Jeremy Dauber

Nov 13, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Jeremy Dauber

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Nov 13, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | James Cahill |Jeremy Dauber |Libby Purves |Andrew Seaton

“London has always been famous for its many and beautiful parks”, announced a 1966 guidebook to the capital; “just what those parks are famous for is not necessarily limited to the flowerbeds and landscaping.” Outlining some of the popular haunts of gay men, from cinemas to Turkish baths to the public lavatories or “cottages” that served as assignation spots, the book was ahead of its time: homosexuality between consenting males in private was only decriminalized the following year.

Nov 13, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Andrew Seaton |James Cahill |Libby Purves |Jeremy Dauber

In 1911 Karl Pearson became the first chair of eugenics at University College London. Eugenics held that humanity could be “improved” by encouraging those with desirable mental and physical attributes to reproduce, or by preventing those with “inferior” attributes from doing so. Pearson used numbers to imbue both approaches with scientific authority.

Oct 10, 2024 | crimereads.com | Jeremy Dauber

At the Civil War’s end, under a quarter of Americans lived in cities; by the end of the Great War, the proportion was almost exactly half. All those people moving to the cities—both from rural America and from abroad— changed things. Size created anonymity, the possibility of losing yourself in the crowds, remaking yourself, if you so chose. . . . or getting lost, and not always by your choice.

Oct 3, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Jeremy Dauber

Want to see something uniquely terrifying? It’s simple. Just find the nearest mirror and take a deep look at the face staring back at you. No, this isn’t the beginning of a playground taunt. It’s more a cold, hard truth. You are the source of your own horror. “Show me what scares you, and I’ll show you your soul,” writes Jeremy Dauber in his excellent, authoritative, and fascinating panorama of the horror genre in the U.S., American Scary.