Our first panel features Sarah Pyke Andrew Thacker and peter willis

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 –
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Oxford people! Go to this! I am reading Jane Cholmeley's book right now and it is BRILLIANT

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!

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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/…)

A wonderful, energising/galvanising pair of papers by J. D. Sargan & Sarah Pyke & chaired by Adam Smyth for the Oxford Bibliographical Society Queer Bibliography event yesterday!

I'm delighted to be speaking and performing from my recent book, THE GREEN LADY, this Sunday at Shoreham Wordfest. For more on The Green Lady listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-r… & podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-r… Christy Edwall Lancing College Short Book & Scribes Sarah Pyke Georgina Wilson

Incredible day at the London Centre for Book Arts ft. trans alchemical endpapers, rapid fire assembly line collation and some truly embodied #QueerBibliography

Eternal thanks to Malcolm Noble and Sarah Pyke for organising such a spectacular event! I loved every moment!

Swallows and Amazons is a very, very good name for a feminist bookshop-and-cafe (but of course Silver Moon is/was Silver Moon)

-- from Jane Cholmeley's wonderful A Bookshop of One's Own

If you missed my conversation with Sarah Pyke (and the spirit of Malcolm Noble) last month, you can now catch up with what we had to say thanks to Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book podcasting!

“Queer readers,” Sarah Pyke reminds us, “are closet book historians.” #QueerBibliography

Nice to see so many NCRCL members involved in this course, from convener Sarah Pyke to sessions by Dr Kay Waddilove, Emily Corbett and Mark Carter (plus lots of other wonderful-looking things!)

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A fantastic Oxford Bibliographical Society session this evening by J. D. Sargan and Sarah Pyke on Queer Bibliography! 🌈📖

Queer Bibliography: A Discussion is now available online.

Listen to J. D. Sargan and Sarah Pyke consider, what is queer bibliography? Chaired by Adam Smyth organised by Oxford Bibliographical Society

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Photo: Xena Becker.

Sarah Pyke Leila Kassir Gay's The Word Senate House Library School of Advanced Study, University of London This is really great - congratulations to you both!

We're so excited for this year's Being Human Festival! With our friends Senate House Library we'll be hosting an event that explores censorship and histories of queer reading in 1980s Britain - led by the fabulous Sarah Pyke and Kaspar Beelen.

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Sarah Pyke Gay's The Word Senate House Library School of Advanced Study, University of London Gabriel Duckels This sounds great.

Today marks 40 years since Gay's The Word was raided for 'indecent and obscene' materials.

Join us on 25 April at 7pm for an online event with Sarah Pyke, Graham McKerrow 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🚩 & Sigrid Nielsen about Operation Tiger, obscenity and queer bookselling:

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