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Timeline Photos Today marks the anniversary of the Museum of Transology first being displayed at the London College of Fashion, before it went on to the Brighton Museum. We were honoured to be able to provide a loving home to this collection ... 10 Likes

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Set up in September 2001, the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) is an anti-war group that campaigned against the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq war.⁠
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Alongside the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain, Stop ... 12 Likes

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Timeline Photos Wanting to write your Valentine a poem this year that doesn't start with "roses are red"? 🌹⁠
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Join our beginners' poetry workshop and embrace your inner romantic poet (or your inner comic). Either way, it'll be a Valentine's Day ... 5 Likes

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Timeline Photos The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 legalised homosexual acts, in private and between two consenting men over the age of 21. It wasn't until the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act came into force in 2001 that the age of consent was ... 12 Likes

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Timeline Photos We're excited to have London-based fetishists and photographers The London Vagabond speaking at our alternative Valentine's Day celebration.⁠
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They'll be in-conversation with our Special Collections Manager and curator of the UK Leather and Fetish Archive, Stefan Dickers.
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Chez Verde Calico Boyle perhaps of interest?

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Celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans History Month UK with our online event with OUTing the Past.
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On Wednesday 24 February, we'll hear from speakers including Lisa Power, who was one of the Stonewall founders.⁠
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Lisa will be sharing ... 11 Likes

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Timeline Photos Trade cards were used by traders and workers in the eighteenth century as a way to promote their business.⁠
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The cards were often handed out in the same way we use business cards today – though the designs are ... 7 Likes

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Lives from the Archives: Dan Glass (LGBTQ+ activist) | Bishopsgate Institute We loved catching up with LGBTQ+ activist Dan Glass last summer as part of our "Lives from the Archives".
Dan recently wrote the book "United Queerdom", which looks at LGBTQ+ campaigns from the work of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) ... 5 Likes

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Timeline Photos Celebrate the online launch of Mapping Museums' Archive on Thursday 11 February.
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During the late twentieth century, the number of museums in the UK more than tripled. Mapping Museums will be sharing with us their research project that documents ... 5 Likes

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Timeline Photos This area of London happens to be one of our favourites... but can you spot where it is?
📸 LAMAS Glass Slide Collection 3 Likes

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Learn the key skills needed to write everything from a novel to a memoir as part of our creative writing online course.
We're also running sessions on how to write poetry, your family history, and short stories.
So if you've ... 2 Likes

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Timeline Photos Join us online on Thursday 18 February to celebrate the launch of Velvet Fist's Archive.⁠
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Velvet Fist was a socialist feminist women's acapella choir that were active in London between 1983 to 2013. They sang songs of resistance and ... 15 Likes

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Pilates Suitable for All | Courses | Bishopsgate Institute Keep moving during lockdown with our online Pilates courses.
In these suitable-for-all sessions, you'll be working to build core stability, alignment, coordination, and flexibility. These sessions are about making time for yourself to stretch, move, and support both your mind ... 2 Likes

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Timeline Photos Would you like to take a digital dive into our UK Leather and Fetish Archive (UKLF)?
Join us on 12 Feb for our online Valentine's Vice, where Special Collections & Archives Manager Stef Dickers will be giving a tour of ... 3 Likes

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Timeline Photos Anyone else craving some sun?
Travel to Italy and Spain from the comfort of your living room with our beginners' language courses.
Join us to learn key phrases in Italian and Spanish, with 25% off our regularly price. (The most ... 4 Likes

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Timeline Photos This photograph captures the Notting Hill Housing demonstration that took place in 1969. We'll be looking at housing and land justice as part of our "Power and Struggle" online course.⁠
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Come along to reflect on ongoing campaigns for social ... 1 Comments

Fiona Cosson have you seen this?

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Timeline Photos Centerprise was a radical community centre that started as a bookshop and cafe in Dalston Lane around 1971. ⁠
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It was a collectively-run enterprise that offered spaces for people to write books, play chess, socalise, and hold meetings. It ... 4 Comments

I remember using a local biography they published in Social Studies classes.Discovered it in the 70s by hearing of a job vacancy there, did the first coffee bar shift while daughter ...Used centreprise a lot.

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Timeline Photos We're lucky to hold the archives for East End legend Suresh Singh, who's the author of "Memoirs Of A Cockney Sikh".⁠ As part of his archive, we get a glimpse of what the East End has to offer.⁠
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We've ... 13 Likes

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Timeline Photos It's been almost a century since this illustration was published, and technology has changed dramatically in that time.
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Now music, TV, film, and podcasts are all at our fingertips, and our latest online courses will be looking at how ... 8 Likes

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Photos from Bishopsgate Institute's post Happy New Year 🎉🎉
We’ve got double the celebrations today as, on this day in 1895, our Library threw its doors open to the public for the first time. Crowds of people queued up to visit our reference library, lending ... 17 Likes

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Timeline Photos This last year has been challenging for us all, and we wanted to thank you for your support during this time.
We moved a lot of our programme online this year, with the archive launches of Clean Break and the ... 3 Comments

Thank you Bishopsgate for being such a welcome home.
Happy New Year!
See you in the archives ASAP x x ...And we haave to thank you for all the support you have given to us.Hope to see you next year for our Peggy Party

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Timeline Photos We're honoured to document Feminist and Women's History in our archives, and we'll be exploring the stories of a range of twentieth-century British women as part of our "From Suffragettes to Feminist" course.⁠
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Discover the background to contemporary feminism ... 1 Comments 11 Likes

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Timeline Photos In 1976, Tony Whitehead was fired by British Home Stores (BHS) after he came out as gay. ⁠
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This led to the Glad to be Gay demonstration in Brighton, pictured here, to protest against Whitehead's sacking. This was part ... 17 Likes

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This year marked 20 years since Bernie Grant's death, who was elected to Parliament in 1987, as one of the first Black MPs in modern times. ⁠
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Grant had previously been Leader of Haringey Council, making him the first ... 31 Likes

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Photos from Bishopsgate Institute's post We recently got to catch up with Dominatrix and founder of fetish club Club RUB, Miss Kim, for an episode of our "Lives from the Archives".
She spoke to us about her favourite part of the Club's collection, how it ... 4 Likes

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Timeline Photos To all those spending Boxing Day lying on the sofa, you can just say you were inspired by this image from the Libby Hall Dog Collection.
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📸 Libby Hall Dog Collection 12 Likes

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Timeline Photos This Holiday season may look a little different (and a little quieter) to normal, but we hope you have a wonderful time celebrating.⁠
And we've still got our fingers crossed for some snow...❄️⁠
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From all of us at Bishopsgate ... 6 Likes

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Timeline Photos As we plan for our Christmas dinner tomorrow, it's got us thinking about the stories behind our food.
In our new one-day course, we'll be exploring these stories and looking at the history of food and eating our in modern ... 8 Likes

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Timeline Photos Have you been researching your family history? Discovered some secrets?⁠
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Our "Writing Your Family History" online course will look at how to turn your research into narrative, and how to find meaning in the material you've gathered.⁠
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