# @the.merl on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DU_BdvSikhR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/57074846-themerl-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/6ef3af28d4.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-02-20T15:27:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Museum of English Rural Life (@the.merl) — https://gondola.cc/the.merl

## Caption

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in the larger communities of towns and cities.

For this #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army.

Link in bio.

#LGBTQHistory #QueerHistory

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## Tags

lgbtqhistorymonth, lgbtqhistory, queerhistory

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