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Type Workshops
Location
Date and Times 15-22 February 2025
Prices Free

Join the Queer History Club in Greenwich this LGBTQ+ History Month for a range of free workshops and tours.

Queer History Club is an informal, community-centred research group meeting monthly in Greenwich. If you’re interested in joining, come along and find out more. No historical expertise required. Queer passions, special interests and historical crushes very much encouraged!

All activities are free; you can book free National Maritime Museum or Queen's House tickets in advance, or simply turn up on the day.

Learn more about the activities below.

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The words 'All Hands (on deck)' appear in a handwritten style, surrounded by a collage of personal letters, diaries and depictions of naval figures

All Hands (On Deck)

Saturday 15 February 12pm - 3pm | Find us in the Plymouth Room in the National Maritime Museum | Suitable for people aged 18+

Affection and intimacy are not always what they seem, especially when time, language cues and social conventions muddy the waters. 

This workshop will focus on the themes of masculinity and physical intimacy, and will explore modern approaches to personal tales preserved in archives and libraries, inviting the participants to interpret and reimagine historical sources through movement, touch and creative writing.

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A collage featuring different items of naval uniform. A pair of woollen gloves with love hearts on the palms fill the centre, with cutouts of tunics, sailor caps and other items surrounding the gloves

Out of Uniform

Sunday 16 February | 11am - 4pm |  Find us in the Rethink Space in the National Maritime Museum | Suitable for people aged 18+

A creative workshop day exploring our relationship to clothing through a queer lens, inspired by maritime history. 

The workshop will include gallery tours exploring the queer histories behind some of our favourite artefacts, movement explorations, drawing, writing, zine-making, and dressing up! Facilitated by costume professionals, historians and members of the National Maritime Museum’s Queer History Club.

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A woman lounges in a velvet pink dress, necklace and flower headpice

Lovely Ladies Tour of the Queen's House

Saturday 22 February | 2pm - 3pm | Meet in the Great Hall of the Queen's House | Suitable for people aged 18+

HRH Aphrodite I highlights the stories of other royal ‘Other Women’ within the collections of the Queen’s House.  

‘Lovely Ladies’ will be a 10-point walking tour of the Queen’s House, starting in the Great Hall. Aphrodite will guide visitors through the various portraits and unacknowledged histories of the lovers of the ‘Great Men’ on display.  

The tour will “encourage guests to think about our nation’s relationship to sex; sex for sale, sex for pleasure, sex for scandal, or the refusal of sex altogether,” Aphrodite says. “It is also a space to celebrate the lives of women whose lives were greatly altered by their proximity to sex work.” 

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A collaged image showing a round 2-d map of the globe with a stingray in movement over the top right hand corner

Re-Draw the Map

Saturday 22nd February | 1pm - 3pm | Find us in the Rethink Space | Suitable for people aged 12+

Cut up, colour in, collage, paint and draw with old maps or create your own new ones. Redraw the lines and make a new world.


Participants will be able to colour in, cut up and collage or draw and paint on copies of historic maps from the Royal Maritime Museum, or draw new maps from their imagination. You could make new maps of this world or maps of new worlds you would like to live in. Your maps might not divided up by straight lines and right-angle. They might have queer borders – or none! You might fill the land masses and seas with what you’d like to see there, make your own keys and write your own legends. Love maps; map love!

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National Maritime Museum

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A woman stands looking up at the spiral staircase in the Queen's House known as the Tulip Stairs

Queen's House

  • Historic house
  • Internationally renowned art
  • Stunning architecture
  • Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I
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