Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute
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Exhibition curator and Special Collections and Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute Stef Dickers introduces the display in Out and About and gives a brief history of collecting LGBTQ+ stories.
Stef Dickers is the Special Collections and Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute and has been responsible for the development of the Institute's collections on the history of London, protest and activism, and LGBTQ+ Britain. He qualified as an archivist in 2001 and started at Bishopsgate in 2005. Previous to this, Stef worked in the archives of the London School of Economics and Senate House Library.
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Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute
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