Leila Kassir
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Lyons Corner Houses & teashops + Literature Librarian @SenateHouseLib + zines & pamphlets + cafes + Beatles
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Noreen Masud
Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (2023) HARD LANGUAGE (2022) 🐨 BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner 🍉 ‘melancholy’ - The Guardian
Siobhán
sentient binbag. artist and art librarian. Zines, artists' books, drawing, complaining about my commute.
Roger Luckhurst
Writer, academic + freelance. Gothic, SF, lit + film. Recent book: Gothic (2021). *Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead* coming soon.
Liam Sims
Rare Books Specialist @theUL | PhD student @UoLEnglish on C18 antiquarian networks @sg_soc | Fellow @SocAntiquaries | Venetophile | Bellringer | 🏳️🌈
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Associate Professor, University of East Anglia. Editor, Penguin Book of the Prose Poem. Poetry newsletter: link in bio. Gone to Bluesky for the foreseeable.
A really beautiful evening launching SEIZED BOOKS! at Gay's The Word last night & remembering the events of forty years ago. Especially moving reflections from Graham McKerrow 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🚩 & the shop's own Jim MacSweeney, plus an impromptu speech from defending barrister Geoffrey Robertson KC!
Also visited our little Seized Books! display Senate House Library which is on until the end of April. It's free!
(See london.ac.uk/seized-books for more or browse here: omeka.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/s/seizedbooks/…)
Among the titles seized by the UK govt from Gay's The Word bookshop in 1984. Fabulous on-line exhibition Senate House Library
Anyone interested in this topic might like to check out #QueerBetweenTheCovers , available to read for free here in a new enhanced edition on our Manifold platform:
read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/queer…
#OpenAccess #LGBTQ #OperationTiger School of Advanced Study, University of London
Forty years ago, Gay's The Word was reeling from raids by HM Customs & Excise. You might've heard of 'Operation Tiger', but probably know less about the books accused of being 'indecent or obscene'. Our new exhibition Senate House Library School of Advanced Study, University of London reveals more –
london.ac.uk/about/services…
🏳️🌈 #SeizedBooks launches today!
Our new online exhibition explores the censorship of LGBTQ+ lit & the defiant campaign against 1984 raids on Gay's The Word.
Explore confiscated titles, the legal battle & queer reading cultures: london.ac.uk/seized-books
This event 'Indecent & Obscene: 40 Years Since Operation Tiger' promises to be fab. Taking place online Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive & Blog on 25th April with Sigrid Nielsen, Sarah Pyke &
Graham McKerrow 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🚩 Info here tickettailor.com/events/lavende…
Interested in researching the history of witchcraft and magic? The join us to discover the wealth of resources available to you from IHR Wohl Library The Warburg Institute Senate House Library
🗓 16 May
🕰 14:00-15:30 BST
🖥 Online
Register today via: history.ac.uk/events/researc…
