Oral Histories and Alternative Archives: Disrupting the Boundaries of Queer Identities, Cultures, and Politics

By Dan Royles LGBTQ

As historians, how does the past speak to us, and when it does, how do we listen?

"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?

By Tom O'Donnell LGBTQ, Medieval

Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.

Doing It With Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Food and Sexuality

Evangelicals actively connected their appetite for culinary and sexual variety to desires for marital intimacy and stability.

The Sex Institute on Euston Road

By Rebecca Saunders Medicine and the Body, Public History

One of the most significant threads the “Institute of Sexology” unwinds is the intertwined development of sexology and ways female sexuality was perceived. 

Gender Matters at The Institute of Sexology

By Dr Heike Bauer Medicine and the Body, Public History

The Institute of Sexology at the Wellcome Trust is the first major exhibition in the UK dedicated to the history of sexology.

Franca Viola says ‘No’: Gender violence, consent, and the law in 1960s Italy

By Niamh Cullen Modern Europe, Sexual Violence

Franca Viola’s abduction and rape was a watershed in improving the status of women in Italian society.

Reading Silences in Histories of Religion and Sexuality

By Philippa Koch Religion and Sexuality

How do we, as scholars of religion, interrogate the silences in our sources?