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LGBTQ+ History Month Lecture: Collecting, archiving and celebrating LGBTQIA+ and alternative sexualities: The adventures of an archivist by Stef Dickers

Stef Dickers, Bishopsgate Institute

Date/Time: Tuesday 20 February 2024, 5.30pm

Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

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All our events remain free and open to all, but pre-booking is required. Bookings for this lecture will open at 10.00am on 13 February.

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Chaired by Dr Gareth Longstaff, Deputy Head of Media, Culture, Heritage and Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies

Home to the UK’s largest LGBTQIA+ archive, the Bishopsgate Institute tells a story of monumental political and social struggles in London and further afield. Its special collections manager will reveal how the archive developed, the stories and adventures behind the collections, and how he has sought to collect the history of LGBTQIA+ in a different way.

Biography

Stef is the Special Collections and Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute and has been responsible for the development of the Institute's collections on the history of London, protest and activism, and LGBTQIA+ Britain. He qualified as an archivist in 2001 and started at Bishopsgate in 2005. Previous to this, Stef worked in the archives of the London School of Economics and Senate House Library.