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00:00Well, I think the significance of the house is that it is where Eleanor Butler and Sarah
00:07Ponsonby, the ladies of Clancockland, stayed, lived their lives together, created a sort
00:12of romantic retreat in which they could be accepted as oddities and eccentrics within
00:20their society while at the same time transgressing many of the rules, the rules of femininity
00:26and the rules of sexuality.
00:28I think it's very important that it has become this site where you can talk about queer histories
00:33and LGBT people can go and visit and feel something as relative to their own contemporary
00:39lives. What it does, it says, there were always people who were different, always people who
00:44were queer in history. LGBT is not a contemporary or modern invention and having those places
00:50and spaces where one can make a pilgrimage or go and visit is very important.