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Making History: Being Gay Before Gay Lib

25/07/2017

Being Gay Before Gay Lib

BBC Radio 4 - Making History, Being Gay Before Gay Lib

Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.

Helen Castor and guests discuss what we know about coming out in Victorian Britain. How the 'gig' economy existed 200 years ago. And we mark an intellectual revolution on Tyneside.

Helen Castor takes the hot seat for the programme which shows why history matters.

Today, testimony about coming out before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967 and what we know about the lives of gay people in Victoria's Britain.

Iszi Lawrence discovers that the 'gig' economy was widespread in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And Tom Holland is on Tyneside to celebrate the history of a building which played host to an almost forgotten intellectual revolution.


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