This event is in collaboration with the Scottish History Society.

In Scotland, men have gained a longstanding reputation for violence and brutality, signifiers of ‘real men’ earned through hard physical labour, fighting and ‘pay-packet masculinity’. Men commit the majority of recorded sexual violence which can be a barometer for society’s public and private  pressures and structural inequalities. Taking a whole-nation qualitative and quantitative approach, this lecture explores incest and rape cases prosecuted between 1918-1930 and attempts to answer the principal questions: who assaulted whom, where, how and why?





This talk will be presented by Dr Louise Heren FRHistS FSAScot, Independent Researcher.

Dr Louise Heren is an alumna of the University of St Andrews and an independent researcher of Scottish History. She is the author of Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland as well as co-author of the recently published Tanks on the Streets? The Battle of George Square, Glasgow 1919. Her key research interests are Scottish criminal violence and working-class lived experiences. Her research is grounded in the archives held at the National Records of Scotland at Edinburgh.

Header image credit: Cover image of 'Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland' (c) Glasgow City Archives
Image credit: Headshot of Louise Heren (c) Louise Heren