Write Queer London Festival has landed
02 December 2011
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
Write Queer London 2012 is on its way
29 November 2011
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
Gay history: now in verse
14 November 2011
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
Write Queer London 2012: How to enter
08 November 2011
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
Traders unpacked: a history of the East India Company at the National Maritime Museum this autumn
12 October 2011
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,
Jews and the Great Exhibition
12 October 2011
On the evening of the opening of the Great Exhibition, the 1st of May 1851, a vote was held in the House of Commons on whether to allow Jews to take a seat in Parliament without reciting the required oath, which included the words ‘on
Ars Homo Erotica in Warsaw
26 September 2011
National museums staging major exhibitions on LGBT themes are still a rarity, and Poland is among the more conservative countries in Europe in approaching the subject. So, at least in the gay press, it was international news when last year the National Museum in
Muslim Film Festival: Winds of Change sweeps the ICA
17 September 2011
A Palestinian exile’s return home and the temptations of a deeply devout Muslim are two of the stories depicted in a new film season beginning in London next week.
Winds of Change: Cinema from Muslim Societies aims to challenge the “highly distortive
Light and Promise - the amazing canvas of Ludwig Blum
27 May 2011
Ludwig Blum’s spectacular paintings of Mandate Palestine were last exhibited in London 73 years ago. Happily Londoners now have a last chance to catch a retrospective of his life work, encapsulated in 35 landscapes and panoramic vistas in oil and watercolour, at the Ben Uri
East India Company in Redbridge
12 April 2011
As I keep telling my family (and academic colleagues) all historical roads lead to India and sometimes on special occasions to Gujarat. This exhibition tells a history of modern London which is dependent on many countries East especially the northern realms of India. The exhibition
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Looking forward Alison Oram and Cheryl Tweedy's talk and workshop on Gay Domesticity at the @GEFFRYE Museum later this afternoon #WQL
Feb 04, 2012 12:17pm 3 hours ago
Tomorrow PM, come and hear about gay pirates and life at sea at the National Maritime Museum... http://t.co/4rgU9F6d
Feb 01, 2012 1:49pm 3 days ago
Unique trainee ships for would be curators at British Museum and beyond http://t.co/W4i63PsV
Jan 29, 2012 7:50pm 6 days ago
Some background on Write Queer London in this lovely article by the talented editor of Polari Magazine... http://t.co/UP4WJYtp
Jan 28, 2012 2:58pm 7 days ago