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Celebrating LGBTQ+ Theatre Histories

Unfinished Histories offers resources
on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
theatre histories

Unfinished Histories created an exhibition of posters, Acting Out, and hosts staged readings, discussions and interviews revisiting this vital history

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SUNDAY 1st FEB at 7.30pm

RADICAL ROOTS:
Rediscovering Our Lost LGBTQ+ Theatre Histories
A Night of Playreadings
at Hackney Showroom

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FYFFI

A 3-year festival celebrating women’s, LGBTQ+ and global majority theatre

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FYFFI – Radical Rediscovery II

Welcome to Unfinished Histories

Recording and celebrating the history of Alternative Theatre in the 1960s, 70s and 80s through interviews and the collecting of archive material.

About us

Physical Archive

We are delighted that the Unfinished Histories archive is now lodged within the Bishopsgate Institute Archive. You can see what is available for viewing there via their Online Catalogue. Meanwhile if you wish to see or hear any of our collection please contact us to arrange a viewing.

Bishopsgate Institute Archive

Support Our Work

Unfinished Histories relies on the active participation and support of individuals. Its capacity to fulfill its aims and activities is therefore dependent on YOU. If you would like to support us you can do so in the following ways: Donating: Contributing to this site; Volunteering.

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Testimonials

A really valuable, practical project that uncovers a theatre history that might otherwise be entirely lost.

Lyn Gardner

Their histories are beacons for the present and the future. By capturing the voices and the dreams that laid the foundations of the theatre today, this project will provide an invaluable resource for theatre artists, policy makers and scholars.

Jatinder Verma

This is a truly amazing initiative. It provides the first stage in the listings of many companies which would otherwise have disappeared off the map.

Stuart Bennett

What a great site you have. Thanks very much for putting all this together.

Garry Brooking

I have at various times come across your brilliant project, most recently while trying to trace people involved in Oval House Printshop – via your interview with Chris Montag.

Jess Baines

Your wonderful research project.

Neil Gore

Brilliant social and theatre history.

Ags Irwin

Well done on a really useful site. More strength to your collective elbows.

Naseem Khan

All those familiar faces, like mine, some thinner or filled out, and older of course – they hold my history and I hold theirs, and the history is in the work, and you have valued the work enough to seek it out and gather it together and make sense of it. A line that stretches from there to here; from then to now.

Natasha Morgan

I haven’t felt so cheery, inspired, glad to be alive, in weeks. It was fab, oh, very well done.

Ann McFerran

In solidarity

In the spirit of that unfinished radical activist history and as an activist archive, Unfinished Histories declares solidarity with those artists and activists working for justice and change today in a time of climate crisis, social injustice and racial inequality. We have created a page of links to current activist organisations. If you have information to add about a project, please email us.