The Secret Public, LGBTQ Pop 1955–1985, John Rylands, Manchester
Enriqueta Rylands would have been proud. On the 125th anniversary of the opening of the library...
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Enriqueta Rylands would have been proud. On the 125th anniversary of the opening of the library...
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I don’t remember The Bollweevils. An assiduous reader of the music press, for all that both...
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