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Category: LGBT+ History

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  • An illustration showing a woman sitting in front of the entrance to a close. She's wearing a hat with a floppy brim and a dress with a short cape around the shoulders. Behind her is a person wearing a chauffeur's uniform. A plaque above the door of the close reads: E A Taylor and Jessie M King lived and worked in this house.

    The Greengate Close Coterie

    11 June 2024, LGBT+ History
  • A portrait of James VI. He is a man of around 50 with a thin face and red beard. He wears a black hat with a feather in it and he has a black coat with an elaborate white ruff.

    James VI and his “favourites”

    13 March 2024, History, LGBT+ History, Who are you?
  • A cartoon of a man with dark hair and glasses wearing a wool suit in 1930s style. Beside him is a soviet hammer and sickle. Behind him is an Edinburgh skyline which morphs into a Turkish skyline.

    Harry Whyte: The Scot Who Challenged Stalin

    23 February 2024, LGBT+ History
  • A cartoon illustration of a person weating a flat cap and a shirt and waistcoat. Their hair is curly and falls to their neck. They are standing in front of an industrial steam-driven hammer.

    John Campbell: living life as a man in 19th century Scotland

    20 February 2024, LGBT+ History
  • An illustration of Anne Lister in a comic book style. She has brown hair and blue eyes. She wears her hair up and the front is curled in tight ringlets. She wears a sober, black, high necked dress with a small white ruff. Dumbarton Castle sits on its rock in the background.

    A Scottish Adventure with Anne Lister

    09 February 2024, LGBT+ History, Women's History
  • An illustration with a male and female head silhouette and the pride flag colours in water colour in the background.

    Walter Sholto Douglas: A queer pioneer in Scotland’s LGBT+ history

    22 June 2023, History, LGBT+ History
  • A man in a tweed suit raises his trilby hat. A sign behind him reads: Lothians and Peebles Police Headquarters

    William Merrilees and the ‘War on Homosexuality’

    20 February 2023, LGBT+ History
  • 19th century engraving depicting a rider on horseback crossing a bridge over the Water of Leith. Some other small figures walk along the banks of the river.

    The LGBT sex scandal of Edinburgh’s New Town

    28 February 2022, History, LGBT+ History, Women's History
  • The Tale of Thomas the Rhymer, re-told

    18 February 2021, Black History, LGBT+ History
  • The Longest Night

    04 February 2021, LGBT+ History, Women's History
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