Gay Prisoners in Victorian Navy Ships | History for Sleep

Описание: Gay Prisoners in Victorian Navy Ships

SOURCES & RESEARCH

This documentary draws on Admiralty court-martial records, prison hulk administrative papers, and modern academic scholarship on naval sodomy prosecutions.

KEY ACADEMIC SOURCES:

Burg, B. R. Boys at Sea: Sodomy, Indecency, and Courts Martial in Nelson's Navy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Burg

Gilbert, Arthur N. "Buggery and the British Navy, 1700-1861" Journal of Social History 10 (1976)

Conley, Mary A. From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870-1918 (Manchester University Press, 2009)

Cocks, H. G. Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the Nineteenth Century (I. B. Tauris, 2003)

Campbell, Charles. The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 (Heritage Books, 1994)

FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS:

Prison hulks (general background):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_...

The Buggery Act 1533 (the original legal framework):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggery...

The Articles of War (Royal Navy disciplinary code):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article...

Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars (historical context for early hulk era):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy

The Royal Navy court-martial records cited in this video are catalogued in The National Archives series ADM 1 (Admiralty In-Letters), ADM 12 (Admiralty Digests), and ADM 194/42, 194/180, and 194/181 (Trial Registers).

The Defence hulk at Woolwich and other prison ships at Portsmouth, Chatham, Deptford, and Sheerness are documented in Campbell's archival reconstruction. Buggery was a capital offense in the Royal Navy from 1627 until 1861 under the Articles of War.