For the past few weeks I’ve been starting work on a new long-term research project, something that will hopefully end up as a film. It doesn’t have a name yet – it’s all just going into a google drive folder named ‘gay spies’. It’s come out of a walking tour I did a few years ago for London-based gallery Studio Voltaire called ‘Only the Shallow Know Themselves’. On the tour I took a group of participants around various parts of Westminster, Lambeth and Clapham, visiting sites that have had some sort of significance in the British imagination on the subjects of homosexuality and espionage. From the Tin and Stone Bridge, where new recruits were welcomed into the service, located in the middle of the historic cruising ground of St James’ Park, to Dolphin House, home to a number of real and fictional spies, the tour traced a route around some of the most important sites in British espionage history and culture. Since that tour, I’ve been doing more research and reading around the subject, trying to draw out links on two subjects that are, by their nature, fragmented throughout the archives. You can
The Swallow's Nest
The Swallow's Nest
The Swallow's Nest
For the past few weeks I’ve been starting work on a new long-term research project, something that will hopefully end up as a film. It doesn’t have a name yet – it’s all just going into a google drive folder named ‘gay spies’. It’s come out of a walking tour I did a few years ago for London-based gallery Studio Voltaire called ‘Only the Shallow Know Themselves’. On the tour I took a group of participants around various parts of Westminster, Lambeth and Clapham, visiting sites that have had some sort of significance in the British imagination on the subjects of homosexuality and espionage. From the Tin and Stone Bridge, where new recruits were welcomed into the service, located in the middle of the historic cruising ground of St James’ Park, to Dolphin House, home to a number of real and fictional spies, the tour traced a route around some of the most important sites in British espionage history and culture. Since that tour, I’ve been doing more research and reading around the subject, trying to draw out links on two subjects that are, by their nature, fragmented throughout the archives. You can