Lesley A Hall

Biographic Data

ID1626772
NAMELesley A Hall
GIVEN NAMESLesley A
FAMILY NAMEHall
SIGNATUREHALL L A
AFFILIATIONSWellcome Library
ORCID0000-0002-9979-268X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Sarah Bull, Selling Sexual Knowledge

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLESocial History of Medicine2025

  • Natasha Szuhan, The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLESocial History of Medicine2023

    Journal Article Natasha Szuhan, The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain Get access Natasha Szuhan, The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. xii + 294. £99.99. Hdbk. ISBN 978-3-030-81299-7 Lesley A Hall Lesley A Hall Wellcome Library Research Fellow/University College London l.hal…

  • Beyond the Law

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLEThe English Historical Review2023

    Journal Article Beyond the Law: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, by Charles Upchurch Get access Beyond the Law: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, by Charles Upchurch (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2021; pp. xii + 290. £88; pb. £34). Lesley A Hall Lesley A Hall Wellcome Library and University College London, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9979-268X Search…

  • A Matter of Obscenity

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLEThe English Historical Review2022

    Journal Article A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England, by Christopher Hilliard Get access A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England, by Christopher Hilliard (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021; pp. 321. £28). Lesley A Hall Lesley A Hall Wellcome Library, London, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical…

  • Licentious Worlds

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLEThe English Historical Review2021

    This is a substantial and copiously illustrated introduction to issues of gender and exploitation in the development of global empires since the late fifteenth century. Julie Peakman writes back women (and persons of marginalised sexualities) into the story of colonialism and empires—and shows how often initial colonial encounters involved sex-starved seamen raping the first women they came across after lengthy voyages, or at the very least, inte…

  • Violet Fenn, Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLESocial History of Medicine2020

    Violet Fenn, Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain Fenn Violet, Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain, Barnsley, Pen and Sword Books, 2020. Pp. 120. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 52675 668 8. Lesley A Hall Lesley A Hall Wellcome Library [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkaa068, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa068 Published: 24 November 2020

  • Jamie Stoops. The Thorny Path

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    It is extremely pleasing to see attention paid to the underworld of pornographic literature and other media that was in existence during a period when most historiography has been addressed to the high-profile obscenity prosecutions of works with claims to literary and scientific merit and to the campaigns against censorship from those incensed by the restraints placed on those wishing to address matters of sexuality in literature. In The Thorny …

  • Abortion under Apartheid

    Lesley A HallARTICLEWomen s History Review2017

  • Sexuality Research

    Open AccessLesley A HallOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Research on sexuality began as a complex and interdisciplinary endeavor. Although it was, like so many of today's fields, a product of the nineteenth‐century belief in the power of rational scientific investigation, it was very much a latecomer. F.H.A. Marshall commented in his 1910 synthesis, The Physiology of Reproduction , that physiologists had made comprehensive studies of all other bodily functions, but reproduction had not been the object …

  • Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States

    Lesley A HallARTICLEWomen s History Review2017

    "Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: a history of a medical treatment, Sarah B. Rodriguez." Women's History Review, 26(2), pp. 301–302

  • Prostitution and the Ends of Empire

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLEJournal of History2016Cited by: 2

    Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India, by Stephen Legg. Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2014. xi, 281 pp. $94.95 US (cloth), $25.95 US (paper). It is only fairly recently that the historiography of prostitution and the attempts at its control or eradication has moved into the interwar era, a period in which there was a distinctive shift away from regulation and segregation, largely due to the de…

  • Sentimental Follies' or 'Instruments of Tremendous Uplift'? reconsidering women's same-sex relationships in interwar Britain

    Lesley A Hall, Lesley HallARTICLEWomen s History Review2016

    In 1985 Sheila Jeffreys alleged that the rise of sexological discourse concerning female inversion in the early twentieth century obliged women of the interwar period in the UK to reject female affection for fear of being labelled lesbian. Several historians have demonstrated that sexological ideas gained very little general currency before Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). Research on specific women suggests that such fears w…

  • A City That We Shall Never Find’? The Search for a Community of Fellow Progressive Spirits in the Uk Between the Wars

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLEFamily & Community History2015Cited by: 1References: 5

    Between the wars in the UK there were a number of endeavours to bring together a broadly-based movement of like-minded progressive people. These were significantly influenced by H. G. Wells’s vision of an ‘Open Conspiracy’, a self-selecting elite of creative, scientific and managerial individuals dedicated to bringing about a peaceful and rational global society. This article considers the desire of individuals inspired by Wells to find like mind…

  • Clare Debenham, Birth Control and the Rights of Women

    Lesley A Hall, Lesley HallARTICLESocial History of Medicine2015

    Journal Article Clare Debenham, Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century Get access Clare Debenham, Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century, London: I. B. Tauris, 2014. Pp. x + 287. £59.50, ISBN 978 178076 435 1. Lesley Hall Lesley Hall Wellcome Library, London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Pub…

  • Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England

    Lesley A HallARTICLEPopulation Studies2013

  • The Subject is Obscene

    Lesley A Hall, Lesley HallARTICLEWomen s History Review2013

    Although it is often assumed that Marie Stopes (1880–1958) was put on trial for her promotion of birth control, the cause célèbre which brought her major media attention in 1923 was in fact her own libel suit against the Roman Catholic doctor Halliday Sutherland for his attack against her clinic. This article looks at Stopes performing in the courtroom as a victim of injustice, deserving of remedy, both in this case, and in her earlier case for t…

  • Essay Review

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2009

  • Clean

    Lesley A HallARTICLECultural and Social History2009

    2009). Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity. By Virginia Smith. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 118-119

  • Eugenics, sex and the state

    Open AccessLesley A HallARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2008

  • The Clitoris

    Lesley A HallARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2006

    Reviewed by: The Clitoris: Forbidden Pleasure Lesley A. Hall The Clitoris: Forbidden Pleasure. Directed by Stephen Firmin and Variety Moszynski. First Run/Icarus Films, 2003. There is something a little ironic about subtitling a documentary purporting to present a new and positive view of the clitoris "Forbidden Pleasure." Less sensationally, the story this video tells is about the invisibility and neglect of the clitoris, at least in Western cul…

  • Outspoken Women

    Lesley A HallBOOKOutspoken women2005

    Contents. Introduction. The Victorians The Suffrage Era The Stopes Era Depression and War Sex in a Welfare State Biographical Notes on Authors. Bibliography of Works Cited. Further Reading

  • Colonizing Sex

    Lesley A HallARTICLEJournal of Colonialism and…2004

  • What shall we do with the poxy sailor

    Lesley A HallARTICLEJournal for Maritime Research2004References: 3

  • Hauling Down the Double Standard

    Open AccessLesley A Hall, Lesley HallARTICLEGender & History2004Cited by: 7References: 15

    Nineteenth‐century feminism and the related social purity movement, and the emergent scientific discourse of ‘sexology’, are usually seen as antagonistic. Both trends, in fact, were in profound opposition to the widespread assumption that the double moral standard was an embodiment of ‘natural’ transhistorical law. This article suggests that feminist agitation against the Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s (and other manifestations of the dele…

  • Sir Henry Wellcome's Archival Legacy and the Contemporary Historian

    Adrian Steel, Lesley A Hall et al.ARTICLEContemporary British History2003

    The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London has an international reputation in the fields in which it specialises. The Archives and Manuscripts Section of the Library, staffed by a team of fully qualified archive professionals, contains unique collections of original material of value to many types of researcher. This article will deal briefly with the life and work of the man whose bequest established the Library o…