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    A call to look north

    Dec 11, 2021 4 minutes

    Sexual Progressives: Reimagining Intimacy in Scotland, 1880-1914

    Tanya Cheadle

    Manchester University Press, 2020 233 pages

    Hardcover, £70.88; paperback, £25.00 ISBN: 9781526125255

    To paraphrase the author in the introduction to this book, it’s about time someone offered the Scottish perspective on a reasonably well-trodden ‘English’ history topic: the role and impact of sexually progressive thinkers in late Victorian society. Throughout this closely researched work, there is a running thread that challenges English historians to look north of the border when writing about British history, and a quiet call-to-arms for Scottish historians to provide their wealth of research to a readership that has been fed English history as British history. It’s not. Stuff also happens north of the border.

    The book shows that when it came to the ‘sex question’, reimagining

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