We are a National Lottery Heritage Funded project, in partnership with Islington Council, working to preserve, protect and celebrate the LGBTQ+ heritage of the London Borough of Islington.
Islington’s Pride invites you to an Family Day 13th February 2018, 1pm-3pm. Join us at Islington Museum for our Islington’s Pride family day. Families of all ages and sizes (under 5’s welcome) are invited to come and explore our growing LGBTQ+ archive with artist Chloe Cooper. Inspire yourself to think about what ‘family’ means to […]
Collecting and Celebrating Islington’s LGBTQ+ Heritage, that’s what! Islington Heritage have received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to create an archive focusing on the London Borough of Islington’sLGBTQ+ heritage. Islington has been highly influential in the growth of the LGBTQ+ community, its organisations and rights through the 20th and into the 21st century. […]
This LGBT History Month we are really pleased to be a part of Camden and Islignton’s Celebrations. Take a look at the pdf below for all the fantastic stuff you can join in with. Get in contact if you want any more information. lgbthm18screen.pdf You can join us for the following events in February. Events […]
‘1967: Up Against It’ explores the impact of the Sexual Offences Act (1967) passed on 27 July that year, and the 50th anniversary of the deaths of the borough’s most (in)famous gay couple, Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, on 9 August. Through the stories of well-known and some not so well-known gay men living in […]
A rare Kenneth Halliwell one-off collage screen was bought at auction for Islington Heritage in September 2016 with funds raised from an Art Fund grant and private donation. The screen is part of the Islington’s Pride: an archive for the future exhibition on until 16 March 2017. The four-panel collage screen, by former Islington resident Kenneth Halliwell, […]