This event has been cancelled.
Join Dr Helen Smith to discuss the queer goings on in Sheffield in the 60 years between 1897 and 1957.
In this talk we’ll encounter a fascinating range of men and their stories, which are moving, funny, shocking and crucially, specific to their class and home city.
Sheffield and the steel industry that dominated it had a real impact on how men experienced their masculinity and sexuality, and we’ll find out how this focus on our city and our industry, has changed histories of same-sex desire for the better.
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