Major accessions to repositories in 2023 relating to LGBTQ

Local

Archives and Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall Record Office)

• Queer Kernow and Outback the newsletter for Lesbians in Cornwall and the far South West: material incl copies of Outback, 2008-2009, videos with digital copies, CD album 'Out of the Blue', Women's Band, and oral history, group discussion, Outback and beyond, by Queer Kernow 1990-2022 (X1513, AD1944)

Bath Record Office

• Gay West: minutes, newsletters, posters, and ephemera 1974-2022 (1418)

Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service

• Queer Space archive 1987-2019 (MS 5098 (2023/086))

Glasgow City Archives

• Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), writer and actor: letters to L. Hernandez and photographs 1987-1997 (TD2194)

Highland Archives

• Our Story: Closing the Queer History Gap: oral history interviews conducted by the project 2022 (D1748)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

• Initiative Arts Manchester: additional oral histories created as part of the Legacy of '67 National Lottery Heritage Fund project 2010-2023 (2023/16)
• Initiative Arts Manchester: oral histories created as part of the Legacy of '67 National Lottery Heritage Fund project 2022 (2023/5)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

• In Other Words, radical bookshop, Plymouth: corresp, legal papers, photographs, printed cuttings rel to significant events such as author visits and book launches, feminist fortnight, fairs and festivals, anniversary events etc; posters and publicity materials; visitors' books; sample of LGBTQ badges and accessories; and a history of the shop, 2020 (revised 2023) 1982-2023 (4492)

West Sussex Record Office

• Myra Thomas (1917-1996) and Betty Hakesley (1929-2018) of Worthing: photographs and ephemera relating to Myra Thomas ('Tommie') and Betty Hakesley c1920-1999 (20559)

National

Lothian Health Services Archive

• Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard: oral histories recorded with staff and users 2023 (Acc23/012)

University

Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

• Robert Howes (b1947) researcher, LGBTQ+ author and amateur photographer: collection rel to LGBT movements in Latin America 1980s-1990s (GBR/0012/MS Add.10446)

Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department

• Glasgay! Festival, LGBTQ+ arts festival, Glasgow: theatre production files 2000-2013 (GLAASC ACCN 00136)

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

• Christopher Richardson (1947-2020), socialist, historian and LGBTQ+ activist: album of photographs relating to the General Election campaign for Park Ward 1987 1985-1987 (MS 1056)

University of East Anglia Archives

• Jay Bernard, (b1988), writer, artist, film programmer, activist: papers relating to first draft of 'Surge', including research material 1973-2023 (JB)