Join Michael Hall for a conversation about his new book, A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust, a landmark exploration of LGBTQ+ lives embedded within Britain’s most cherished historic sites. Praised by Simon Jenkins as “a revelatory masterpiece,” the book uncovers stories long hidden in plain sight across properties cared for by the National Trust.

From Lawrence of Arabia at Clouds Hill and Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst to the ‘Dancing Marquess’ at Plas Newydd and lesser-known queer communities and scandals, Hall reframes these houses and landscapes as sites of quiet resistance, coded lives, and evolving identities. This wide-ranging conversation will situate these personal histories within the Trust’s own shifting relationship to queerness, from the shadow of Oscar Wilde to today’s more inclusive reckoning.