Tag: British history

What should LGBT History Month say about Empire?

By Onni Gust February 10, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Onni Gust Robert Baden-Powell, Cecil Rhodes and Lawrence of Arabia have three things in common: 1) They are all white and male- assigned; 2) They are all suspected to have harbored homosexual desires, and, in the case of Rhodes, to have had a male lover and partner; 3) They all […]

A Bit of Casual Sex Up North: And What it Could Mean to the History of Sexuality

By Helen Smith February 5, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 8 comments

Helen Smith In 2009 when I made the decision to come back to academia and start a PhD, I had it all planned out how it would go. I was freshly inspired by my umpteenth re-read of the brilliant Queer London and was determined to try and do something similar […]

Ageing and the history of sexuality

By Ben Mechen January 29, 2014 History of Sexuality 5 comments

Ben Mechen Reading Lynne Segal’s recent book on growing old, Out of time: the pleasures and the perils of ageing (2013), has got me thinking about the place (or possibly absence) of old age, as an analytic category, in both my own research and the history of sexuality more generally. […]

"A filthy bruitish offence": Child sex abuse and the law in C17th England

By Jen Baker January 25, 2014 Childhood and Youth, Early Modern 8 comments

Jen Baker Records from the Old Bailey proceedings (the Central Criminal Court for England and Wales) indicate that the acknowledgement and subsequent punishment of sexual offences against children are not modern phenomena. Between 1674 and 1913 – when online public records cease – there are at least 570 documented cases, predominantly from the City […]