While academic historians began to make important contributions to our understanding of British LGBTQ+ history in the 1970s (and, indeed, this built on historical scholarship from as early as the 1880s), the field of British queer history became properly established within university history departments and mainstream academic scholarship from the turn of the twenty-first century. The ‘new British queer history’ of the 2000s focused on senses of identity, emotions, and the formation of communities organised around non-normative sexuality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period just before words like ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ came into widespread use. Some of this work took ‘genealogical’ approaches to understanding how categories of sexual identity and community like these had developed. Other historians, however, were drawn to what Laura Doan described as ‘aspects of the sexual past that resist explanation in the context of identity history’...