{"id":10571,"date":"2015-07-03T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T16:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2015-07-03T17:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T16:58:31","slug":"hes-new-lgbtq-heritage-project-can-you-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=10571","title":{"rendered":"HE\u2019s new LGBTQ heritage project: Can you help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Historic England (Historic England) is launching a new project that aims to celebrate and explore <\/u><u>lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer <\/u><u>(LGBTQ) history and is inviting contributions to the mapping project.<\/u><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>HE writes:<br \/>\n<\/u>We are teaming up with Leeds Beckett University and experts nationwide to explore and celebrate the relationship between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) history and the country&#8217;s historic buildings and spaces.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to show that LGBTQ heritage is a fundamental and fascinating part of our national heritage. It will also improve knowledge of, and access to, this history through images, archive materials and stories that focus on the huge range of places and spaces lived, loved, worked and played in by LGBTQ people through the centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers will work with community groups, LGBTQ advisory groups and the general public, using crowd-sourcing as a technique for people across England to name important &#8216;queer&#8217; buildings and places.<\/p>\n<p>Plot your own LGBTQ heritage places on our interactive map and see what buildings and landscapes others are remembering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mapme.com\/prideofplace\/places\" target=\"_blank\">View the map<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/research\/inclusive-heritage\/lgbtq-heritage-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">View more information about the project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/research\/inclusive-heritage\/lgbtq-heritage-project\/my-pride-of-place\/\" target=\"_blank\">favourite places<\/a> of LGBTQ celebrities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic England (Historic England) is launching a new project that aims to celebrate and explore lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) history and is inviting contributions to the mapping project.\u00a0 HE writes: We are teaming up with Leeds Beckett &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=10571\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10572,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions\/10572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}