Tag: public history

Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?

By Ania Ostrowska May 24, 2016 Archives of Desire 0 comments

The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.

Teaching with Tumblr: Building a Digital Archive of Gender, Race & Empire

By Bianca Murillo September 29, 2015 Digital Humanities 0 comments

I am interested in the potential of digital media as a way to engage students.

Interracialintimacies.org: An Online Interactive Archives and Teaching Tool

By notcheseditor August 18, 2015 Asian Sexualities, Digital Humanities 0 comments

Mavis’ family photo album opened a door on a life of interracial intimacy.

Why I Oppose a General Pardon for Historical Convictions for Homosexual Offences

By Justin Bengry August 4, 2015 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Justin Bengry UK Labour Party leadership contender Andy Burnham recently proposed automatic pardons for all men convicted of historical homosexual offences that are no longer crimes. This has been an ongoing conversation in the UK, which in 2013 granted WWII Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing a posthumous royal pardon. The issue reappeared […]

Rainbow Plaques: Mapping York’s LGBT History

By Kit Heyam July 23, 2015 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Kit Heyam There are over 70 plaques in York, marking historically significant places from a Roman fortress (Bootham) to a minuscule street (Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate). While the original “blue plaque” scheme was started by English Heritage, any group may erect a plaque, marking spaces linked to people or events they consider worthy […]

Gender Matters at The Institute of Sexology

By Dr Heike Bauer April 7, 2015 Dispatches, Medicine and Sexuality 3 comments

Heike Bauer The Institute of Sexology at the Wellcome Trust is the first major exhibition in the UK dedicated to the history of sexology. Billed as a ‘candid exploration of the most publicly discussed of private acts’, it seeks to capture the imagination of prospective audiences with the deliberately provocative invitation […]

A Sexologist and his two Archives: Erwin J. Haeberle

By Jana Funke March 19, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality, Pedagogy Comments are Disabled

Interviewed by Heike Bauer and Jana Funke Erwin J. Haeberle is the founder of two archives – the “Haeberle-Hirschfeld-Archive” and the “Archive for Sexology” – which between them constitute one of the most significant collections of sexological work and related materials available. Initially a literary scholar in the 1960s, Haeberle’s discovery of the […]