{"product_id":"queer-history-club-reading-for-queerness-in-seventeenth-century-sources","title":"Queer History Club: Reading for Queerness in Seventeenth-Century Sources","description":"\u003cdiv id=\":522\" class=\"ii gt adO\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\":8fa\" class=\"a3s aiL\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"avWBGd-14363\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eReading for Queerness in Seventeenth-Century Sources: Talk and Workshop\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow do we interpret the language that Renaissance people used to describe queerness, when their  terms for sexual preferences or acts are highly ambiguous and do not match modern identity categories? \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eHistorians James Hobbes and Scarlett Stevens (University of York) will share their thoughts - including why focusing on high-status men, like Netflix faves James VI\/I and George Villiers, can be limiting - and lead a workshop on developing your ‘queer eye’ for history. Using the concept of ‘queer potentiality’, we’ll explore meaningful ways to engage with seventeenth-century individuals and queerness beyond labels, and discover queer angles to historical sources that we might never have spotted before. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScarlett Stevens\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJames Hobbes\u003c\/strong\u003e are PhD students at the University of York. James is interested in the seventeenth-century political imagination; his thesis focuses on the role of poison, witchcraft, and sexual scandal in depictions of seventeenth-century court favourites. Scarlett is interested in queer, gender and reading histories; her thesis considers the erotic and pleasure-inducing potential of reading in the 17th century.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\":7sy\" class=\"hq gt\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKit Heyam\u003c\/strong\u003e is \u003cspan\u003ea Leeds-based heritage practitioner, trans awareness trainer, academic and\u003c\/span\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eBefore We Were Trans\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate\u003c\/strong\u003e: Wednesday 1st July 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTime\u003c\/strong\u003e: 7-9pm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVenue\u003c\/strong\u003e: The Bookish Type, 77a Great George Street, LS1 3BR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTickets\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare on a sliding scale (£8 \/£5 \/ £3 \/ £0)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlease be honest about your financial situation when selecting what to pay for your ticket.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIf you purchase a ticket at the lowest end of the scale when you could afford the higher ticket prices, it makes it harder for us to provide financial flexibility to those who most need it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e£8\u003cspan\u003e \"I have more than enough to comfortably meet my basic financial needs and can afford to contribute a little extra to support access for others.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e£5 \"\u003cspan\u003eI am comfortably able to meet all of my basic financial needs.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e£3 \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI may stress about meeting my basic financial needs but still regularly achieve them.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e£0 \"I have no disposable income to afford the event\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTickets are only refundable up to 7 days before the event starts. 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