Books By Norena Shopland - Author

Norena Shopland is a Welsh author/historian specialising in the history of sexual orientation and gender identity. Her book Forbidden Lives: LGBT stories from Wales (Seren Books, 2017) is the first entirely historical work on Welsh LGBTQ+ history. Queering Glamorgan (free download from Glamorgan Archives) and A Practical Guide to Searching LGBTQIA Historical Records (Routledge, 2020) have become very popular as toolkits to aid people in doing research. In 2021 Shopland was commissioned by the Welsh Government to deliver LGBTQ+ training to local libraries, museums, and archives in Wales, the only government in the world to have done so. Her book A History of Women in Men's Clothes: from cross-dressing to empowerment (Pen and Sword Books, 2021) explores how women throughout history escaped the confines of social expectations by cross-dressing. Shopland also researches and writes on Welsh history including The Welsh Gold King: the life of William Pritchard Morgan (Pen and Sword Books, 2022) and his involveme