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The Bare Knuckle Heavyweight Champions of England
www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/barenuk.htm
From the Cyber Boxing Zone Encyclopedia, here you'll find information of all the champions, from James Figg in 1719 to Jem Mace in 1866. |
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England Bites Back with Fanny Hill
www.libidomag.com/nakedbrunch/europorn03.html
Looks at John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, later known as Fanny Hill, which is a window into the sexual mores and social customs of 18th-century Britain. |
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The French Revolution and the Spread of Politically Motivated Pornography
www.libidomag.com/nakedbrunch/europorn04.html
Fascinating essay on how sexually oriented materials, once the sole province of the French aristocracy, became a weapon of the lower classes. NB: The essay is illustrated with contemporary pornographic images. |
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18th-Century England: The country of forbidden love
www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/forbidden/index.html
Graphic and humorous account of life of a Georgian homosexual. A surprising site considering that it was created for a university course. |
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Gay History & Literature
www.rictornorton.co.uk
Essays by Rictor Norton on lesbian history, queer culture, the 'great queens of history' and more. |
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Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser (Carroll & Graf, 1998)
Historical novel based on the true story of Tom Molineaux, a former slave who won his freedom in a boxing match and almost became the first black bare-knuckle champion in Regency England. Also covers the lives of Bill Richmond, aka the 'Black Terror' and Tom Cribb, the reigning champion.
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Boxiana, or Sketches of Pugilism by Pierce Egan (V Harvey, 1971)
A modern reprint of an extremely detailed study of bare-knuckled boxing from the 1700s to the author's own time (1812).
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Britain's Slave Trade by Steve Martin and Trevor Phillips (Channel 4 Books, 2000)
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, European traders transported 10 million enslaved Africans to the New World. Britain's part in this trade is rarely acknowledged. Through interviews with Britons who have discovered their slave ancestry, this book explores the implications of this on British identity.
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The Floating Brothel by Sian Rees (Review, 2002)
Compelling account of penal history when transportation from England to the colonies was a commonplace alternative to the death sentence. Taking her readers into the squalor of Newgate Prison and the injustices of the Old Bailey, Rees follows the 237 women convicts who left England on a ship for Australia in July 1789, destined to provide sexual services and a breeding bank for the men already there.
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The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery (Yale University Press, 1999)
Award-winning account of the lives of genteel women – the daughters of merchants, the wives of lawyers and the sisters of gentlemen – based on a study of the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women from commercial, professional and gentry families, mainly in provincial England.
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Hogarth's Blacks: Images of blacks in 18th-century English art by David Dabydeen (Manchester University Press, 1987). Out of print; may be available from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
Hogarth's images of London life – from the seedy backstreets to the salons of high society – are some of the most compelling images of 18th-century life. This book highlights the often-forgotten black men and women in Hogarth's art, offering a perspective of the lives of black people in England.
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Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary representations in historical context by Claude Summers (Harrington Park Press, 1998)
Examines homosexuality in the context of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Fanny Hill, Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn.
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I Know My Own Heart: The diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840, edited by Helen Whitbread (Virago, 1988). Out of print; may be available from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
Anne Lister was an educated, independent-minded Yorkshire heiress who came to terms with her lesbianism early on. Her diaries discuss her love affairs and her sexuality. Because they are also so full of details about the life of the period, they are of interest to the general historian as well as to students of the history of human sexuality. |
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Mighty Lewd Books: The development of pornography in 18th-century England by Julie Peakman (Palgrave Macmillan, to be published July 2003)
Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the 18th century, and provides a radical approach to the study of sexuality. |
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Mother Clap's Molly House by Mark Ravenhill (Menthuen, 2002)
The script of Mark Ravenhill's play explores the gay subculture of 18th-century London.
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Passions between Women: British lesbian culture 1668-1801 by Emma Donoghue (Scarlet Press, 1993)
An examination of 17th- and 18th-century lesbian culture, which covers topics such as group sex, sadomasochism and hermaphrodites.
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The Regency Underworld by Donald A Low (Sutton Publishing, 2000)
During the Regency period, there existed a pulsating underworld where crime and vice of every kind flourished. This work is illustrated with a variety of contemporary prints, portraits and cartoons to bring the early 1800s and its characters to life.
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A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory (HarperCollins, 1992)
Set in 18th-century Bristol, this novel charts one man's efforts to move to the wealthy part of the city – at any cost – and to this end, he becomes involved in slave-trading. This is a tale of his ambition, and the plight of one African in particular, brought over to be trained as a model slave.
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