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The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain (2023)
Journal Article

Late-Victorian and Edwardian Popular Conservatism is now mainly seen as a cultural-ideological form, and this article aims to reconstruct one aspect of this ethos by focusing on the use of sport, especially horse racing, as a means of political diffe... Read More about The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain.

Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967 (2016)
Journal Article

The common law offence of conspiracy to corrupt public morals has a long though controversial history in English law. It was a charge mainly employed against obscenity, procuring prostitution, keeping a disorderly house, public indecency and public m... Read More about Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967.

'The Social Picture of Our Own Times': Reading Obscene Magazines in 1940s Britain (2016)
Journal Article

The market in what was regarded as obscene literature, 1940s and 1950s Britain was dominated by magazines containing female nudes and risqué fiction. What can we know about the readers and consumers of this type of pornography before the 1960s? We ca... Read More about 'The Social Picture of Our Own Times': Reading Obscene Magazines in 1940s Britain.