Add to ORKGThis article reconstructs the circumstances of the little-known Edward S. W. De Cobain gross indecency scandal in the early 1890s. I examine its significance to Victorian notions of class, Anglo-Irish politics and gender performativity through an analysis of newspaper reporting, personal correspondence and court documents. Edward De Cobain, Member of Parliament for East Belfast, became the focus of attention after serious allegations of attempted buggery were launched against him. De Cobain absconded from Britain upon word of the charges, but he continued to maintain his innocence while abroad until his eventual incarceration in 1893. In this article I revisit this sexual scandal involving a parliamentarian and disadvantaged young men but I...
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This paper uses scandals involving sexual transgressions as a way to study social norms, values, and...
The performance of manliness was central to a legal system where men dominated as judges, juries, an...
International audienceFor almost 450 years, between the passing of the Buggery Act 1533 and the Sexu...
Homosexuality has been widely debated over the course of history. It has been confronted with a rang...
In nineteenth-century Ireland, newspapers shaped and were shaped by politics. The most important iss...
In the early Nineteenth-century, there was a concerted effort by the judiciary, media and the Home D...
This material has been published in Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914 edited by Edited by Man...
Proposals to criminalize incest in England and Wales, which was formalised in several the Incest Bil...
As with the United States and Great Britain there has been a marked increase in the prevalence of po...
In this article, I trace the politics of shame in the context of the problematization of women’s bod...
In 1895, a Manchester (UK) newspaper accused Gilbert Kirlew of sexually abusing boys at a refuge for...
This article uncovers a sodomy scandal that took place in the Benedictine Abbey of Morigny, on the e...
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the origins of the Jimmy Savile Scandal in which th...
This article focuses on a late fourteenth-century defamation suit from the ecclesiastical court of Y...
The last few decades of 19th Century Victorian London witnessed a dramatic spike in sodomy persecuti...
This paper uses scandals involving sexual transgressions as a way to study social norms, values, and...
The performance of manliness was central to a legal system where men dominated as judges, juries, an...
International audienceFor almost 450 years, between the passing of the Buggery Act 1533 and the Sexu...
Homosexuality has been widely debated over the course of history. It has been confronted with a rang...