Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

February is LGBT History Month in the UK, and there are events exploring queer history up and down the country. Oxford Brookes University has an excellent programme of events, and the other day I went to the first event of LGBTHM 2017, the launch of an exhibition of Claude Cahun’s photographs, which included a film about Claude Cahun by Lizzie Thynne.

Claude Cahun was born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob in Nantes in 1894. She changed her name to Calude Cahun in 1919, and moved in with her stepsi...