Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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First published: July 1, 2026 - Last updated: July 1, 2026

TITLE INFORMATION

Authors: Victoria Hoyle and Alana Harris

Title: Archival Debts, High Stakes, and Intersubjectivities in Trauma-informed Approaches to Archives of Child Sexual Abuse

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Journal: Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association

Volume: (in press)

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Year: 2026

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pISSN: 2325-7989 - Find a Library: WorldCat | eISSN: 2325-7962 - Find a Library: WorldCat

Language: English

Keywords: Modern History: 20th Century, 21st Century | European History: English History | Types: Child Sexual Abuse



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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Authors:
- Alana Harris, Department of History, King's College London - Academia.edu, Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchGate

- Victoria Hoyle, Department of History, University of York - Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchGate

Abstract: »Historically, archives relating to child sexual abuse (CSA) have centred institutional and professional interests rather than the lived experiences and personal narratives of survivors, reinscribing processes by which they have been systematically disempowered, silenced, and harmed. In this article we explore alternative trauma-informed practices that centre CSA survivors and introduce our in-progress project to resource counter-archives. Case studies of the archives of the survivor-activist Rasjidah St. John (1929-2017) and of LOUDfence UK, a protest and healing movement for survivors of CSA in religious settings, are used to investigate survivor-centred approaches to archival creation, identification, and preservation. Both archives are constructed through collaboration - with family members; activists; archivists; and our University legal and ethics teams. We consider the affordances of these complex, often fraught relationships, drawing out questions of personal and scholarly obligations, as well as intersecting debts, duties and responsibilities, while remaining attentive to intersubjectivity and vulnerance. We argue that trauma-informed archival interventions have much to learn from methodological reflection within oral history praxis when addressing the multiple challenges of memory work that is characterised by complex and often unresolved trauma.« (Source: Archives and Records)

Contents:
  Introduction
  Child sexual abuse in the archive
  Methodology
  Case Study 1: Rasjidah St. John (1929-2017)
  Case Study 2: LOUDfence UK
  Archival Debts and High Stakes
  Intersubjectivities: Navigating Interpersonal Relationships
  Interpretative Authority, Consent, and Ownership
  Conclusion
  Notes
  Acknowledgements
  Disclosure statement
  Funding
  Note on contributors
  Bibliography

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