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This book demonstrates a fruitful cross-fertilisation of ideas between British queer history and art history. It engages with self-identified lesbians and with another highly important source for queer history: oral history. The book highlights the international dimension of what to date has been told as a classic British tale of homosexual law reform and also illuminates the choices made and constraints imposed at the national level. It embarks on a queer critical history, arguing for the centrality, in John Everett Millais's life-writing, of the strange-to-us category of unconventionality. The book aims to expose the queer implications of celebrity gossip writing. It offers a historical analysis of the link between homosexual men and gossip by examining the origins of the gossip column in the British tabloid press in the three decades after 1910. The book provides an overview of the emergence and consolidation of a number of new discourses of homosexuality as a social practice in postwar Britain. It explores a British variant on homophile internationalism before and immediately after the 1967 Sexual Offences Act by mapping Grey's cross-border connections while noting strain against transnational solidarity. The book focuses on evidence collected by the 1977 Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship to illustrate how gay men conceptualised the place of pornography in their lives and its role in the broader struggle for the freedom.
victims of horrific persecution at the hands of the Christian Church. Although certain elements of the Christian Church, not to mention the British tabloid press, continue to conflate witchcraft with Satanism, the re-emergence of the witch in Wicca, Witchcraft and Paganism sees her as the guardian of the secret powers of nature and of woman, as the priestess of the Goddess, as the herbalist, and as the practitioner of magic. Modern Wicca and Witchcraft thus offer a critical synthesis of the polarities and ambiguities of the witch figure to produce a ‘witch’ who is both
attempts to define ‘good’ and ‘bad’ behaviour, those who are ‘in’ and those who are ‘out’. It is a form of titillating revelation requiring a clear knowledge of both the socially accepted and the socially verboten. Utilising such conceptual insights, this chapter offers a historical analysis of the link between homosexual men and gossip by examining the origins of the gossip column in the British tabloid press in the three decades after 1910. The so-called ‘social’ gossip column was a mode of class voyeurism, a whispery series of paragraphs all reporting on the
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee of June 2012 and the live telecast event of Prince George’s christening were slick media events that contributed, according to many commentators, to the ‘rebranding’ of the royal family. Claire Wardel and Emily West demonstrate that already for the Golden Jubilee of 2002 one could observe a new co-operative tone in the British tabloid press. 3 In Australia the 2014 tour of Kate
Powell—two of the figures most famous for arguing the necessity of closing borders to keep nations white—crossed physical and intellectual borders to develop and advance their visions. In March 1978, Duke traveled to England with the goals of increasing his profile, forming connections with like-minded Britons, and urging them to halt non-white migration to their nation lest they suffer the fate of the multiracial U.S. Duke’s visit was widely publicized in the British tabloid press, which could not resist the figure of the youthful, handsome, articulate, and media
headlines while refusing to compromise with a system that seeks to dehumanise victims of police violence. Figure 4.3 Flier produced by Justice4Mark From Duggan to Demetrio, the attempt to seek justice and counter the authority of the police is – with the total complicity of the British tabloid press – presented as a threat to a state engaged in a ‘total war on crime’ 38 and an ‘all-out war on gangs and gang culture’. 39 But amidst the hard, reactionary power of racial violence on the part of the police, there was also a softer, more liberal racism on
exploitation on illegal cannabis farms by 2021). While NCA and other governmental policy reports might be the source of an ethno-nationally defined perception of Albanian crimes for UK law enforcement officers, media reports in particular reinforce popular culturalist categorisations. In the 1990s and 2000s, the British tabloid press routinely indulged in
offending ‘our’ Queen, the Sun makes associated claims that Meghan's actions offend Britain as a whole. She is portrayed as the alien ‘other’, becoming what the sociologist Nirmal Puwar refers to as a ‘space invader’. 76 Meghan disrupts the status quo. This all came to a head upon Meghan and Harry's resignation from the Firm. Much of the commentary blamed Britain's tabloid press for Meghan's desire to leave: the activist Aaron Bastani claimed that the ‘royal couple can't challenge Britain's sick press
Hampshire ( 2014 ). However, a clear link was drawn between that growth and the decision of the Blair government to grant the citizens of the eight countries that acceded to the EU in 2004 full freedom of movement rights. The vast influx of East European migrants was not anticipated by the Blair government, and negative stereotyping by the British tabloid press – notably against
: Routledge, 2006). Chalaby's work is the most compatible with the Habermasian disintegration thesis and has the further advantage of analysing the ‘populist idiom’ of the British tabloid press from a perspective comparable to the ‘social formalist’ one I have advocated in this book: Jean K. Chalaby, The Invention of Journalism (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998). 43 Michele Hilmes, Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting