The history of sexuality and relationships between legislation, the public and intellectual traditions.
Month: January 2014
Ageing and the history of sexuality
The place (or possibly absence) of old age, as an analytic category, in the history of sexuality.
Edward Bliss Foote and Alternatives to Monogamy
Foote felt that monogamy also led to sexual apathy in women and impotency in men.
"A filthy bruitish offence": Child sex abuse and the law in C17th England
Between 1674 and 1913 there are at least 570 documented Old Bailey cases involving adults accused of sexual relations with children.
Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson
Blurred lines between the protection and the control of women’s sexuality in the past and in the present,
Immigration, sexuality and ‘British’ identity: contrasts and continuities
Sexuality was a dominant aspect in concerns over migrants following the First World War.
Between the cracks: on being a historian of sex
I enjoy working in fields that defy categorization or unifying conversations.