Love queer history? Work with us! NOTCHES is seeking up to two social media editors to join our team. Please visit the posting on our blog to find out more.
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#queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #historyofsexuality #historian #notchesblog #volunteer
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#queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #historyofsexuality #historian #notchesblog #volunteer
July 30, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Love queer history? Work with us! NOTCHES is seeking up to two social media editors to join our team. Please visit the posting on our blog to find out more.
Link here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Ym
#queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #historyofsexuality #historian #notchesblog #volunteer
Link here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Ym
#queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #historyofsexuality #historian #notchesblog #volunteer
New on NOTCHES: Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature by Isabel Millán.
Read the full article here: 🔗 wp.me/p6JJ6S-4WA
#NOTCHES #QueerHistory #ChildrensLiterature #HistoryOfSexuality #PublicHistory #BookBans
Read the full article here: 🔗 wp.me/p6JJ6S-4WA
#NOTCHES #QueerHistory #ChildrensLiterature #HistoryOfSexuality #PublicHistory #BookBans
Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children’s Literature
Emerging out of the history of radical feminist and BIPOC publishers, here are three independent publishers of LGBTQ+ children’s literature.
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July 30, 2026 at 1:52 PM
New on NOTCHES: Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children's Literature by Isabel Millán.
Read the full article here: 🔗 wp.me/p6JJ6S-4WA
#NOTCHES #QueerHistory #ChildrensLiterature #HistoryOfSexuality #PublicHistory #BookBans
Read the full article here: 🔗 wp.me/p6JJ6S-4WA
#NOTCHES #QueerHistory #ChildrensLiterature #HistoryOfSexuality #PublicHistory #BookBans
#LGBTQ people what do you wish you knew about #LGBTQHistory ? #Historians what do you wish others knew about the #HistoryOfSexuality ? Tell me all about it. I've been thinking of ways to bring historical research to non-scholars 🗃️ #skystorians #queerhistory #AcademicSky
July 29, 2026 at 4:51 PM
#LGBTQ people what do you wish you knew about #LGBTQHistory ? #Historians what do you wish others knew about the #HistoryOfSexuality ? Tell me all about it. I've been thinking of ways to bring historical research to non-scholars 🗃️ #skystorians #queerhistory #AcademicSky
🔥Hot off the press!!🔥 by Sophie Rose and myself, on how & why the Dutch East India Co's racial-sexual repression served its bottom line in Asia and boomeranged back to Europe where it co-constituted the Dutch state and modern 'gay identity' open access: academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-... #QueerHistory
The VOC’s “Dirty Work”: sodomy prosecutions and the Dutch East India Company’s sexual–moral order from the Indies to the Dutch Republic, 1600–1730
Abstract. This article examines sodomy prosecutions by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows t
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July 27, 2026 at 10:09 AM
right-wing and other parts of the political spectrum in the East and West.
Sign up now to take part in person or virtually:
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#queerhistory #historyofsexuality #gender #genderhistory #germanhistory #historicalresearch #skystorians #historysky
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Sign up now to take part in person or virtually:
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#queerhistory #historyofsexuality #gender #genderhistory #germanhistory #historicalresearch #skystorians #historysky
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September 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
right-wing and other parts of the political spectrum in the East and West.
Sign up now to take part in person or virtually:
www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
#queerhistory #historyofsexuality #gender #genderhistory #germanhistory #historicalresearch #skystorians #historysky
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Sign up now to take part in person or virtually:
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#queerhistory #historyofsexuality #gender #genderhistory #germanhistory #historicalresearch #skystorians #historysky
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#genderhistory #sexualviolence #interwarbritain #historyofpolicing #historyofsexuality
📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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July 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#genderhistory #sexualviolence #interwarbritain #historyofpolicing #historyofsexuality
📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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"Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750, Noel Malcolm, Oxford University Press.
Reviewed by Gary Ferguson
doi.org/10.1080/0361...
#QueerHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfSexuality #PremodernStudies #LGBTQHistory #BookReview lgbtqreads.bsky.social
Reviewed by Gary Ferguson
doi.org/10.1080/0361...
#QueerHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfSexuality #PremodernStudies #LGBTQHistory #BookReview lgbtqreads.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750, Noel Malcolm, Oxford University Press.
Reviewed by Gary Ferguson
doi.org/10.1080/0361...
#QueerHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfSexuality #PremodernStudies #LGBTQHistory #BookReview lgbtqreads.bsky.social
Reviewed by Gary Ferguson
doi.org/10.1080/0361...
#QueerHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfSexuality #PremodernStudies #LGBTQHistory #BookReview lgbtqreads.bsky.social
If you are around, do come to the opening of our exhibition at the Maurice Chalumeau Centre for Sexual Sciences (in Geneva) on the 21st of October! We look forward to seeing you there!
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
If anybody is in Geneva in the week of the 20th of October: Please come on Tuesday, the 21st of October 2025 (5:00pm), to the opening of the exhibition “Masculinity in Question: Remedies and Devices against Nocturnal Emissions (18th to 21st Centuries)” at the CMCSS, Campus Batelle, Bâtiment A!
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October 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
If you are around, do come to the opening of our exhibition at the Maurice Chalumeau Centre for Sexual Sciences (in Geneva) on the 21st of October! We look forward to seeing you there!
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
And, yes, here: the full quote, for those who need that too: "Analysis of this emergence in the context of #softball suggests a #historyofsexuality that departs from those based primarily on bar life by emphasizing civic space as a visible site of female desire." Enke 2004, 124
December 5, 2024 at 9:10 PM
And, yes, here: the full quote, for those who need that too: "Analysis of this emergence in the context of #softball suggests a #historyofsexuality that departs from those based primarily on bar life by emphasizing civic space as a visible site of female desire." Enke 2004, 124
Our Social Media Manager, Georgia, is moving on from NOTCHES. So, in her final #ThrowbackThursday post, she shares with us some of her favourite NOTCHES articles of all time:
#histsex #historyofsexuality #queerhistory
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#histsex #historyofsexuality #queerhistory
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November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Our Social Media Manager, Georgia, is moving on from NOTCHES. So, in her final #ThrowbackThursday post, she shares with us some of her favourite NOTCHES articles of all time:
#histsex #historyofsexuality #queerhistory
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#histsex #historyofsexuality #queerhistory
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Out today, we have Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
CW: abortion, death in childbirth, sexual violence
#histsex #historyofsexuality #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
CW: abortion, death in childbirth, sexual violence
#histsex #historyofsexuality #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics
Cesarean or sin: the politics of saving the fetus in Brazil.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Out today, we have Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
CW: abortion, death in childbirth, sexual violence
#histsex #historyofsexuality #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
CW: abortion, death in childbirth, sexual violence
#histsex #historyofsexuality #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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New post out now!
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
#histsex #historyofsexuality
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
#histsex #historyofsexuality
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics
Cesarean or sin: the politics of saving the fetus in Brazil.
wp.me
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
New post out now!
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
#histsex #historyofsexuality
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
#histsex #historyofsexuality
Back in 2021, we posted an extract from the introduction of Joanna Bourke’s book, Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love, published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4c1
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#histsex #historyofsexuality
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4c1
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#histsex #historyofsexuality
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love
How have commentators talked about sex with animals and what meanings have been attached to ‘bestiality’ or ‘zoophilia’?
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October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Back in 2021, we posted an extract from the introduction of Joanna Bourke’s book, Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love, published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4c1
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#histsex #historyofsexuality
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4c1
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#histsex #historyofsexuality
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday, we return to the bedroom...or, rather, the counselling couch, with ‘This isn’t so boring if you can get an outside climax’: Dr Joan Malleson and sexual counselling in Britain by Caroline Rusterholz.
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#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality
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#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality
September 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday, we return to the bedroom...or, rather, the counselling couch, with ‘This isn’t so boring if you can get an outside climax’: Dr Joan Malleson and sexual counselling in Britain by Caroline Rusterholz.
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#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality
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#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality
New on NOTCHES!
Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community by William Jankowiak
Read the exclusive author interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PT
#LGBTQHistory #HistoryOfSexuality #FamilyStudies #ReligiousHistory #Polyamory #Polyamorous #Mormon
Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community by William Jankowiak
Read the exclusive author interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PT
#LGBTQHistory #HistoryOfSexuality #FamilyStudies #ReligiousHistory #Polyamory #Polyamorous #Mormon
September 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
New on NOTCHES!
Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community by William Jankowiak
Read the exclusive author interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PT
#LGBTQHistory #HistoryOfSexuality #FamilyStudies #ReligiousHistory #Polyamory #Polyamorous #Mormon
Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community by William Jankowiak
Read the exclusive author interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PT
#LGBTQHistory #HistoryOfSexuality #FamilyStudies #ReligiousHistory #Polyamory #Polyamorous #Mormon
Makeup can also form part of how gender is read. For instance, eye makeup gets a very brief mention in Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer by Cheryl Morgan. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-2TW
#genderhistory #histsex #historyofsexuality
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#genderhistory #histsex #historyofsexuality
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September 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Makeup can also form part of how gender is read. For instance, eye makeup gets a very brief mention in Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer by Cheryl Morgan. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-2TW
#genderhistory #histsex #historyofsexuality
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#genderhistory #histsex #historyofsexuality
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In today’s new NOTCHES post, we interviewed Jacob Bloomfield on his monograph, Drag: A British History.
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW
#historyofsexuality #histsex #genderhistory
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Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW
#historyofsexuality #histsex #genderhistory
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Drag: A British History
A fresh history of British drag performance in all its ubiquity, glamour, fun, and tawdriness.
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September 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In today’s new NOTCHES post, we interviewed Jacob Bloomfield on his monograph, Drag: A British History.
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW
#historyofsexuality #histsex #genderhistory
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Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW
#historyofsexuality #histsex #genderhistory
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Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?
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#histsex #historyofsexuality #sexology
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#histsex #historyofsexuality #sexology
August 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?
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#histsex #historyofsexuality #sexology
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#histsex #historyofsexuality #sexology
In case you haven’t seen it, today we posted our fascinating interview with Douglas Pretsell on Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century.
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
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#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
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#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory
August 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In case you haven’t seen it, today we posted our fascinating interview with Douglas Pretsell on Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century.
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
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#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
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#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory
Brand new NOTCHES post out now!
Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory
Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory
August 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Brand new NOTCHES post out now!
Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory
Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday is the wonderful article, ‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow by Laura Wood.
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#medievalhistory #historyofsexuality
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#medievalhistory #historyofsexuality
August 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday is the wonderful article, ‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow by Laura Wood.
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#medievalhistory #historyofsexuality
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#medievalhistory #historyofsexuality
Ross’ work demonstrates the importance of homosexual men and female prostitutes in shaping the city of Paris.
Read our interview with Ross on Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3MQ
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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Read our interview with Ross on Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3MQ
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris
Women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men shaped the emergence of modern Paris.
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July 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Ross’ work demonstrates the importance of homosexual men and female prostitutes in shaping the city of Paris.
Read our interview with Ross on Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3MQ
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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Read our interview with Ross on Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3MQ
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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Yesterday was #bastilleday, so we thought we’d delve into some of our old #Frenchhistory posts.
Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines.
#le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality
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Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines.
#le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality
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July 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Yesterday was #bastilleday, so we thought we’d delve into some of our old #Frenchhistory posts.
Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines.
#le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality
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Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines.
#le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality
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