George Cecil Ives, an upper-class Cambridge graduate, founded Britain’s first queer rights organization around 1893. He named it the Order of Chaeronea to commemorate the battle in 338 BCE where the Macedonians slaughtered an army of same-sex lovers, the Sacred Band of Thebes. To evade prosecution, the Order was protected by strict codes of secrecy and silence; but Ives drew up a rule book, which survives among his papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas

"Farage’s success therefore suggests not the return of fascism unchanged, but the normalisation of rhetorical forms formerly associated with the far right, after they have been detached from overt fascist identity and repackaged as democratic populism."

“There is an intrinsic irony in the tube pedicle procedure: meant to restore some level of normative appearance and function, it temporarily made the faces of these patients even more different.”

“In the last decade or so scholars in the humanities have increasingly begun to theorize how we might think about neurodivergence, and neurological difference more generally, in the historical past.”