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Entries tagged with 'LGBT history'

The Life and Trial of Maria Duran

August 15, 2013
by Laurence Georgin

One of Dr Francois Soyer's research interests focuses on ideas about gender and sexuality in the early modern Iberian world (Spain, Portugal and their respective empires)

Sodomy and Dishonour in Eighteenth-Century Hampshire

August 6, 2013
by Laurence Georgin

The history of homosexuality eighteenth-century England has been so far dominated by fascinating studies of the rich array of London resources

Treason and Sex: The Case of Colonel Redl

August 6, 2013
by Laurence Georgin

The case of Colonel Alfred Redl, who betrayed Austrian military secrets to the Russians before the First World War, is one of the most notorious cases of high treason

“Exiles of Love”: Lída Merlínová and the World of the Czech Lesbian

August 6, 2013
by Laurence Georgin

Homosexuality in Czech culture and society is only recently being explored by Czech historians and usually the focus is on the homosexual male

The Pet Shop Boys, Gay Sexuality and the Knowingness of Popular Culture in 1980s and 1990s Britain

August 5, 2013
by Laurence Georgin

This project is an attempt to rethink gay culture in late twentieth century Britain, moving away from the notion of gay community towards an understanding of how gay sexuality and culture was both part of mainstream popular culture and took it in distinctive directions

‘Southampton’s Hidden Past and Present: An Oral History of the Gay Community’

August 1, 2013
by Laurence Georgin

The thesis concentrates on examining how images and representations have shaped a discourse on homosexuality, and how, in turn, this has shaped a gay and lesbian social and group identity