Lucy Delap

@LDelap
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Historian of feminisms, modern Britain, labour and disability. I teach at the University of Cambridge and Murray Edwards College
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
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
It may be chilly, but spring has sprung at Murray Edwards.
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
My new old friend, the #feminist #killjoy. Thanks to Sara Ahmed for the brilliant collection of feminist wisdoms
I always love teaching with this 1924 letter-writing manual. This year I've been particularly gripped by the saga of poor Margaret and Philip's on-off engagement @histodons

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The first #NowandMen episode of 2023 is out now! We talk to the fab Prof Lucy Delap @[email protected] about her fascinating research on the global history of feminism, how men have engaged with it in the UK & beyond, & the impact it has had on their intimate lives: https://now-and-men.captivate.fm/episode/lucy-delap/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/the_daily_panda/status/1615653981061251072

Prof Lucy Delap - Exploring the History of Feminism and Men’s Engagement with It - Now and Men

What can a historical perspective teach us about gender relations, feminism, and men's personal and political engagement with it, in the UK and beyond?

#Spanish civil war memorial, in Manchester city library. Carved in 1983 by #communist sculptor Sol Garson, commemorating 2300+ British and Irish members of the International Brigades

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Exploring - for the 1st time - histories of disability across @[email protected] sites, #EverywhereAndNowhere launches on Monday. We can’t wait to share this beautiful film, the outcome of a Strategic Partnership between @[email protected] & the Trust, supported by @[email protected] @[email protected]

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RSMuseumStudies/status/1614307542070427648

Richard Sandell on Twitter

“Exploring - for the 1st time - histories of disability across @nationaltrust sites, #EverywhereAndNowhere launches on Monday. We can’t wait to share this beautiful film, the outcome of a Strategic Partnership between @uniofleicester & the Trust, supported by @ESRC @wellcometrust”

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Late Victorian #blind students at the Royal Normal College experiment with seriously fun-looking 12 person #bicycle

#DisHist #disability