Jo Somerset reads between the lines to decipher a gay couple’s secret life in Leicester during the twentieth century.
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Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales
A socio-legal history of lesbianism and the criminal law from the eighteenth century to the present.
Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole
Aesthetic preferences of Horace Walpole’s coterie cannot be understood independently from their own sexual preferences.
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler
NOTCHES sits down with Chris Bryant as he discusses his new book The Glamour Boys with Richard Grayson.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A Queer Case
The Chatterley trial hinged on the disavowing or defending of ‘deviant’ sexual acts within the novel, making it a distinctly queer case.
‘An Equality of Injustice’: The Sex Buyers’ Bill and Lessons from History
Sex workers living under these regimes have to keep selling sex in a climate made significantly more hostile by further criminalization.
Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business
The story of the historic London Rubber Company and Durex condom business, with a foreword by Lesley A. Hall.
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