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LGBT History Source Guide Launch: Manchester’s Drag Ball Monday 22 August 6-7pm Number 5, Richmond Street, Manchester M1 3HF

Jeff Evans of Manchester Metropolitan University and Sylvia Kölling of Manchester University tell the spectacular and salacious story of the police raid on a drag ball in Manchester and its aftermath which caused a national scandal in 1880. The story, researched in local and national newspapers and court archives, is one example of many signposted in the revised Manchester’s LGBT History Source Guide. The updated Source Guide is the essential first step in researching Manchester’s LGBT history. Primary sources will be on display at the event.