Lucy Delap
Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
- Reposted by Lucy DelapWe're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
- In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day? #lgbtqhistory
- When working on historical child sexual abuse, our research team often found local press to be the only archival trace of past allegations & convictions
- 100th issue and 50th anniversary of History Workshop Journal. A democratising powerhouse. #HWJ
- Reposted by Lucy DelapNEW 🙌 'A Companion to Rome c. 400-c. 1050' edited by Caroline Goodson and Julia Hillner. A new urban history of late antique and early medieval Rome - the result of over seven years' scholarship by 32 contributors from across Europe and America. 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
- Great job opportunity here for researcher on HLF project ‘Global Ecology Not Global Economy: Archives of Environmental Resistance’, at the wonderul May Day Rooms maydayrooms.org/we-are-hirin...
- Reposted by Lucy DelapSUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Lucy Delap (@lucydelap.bsky.social) analyses the history of the Labour Party's approach to disability in the context of the government's failed welfare cuts
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- So pleased to be part of this, reflecting on the fraught place of disability in Labour's history, distant and recent
- NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4 Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
- Great cross Faculty session on classroom innovation today @camhistory.bsky.social including role play, field trips, archives work, object handling. Fun to be off leash and imagining anything is possible
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- Reposted by Lucy DelapHere, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans. I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
- Low key, but definitely Christmas at the UL @theul.bsky.social
- Reposted by Lucy DelapIf you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵
- 📣 (or 🔔?!) #Skystorians of York & North-East England! Can we tempt you to a free, informal afternoon of #ECR community, support & networking? Join the @historylabplus.bsky.social committee for our 'CHRISTMAS CONNECTIONS@YORK' event on 17 December from 12:00 at York Art Gallery cafe! 👇 for more info
- A pleasure and an honour to be invited to talk about global feminisms at @pku1898.bsky.social History Department. I greatly appreciate the specially-designed poster, featuring Nüshu characters, a woman-created script that gave them private cultural space even when outside of formal education systems
- As a review is announced into who counts as disabled, I offer some reflections on disability and UK employment policies over the twentieth century historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
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- Wes Streeting accuses welfare state disabilty benefits of 'trapping people, not just in poverty, but out of work.' But where is the recognition that disability benefits are often what makes it possible for people with higher living and transport costs to work? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability available at @archivum.org Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist archivum.org/news/executi...
- Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.
- 📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre. 🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
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- Reposted by Lucy DelapSeeking reading material? For UK Disability History Month 2025 (20 November to 20 December), staff at LSE recommend eight powerful books about disability and neurodiversity and books sharing the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Lucy DelapOn behalf of the family, can I extend our thanks to the Faculty, Trustees and Board of @camhistory.bsky.social @lucydelap.bsky.social at the announcement of the Permanent " Childers Chair " of Irish History. My grandfather was incredibly proud to be an alumnus www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
- If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
- Great to be at the launch of Desi Queers, new intersectional oral history collection, with legendary founders of queer antiracist organisations Naz & Shakti
- Reposted by Lucy DelapThis week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
- Reposted by Lucy DelapWe are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026! Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies. For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk
- If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture. www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
- Reposted by Lucy DelapWe're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
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- Reposted by Lucy DelapPhD student Kirstie Stage spent five months at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History thanks to a @ukri.org Fellowship. Researching histories of Deaf & disabled people between the UK & US, she conducted archival work, presented at conferences & learnt American Sign Language (ASL). ⬇️⬇️
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- Two days of tributes to @petermandler.bsky.social as he moves on from @camhistory.bsky.social to new vistas. We could scarcely cover all his interests, mentorship and provocations if we had two years
- A dream team of colleagues with which to spend yesterday discussing labour history, disability and the shape of the twentieth century. My book draft will be SO much better for their input. A huge thanks to all
- Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
- Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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- If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
- Recording a podcast today with Angela de Souza (Women's Business Club) & @somsproject.bsky.social on disabled women's working lives. I'll be talking about how 'work' spanned paid and unpaid, informal and formal, & included radical commitments to rest & recovery we could learn a lot from today.
- In its day, the largest organ in Sweden. Built 1728 in Lövstabruk, it still has its original 1500 pipes.
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- Domestic servant, au pair, char, cleaner, treasure.... Historical change, but similar dynamics of outsourcing dirty work. Good to discuss this with Ros Taylor morejamtomorrow.com/episode/serv...
- Does your toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, dish washer products have dangerous PFA levels? Check here. If governments won't ban them, we can at least stop buying these toxic items. www.ewg.org/skindeep/
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- If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
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- Trump's assault on Harvard has a more polite forebear, in the quiet pressure brought on elite UK institutions to limit Indian student numbers during early twentieth century anti-colonial agitation. Most Cambridge colleges agreed to Lord Morley's request to restrict Indian applicants in 1909
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- Reposted by Lucy DelapOur next @ihr.bsky.social @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social is on Weds 28 May, 5.30pm (in person only) with brilliant @racheljcollett.bsky.social on grassroots feminisms, resistance & transnational solidarities. Don't miss it, sign up today 👇. #womensgrassrootsactivism @womenshistnet.bsky.social
- Interesting positioning of three waves of decolonisation alongside feminist waves by Minna Salami, and countering the ruthless grandiosity of Whiteness.
- Reposted by Lucy DelapOur understanding of Braille is often shaped by narratives from Western Europe and the United States. In this new article Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the global significance of inventing Japanese Braille.
- Excited to be talking today @ Uni of NSW abt why disability isn't always useful as a category of analysis - a chance to look at alternatives (braves, poor things, handicapped, cripples, shut ins, crooked stalks) across the C20 that do important work in showing how impairment was socially experienced
- If you can't make it to the polling station on 1 May, there is still a day left to apply for a proxy vote! It's dead easy. Don't let anything interfere with your precious right to vote. www.gov.uk/apply-proxy-...
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- In previous periods of tariff wars, some countries turned to barter as an alternative. India for ex. had barter agreements with Egypt, China, the USSR and Argentina in the late 1940s, for weapons, grain, cotton.... Some arrangements lasted for decades. Any good histories of this out there?
- Reposted by Lucy DelapI have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
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- Why does my dictation software insist on 'Gnu Labour' every time? Is there ideological content to this?
- Reposted by Lucy Delap‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex
- Two three year postdocs advertised at @camhistory.bsky.social, to work with the brilliant Niamh Gallagher on her UKRI project, Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire. Not just looking for historians btw... www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/
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- UK friends - pleased to see my energy breakdown from Octopus has no coal/gas derived energy at all. 85% renewables. And its got good customer service staffed by humans. Can recommend them as a great ethical choice. octopus.energy
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- Another story of feminist memorial erasure & salvage. The bronze statue of Maria Deraismes, founder of L'Association pour le Droit des Femmes in 1870, was melted down in 1942 on Vichy/German occupier orders, & used for weapons. It was recast in 1983 from the surviving plaster cast & re-erected.
- Serious risks here for anyone travelling to the US, especially given the Kafkaesque bureaucratic limbo of immigration detention. Academic conferences might want to consider other locations. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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