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Events 2007-2008

The 1967 and All That project has now ended, but two copies of the exhibition we produced continues to be displayed around the country.

Past events: 2007-2008

21-27 January 2008: London Borough of Southwark

February 2008: Swiss Cottage Library, London

December 2007

4 to 21 December 2007
1967 and All That Exhibition at LSE Library: Entrance Hall
10, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Exhibition was at the Fifth Annual LGBT History and Archives Conference
Saturday 1 December
at St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ
Organised by LMA.

November 2007

Exhibition was at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, Holborn Library
32-38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA

October 2007

All of October: Exhibition was at Birkbeck Library, University of London

Saturday 27 October
Afternoon Event at LSE Library, London

The speakers were:

• Matt Cook, on the context of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act and the road to reform. Matt is a cultural historian based at Birbeck University and is editor of 'A Gay History of Britain'. He specialises in the history of sexuality and the history of London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Rex Batten, on life for gay men during the police campaigns against them in the 1950s. Rex wrote 'Rid England of This Plague', a novel inspired by his experiences of being a gay man in the 1950's.
• Robert Thompson of LAGNA, on 'Twilight Men and Cake Shop Ladies: Homosexuality in the Press in the 1950s and 1960s'
• Tamsin Bookey, project archivist at LSE, on working with the LGBT community to preserve and make accessible the historical records of the gay rights movement.
• Two Man Alive programmes from BBC TV, about male and female homosexuals originally broadcast in 1967, were shown.

August/September 2007

Exhibition at
Battersea Library - 6 to 17 August
Earlsfield Library - 20 to 31 August
Battersea Park Library - 3 to 14 September
Balham Library - 17 to 28 September

arranged by Wandsworth Borough Council (London) Libraries.

July 2007

Exhibition at Barons Court Library
North End Crescent, London W14 8TG

June 2007

24 June:
Exhibition at House of Homosexual Culture
at the Drill Hall, Chenies Street, London WC1

28 - 30 June:
Exhibition at Wolfenden50 Conference
at King's College, Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS


30 June:
Exhibition at Pride London Rally, Trafalgar Square, London

March 2007

Our Launch exhibition was at Church Farmhouse Museum
Greyhound Hill, Hendon, Barnet NW4 4JR
from 2nd February to 18th March 2007 - Leaflet

An exhibition of press items covering lesbian and gay issues over the past 40 years, which coincides with the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in 1967. The Wolfenden Committee had recommended that male homosexuality be decriminalised ten years previously, in 1957. "1967 and All That" shows how the press did not simply report on the progress of the Wolfenden recommendations, it actually helped to shape the debate.

Organised by Barnet LGBT Network, and the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archives
for LGBT* History Month.

NB. This exhibition will be shown in Folkestone, Kent (July 2007), and by the Metropolitan Police - venue tbc (February 2008).

February 2007

Robert Thompson gave a number of talks or presentations in London throughout LGBT History Month.

Barnet (1 February)

Southwark (5 February)
at Cool Tan Arts, SE17

St Albans, Herts (6 February)
at Harperbury Hospital

Wandsworth (13 February)
at Putney Library

Camden (15 February)
at Swiss Cottage Central Library

Islington (21 February)
at 338-346 Goswell Road, EC1

Brighton (22 February)
at the Red Roaster Cafe

Redbridge (23 February)
at the Town Hall, Ilford.

A slide-show about the 1967 and All That Project was shown at the LGBT History and Archives Conference on 2 December 2006 at the London Metropolitan Archives.

* lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered

Text and HTML by Oliver Merrington.
Updated: April 2008