Professor Matthew McCormack recommends: H. G. Cocks, Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century (I. B. Tauris, 2003). This is a fascinating study of homosexuality in late Georgian and Victorian Britain. We usually assume that the modern understanding of the homosexual man was invented at the end of the nineteenth century, with the rise of sexology... Continue Reading →
LGBQT+ History Month Reading Club: The Searchlight Archive
The University of Northampton History department is home to the Searchlight Archive, a unique archive collection of material documenting the activities of British and international fascist and racist organisations from the 1930s onwards. It is one of the most extensive and significant resources of its type in Europe. Daniel Jones, the Searchlight Collections Officer recommends:... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History Month Reading Club: Medieval
Rachel Moss, Lecturer in History recommends: Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages: Robert Mills (Chicago, 2015) Densely written and packed with complex case studies, this lavishly illustrated leviathan of a book requires careful attention; it’s not a casual read. Nevertheless, this sensitive, imaginative work is bound to become a classic among studies of pre-modern gender... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History and the Holocaust
LGBTQ+ History and the Holocaust Associate Professor in History Paul Jackson blogs on LGBTQ+ victims of the Holocaust Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code was established in 1871, and essentially banned male homosexuality. Despite this, by the 1920s Berlin in particular had developed a reputation as a city that turned a blind eye to... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History Month Reading Club: First World War
Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History Jim Beach recommends: Philip Hoare, Wilde’s Last Stand: Scandal, Decadence and Conspiracy during the Great War (1997) My suggestion for this reading list connects with the content of my third-year module HIS3027 Secret State. It is not an academic history, and although some of its statements about intelligence history don’t stand... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History Month Reading Club: Early Modern
Senior Lecturer in History and Programme Leader for BA History recommends: Alan Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England (1982): A pioneering study charting shifting attitudes towards physical and emotional intimacies between men between the late middle ages and early Enlightenment. Judith C. Brown, Immodest Acts: the life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (1986) A good example of the... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History Month: Broadcasting LGBTQ+ Lives
The BBC has been a big part of life in Britain since its foundation in 1922. The BBC’s History of the BBC 100 Voices news and archive site regularly publishes the latest research on how the corporation has envisaged and represented (or misrepresented) its audiences over time. Their LGBTQ+ History mini-site and the BBC Archive... Continue Reading →
Welcome to LGBT+ History Month
February is the UK’s annual LGBTQ+ History Month! Want to get involved but don’t know where to start? Read on! Events will be taking place across cyberspace offering people the opportunity to celebrate, commemorate, and learn more about historic LGBTQ+ experiences and the struggle for recognition and equality. This year is obviously going to be... Continue Reading →
Remembering All Those We Have Lost
Today is All Souls Day, also known in Latin America as El Dia de los Muertosor the Day of the Dead. It is the final day of a series of celebrations, starting with Halloween (All Hallows Evening, 31st October) and All Hallows (or All Saints) Day (1st November). Each date has a complex history of... Continue Reading →
Employability Skills: Historians and LinkedIn – Ask an Expert
This week, we have a very special guest: Tasneem Dakri, a Career Development Coach who has very kindly agreed to be interviewed by me about how to use one of the most powerful professional networking tools of all: LinkedIn! Today’s topic: The LinkedIn Master Class LinkedIn is one of the most influential professional networking platforms... Continue Reading →
