Quite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The Spectator
An absolutely extraordinary book - a huge collage and anthology of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper reports, trial documents, all of this, about actually what life was like for homosexual men in London in the 1940s and the 1950s- It-s amazing, because the collage effect gives you a sense of the extreme complexity of this picture - Dominic Sandbrook
With it-s wide-ranging selection, generous biographical notes and provocative bibliography, Some Men in London is a serious and important contribution to our understanding of Britain up to today - Fiona Sampson, The Tablet
The first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in London
In 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 pl
