I was the founding director of the Goldsmiths Centre for Queer History from 2019-2024. Our work included the provision of the first MA in Queer History, public history events, workshops, and the creation of the Goldsmiths Archive of Queer Life Histories.

Interest in queer histories and the lives of LGBTQ people in the past crosses departments and disciplinary boundaries at Goldsmiths. Exciting and dynamic research is being undertaken not only in the Department of History but across the College.

Goldsmiths Queer History brought together students and staff at Goldsmiths and across the University of London. But we also engaged with a wider public of community members, activists and heritage professionals engaged with questions of the queer past and who promote the value of sexual and gender diversity today. The study of queer history is as much about the present as the past.