Queer places: Feelings, emotions and ways of rebuilding intangible heritage

Our records give insight into how government has interacted with and viewed LGBTQ+ communities in the past. While these records document past injustices, they also unlock stories of resistance. They provide fragments and traces to reconstruct lost histories, highlighting the importance of space and places for a community to grow and feel protected.

Join The National Archives in conversation with Luke Fawcett, Vicky Iglikowski-Broad and Giorgia Tolfo as we discuss archive-based spatial remodeling and restaging, intersections of spaces, places, memories and emotions for the LGBTQ+ community, and intangible heritage.

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Image: Cover of the Caravan Club members book (DPP 2/224).

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ABOUT THE PROJECTS

In 2017 and in collaboration with The National Trust, Vicky Iglikowski-Broad (Principal Records Specialist -Diverse Histories, The National Archives) embarked on project which saw the re-creation of the London’s ‘most bohemian rendezvous’ and queer-friendly club of the 1930s, The Caravan Club. Documents held at The National Archives were used as the inspiration to create a powerful immersive experience based on what we know about the club and its members from the material that survives, celebrating the stories of clandestine spaces and offering a valuable window into queer club culture and the everyday prejudices faced by the LGBT+ community in the early 20th Century.

Queer Places is a creative archiving project by architect Luke Fawcett celebrating the vibrant, humble and sometimes filthy LGBTQ+ spaces of Liverpool’s past, present and future. Using people’s memories, personal photographs and records, Fawcett has been collecting and sharing some of the fascinating tales of Liverpool’s LGBTQ+ buildings. Thanks to these records and memories, he has been created digital archive of inaccurate, yet emotionally meaningful 3D models and illustrations that help revisit these places and connect with Liverpool’s queer intangible heritage.