Monday, April 27th, 2009

In Armour Complete -- or not Ian Kelly, author of biographies of Casanova and Beau Brummell, speaking at the Royal College of Surgeons, 23.4.09

Kelly: "I'm here to do down Starkey's current theory that we're undergoing a feminisation of history." He's thoroughly researched both his subjects, from asylum records to the Venetian Inquisition to the original MS of Casanova's memoirs, and he conveyed that sense of the thrill of discovery.

cut for mildly NSFW sex and contraception stuff, also nuns )

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