PRAISE FOR ROSE COLLIS AND HER WORK: ‘OUTSTANDING SHOW’ ‘If Brighton is representative of a particular attitude, a particular atmosphere, then Rose gets close to evoking exactly what this is.

In the last three decades, Rose Collis has worked on a diverse range of history and heritage projects and public engagement events – podcasts, exhibitions, educational tours and illustrated talks. This section features selected highlights of that work, in descending chronological order.

Jul 26, 2015 · ‘Rose Collis’s admirable biography perfectly captures the wicked wit and the sheer fun of the woman.’ one80 ‘Witty and well-researched in the capable hands of Rose Collis.’

The Boy and The Bear was screened on Sunday 25 July, followed by an in-person Q&A with Rose Collis. It was voted joint Best Feature Documentary by the London Rocks International Film Festival 2021 jury.

Twenty years after the original Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder was published, the fascinating, informative and entertaining New Encyclopaedia of Brighton, published in June 2010, written by acclaimed biographer Rose Collis combines the best of the original text, with hundreds of new subjects, starting with ‘Abattoirs’ and ending ...

In this revealing biography, Rose Collis rediscovers Nancy Spain’s public and private life and creates an account of a truly exceptional woman – and the shocking (and ultimately tragic) secret she kept from her public, even after her untimely death.

Since 1993, Rose Collis has written, edited and contributed to 17 books, including fiction and non-fiction anthologies, short and full-length biographies and social histories. She has received four grants from the Society of Authors for biographical research.

Listen to Rose Collis talk about this book with David Freeman on his Author Archive podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TLuBX7cjxuln6gO2yfAUO PRAISE FOR COLONEL BARKER’S MONSTROUS REGIMENT ‘Excellent… treads a careful line between sensation and sentiment.’

Rose Collis has been an out lesbian writer, performer and activist for more than 40 years. She has witnessed, participated in and chronicled many key events in lesbian and gay history: early Pride marches; the AIDS crisis; tabloid media attacks; Section 28 and, in particular, her four years at City Limits magazine in the 1980s.

Rose Collis’s ‘accidental’ career in journalism started in October 1985, when London-based magazine City Limits appointed her to be the first lesbian co-editor of the highly influential ‘Out in the City’ section, founded by Brian Kennedy (pictured below right) – thus making it the first non-gay UK publication to have a staff member ...