"Diplomatic documents make it clear that the British were driven primarily by a fear of the United States, not out of a loss of favor towards Japan."

"Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable."

"I did pause to wonder whose voice was this; to question the powerful feeling that she—the maidservant—just arrived, and took over my pen."

"For Norman Tebbit, the multicultural issue was encapsulated by a question."

"This year’s annual meeting in November will be held around the north side of the Golden Square Mile. "

"Knowing that he would likely be silenced, he wrote anyway."

"Harford’s call for a “special law”—a neat statutory solution to the problem of his dual identities—highlights the fact that bureaucratic gender recognition in 1950s Britain was far from straightforward."

“The instability and fragility of bisexuality as an identity category in this period means that limiting my analysis only to people who used the term for themselves would be unhelpfully restrictive.”

"Although orientated around the end of the world, the designs in the room suggest that after la petit morte, or the end of times, viewers will be sublimated to a divinely queer and beautiful afterlife. "

"In 2025, when queer and trans people face a new wave of public scrutiny, legal surveillance, and violent erasure, Princess Seraphina’s story challenges the notion that queer lives were always hidden, always punished, and always alone."

"The way forward, then, can only be through an honesty that challenges us to look back and tell a more robust and complicated truth."

"It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life."

"The essays in this series, then, are shaped by, and respond to, this broader political moment in which queer and trans lives are under increasing threat both rhetorically and institutionally."

"The global reach of the British empire, which touched and transformed societies across continents, also creates natural resonance in sometimes unexpected ways. "

"I have learnt that keeping the political stakes of Black Britishness at the fore requires constant vigilance."

"Rather, the view from Macau prompts a reassessment of the prospects for British imperial history; it raises different questions from those currently dominant in the field."

“But to truly disrupt the inequality of languages, we need to do more than just artfully consider how to incorporate British imperial history into courses in the Spanish-speaking world. We should also consider how to let ideas, studies, literatures and experiences outside the Anglosphere impact how we write about British history itself.”

"In some ways, this was the logical endpoint of a long personal and intellectual journey."

"For the men and boys of the late seventeenth-century British navy, disability was a category of self-definition..."

"In many ways, attention to elite culture helps us to understand culture more broadly..."