The History Society is an organisation run by and for History students at Oxford Brookes University. Each year, the Society's Lecture Series hosts leading scholars from around the world who deliver papers which explore the historical roots of big issues that shape our world today. Each speaker approaches their subject from different disciplinary, temporal, and geographical perspectives. All of them, however, use a historical lens to illuminate uncovered aspects of problems that we grapple with in the modern world, touching on topics from politics to race, empire to technology, and health to gender. The History Society Podcast makes these lectures available to the public so that audiences beyond Oxford Brookes University can enjoy and learn from them.
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The History Society is an organisation run by and for History students at Oxford Brookes University. Each year, the Society's Lecture Series hosts leading scholars from around the world who deliver papers which explore the historical roots of big issues that shape our world today. Each speaker approaches their subject from different disciplinary, temporal, and geographical perspectives. All of them, however, use a historical lens to illuminate uncovered aspects of problems that we grapple with in the modern world, touching on topics from politics to race, empire to technology, and health to gender. The History Society Podcast makes these lectures available to the public so that audiences beyond Oxford Brookes University can enjoy and learn from them.
In this talk, Bill Gibson examines the way in which the history of sex in the eighteenth century has tended to exclude religion from discussions. In fact, attitudes to sex were strongly influenced by religion - and not always in the ways that might be expected. Some aspects of sex were disapproved of by the clergy, but in many cases religion was responsible for the liberalising attitudes towards sex and sexual behaviour. The talk considers some surprising aspects of sex in the period and makes a case that we cannot secularise sex.
The History Society Podcast
The History Society is an organisation run by and for History students at Oxford Brookes University. Each year, the Society's Lecture Series hosts leading scholars from around the world who deliver papers which explore the historical roots of big issues that shape our world today. Each speaker approaches their subject from different disciplinary, temporal, and geographical perspectives. All of them, however, use a historical lens to illuminate uncovered aspects of problems that we grapple with in the modern world, touching on topics from politics to race, empire to technology, and health to gender. The History Society Podcast makes these lectures available to the public so that audiences beyond Oxford Brookes University can enjoy and learn from them.
