For better or worse, histories of health architecture have long remained tied up with the narrative of progress stemming from the Early Modern period.

Confronted by the scarce imprints of Indian women in the provincial towns of 19th-century Bengal, can the evolving spatial complexity of urban domestic spaces cast light on the territorial gendering of the wider landscape, and allow us to recognise even this absence as a material presence?

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.

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).

The development of the pre-war ‘Improved Public House’ (promoted by the Temperance Movement), as a model of respectability and moderation, was not simply a matter of reducing hours and consumption but of architecture as an engine of social reform.

Beer and pubs are an integral part of the Czech national myth – but, as Peter Smisek reveals, their role has changed through the centuries. Seen at different times as sites of cultural revival or vulgar hedonism – as well as places of forgetting – they continue to expose the shifting fault lines in Czech society.

The Iron Duke in Great Yarmouth, once flagship of Norfolk brewers Lacons, is perhaps the most complete art deco pub in the country in terms of both conception and preservation, but its survival is currently under threat, writes Caroline Jones of The Friends of the Iron Duke

Emily Cole of Historic England looks at the rapid – and often radical – changes to both the architectural form and social role of the public house in England across the 20th century.

Michael Hall reflects on the extensive queer history of the National Trust, and its connections to LGBTQIA+ architectural design and patronage.