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[[Alan Turing]] lived in Wilmslow, Cheshire. In 1952 Turing's charges of [[gross indecency]] were tried at the Cheshire Quarter Sessions in [[Knutsford]]. In 2017 Chris Waters gave a keynote talk about his research into male homosexual offences in Cheshire in the 1950s at the Queer Lives Past and Present Conference <ref> Held at Birkbeck College, London </ref>. | [[Alan Turing]] lived in Wilmslow, Cheshire. In 1952 Turing's charges of [[gross indecency]] were tried at the Cheshire Quarter Sessions in [[Knutsford]]. In 2017 Chris Waters gave a keynote talk about his research into male homosexual offences in Cheshire in the 1950s at the Queer Lives Past and Present Conference <ref> Held at Birkbeck College, London </ref>. | ||
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies holds a collection of records collated by a Heritage Lottery project called 'From Prejudice to Pride'<ref> A year in the archives 2018' leaflet produced by The National Archives.. The project was run by Body Positive Cheshire and North Wales </ref>. | |||
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Revision as of 09:46, 6 April 2022
1 Cheshire West and Chester
2 Cheshire East
3 Warrington
4 Halton
Cheshire. also known as the County Palatine of Chester, is a county in north-west England.
There is no county council; local government functions are carried out by four unitary authorities:
LGBT History
Cheshire Cheese provides news and information for LGBT people living in the county.[1]
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Alan Turing lived in Wilmslow, Cheshire. In 1952 Turing's charges of gross indecency were tried at the Cheshire Quarter Sessions in Knutsford. In 2017 Chris Waters gave a keynote talk about his research into male homosexual offences in Cheshire in the 1950s at the Queer Lives Past and Present Conference [2].
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies holds a collection of records collated by a Heritage Lottery project called 'From Prejudice to Pride'[3].
References
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- ↑ http://www.cheshirecheese.org.uk/
- ↑ Held at Birkbeck College, London
- ↑ A year in the archives 2018' leaflet produced by The National Archives.. The project was run by Body Positive Cheshire and North Wales