Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834

By Kate Gibson Author Interviews

What were the consequences of illegitimacy in the long eighteenth century?

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 Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature

By Christine Varnado Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading.

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.

Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain

By Kate Biedermann Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities

A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.

Alternative Histories of the Self: a Cultural History of Sexualities and Secrets

By Anna Clark Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Modern Europe

Five unique historical figures who developed a sense of self that reconciled their sexual nonconformity with their ethical standards.

Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

By Noelle Gallagher Author Interviews, Early Modern, Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.