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Dan Snow's History Hit

LGBTQ+ History: With the team from the Logbooks Podcast

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.712.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Tash Walker and Adam Zmith join me to talk about The Log Books Podcast, a history of LGBTQ+ life in the UK.

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Hey folks, it's the invitation you've all been waiting for, I'm sure.

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Come and holiday with me.

0:09.8

Come on a history holiday with me.

0:12.7

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0:13.7

I am going to Normandy between the second and the sixth of June this year, which is the

0:18.6

anniversary of D-Day, obviously.

0:20.9

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0:22.7

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0:27.3

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0:28.3

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0:29.3

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0:32.1

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0:33.7

Hi everybody.

0:37.1

Welcome to Dan Snow's history.

0:38.6

I've got such a cool podcast for you today.

0:41.8

In 1974, a service was set up called Switchboard, which allowed people to call up if they thought

0:48.5

they might identify as there's been gay bisexual, trans or queer.

0:54.1

They could call up and they could ask questions, help line, a way of talking to someone who

0:58.6

would listen, understand and perhaps advise.

1:02.0

For that 45 year history, Switchboard volunteers kept a logbook of the calls, which means we

1:07.1

now have got a brilliant archive of oral history written down by these wonderful volunteers.

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