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Caroline Derry

Researcher

Aug 19, 2026

9:40
And I wondered, was this part of the ongoing effect of the trial and what happened as a result of this?
9:48
The trial had really mixed effects.
9:51
Radcliffe Hall was very influenced by sexology, which had developed in the late 19th century as a sort of medical slash scientific discipline.
10:02
And some of the early work in sexology was really judgmental and aimed really at assisting the police.
10:09
But other sexologists were much more sympathetic to the people they described.
10:13
And in fact, several of them were gay men themselves.
10:18
So these works were being written and people were becoming aware of them.
14:40
Could you talk a little bit more about that and about how the impact has become more apparent over time and the ongoing impact now on understandings of lesbians and lesbianism? Yeah, so

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