Between 1674 and 1913 there are at least 570 documented Old Bailey cases involving adults accused of sexual relations with children.
Recent Posts
Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson
Blurred lines between the protection and the control of women’s sexuality in the past and in the present,
Immigration, sexuality and ‘British’ identity: contrasts and continuities
Sexuality was a dominant aspect in concerns over migrants following the First World War.
Between the cracks: on being a historian of sex
I enjoy working in fields that defy categorization or unifying conversations.
Incoherent or Invigorated? The History of Sexuality
On the launch of the IHR History of Sexuality Seminar.
Hyperbole and horror: hijras and the British imperial state in India
Nineteenth-century British imperial imaginaries took great delight in expressing the terror of, and a morbid fascination with, hijra bodies.
Out in the unions
The core message which I learned from GLF was that gay people should come out about their sexuality as much as they could.
