08: Community focus

Alongside the Market books series, QueenSpark continued to produce its main collection, including the popular 'Daring Hearts' in 1992.

'Daring Hearts' is based on taped interviews with forty lesbian and gay men who spoke openly about their lives in and around Brighton which, in the fifties and sixties was considered a type of ‘Eldorado’, a promised land, for the lesbian and gay community.

Other themes to be explored through a series of interviews were the interesting and unusual lives of some of Brighton’s Jews in 'We're Not all Rothschilds' (1994).

QueenSpark also documented the oral history of working communities, such as the local fishing industry in 'Catching Stories' (1996).

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