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Really pleased that the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has re-endorsed our film ‘Flow.’ They say ‘This is an excellent resource for those who want to understand more about how to approach Child Sexual Abuse and offer a person-centric approach to disclosure.’ Watch ‘Flow’ here: To see the resource pack too go here: https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/flow
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I’m writing a book about an 1885 scandal involving young girls being exploited and sold to rich men. Could not be more relevant at the moment! If you want to hear about my research, as well as Professor Caroline Derry’s work on the case, and you happen to be in London at the end of
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At the moment the news is full of Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book and all the VIPs who were his friends. They highlight the men that continued to associate with him once he was first charged with abuse. Quite rightly they are being questioned on their judgement at the very least and of course many seem
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Our article about making the film ‘Flow’ is out now. ‘Flow’ was made by a steering group where the majority were survivors of child sexual abuse. We wanted to show how hard it is to disclose abuse. You can watch the film too – subtitled in 22 languages! Here’s the article: https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804241248347 Here’s the film:
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1885 was a year of scandals, popular outrage and legal change. In May, notorious brothel madam Mrs Jeffries was prosecuted but walked away with a fine, while a new law to raise the age of consent from 13 was ‘talked out’ in the House of Commons. In July, sensationalist journalist W T Stead’s exposé of
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I’ve been writing my book and came across this quote: ‘What I crave is an agency that would infuse into young men a good, strong, passionate sense of the pitiful meanness of it all; the utter unmanliness of crushing and degrading women.’* It was written in 1879 but it’s still a relevant point! *Ellice Hopkins
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I’ve been reading reports about human trafficking. One from 1880 and one from the UK Home Office in 2023. The same techniques are employed to entrap victims and control them once they have them. Exactly the same. One technique is the fake boyfriend or ‘loverboy’ model where the trafficker pretends to love the victim and
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Watch the recording of our event ‘Flow and Change’ part of the Arts for the Future Festival (masterminded by Lisa Russell), hosted by the UN Civil Society Arts & Culture ImPACT Coalition and Working Group. The event was chaired by Dr Michaela Rogers and hosted by the ShIVAR Network. We screened ‘Flow’ (https://lnkd.in/eS_bWCjM) a narrative film about the barriers to
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When you talk about things that happen now like slavery or child sexual abuse (CSA) hopefully we all pretty much agree these things are bad. What frustrates me is the argument that if it happened in the past it’s actually ok ‘by the standards of the day.’ I’ve heard this many times when people talk
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During my PhD I researched the history of laws about the age of consent. I read a line in a 1978 academic article discussing the Maiden Tribute, a series of scandalous 19th century newspaper articles. It mentioned Mrs Mary Jeffries: ‘Her clients, it was said, included some of the men who had for years opposed
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Modern & Historical Research about Child Sexual Abuse 