Kate Smith

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