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In this episode of Paper Lives, we will be visiting London in 1972, a hotbed for countercultural icons, diverse viewpoints and, at this point, very congested roads. Here we will grab a pint at the Champion Pub in trendy Notting Hill, where we will meet the Gay Liberation figure Andrew Lumsden. After an altercation at the pub, our journey will take us to the local magistrate’s court, where we will hear a rather unique case. Within the pages of the local “straight” press and the Gay countercultural press, we will assume both an insider and outsider position to better understand the challenges faced by London’s gay community at this vital point in history.

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In this episode of Paper Lives, we will take to the high seas of 1809 and meet naval surgeon James Nehemiah Taylor. This otherwise unknown figure speaks through the fragile and hostile pages of the past, providing a vital and rare glimpse of queer self-understanding in an environment of silence, repression and elimination.

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On one heady Saturday in the March of 1871, years of campaigning to remove the toll from the bridge came to fruition, and the jubilation and frenzy that came from such a simple act tells us much of the development of local identity, civic pride and the importance of the right to roam at this vital juncture in British political history.