LGBT+ history podcast episodes
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20th CenturyaudioA secret trial that transformed transgender rights
Zoe Playdon discusses a secret 1965 trial revolving around Ewan Forbes, a transgender man, and reveals how it affected trans rights
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Charley WilsonVictorian transgender working-class man. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Fern Riddell reveals the life of transgender working man Charley Wilson and details how his story is still relevant to us today
General ModernaudioThe big questions of LGBTQ history
We mark LGBT+ History Month with a panel discussion tackling some of the biggest themes in LGBTQ history
- 20th Centuryaudio
From bohemian Brighton to military Plymouth: the LGBTQ history of four British cities. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Matt Cook and Alison Oram explore LGBTQ experiences in four English cities – Brighton, Manchester, Plymouth and Leeds – from the sixties to the noughties
VictorianaudioGentleman Jack
Angela Steidele explores the life of 19th-century gay pioneer Anne Lister
20th CenturyaudioThe gay MPs who opposed appeasement
Chris Bryant tells the story of a group of young, queer British MPs who were some of the first to resist appeasement and warn Britain’s government about the dangers of Hitler
- General Modernaudio
Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Dominic Janes discusses his new history of British dandies, which explores how such ‘dressy men’ – from fops and macaronis, to aesthetes – provoked both fascination and horror in their societies.
- General Historyaudio
Which LGBTQ+ histories get told – and which get overlooked?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
To mark LGBT+ History Month, a panel of experts discuss the challenges and complexities of exploring sexuality across the centuries
