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Wessexman: born 1945

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born 1945

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	[[File:Bob Cant.jpeg\|thumb\|Bob Cant]]'''Bob Cant''' is a Scottish journalist and writer, the author of ''[[Footsteps and Witnesses]]'' (1993).		[[File:Bob Cant.jpeg\|thumb\|Bob Cant]]'''Bob Cant''' (born 1945) is a Scottish journalist and writer, the author of ''[[Footsteps and Witnesses]]'' (1993).

			Bob Cant grew up on a farm outside Dundee. After university, he taught in Tanzania for two years between 1967 and 1969. He was a member of the [[Gay Left]] collective between 1975 and 1978. He was a volunteer on London Lesbian and [[Gay Switchboard]] for a number of years in the 1970s and 1980s. <ref> https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/bob-cant-archive </ref>.

	:"So I don't know exactly what I was expecting to do when I came back to Edinburgh in 1990, but I was very conscious of being gay and Scots in a way that I hadn't been for quite a long time. And then I'd done a book in London called ''[[Radical Records]]'' which was interviewing people who had been involved in lesbian and gay politics across the UK, but I noticed when I came back that there was no oral history book in Scotland and there didn't seem to be any signs of one being produced at that point."<ref>http://www.livingmemory.org.uk/rememberwhen/interview/intBC.html</ref>		:"So I don't know exactly what I was expecting to do when I came back to Edinburgh in 1990, but I was very conscious of being gay and Scots in a way that I hadn't been for quite a long time. And then I'd done a book in London called ''[[Radical Records]]'' which was interviewing people who had been involved in lesbian and gay politics across the UK, but I noticed when I came back that there was no oral history book in Scotland and there didn't seem to be any signs of one being produced at that point."<ref>http://www.livingmemory.org.uk/rememberwhen/interview/intBC.html</ref>
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	'''Bob Cant''' is a Scottish journalist and writer, the author of ''[[Footsteps and Witnesses]]'' (1993).		[[File:Bob Cant.jpeg\|thumb\|Bob Cant]]'''Bob Cant''' is a Scottish journalist and writer, the author of ''[[Footsteps and Witnesses]]'' (1993).

	:"So I don't know exactly what I was expecting to do when I came back to Edinburgh in 1990, but I was very conscious of being gay and Scots in a way that I hadn't been for quite a long time. And then I'd done a book in London called ''[[Radical Records]]'' which was interviewing people who had been involved in lesbian and gay politics across the UK, but I noticed when I came back that there was no oral history book in Scotland and there didn't seem to be any signs of one being produced at that point."<ref>http://www.livingmemory.org.uk/rememberwhen/interview/intBC.html</ref>		:"So I don't know exactly what I was expecting to do when I came back to Edinburgh in 1990, but I was very conscious of being gay and Scots in a way that I hadn't been for quite a long time. And then I'd done a book in London called ''[[Radical Records]]'' which was interviewing people who had been involved in lesbian and gay politics across the UK, but I noticed when I came back that there was no oral history book in Scotland and there didn't seem to be any signs of one being produced at that point."<ref>http://www.livingmemory.org.uk/rememberwhen/interview/intBC.html</ref>

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'''Bob Cant''' is a Scottish journalist and writer, the author of ''[[Footsteps and Witnesses]]'' (1993).

:"So I don't know exactly what I was expecting to do when I came back to Edinburgh in 1990, but I was very conscious of being gay and Scots in a way that I hadn't been for quite a long time. And then I'd done a book in London called ''[[Radical Records]]'' which was interviewing people who had been involved in lesbian and gay politics across the UK, but I noticed when I came back that there was no oral history book in Scotland and there didn't seem to be any signs of one being produced at that point."<ref>http://www.livingmemory.org.uk/rememberwhen/interview/intBC.html</ref>

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