“Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain

By Charles Upchurch LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Beyond the Law focuses on the multiple ways various groups of individuals in the early nineteenth century understood what sodomy was, and what constituted an ethical response to it.

Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834

By Kate Gibson Early America, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

What were the consequences of illegitimacy in the long eighteenth century?

A Secret Between Gentlemen

By Peter Jordaan LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

Rediscovering an early twentieth-century sex scandal.

Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain

By Julia Laite NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Labour, United Kingdom

How was prostitution presented in the Wolfenden Report?

Freaking in Interwar Britain

By Dominic Janes LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

Even under the gaze of social conservatism, ‘gay’ life was hiding in plain sight.

David Levison and the Heterosexual Revolution in Scotland

By Charlie Lynch Religion and Sexuality, United Kingdom

In a diatribe delivered to the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly in 1974, Leon David Levision preached that sex without love was ‘mutual exploitation and despoliation.’

United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow

By Dan Glass LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

United Queerdom is a toolkit of case studies, strategies, philosophies, methodologies and tactics for LGBTQIA+ liberation in the spirit of the original aims of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF).