Tue, 11 Feb
|Royal Grammar School
IMAG LGBT+ History Month 2025 – Activism and Social Change
The RGS English Department will welcome Dr Will Tosh and Peter Parker, both of whose recent books chart queer experiences in the respective eras they cover. This free event is open to Year 10 to 13.
Time & Location
11 Feb 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
Royal Grammar School, High St, Guildford GU1 3BB, UK
Guests
About the Event
Dr Will Tosh - Director of Higher Education and Research at Shakespeare’s Globe and Co-Director of the Shakespeare Centre London, a collaboration between the Globe and King’s College London. His most recent publication, ‘Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare’, has been praised by The Times Literary Supplement as “a well-judged feat of public scholarship” and a “challenging popular study of Shakespeare’s life”, while The Guardian has described it as a “fluent and witty book” that “magnificently” meets its objective of presenting the queer theories surrounding our nation’s greatest playwright and his work.
Peter Parker - biographer, editor, historian and journalist whose writing has encompassed the lives of JR Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a regular contributor of book reviews and features to numerous newspapers. Parker’s latest work, ‘Some Men in London: Queer Life’, is a…