Julie Peakman

Dr. Julie Peakman is a well-known for her work as a historian in eighteenth-century culture, sexuality (all eras) and pornography. She is Honorary Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a frequent contributor to journals, magazines and television documentaries for BBC, Channel 4 and the Biography Channel. Her first book Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave 2003) was met with acclaim, her second book Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century (Atlantic Books, 2004) was a more light-hearted romp through the eighteenth-century sexual underworld. Her last book was The Pleasure’s All Mine. A History of Perverse Sex (Reaktion, 2013).