Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By Kit Heyam Author Interviews, Trans

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?

The Reputation of Edward II

By Kit Heyam Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Medieval

Edward’s medieval and early modern afterlife was significantly shaped by the influence of literary texts and techniques.

The Beauty and the Terror

By Catherine Fletcher Author Interviews, Early Modern

The Italian Renaissance was far stranger and darker than many of us realise, and that sex and sexuality played an important role in this unsavoury side of the sixteenth century.

Sex in the Archives: Writing American Sexual Histories

By Barry Reay 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews

Sex in the Archives is an experiment in writing an American sexual history that refuses the confines of identity in sexuality studies.