Tag: methodology

Notches Back to School Special: Introducing Students to the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank September 11, 2014 Pedagogy 0 comments

Gillian Frank Learning new names, establishing expectations, reviewing the syllabus, and exciting students about course materials are among the many challenges professors face on the first day of class. Those who teach history of sexuality classes face additional hurdles. Many students carry with them fundamental assumptions about sexuality. Often, they think of sexuality as […]

Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th-Century British History: Some new directions

By Ben Mechen April 28, 2014 Dispatches, United Kingdom 1 comment

Ben Mechen and Kevin Guyan On Tuesday 8th April 2014, thirteen speakers and twenty delegates, from PhD students to professors, gathered for a one-day symposium at University College London called ‘New Directions: Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th Century British History‘. Across twelve papers and one keynote address, tackling everything […]

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 […]

Incoherent or Invigorated? The History of Sexuality

By Justin Bengry January 10, 2014 History of Sexuality 3 comments

Justin Bengry By what metric do we measure the vitality of the History of Sexuality? If the overwhelming attendance at the launch of the new IHR seminar asking ‘What is the History of Sexuality?’ is anything to go by, it is far from dead, and scholars remain eager to further […]