ARTS PROGRAMME 1: ‘Writing The Lesbians Back In’

researches, writes and performs in Queer Tales from Wales, travelling theatre. Jane was also a founder member of Queer Playback Theatre Company. She is also trained in forum theatre and is a keen dancer on the LGBT latin and ballroom scene. Jane worked for many years...

is an author/historian specialising in the history of sexual orientation and gender identity. Her book Forbidden Lives: LGBT stories from Wales (Seren Books, 2017) is the first completely historical work on Welsh LGBTQ+ history. Queering Glamorgan and A Practical...

is a writer, researcher and story teller, and is the author of The Lives of Older Lesbians: Sexuality, Identity and the Life Course (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She continues to collect the memories of women born before 1950 who identify as lesbian or...

is Professor Emerita, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is a cultural historian specialising in the long nineteenth century, writing about everything the Georgians and Victorians did from street poetry to children’s books to circuses. Her books on these topics...

It’s been an open secret in the lesbian community for years that historical novelist Jay Taverner is not one but two people: Jacky Bratton and Jane Traies, writing together. (Their fifty-year friendship is also a little piece of lesbian history.) They write fiction in...