A round-up of recent blog-posts on pre-modern history.
Recent Posts
Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal
Cleveland Street is an acknowledged milestone of London’s sexual past.
Queering de Sade
The “divine marquis” influenced literature, philosophy, and artistic and social movements such as Surrealism, Situationism, and Provo.
Believe It: Finding Religion in the History of U.S. Sexuality
Syllabus for histories of sexuality and religion in the twentieth-century United States.
Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and "female genital mutilation"
Female genital mutilation and postcolonial struggles are in fact intimately and historically linked.
Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014
Doctors in Britain removed the clitoris on women explicitly to eradicate elements of female libido.
Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916
The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.
