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  Glasgow Women's Library Lesbian Archives and Information Centre

  Glasgow Women’s Library is home to one of the most significant LGBT Historical collections in the UK. With material spanning from the 1920s to the present day, the collection holds some really significant archives and artefacts of UK and International LGBT History.
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  Wellcome Library

  The Wellcome Library is the worlds largest repository for the study of medical history and offers a growing collection of material relating to contemporary medicine and biomedical science in society.
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  University of Victoria Transgender Archives

  The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria is committed to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the betterment of trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people. Since 2007, we have been actively acquiring documents, rare publications, and memorabilia of persons and organizations associated with activism by and for trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people. Our records span over 160 meters or 530 linear feet (1.5 football fields long), go back over 120 years, and are in 15 languages from 23 countries on six continents. Our collections comprise the largest trans archives in the world. We are accessible to everyone, free of charge.
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  London Metropolitan Archives

  London Metropolitan Archives is a public research centre which specialises in the history of London. If you haven't visited an archive before, it's a little bit like a library but with one key difference. The majority of items in an archive are unique, handwritten documents which cannot be seen anywhere else. We care for and provide access to the historical archives of businesses, schools, hospitals, charities and all manner of other organisations from the London area. With 100 km of books, maps, photographs, films and documents dating back to 1067 in our strong rooms, we're proud to provide access to one of the finest city archives in the world - you could call it the memory of London.
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  Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive

  The Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) is based at Bishopsgate Institute in the City of London and houses over 200,000 cuttings taken from the non-gay press on all LGBT matters since the late Nineteenth Century.  Whether you are interested in the recommendations of the Wolfenden Committee in the 1950s, who wore what and why at the Gateways Club in the 1960s, the GLF and The Festival of Light in the 1970s, Clause 28 and the ranting of James Anderton in the 1980s, pink pounds and gay villages in the 1990s or Todd Grimshaw's coming out on Coronation Street in the 2000s, if the mainstream press wrote about it, we'll have the story.
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  Cork LGBT Archive

  The Cork LGBT Archive aims to gather, preserve, digitise, share and display information in relation to the history of the LGBT communities in Cork, Ireland. Cork has a long and rich history of LGBT activism, community formation and development. Since at least the 1970s, LGBT people in Cork have forged communities, established organisations, set up services and reached out to others. As well as campaigning for LGBT rights and providing services and supports to LGBT people, the LGBT community has played a vital role in movements for social justice and political change in Cork. Yet this community, like many other LGBT communities worldwide, has been largely invisible in historical accounts and its contribution to social and political change and developments largely unacknowledged. The Digital Archive has been developed by Orla Egan, Cork LGBT activist, PhD student in Digital Arts and Humanities in UCC and author of Queer Republic of Cork book.
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  British Pathé

  Considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. Spanning the years from 1896 to 1978, the collection includes footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science and culture. It is an invaluable resource for broadcasters, documentary producers and archive researchers worldwide.
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  British Library

  The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued. It is estimated to contain 150–200 million+ items from many countries
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  Bishopsgate Institute UK Leather Archive

  The UK Leather Archive at Bishopsgate Institute seeks to document and celebrate the history and heritage of the Gay/Bi leather, rubber and fetish communities in the UK, and to provide access to the archive to researchers, students and the general public for education and research. The collection consists of magazines, pamphlets, posters, ephemera, t-shirts and artefacts, alongside minutes, financial records and other archival material from numerous Motor Sports Clubs (MSCs) and groups across the UK. There is also much material regarding the leather, rubber and fetish scene and organisations in Europe.
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  Bibliothèque nationale de France | National Library of France

  The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the national library of France, located in Paris. It is the national repository of all that is published in France and also holds extensive historical collections.
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  Independent Voices

  Independent Voices produced by Reveal Digital is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers magazines and journals drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists dissident GIs campus radicals Native Americans anti-war activists Black Power advocates Hispanics LGBT activists the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
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  Wellcome Library Digital Collections

  The Library's digital collections cover a wide variety of topics including asylums food sex and sexual health genetics public health and war. Published books pamphlets archives posters photographs and film and sound recordings are completely free to view. Digitised materials are released under a variety of Creative Commons non-commercial attribution and Public Domain licenses.
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  Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K. 1815-1914.

  Drawn from the Harvard Law School Library’s extensive trial collections Studies in Scarlet features over 420 trial narratives involving the crimes and passions of both renowned and ordinary people.
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  Queer Zine Archive Project

  The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers researchers historians punks and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities. Our mission statement has been consistent over the past nine years: 'The mission of the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is to establish a 'living history' archive of past and present queer zines and to encourage current and emerging zine publishers to continue to create. In curating such a unique aspect of culture we value a collectivist approach that respects the diversity of experiences that fall under the heading 'queer.' The primary function of QZAP is to provide a free on-line searchable database of the collection with links allowing users to download electronic copies of zines. By providing access to the historical canon of queer zines we hope to make them more accessible to diverse communities and reach wider audiences.'
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  Sourcebook -- People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans* History

  An onlune sourcebook from Fordham University. People with a History presents the history of lesbians gay men bisexuals and transgendered people [=LGBT]. It includes hundreds of original texts discussions and [soon] images and addresses LGBT history in all periods and in all regions of the world.Browse the Contents guide below to access a series of large index pages which will then link you directly to the texts and images that interest you.In addition to texts the site includes other aides to help you study or just make sense of LGBT history - note especially the guide to online bibliographies and the onsite bibliography [which is the most up-to-date and complete bibliography of LGBT history available]
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  Milford Haven Collection of French Postcards

  The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture furniture fashion textiles photography sculpture painting jewellery glass ceramics book arts Asian art and design theatre and performance.