Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 by Peter Parker the week his “raggle-taggle” followers were “butchered”

his “raggle-taggle” followers were “butchered” by Cromwell’s “well-drilled” New Model Army – leaving the young pretender no option but to “scarper to the Continent”

just one tweet away from disaster

The ending had me rushing through the chapters

For more than four decades

passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a beguiling exploration of sexual and political intrigue that the author himself described as 'an investigation of modern love'

Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 by Peter Parker the week his “raggle-taggle” followers were “butchered”The second in a major two part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in 1967In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated. Peter Parker's fascinating new compendium explores what it was actually like for queer men in