The Wellcome Library is a rich source of material for the study of historical attitudes towards sex and the human body.
Tag: historical sources
Finding the lesbian premodern: Does it take one to know one?
How can we find out about female same-sex experiences and intimacy in the middle ages?
Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th-Century British History: Some new directions
The symposium demonstrated the continued vitality of research into gender, sex and sexuality in modern British history
Male Order: Tom of Finland and the Queer Iconography of Postage Stamps
How do postage stamps contribute to a public history of queer lives and sexualities?
The Erotics of Shaving in Victorian Britain
Beardedness in nineteenth-century Britain had definite implications for manliness and sexuality.
‘In the manner of a woman’: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Inessentiality of Gender
John/ Eleanor Rykener’s confession reveals the complexity of queer lives in medieval England.
Love, Lust and Procreation: Debating Sex in Nineteenth-Century Medicine?
Nineteenth-century medical texts contain recommendations on how to navigate love and marriage.
Recent Posts
Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media
Aleksandr Aleksandrov: New Sources in Nineteenth-Century Russian Trans Life-Writing
“Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History
Translation as empowerment: toward a grammaticalization of the non-binary in Spanish
The rediscovery of a homoerotic poem by Torquato Tasso: Ganimede rapito