Assignment Details

Reading: Contagious Diseases Acts

2019-20

History Year 13

Date

Nov. 15, 2019

Additional Info
Please see below for interesting articles pertaining to the course content so far; Prostitution in Victorian England and the Contagious Diseases Acts and their repeal.

Prostitution in Victorian England:
https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/prostitution

Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Acts:
https://www.routledgehistoricalresources.com/feminism/essays/prostitution-and-the-contagious-diseases-acts

The Injustice of the Contagious Diseases Acts:
http://mhm.hud.ac.uk/digitalvictorians/the-contagious-diseases-acts-injustice-against-women-civil-liberties/

Opposition to the Contagious Diseases Acts: (requires log-in but an excellent article)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4048453?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Handy podcast summary of whole Depth Study (but a slightly dodgy website title?)
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-contagious-disease-acts/id1139815028?i=1000429128556

Useful documentary about Josephine Butler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXmroctc98o

Attached: Useful article on the campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts
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