The symposium demonstrated the continued vitality of research into gender, sex and sexuality in modern British history
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The Erotics of Shaving in Victorian Britain
Beardedness in nineteenth-century Britain had definite implications for manliness and sexuality.
"The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?" A trade union moment
CHE was not the only organisation to be engaging with the question of being gay – or openly gay – in the workplace.
‘Dinnae Meddle!’*: Scotland and the Historiography of Homosexual Law Reform
Scotland was not included in the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.
Glad To Be Gay in Scarborough (1980)
Lesbians and gay men could begin to participate in union activities to make the workplace habitable for everyone.
What should LGBT History Month say about Empire?
Robert Baden-Powell, Cecil Rhodes and Lawrence of Arabia have three things in common.
A Bit of Casual Sex Up North: And What it Could Mean to the History of Sexuality
Lots of working-class men having sex with each other in fields, behind pubs, at each others houses and, perhaps most significantly, at work.
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