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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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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the…
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https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/flow I’m really proud to say that our film ‘Flow’ has been endorsed by the Royal College of Nursing! The endorsement approval says: ‘The resource has good professional content and gives some real insight into the trauma which survivors of abuse experience. It is a very powerful portrayal of the turmoil that many survivors of…
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Woohoo! Our article about the making of the film ‘Flow’ is now online. It’s open access so anyone can read it and watch the film. It’s co-authored with Scarlett de Courcier, Chris Godwin, Jodie Hannis, Zillah Turner, Julie Lloyd and Susan Macklam. We’re SO proud of the film and all it has achieved. Check it…
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‘Flow and Change’ is an event organised as part of the Arts for the Future Festival, hosted by the UN Civil Society Arts & Culture ImPACT Coalition and Working Group. This event, hosted by @ShIVAR_Network, will include a screening of ‘Flow’ a narrative film about the barriers to adults disclosing childhood sexual abuse, discussion of the research behind it, process…
Modern & Historical Research about Child Sexual Abuse 