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Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain* (2024)
Journal Article
Brocket, J., & Janes, D. (2024). Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain*. Journal of Religious History, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13058

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 Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain*.

‘Male homoerotic relations in history’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (in press). ‘Male homoerotic relations in history’. In M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, & M. Kuefler (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Sexualities (252 - 272). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895996.013

This chapter explores male homoerotic desire, whether idealised, romanticised, visualised or physically enacted. Male homoerotic practices and relations have sometimes been structured around notions of difference between two males who were thought to... Read More about ‘Male homoerotic relations in history’.

The art of Hugh Easton and the stained-glass closet in post-war Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Brocket, J., & Janes, D. (in press). The art of Hugh Easton and the stained-glass closet in post-war Britain. Journal of Religious History,

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.

“Chromatics and Vice”: Male Students, Race and Queerness at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1890s to 1930s (2024)
Journal Article
Janes, D. (2024). “Chromatics and Vice”: Male Students, Race and Queerness at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1890s to 1930s. WerkstattGeschichte, https://doi.org/10.14361/zwg-2024-890106

This article explores some of the ways in which colour came to be associated with racialand sexual minorities in European modernity. It does this through examination of a case-study of material produced by students at the Universities of Oxford and C... Read More about “Chromatics and Vice”: Male Students, Race and Queerness at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1890s to 1930s.