In a recent blogpost John D’Emilio argued that AIDS and its impact upon LGBT individuals and organisations, the militancy it provoked, and the heightened attention it drew to LGBT causes needs to be more fully documented and appreciated. This is certainly applicable to Scotland, and its responses, both social and medical, to the significant challenges…
Whilst delivering my annual lecture on the social construction of HIV and AIDS to pre-university students I was struck by how much of the information I was imparting was entirely new to the students. Blank faces greeted the image of Rock Hudson, and utter shock and horror to the ravages that HIV and AIDS created…
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Formerly (Hatful of History)
A blog about museums, heritage, stories and people
Matt Houlbrook: mobile historian; beard growing, head shaving; occasional cycling.
PhD History, University of Essex
stories from a nineteenth-century prison
the bent bookish blog that's a reel waist of thyme...
PhD bloggin'
Fathers, Fatherhood and Families in Scotland, c.1970-1995
Research in Ontario's post-war labour, gay and lesbian movements
Detective policing and criminal justice in the Victorian capital
lifestyle. beauty. feminism.
