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Lucy Delap Sep 20, 2023

Am trying out [email protected] as a new pasture for critical historical commentary and professional community. Do join me there

Lucy Delap Sep 13, 2023

Off to Ghent today, to talk about #ecofeminisms in the #1980s; and how my assumptions about #green and #feminist activists being fellow travellers were undermined by routine, unchallenged sexual #violence in the mixed sex #peace camps
@histodons

Lucy Delap Aug 16, 2023

Really enjoyed the chance to discuss my research with BBC History Extra, on struggle and empowerment through labour for intellectually disabled people in the twentieth century - and why IQ is less signficant that you might think...

https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/learning-disabilities-history-podcast-lucy-delap/

Learning disabilities: an overlooked history

Lucy Delap explores the overlooked, often surprising, story of how people with learning disabilities found work in the first half of the 20th century

HistoryExtra

Lucy Delap Jul 25, 2023

I was ten when the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole came out, and I devoured it. BUT was profoundly confused about who I should identify with. Pandora? Bert? If you're also troubled by these questions, join me tonight at the Cam university library book club to revisit adolescence in the 1980s

https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/really-popular-book-club-secret-diary-adrian-mole-aged-13-34-sue-townsend

The Really Popular Book Club: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend | Cambridge University Library

The Really Popular Book Club is Cambridge University Libraries' book group. Everyone is welcome to come and discuss a really popular book with the group, library staff, and an expert on the novel. Hosted on Zoom, the book club is completely free and open to everyone, people attend from all over the world. The Really Popular Book Club celebrates the huge range of books at

Lucy Delap Jul 20, 2023

Why history can tell contemporary policy makers a great deal about inclusive workplaces for people with intellectual disabilities.
#disability #history @histodons

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/give-more-people-with-learning-disabilities-the-chance-to-work-cambridge-historian-argues

Give more people with learning disabilities the chance to work, Cambridge historian argues

Employment levels for people with learning disabilities in the UK are 5 to 10 times lower than they were a hundred years ago. And the experiences of workers

University of Cambridge

Lucy Delap Jul 19, 2023

After around 10 years of archival detective work, I couldn't be more excited to share my newly published article on the working lives of people with intellectual #disabilities in twentieth century Britain
#histodons
https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad043

Slow Workers: Labelling and Labouring in Britain, c. 1909–1955

Summary. This article surveys the experiences of historical actors labelled ‘mentally defective’ and ‘mentally handicapped’ in Britain in the first half of the

OUP Academic

Lucy Delap Apr 25, 2023

It may be chilly, but spring has sprung at Murray Edwards.

Lucy Delap Mar 8, 2023

Political blackness was a powerful tool in the late twentieth century, and still powerful today. But we've forgotten some other concepts that were deeply significant for historical actors - in this #IWD post I explore ideas of being a 'third world woman' in the 1980s #feminist debates about race and #racism. @histodons
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/feminism/third-world-feminisms-in-spare-rib-magazine/

‘Third World’ feminisms in Spare Rib magazine

Spare Rib was an iconic magazine of the British women's liberation movement. As Lucy Delap reveals, it was also an important site of debate over Black, post-colonial and 'Third World' feminisms.

History Workshop

Lucy Delap Mar 7, 2023

Why did ecofeminists describe their beliefs with such irony within the 1980s Green Movement? Looking forward to discussing tonight in my first attempt to give a paper about green feminisms

Lucy Delap Jan 26, 2023

My new old friend, the #feminist #killjoy. Thanks to Sara Ahmed for the brilliant collection of feminist wisdoms