Talks, Podcasts & Press

I'm always delighted to talk about history and I can cover a range of fashion and social history subjects. If you'd like to hear more from me, do get in touch.

FORTHCOMING TALKS & EVENTS

Wednesday 6 November, 7.30pm - 10.00pm| The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow

Past Pleasures: A Hand's On Tour of Historical Sex Objects

Thursday 7 November, 7.30pm| Dr Neil's Garden, Duddingston

A Brief History of Fancy Dress

Monday 7 April, 7.00pm| Costume Society Scotland, Augustine United Church, Edinburgh

Fancy Dress in the 18th Century Pleasure Gardens

WATCH

History Hit: Georgian Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll: Unbuttoning Bridgerton

BBC Alba: Feise ann an Gàidhlig/Sex in Gaelic

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Lecture Series: The History of Condoms

Edinburgh Skeptics Lecture: Copulation, Contraception and Controversy: Sex and the National Trust for Scotland

LISTEN

Betwixt the Sheets: Tudor Origins of the Condom

Betwixt the Sheets: The REAL Bridgerton: Georgian Sex

Not Just the Tudors: Origins of the Condom

For the Love of Scotland Podcast: Time travelling through Gladstone's Land 

Research in Scottish History: Sex Work in Edinburgh c.17th-19th Centuries

CBC Radio As It Happens: Scottish sex tour explores linen condoms and positions like 'the wheelbarrow'

PRESS

The Guardian: Not even bankers wear ties and blazers anymore. So why should schoolchildren?

First News Costly kit

Mr Porter Is a schoolboy's uniform the making of a grown man?

The Guardian: Linen condoms and bed curtains: tour exposes history of sex in Scotland