NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Sexuality in Modern German History

By Katie Sutton NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A deep look at shifting views about ‘normal’ and nonconforming sexuality across two centuries, and how these shaped people’s behaviours, politics, and lives.

Left Out: Boys, Sex, and the Challenge of “Gross Indecency” Records in Irish History

By Averill Earls NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Child sex work is unspeakable, but what do we lose by avoiding those conversations?

Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

By Adam Zmith NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A radical exploration of the history of poppers and their place in queer culture and experience.

Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community

By William Jankowiak NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Cosmology cannot overcome the universality of the pair bond.

Drag: A British History

By Jacob Bloomfield NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A fresh history of British drag performance in all its ubiquity, glamour, fun, and tawdriness.

Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century

By Douglas Pretsell NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Douglas Pretsell Urning is a biography of the earliest recognisably modern sexual identity. The urning identity was, in fact, the dominant male same-sex sexual identity in the German speaking world between 1864 and 1897 but was subsequently eclipsed by terminologies such as homosexual, gay, or queer. NOTCHES: What drew you […]

Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963

By Gemma Romain NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Patrick Nelson: queer black Jamaican man, queer black migrant in interwar London, WWII serviceman, POW and witness to Jamaican histories of colonialism and decolonization.