
Stuart Linden Rhodes established the Instagram account @Linden_Archives during the Covid lockdowns of 2020-21, scanning and digitising hundreds of 35mm negatives of reportage photographs he shot for All Points North and Gay Times magazines during the 1990s. These images had lain unseen for some thirty years and the instagram account has since gained a substantial following.
The first edition of the photo book Out & About with Linden: A Queer Archive of the North, was a selected study of the pub and club scene from Birmingham to Newcastle, with contributions from Boy George, Julian Clary, Mel B, Paul O’Grady, Su Pollard and more. Initially published by filmmaker Joe Ingham in 2022, a second edition was published in 2023 by PARIAH PRESS. Followed in 2024 by a second book titled simply Linden Archives this book covers the whole of England and focussed on Pride events, Mr Gay UK as well as the bars and clubs from London and Brighton and across the North of the country.