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List of News Articles

  1. Article: The lost art of letter writing

    Summary: Every minute, 187 million emails, 18 million texts, and 38 million WhatsApp messages are sent. But before we all lived our lives online, the way to stay in touch was through letter writing.

    5 min read

  2. Gallery: The LGBTQ+ community and Section 28

    Summary: Today marks the anniversary of the Section 28 legislation being introduced, which banned the "promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities in 1988. This meant schools and councils were unable to provide young LGBTQ+ people with help.

  3. Video: The book that nearly caused revolution

    Summary: We're opening up the pages of the book that was once deemed so dangerous it had to be locked away...

  4. Video: The Peggy Spencer Archive

    Summary: We're opening up the virtual doors to our archives and delving into the story of ballroom dancer and choreographer Peggy Spencer.

  5. Gallery: The Gay Liberation Front & Pride

    Summary: Britain’s first Pride was held in 1972, organised by the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). Pride marches have since marked several key moments in LGBTQ+ history, and we're excited to share with you previously unseen images of the second ever Pride.

  6. Gallery: Back to the sixties with Derek Brook

    Summary: The sixties were a transformative decade for London. The capital was anointed in April 1966 as “The Swinging City” by Time magazine, with London being seen as a thriving hub for art, music, and fashion.

  7. Event: OUTing the Past

    Summary: In celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month this year, we were pleased to welcome back Sue Sanders and OUTing the Past for an online event.

  8. Event: Explore kink at Valentine's Vice 2.0

    Summary: Having started in 2016, the UK Leather and Fetish Archive (UKLFA) is dedicated to documenting and celebrating the history and heritage of the leather, rubber, kink, BDSM, and fetish community in the UK.

  9. Lives from the Archives: Miss Kim (Club RUB)

    Summary: Club RUB was a fetish club started by Dominatrix Miss Kim, which ran every month from 1996 to 2017.

  10. Lives from the Archives: Angela Christofilou

    Summary: Photographer Angela Christofilou started taking photographs at protests in 2015 at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, and has since gone on to document several protest movements.

  11. Gallery: Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association Archive

    Summary: Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association (KLPA) represents the community of women who swim in the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath.

  12. Lives from the Archives: The London Vagabond

    Summary: London based lovers and fetishists The London Vagabond have been making work collaboratively for around four years under this alias.