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What is the history of sexuality?

Sean Brady The history of sexuality as an interdisciplinary scholarly discipline, has received a significant institutional boost and focus since January 2014. The founding of the History of Sexuality...

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Review of This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

Julia McClure Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle, Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (Allen Lane, 2016) In 1582 Queen Elizabeth I dispatched an ambassador, William Harborne, to Turkey to form a...

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‘Fallen Women’ at the Foundling Museum

Fran Bigman On my first visit to London’s Foundling Museum, which tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first children’s home (established by Thomas Coram in 1739), I was fascinated by...

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Britain, Germany, and the Threat of the Far Right

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit a temporary exhibition on the history of the post-war far right in Germany, curated by Munich’s Documentation Centre for the History of National...

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Legacies of Rave in Britain

‘I’d take my E and sit by the door, on the scaffolding, and watch people’, remembers DJ and producer Neville Watson, in words accompanying his brother Gavin Watson’s photo-essay Raving ’89. ‘You could...

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