Tempests and Teapots: Sexual Politics and Tea-Drinking in the Early Modern World

By Benjamin Carp Early America, Food and Sexuality

The American Revolution is impossible to understand without food and sex at its center.

Sexual Curiosities? Aphrodisiacs in early modern England

By Jennifer Evans Early Modern, Food and Sexuality, Medicine and the Body

Aphrodisiacs were widely understood to be a central component in the fight against infertility.

‘A Temporary Member’: ‘Hermaphrodites’ and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Russia

By Marianna Muravyeva Early Modern, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

‘Hermaphrodites’ represented a true puzzle for the authorities and local community.

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By Kit Heyam Author Interviews

What can we learn from historic stories of gender non-conformity?

An Interview with Historian Rictor Norton

By Stephen Brogan Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

NOTCHES caught up with historian Rictor Norton to discuss his views on interpreting historical homosexuality and the future of LGBTQ studies.

Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine

By Orna Alyagon-Darr Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, Sexual Violence

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence: plausibility.

The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy

By Danielle Bobker Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Why was the eighteenth-century closet associated with illicit and transgressive sexuality?