by J. Meek

Articles:

Meek, J. (2016) Boarding and lodging practices in early twentieth-century Scotland. Continuity and Change, 31(S1), pp. 79-100. (doi: 10.1017/S0268416016000084)

Meek, J. (2015) Scottish churches, morality, and homosexual law reform, 1957 to 1980. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 66(03), pp. 596-613. (doi: 10.1017/S0022046914001250)

Elliot, R. , Hughes, A. and Meek, J. (2015) Working class family breakdown and the First World War in Scotland. Scottish Labour History, 50, pp. 141-159.

Hughes, A. and Meek, J. (2014) State regulation, family breakdown and lone motherhood: the hidden costs of World War I in Scotland. Journal of Family History, 39(4), pp. 364-387. (doi: 10.1177/0363199014548826) (PMID:26538794) (PMCID:PMC4613732)

Books

With Katie Barclay and Eleanor Gordon, Working-Class Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in Scotland, 1855-1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025) [forthcoming]

Queer Trades, Sex and Society: Male Prostitution and the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland (London: Routledge, 2023)

Barclay, K., Meek, J. and Thomson, A. (Eds.) (2019) Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion. Series: Routledge research in gender and history. Routledge: New York, NY. ISBN 9780367424558

Queer Voices in Post-War Scotland: Male Homosexuality, Religion and Society (Palgrave, 2015)

Book Sections

Meek, J (2025) ‘Glasgow’s Queer Foundations’, in Who WIll be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland (Edinburgh: Historic Environment Scotland, forthcoming)

Meek, J. (2023) ‘A purer form of loneliness’: loneliness and the search for community among gay and bisexual men in Scotland, 1940–1980. In: Barclay, Katie, Chalus, Elaine and Simonton, Deborah (eds.) The Routledge History of Loneliness. Series: Routledge histories. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 295-310. ISBN 9780367355081 (doi: 10.4324/9780429331848-23)

Barclay, K., Meek, J. and Thomson, A. (2019) Marriage and emotion in historical context. In: Barclay, Katie, Meek, Jeffrey and Thomson, Andrea (eds.) Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion. Series: Routledge research in gender and history. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780367424558 (doi: 10.4324/9780367824228-1)

Meek, J. (2019) “It seemed the right thing to do!”: Mixed-orientation marriages and emotions in post-war Scotland. In: Barclay, Katie, Meek, Jeffrey and Thomson, Andrea (eds.) Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion. Series: Routledge research in gender and history. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 175-190. ISBN 9780367424558 (doi: 10.4324/9780367824228-12)

Meek, J. (2017) Risk! Pleasure! Affirmation! Navigating queer urban spaces in twentieth-century Scotland. In: Simonton, D. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of the History of Gender and Urban Experience. Series: Routledge history handbooks. Routledge: London, pp. 385-396. ISBN 9781138815940

Meek, J. (2017) ‘That class of men’: effeminacy, sodomy and failed masculinities in inter- and post-war Scotland. In: Abrams, L. and Ewan, E. (eds.) Nine Centuries of Man: Manhood and Masculinity in Scottish History. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474403894 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474403894.003.0013)

Meek, J. (2014) Afterword: Scotland’s Queer history. In: Strachan, Zoë (ed.) Out There: An Anthology of Scottish LGBT Writing. Freight Books: Glasgow, pp. 268-274. ISBN 9781908754684

Meek, J. (2014) Conversations with God: reconciling religious identities with sexual identities among gay and bisexual men in Scotland, 1950-99. In: Taylor, Yvette and Snowdon, Ria (eds.) Queering Religion, Religious Queers. Series: Routledge studies in religion. Routledge: London, pp. 101-116. ISBN 9780415843881

Documentaries

Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland, BBC Scotland (Hopscotch Films , 2015)