The Department of Chemical Engineering are delighted to celebrate PRIDE Month 2024 with a lecture by renowned archivist, Stefan Dickers, from the Bishopsgate Institute.

The Bishopsgate Institute holds historical collections about London, the labour movement, free thought and co-operative movements, as well as the history of protest and campaigning. It is home to the UK’s largest LGBTQIA+ archive, telling a story of monumental political and social struggles in London and further afield.

Stefan will discuss how the archive developed, the stories and adventures behind the collections, and how he has sought to collect the history of LGBTQIA+ in a different way.

16.00 BST: Lecture by Stefan Dickers | Lecture Theatre 1 (ACEX Building)
17.00 BST: Reception (Drinks and nibbles) | DCR (228, ACEX building)

The lecture will be chaired by Anne Barrett, College Archivist and Emma Pajak, PhD student in Chemical Engineering.

As part of our celebrations, the first 75 in-person attendees will be gifted an exclusive Imperial Pride Month goodie. 

Speaker biography
Stefan is Special Collections and Archives Manager at the Bishopsgate Institute, responsible for the development of the Institute’s collections on the history of London, protest and activism, and LGBTQ+ Britain. After qualifying as an archivist (2001), Stef worked in the archives of LSE and Senate House Library, before joining Bishopsgate in 2005.