2018 participants
Alexandra Charlton, Rachel Potter & Hannah Marmaro
We created an online exhibition, using Omeka.net, showcasing LGBT individuals and leisure spaces that have contributed significantly to the cultural heritage of Newcastle. We hoped to create an awareness of the LGBT history of the region and engage public audiences through an interactive format. Our site, lgbthistoryofnewcastle.omeka.net, includes various exhibitions relating to our research around key LGBT individuals and spaces. Exhibitions range from the ‘Ethel Williams Archival Collection’ which displays archival material relating to Newcastle’s own suffragist, doctor, liberal politician and lesbian, to biographical information on eighteenth century transgender literary figure, Jane Gomeldon, and an interactive map of Newcastle’s 1980s LGBT leisure spaces. Our project covers a broad time period from the sixteenth century to the 1980s in order to show how attitudes toward sexuality have changed across time.
Funding source: NUHRI Challenge Labs
Project Supervisor: Dr Stacy Gillis