Introductory Help Guides

The Broken Futures team have put together ‘How to Guides’ to support individual and group researchers in their endeavours to find queer lives inside crime and punishment and newspaper archives in two time periods: 1861 to 1919 and 1920 to 1967. These ‘How to Guides’ are intended as introductions to research and sources used to recollect lives of men who were convicted for having sex with other men – they are not intended to cover the many different approaches to archival, genealogical and newspaper research. It is important to note also that some ‘How to Guides’ rely on the researcher to hold paid subscriptions – the Broken Futures project is unable to provide this for researchers. The following guides are available to download below both individually and as a collective file: