H G Cocks
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H G Cocks |
| GIVEN NAMES | H G |
| FAMILY NAME | Cocks |
| SIGNATURE | COCKS H G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3110-7105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain
Late‐Victorian and Edwardian Popular Conservatism is now mainly seen as a cultural‐ideological form, and this article aims to reconstruct one aspect of this ethos by focusing on the use of sport, especially horse racing, as a means of political differentiation and a method of attracting a new mass electorate to the Tory cause. The sporting paper focusing on horse racing was one way of doing this. Weeklies like the Sporting Times and the Winning P…
Picturing the Closet: Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain
Picturing the Closet: Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain." Cultural and Social History, 14(1), pp. 132–133
The Social Picture of Our Own Times’: Reading Obscene Magazines in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain: Table 1
The market in what was regarded as obscene literature, 1940s and 1950s Britain was dominated by magazines containing female nudes and risqué fiction. What can we know about the readers and consumers of this type of pornography before the 1960s? We can never have anything more than a very fragmentary picture of this market and its consumers owing to the nature of the archive. However, a police investigation from 1950 into the records of one dealer…
Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967
The common law offence of conspiracy to corrupt public morals has a long though controversial history in English law. It was a charge mainly employed against obscenity, procuring prostitution, keeping a disorderly house, public indecency and public mischief. These could be interpreted by the courts as facets of a single offence known as conspiracy to corrupt public morals. The charge was used intermittently in the twentieth century, mainly agains…
Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850
Wilde and the law
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The cost of marriage and the matrimonial agency in late Victorian Britain
Reading Obscene Texts and Their Histories
Histories of pornography and obscenity attained academic respectability relatively recently. They attempt to show when the cultural categories of pornography and obscenity came into being, and most agree that they are coextensive with modernity (defined in various ways, but mainly as coincident with the rise of print between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries). Historians see a distinction between sexual representation in early mode…
Oh, it was Different Then.' Marriage, Sexuality and the Body before the Sixties
For all their diversity, histories of sexuality and the body continue to worry away at one central theme: how do culture and society actually affect individual lives and desires, if at all? How, as John Gagnon and William Simon put it, are cultural scenarios adapted and translated into private life? Although after Foucault, historians have tended to assume that there is an intimate connection between these things, how they are related, and whethe…
The Discovery of Sodom, 1851
The alleged discovery of the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah by the French traveler Louis Félicien de Saulcy in 1851 provided the occasion for a series of debates in Britain on the question of biblical authority that were also, for some audiences, about examining the crimes and sins of the Sodomites and defining them openly as homoerotic lust. In this way, and at this moment, questions of same-sex desire became an important accompaniment to pressing …
The History of Sexuality Meets Evolutionary Psychology
A Complicated State of Mind
In 1937, when George Orwell denounced the wilder shores of socialism populated, he said, by fruit-juice fanatics, nudists, sandal-wearers, sex-maniacs, pacifists and feminists, he voiced a complaint that had a long history. From the 1880s, the socialist movement encompassed an eclectic mix of causes, drawing spiritualists, vegetarians, arts and crafts enthusiasts, aesthetes and homosexuals. By the 1930s Orwell was far from alone in his discomfort…
Homosexuality between Men in Britain since the Eighteenth Century
Historians have tended to agree that homosexuality is defined more by culture than nature. However, they disagree over the question of how exactly culture and history shape sexual practices and identity. A few years ago, historians sought to find the origins of modern homosexuality, and tended to treat homosexuality as one thing. It was assumed that modern homosexuality meant an association with effeminacy, and that the effeminate homosexual was …
Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality
Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of historical debate in the history of European and American sexuality since c. 1750. Each chapter e
Making the Sodomite Speak: Voices of the Accused in English Sodomy Trials, c. 1800–98 1
Modernity and the Self in the History of Sexuality
Recent work in the modern history of sexuality, now an established field of inquiry, is characterized by particular approaches to the interpretation of modernity and selfhood. In general, and in contrast to previous approaches, the books under review treat modernity as a localized process with specific effects. Sexual identity is understood in a similar way, as a phenomenon bounded by locality, class, age, nationality, gender, patterns of sociabi…
Safeguarding Civility: Sodomy, Class and Moral Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Journal Article Safeguarding Civility: Sodomy, Class and Moral Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century England Get access H. G. Cocks H. G. Cocks Birkbeck College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 190, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 121–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtj004 Published: 01 February 2006
Peril in the personals: The dangers and pleasures of classified advertising in early twentieth‐century Britain
‘What on earth does this mean?’ Dr Watson exclaims after reading the advertisement of the Red‐Headed League in Conan Doyle's story of the same name. Watson's puzzlement reflected the apparently non
Saucy stories: Pornography, sexology and the marketing of sexual knowledge in Britain, c. 1918-70
The Growing Pains of the History of Sexuality
Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland, Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 1999; pp. 265; ISBN 0 674 00974 6 Roger Davidson, Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland, Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi, 2000; pp. vii + 383; ISBN 90 420 0618 8 Angus McLaren, Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History, Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2002; pp. x + 332; ISBN 0 674 00924 X Joanne Meyerowit…
Calamus in Bolton: Spirituality and Homosexual Desire in Late Victorian England
In 1885 a small group of men began to meet regularly in Bolton, England, to discuss the poetry of Walt Whitman. They thought that Whitman's writings could provide the basis of a new religion, as well as offering spiritual guidance for the people in an age of mass politics. Intense friendships developed between some of the group as well as an interest in the nature of homosexuality. In order to explain their own quasi‐homosexual attachments, they …
Modernity and the Self in the History of Sexuality
Recent work in the modern history of sexuality, now an established field of inquiry, is characterized by particular approaches to the interpretation of modernity and selfhood. In general, and in contrast to previous approaches, the books under review treat modernity as a localized process with specific effects. Sexual identity is understood in a similar way, as a phenomenon bounded by locality, class, age, nationality, gender, patterns of sociabi…
Saucy stories: Pornography, sexology and the marketing of sexual knowledge in Britain, c. 1918-70
The Social Picture of Our Own Times’: Reading Obscene Magazines in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain: Table 1
The market in what was regarded as obscene literature, 1940s and 1950s Britain was dominated by magazines containing female nudes and risqué fiction. What can we know about the readers and consumers of this type of pornography before the 1960s? We can never have anything more than a very fragmentary picture of this market and its consumers owing to the nature of the archive. However, a police investigation from 1950 into the records of one dealer…
Homosexuality between Men in Britain since the Eighteenth Century
Historians have tended to agree that homosexuality is defined more by culture than nature. However, they disagree over the question of how exactly culture and history shape sexual practices and identity. A few years ago, historians sought to find the origins of modern homosexuality, and tended to treat homosexuality as one thing. It was assumed that modern homosexuality meant an association with effeminacy, and that the effeminate homosexual was …
Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967
The common law offence of conspiracy to corrupt public morals has a long though controversial history in English law. It was a charge mainly employed against obscenity, procuring prostitution, keeping a disorderly house, public indecency and public mischief. These could be interpreted by the courts as facets of a single offence known as conspiracy to corrupt public morals. The charge was used intermittently in the twentieth century, mainly agains…
The cost of marriage and the matrimonial agency in late Victorian Britain
Making the Sodomite Speak: Voices of the Accused in English Sodomy Trials, c. 1800–98 1
Calamus in Bolton: Spirituality and Homosexual Desire in Late Victorian England
In 1885 a small group of men began to meet regularly in Bolton, England, to discuss the poetry of Walt Whitman. They thought that Whitman's writings could provide the basis of a new religion, as well as offering spiritual guidance for the people in an age of mass politics. Intense friendships developed between some of the group as well as an interest in the nature of homosexuality. In order to explain their own quasi‐homosexual attachments, they …
Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850
The History of Sexuality Meets Evolutionary Psychology
Peril in the personals: The dangers and pleasures of classified advertising in early twentieth‐century Britain
‘What on earth does this mean?’ Dr Watson exclaims after reading the advertisement of the Red‐Headed League in Conan Doyle's story of the same name. Watson's puzzlement reflected the apparently non
Reading Obscene Texts and Their Histories
Histories of pornography and obscenity attained academic respectability relatively recently. They attempt to show when the cultural categories of pornography and obscenity came into being, and most agree that they are coextensive with modernity (defined in various ways, but mainly as coincident with the rise of print between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries). Historians see a distinction between sexual representation in early mode…
The Discovery of Sodom, 1851
The alleged discovery of the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah by the French traveler Louis Félicien de Saulcy in 1851 provided the occasion for a series of debates in Britain on the question of biblical authority that were also, for some audiences, about examining the crimes and sins of the Sodomites and defining them openly as homoerotic lust. In this way, and at this moment, questions of same-sex desire became an important accompaniment to pressing …
Safeguarding Civility: Sodomy, Class and Moral Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Journal Article Safeguarding Civility: Sodomy, Class and Moral Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century England Get access H. G. Cocks H. G. Cocks Birkbeck College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 190, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 121–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtj004 Published: 01 February 2006
The Growing Pains of the History of Sexuality
Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland, Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 1999; pp. 265; ISBN 0 674 00974 6 Roger Davidson, Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland, Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi, 2000; pp. vii + 383; ISBN 90 420 0618 8 Angus McLaren, Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History, Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2002; pp. x + 332; ISBN 0 674 00924 X Joanne Meyerowit…
Calamus in Bolton: Spirituality and Homosexual Desire in Late Victorian England
In 1885 a small group of men began to meet regularly in Bolton, England, to discuss the poetry of Walt Whitman. They thought that Whitman's writings could provide the basis of a new religion, as well as offering spiritual guidance for the people in an age of mass politics. Intense friendships developed between some of the group as well as an interest in the nature of homosexuality. In order to explain their own quasi‐homosexual attachments, they …
Peril in the personals: The dangers and pleasures of classified advertising in early twentieth‐century Britain
‘What on earth does this mean?’ Dr Watson exclaims after reading the advertisement of the Red‐Headed League in Conan Doyle's story of the same name. Watson's puzzlement reflected the apparently non
Saucy stories: Pornography, sexology and the marketing of sexual knowledge in Britain, c. 1918-70
The Growing Pains of the History of Sexuality
Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland, Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 1999; pp. 265; ISBN 0 674 00974 6 Roger Davidson, Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland, Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi, 2000; pp. vii + 383; ISBN 90 420 0618 8 Angus McLaren, Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History, Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2002; pp. x + 332; ISBN 0 674 00924 X Joanne Meyerowit…
Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality
Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of historical debate in the history of European and American sexuality since c. 1750. Each chapter e
Making the Sodomite Speak: Voices of the Accused in English Sodomy Trials, c. 1800–98 1
Modernity and the Self in the History of Sexuality
Recent work in the modern history of sexuality, now an established field of inquiry, is characterized by particular approaches to the interpretation of modernity and selfhood. In general, and in contrast to previous approaches, the books under review treat modernity as a localized process with specific effects. Sexual identity is understood in a similar way, as a phenomenon bounded by locality, class, age, nationality, gender, patterns of sociabi…
Safeguarding Civility: Sodomy, Class and Moral Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Journal Article Safeguarding Civility: Sodomy, Class and Moral Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century England Get access H. G. Cocks H. G. Cocks Birkbeck College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 190, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 121–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtj004 Published: 01 February 2006
Homosexuality between Men in Britain since the Eighteenth Century
Historians have tended to agree that homosexuality is defined more by culture than nature. However, they disagree over the question of how exactly culture and history shape sexual practices and identity. A few years ago, historians sought to find the origins of modern homosexuality, and tended to treat homosexuality as one thing. It was assumed that modern homosexuality meant an association with effeminacy, and that the effeminate homosexual was …
A Complicated State of Mind
In 1937, when George Orwell denounced the wilder shores of socialism populated, he said, by fruit-juice fanatics, nudists, sandal-wearers, sex-maniacs, pacifists and feminists, he voiced a complaint that had a long history. From the 1880s, the socialist movement encompassed an eclectic mix of causes, drawing spiritualists, vegetarians, arts and crafts enthusiasts, aesthetes and homosexuals. By the 1930s Orwell was far from alone in his discomfort…
The Discovery of Sodom, 1851
The alleged discovery of the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah by the French traveler Louis Félicien de Saulcy in 1851 provided the occasion for a series of debates in Britain on the question of biblical authority that were also, for some audiences, about examining the crimes and sins of the Sodomites and defining them openly as homoerotic lust. In this way, and at this moment, questions of same-sex desire became an important accompaniment to pressing …
The History of Sexuality Meets Evolutionary Psychology
Oh, it was Different Then.' Marriage, Sexuality and the Body before the Sixties
For all their diversity, histories of sexuality and the body continue to worry away at one central theme: how do culture and society actually affect individual lives and desires, if at all? How, as John Gagnon and William Simon put it, are cultural scenarios adapted and translated into private life? Although after Foucault, historians have tended to assume that there is an intimate connection between these things, how they are related, and whethe…
Reading Obscene Texts and Their Histories
Histories of pornography and obscenity attained academic respectability relatively recently. They attempt to show when the cultural categories of pornography and obscenity came into being, and most agree that they are coextensive with modernity (defined in various ways, but mainly as coincident with the rise of print between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries). Historians see a distinction between sexual representation in early mode…
Wilde and the law
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The cost of marriage and the matrimonial agency in late Victorian Britain
The Social Picture of Our Own Times’: Reading Obscene Magazines in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain: Table 1
The market in what was regarded as obscene literature, 1940s and 1950s Britain was dominated by magazines containing female nudes and risqué fiction. What can we know about the readers and consumers of this type of pornography before the 1960s? We can never have anything more than a very fragmentary picture of this market and its consumers owing to the nature of the archive. However, a police investigation from 1950 into the records of one dealer…
Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967
The common law offence of conspiracy to corrupt public morals has a long though controversial history in English law. It was a charge mainly employed against obscenity, procuring prostitution, keeping a disorderly house, public indecency and public mischief. These could be interpreted by the courts as facets of a single offence known as conspiracy to corrupt public morals. The charge was used intermittently in the twentieth century, mainly agains…
Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850
Picturing the Closet: Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain
Picturing the Closet: Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain." Cultural and Social History, 14(1), pp. 132–133
The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain
Late‐Victorian and Edwardian Popular Conservatism is now mainly seen as a cultural‐ideological form, and this article aims to reconstruct one aspect of this ethos by focusing on the use of sport, especially horse racing, as a means of political differentiation and a method of attracting a new mass electorate to the Tory cause. The sporting paper focusing on horse racing was one way of doing this. Weeklies like the Sporting Times and the Winning P…
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