Allan Horsfall Lecture

The firs Allan Horsfall Lecture, in memory of Allan Horsfall, founder of CHE was delivered at the launch of the First LGBT History Festival on Friday 13 February 2015. The speaker was Charles Upchurch, Assistant Professor of British History, Florida State University). His talk, sponsored by CHE, was entitled “Like Sympathetic Ink: Identity and the Early Nineteenth-Century Attempt to Reform of the British Sodomy Laws”, and covered some of the earliest attempts to legalise inter-male sex.