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LGBTQI+ Heritage in London
Date
2013 – 2018
Location
London
Awards
Principal’s Prize for Academic Achievement, Queen Mary, University of London
Founding Director of Heritage Workshop, Dr James Lesh led research on the "Rainbow Jews" project. It celebrated LGBT Jewish History and Heritage across the United Kingdom. It was supported by the UK Heritage Lottery Fund and Liberal Judaism. James contributed to community engagement, oral histories, object collection, archival research and exhibition curation.
Key outputs included:
* Exhibitions held at the Londons School Economics and the Leicester LGBT Centre
* Oral history and object collection, deposited at the London Metropolitan Archives
* Research Article for US historic preservation publication Change Over Time
