Kit Heyam reflects on the Rainbow Plaques project, which commemorates the queer history of places by making the diversity and longevity of the queer experience in York clearly visible, and the impact of the plaques in the city and beyond.

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.