Monographs
Bull, Sarah. Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. [open access link]
Edited Volumes
Bull, Sarah. Pornography and Science. Vol. II of a four-volume series, Nineteenth- Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials. In Press at Routledge.
Edited Journal Issues
Bull, Sarah and Agata Ignaciuk. Sex, Science, and Censorship. Special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 33, no. 1, 2024. [link]
Journal Articles
Bull, Sarah. “What Periodical Advertising Data Tells Us About the Victorian Pornography Trade.” Under Review.
Bull, Sarah. “Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Book History vol. 26, no. 2, 2023, pp. 324-361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.a910951 [open access link]
Bull, Sarah. “More than a Case of Mistaken Identity: Adult Entertainment and the Making of Early Sexology.” History of the Human Sciences vol. 34, no. 1, 2021, pp. 10-39. DOI: 10.1177/0952695120903954 [link]
Bull, Sarah. “Managing the ‘Obscene M.D.’: Medical Publishing, the Medical Profession, and the Changing Definition of Obscenity in Mid-Victorian England.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine vol. 91, no. 4, 2017, pp. 713-743. DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2017.0079 [open access link]
Bull, Sarah. “Reading, Writing, and Publishing an Obscene Canon: The Archival Logic of the Secret Museum, c. 1860 — c. 1900.” Book History vol 20, 2017, pp. 226-257. DOI: 10.1353/bh.2017.0007 [open access link]
Colligan, Colette, Michael Joyce, Sarah Bull and Cecile Loyen. “Humanities Research Software Design: The Wilde Trials Web App.” Scholarly Research and Communication vol. 7, no. 2, 2016, 15pp. DOI: 10.22230/src.2016v7n2/3a256 [open access link]
Bull, Sarah. “Digital Archives and the History of Pornography.” Porn Studies vol. 1, no. 4, 2014, pp. 402-405. DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2014.947753 [link]
Bull, Sarah. “A Purveyor of Garbage? Charles Carrington and the Marketing of Sexual Science in Late-Victorian Britain.” Victorian Review vol. 38, no. 1, 2012, pp. 55-76. DOI: 10.1353/ vcr.2012. 0028. [link] Winner of the Victorian Review Surridge Prize.
Peer Reviewed Reference Articles
Bull, Sarah. “Sexual Knowledge in Print Culture.” Victorian Web. Published August 15, 2022. [link]
Bull, Sarah. “1001 Nights/Arabian Nights.” Global Encyclopaedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, ed. Howard Chiang. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2018. [link]
Digital Projects
Bull, Sarah. Advertising Pornography, 1822-1870. A pair of datasets derived from advertising material associated with the nineteenth-century pornography trade. Accepted for publication in Nineteenth Century Data Collective pending minor revisions.
Bull, Sarah and Dan Williams. “Text-Duplicates: Copying in 19th Century Sexual Health Books.” Historical text comparison program and online demonstration. Created for Wellcome Data Week, 2016 This was archived at <ghp.wellcomecollection.org/text-duplicates/> but the link no longer works — it likely doesn't exist anymore, unfortunately.