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The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950 (2021)
Journal Article
Janes. (2022). The Varsity Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Cross-Dressing at the University of Cambridge, 1850-1950. Journal of Social History, 55(3), 695-723. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shab069

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
Janes. (2022). The ‘curious effects’ of acting: homosexuality, theatre and female impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900-1939. Twentieth Century British History, 33(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwab036

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.

‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past (2021)
Journal Article
Janes, D. (2021). ‘Dress Sense of a Queen’: Cecil Beaton’s Queering of Britain’s Royal Past. Journal of European Popular Culture, 12(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc_00026_1

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
Janes. (2021). Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine. Visual Culture in Britain, 275-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2020.1822755

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.