All Outputs (48)

The art of Hugh Easton and the stained-glass closet in post-war Britain (2024)
Journal Article

Hugh Ray Easton (1906-1965) was a leading mid-twentieth century British designer of stained-glass windows. His works combined neo-baroque style with an aesthetic that was attuned to glamour in contemporary media such as film and homoerotic physique m... Read More about The art of Hugh Easton and the stained-glass closet in post-war Britain.

Drag: A British History. By Jacob Bloomfield (2023)
Journal Article

Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas (2023)
Journal Article

The minutely documented diaries of an ‘everyman’ such as George Lucas enable us to view the complex pleasures and challenging realities of the postwar queer quotidian in remarkable detail. A sample of the years after 1957, when Lucas was aged in his... Read More about Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas.

“Chromatics and Vice”: Male Students, Race and Queerness at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1890s to 1930s (2023)
Journal Article

Paul R. Deslandes. The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 432. $45.00 (cloth). (2023)
Journal Article

“Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, by Charles Upchurch (2023)
Journal Article

‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’ (2022)
Book Chapter

Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history. The chapters cover a broad range of themes f... Read More about ‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’.

‘Male homoerotic relations in history’ (2022)
Book Chapter

Strange gods: love and idolatry in the Victorian Novel: by Timothy L. Carens, New York, Routledge, 2022, 200 pp., $155 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-367-52509-5 (2022)
Journal Article

British Dandies Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation (2022)
Book

The Rise of Victorian Caricature by Ian Haywood (review) (2021)
Journal Article

The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950 (2021)
Journal Article

The records of student societies show that cross-dressing was a very popular practice at Cambridge University from the second half of the nineteenth century not only in drama but at a wide range of social events. Male and female students were segrega... Read More about The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950.

The ‘curious effects’ of acting: homosexuality, theatre and female impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900-1939 (2021)
Journal Article

The University of Cambridge educated a significant proportion of Britain’s elite in the early twentieth century. The homosocial environment of the colleges was similar in many ways to that of the single-sex public boarding schools which many of the u... Read More about The ‘curious effects’ of acting: homosexuality, theatre and female impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900-1939.

Freak to Chic "Gay" Men in and Out of Fashion After Oscar Wilde (2021)
Book

‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past (2021)
Journal Article

The origins of camp can be traced by exploring the ways in which the past was queered during the inter-war period. Cecil Beaton was establishing himself as one of the world’s leading fashion photographers. He and many of his friends were fascinated b... Read More about ‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past.

Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine (2021)
Journal Article

Francis Bacon made extensive use of photographs and other images from the visual culture of his time in the production of works that were implicitly queer. Homosexual men were widely represented in prose and through cartoons as camply effeminate ‘pan... Read More about Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine.

‘Religion, cross-dressing and sexual desire in the art of Simeon Solomon’, Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society (2020)
Journal Article

The Oxford Movement, Asceticism, and Sexual Desire (2020)
Book Chapter

‘Princess Diana, the royal court, and the queer image of the modern British monarchy’ (2020)
Book Chapter

Entering the Eighteenth-Century Closet and Coming Out Today (2020)
Book Chapter