Part of Off the Shelf Festival of Words 2025
Mother Clap’s Holborn coffee house is a place of companionship until a tip-off leads to a midnight raid. Two women, exiled from their families, set up a utopian homestead in a remote Welsh cottage, inspiring a generation of Romantic poets. In this fascinating work of restorative history, Anthony Delaney traces the stories of people daring to challenge society’s expectations, unearthing archives and court records to reveal the tragedies and the joys of queer life three centuries ago. Breathing new life into the forgotten and offering radical new interpretations of celebrated figures such as Anne Lister, Queer Georgians is an invitation to view our shared history in a whole new light.
Dr Anthony Delaney has a PhD in history from the University of Exeter, where he is an Honorary Fellow. He presents the hit history podcast After Dark.
