Luca Csepely-Knorr and Karen Fitzsimon look at the far-ranging impacts of Sylvia Crowe and Janet Jack, influential not just for their radical projects and publications, but also for shattering the barriers facing women in the profession, and helping others in their wake

To mark LGBT History Month, the  SAHGB's LGBTQ+ Network is delighted to present an excerpt from Lizzie Osborne’s ‘Cesspits of Filth’ project. In this investigation of Huddersfield’s Gemini club, the ‘Studio 54 of the North’, Osborne writes that the project aimed to 'reappropriate British vernaculars in a way that expressed the subliminal coding of desire and expression’ by offering a spatial and experiential reconstruction of the former queer night club.

How might writing groups broaden the mandate of academic societies to better support not just the dissemination and recognition of research, but also its production? Discussing their ambitions in organising a writing group, Sonali Dhanpal, Sben Korsh and Y.L. Lucy Wang explain how this format is especially suited to nurture emerging projects on architecture and empire.

What is it about architecture, and heritage in particular, that beckons us to travel? And what changes when we are forced into virtual experiences of place? Through an exploration of a discarded modernist monument, Ontario Place in Toronto, Shelley Hornstein considers how we might use virtual tools and new perspectives on travel and tourism to reinvigorate the physical site, and proposes that imagination is precisely what is needed to harness their cultural, historic and social qualities.

The Society’s Treasurer, Luca Jellinik, introduces Claxity.com, a web-based series of articles about the architectural heritage embodied by this vast, almost forgotten body of work.

For many of us, queer nightclubs have inspired freedom and individual expression. We come together to celebrate, mourn and forget in these havens of acceptance and equality.  The decline of these night-time venues over the past decade has prompted much debate. While some iconic venues, such as the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, are currently surviving, many clubs have seen their limelights turning off over the past 20 years, including  Bromptons, Dukes, The Joiner’s Arms and Turnmills (to name just a few).

Joy Evelyn Wilson will present her work ‘ The Immersive Ammanuensis’

Yasmina EL Chami writes about the Crisis of Heritage buildings in Beirut, after an enormous explosion at the port of Beirut shook a city of two million inhabitants on 4 August 2020.