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This book provides a number of effective tools to aid in the
recovery of LGBTQIA historic material by providing extensive
glossary and non-glossary written descriptions, and how to use
those terms and phrases in searching effectively online and
offline. Researching hidden and forbidden people from the past can
be extremely difficult. Terminology used to write about LGBT+
people shifts over time, legal terminology enforces certain set
terms which some writers use but others reject to avoid informing
or disgusting a reading public. Often written descriptions contain
no set terminology at all. How then can LGBT+ people be found in
historic records? This book provides practical tools for a
researcher wanting to uncover material from online or hard copy
sources, including: keyword/s covering various sexual orientations
and gender diversity, along with how and when to use them; tips for
effective searching in online newspaper archives; how to use
genealogy, auction and social media sites to uncover information;
searching in online and physical libraries; advice on researching
in physical archives and the types of collections which can yield
results; and researching in museums collecting and displaying LGBT+
content. Making use of a straightforward and jargon free style,
this is a short and accessible guide to doing historical research
on Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Queer and non-normative research subjects.
This is a useful resource for students and scholars alike in
Archive Studies History, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
This book provides a number of effective tools to aid in the
recovery of LGBTQIA historic material by providing extensive
glossary and non-glossary written descriptions, and how to use
those terms and phrases in searching effectively online and
offline. Researching hidden and forbidden people from the past can
be extremely difficult. Terminology used to write about LGBT+
people shifts over time, legal terminology enforces certain set
terms which some writers use but others reject to avoid informing
or disgusting a reading public. Often written descriptions contain
no set terminology at all. How then can LGBT+ people be found in
historic records? This book provides practical tools for a
researcher wanting to uncover material from online or hard copy
sources, including: keyword/s covering various sexual orientations
and gender diversity, along with how and when to use them; tips for
effective searching in online newspaper archives; how to use
genealogy, auction and social media sites to uncover information;
searching in online and physical libraries; advice on researching
in physical archives and the types of collections which can yield
results; and researching in museums collecting and displaying LGBT+
content. Making use of a straightforward and jargon free style,
this is a short and accessible guide to doing historical research
on Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Queer and non-normative research subjects.
This is a useful resource for students and scholars alike in
Archive Studies History, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Traditionally, historic women have been seen as bound by social
conventions, unable to travel unless accompanied and limited in
their ability to do what they want when they want. But thousands of
women broke those rules, put on banned clothing and travelled,
worked and even lived whole lives as men. As access to novels and
newspapers increased in the nineteenth century so did the number of
women defying Biblical and social restrictions. They copied each
other's motives and excuses and moved into the world of men. Most
were working-class women who either needed to or wanted to, break
away from constricted lives; women who wanted to watch a hanging or
visit a museum, to see family or escape domestic abuse, some wanted
to earn a decent living when women's wages could not keep a family.
The reasons were myriad. Some were quickly arrested and put on
display in court, hoping to deter other women from such shameful
behaviour, but many more got away with it. For the first time, _A
History of Women in Men's Clothes_ looks at those thousands of
individuals who broke conventions in the only way they could, by
disguising themselves either for a brief moment or a whole life.
Daring and bold, this is the story of the women who defied social
convention to live their lives as they chose, from simply wanting
more independence to move and live freely, to transgender and
homosexual women cross-dressing to express themselves, this is
women's fight to wear trousers.
In 1864, a poor Welsh boy, William Pritchard Morgan, emigrated to
Australia to make his fortune. He returned a wealthy lawyer and
aspiring politician, having used his riches to invest in gold mines
and develop new techniques of recovering gold. His political aims
were unsuccessful in Australia: the newspaper Morgan used to
promote himself was involved a sensational trial against another
editor; and a man was even shot whilst bringing in his votes - so
Morgan claimed. He returned home, ready to tackle the mining of
Welsh gold. After ousting the key players of the 1860s Little Gold
Rush, Morgan soon took over Gwynfynydd, one of the area's most
lucrative mines, and stood as an independent MP for Merthyr. He
boasted of a fantastic seam of gold, so great he would pay off the
national debt a hero overnight, the Welsh Gold King took the title
of Merthyr's MP. Despite the massive successes of his mines, the
government taxed Morgan hard and almost crippled his business, so
he refused to pay. When the government tried to shut him down, the
public rose to his defence, and Morgan was sued in an avidly
watched trial that could change mining in Britain forever. The
Welsh Gold King bestowed gifts on many well-known people, including
royalty, and promoted the tradition that all royal brides wear
wedding rings of Welsh gold. He gave golden prizes - some of which
caused great controversy - and his liberal politics were a
forerunner of Labour views that were hard for many of his
contemporaries to agree with. An extraordinary character, Morgan
was pivotal in the story of mining for gold in Wales.
We tend to think of coal mining as predominantly a male occupation,
with women confined to roles as wives and support workers. Women
worked at the coal face for many years before they were banned in
1842. However, mere legislation was not going to stop them - many
continued to work underground, with mine owners making little
attempt to stop them due to the low wages paid to women. Some would
dress and pass as men to fool visiting inspectors. For the majority
though, they worked on the pit brow where they received the coal,
cleaned, sorted and cut it to uniform size. Dirty, laborious work,
including many accidents and deaths, done by women and girls, some
as young as 10 years old. Society was appalled, and harshly
criticised women (but not men) for working in such environments and
so close to male workers. Find a respectable job, like domestic
service, they were told - despite the fact that few jobs for women
were available in such industrialised areas. Like the more famous
Pit Brow Lasses of Lancashire, the Tip Girls were castigated for
having 'unsexed' themselves, accused of immorality, of being unfit
wives and mothers and society went on a mission to save them. But
the Tip Girls did not want to be saved. For nearly a hundred years,
these women fought society and Parliament to keep their jobs and
clear their reputations. Norena Shopland tells their story for the
first time. New research from census returns and newspaper accounts
have uncovered over 1,500 named women who worked in the Welsh
coalfields - only a few could be included in this book - but it
shows how much more work is needed in order for us to continue to
celebrate these remarkable women.
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