All Outputs (14)

Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain (2024)
Journal Article

The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might that... Read More about Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain.

Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain (2024)
Journal Article

The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists, and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might tha... Read More about Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain.

Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India (2023)
Book Chapter

This essay focuses on ideas of the body in the published and unpublished letters of four British women – Jane Smart, Jemima Kindersley, Eliza Fay and Catherine Mackintosh – who wrote from India between 1742 and 1812. Situating these elite, British wo... Read More about Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India.

Jess Keiser. Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2020. Pp. 311. $85 (cloth). (2023)
Journal Article

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
Journal Article

Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought (2021)
Journal Article

This article makes a case that disability, particularly visual, hearing, and speech impairments, played a significant role in Scottish Enlightenment thought. Focusing on the work of Dugald Stewart, and in particular on his essay 'Some account of a bo... Read More about Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought.

The Students: Foregrounding Difference (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses ways of creating history classrooms and courses that are accessible to students who are minoritised by society, whether as a result of their heritage, gender, sexuality or class background, as well as those who face physical, e... Read More about The Students: Foregrounding Difference.

Jane Lydon. Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire. Critical Perspectives on Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 234. $99.99 (cloth). (2021)
Journal Article

Unhomely empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760-1830 (2020)
Book

Unhomely Empire examines the role of Scottish Enlightenment ideas of belonging in the construction and dissemination of ideologies of imperial rule and racial supremacy. During the eighteenth century, European imperial expansion radically increased p... Read More about Unhomely empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760-1830.

LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report (2020)
Report

A report by the Royal Historical Society's LGBT+ working group looking at LGBT+ histories and their place in university curriculums, libraries and galleries, as well as the conditions for LGBT+ historians. The report includes recommendations and reso... Read More about LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report.

"The perilous territory of not belonging": exile and empire in Sir James Mackintosh's letters from early nineteenth-century Bombay (2018)
Journal Article

Mobility, gender and empire in Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in India (1812) (2017)
Journal Article

A book by a young lady, who probably went to India like most young ladies, to procure a husband instead of information, is a literary curiosity which we are not disposed to overlook.

What is Radical History Now? (2017)
Journal Article

Remembering and forgetting the Scottish Highlands: Sir James Mackintosh and the forging of a British imperial identity (2013)
Journal Article

This article explores the formation of British imperial identity through a focus on the career of Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832), a well-known Whig intellectual and imperial careerist who originally hailed from the Highlands of Scotland. Using Mack... Read More about Remembering and forgetting the Scottish Highlands: Sir James Mackintosh and the forging of a British imperial identity.