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Lucy Bland

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Lucy Bland FRHistS is a British professor of social and cultural history at Anglia Ruskin University.[1][2] Much of her work focuses on the history of British sexuality, feminism, gender relations and race relations between the 1880s to 1980s.[3] Her book 'Britain's "Brown Babies"' won the Social History Society prize for best book of social and cultural history for 2019. Her research is now online as a digital exhibition: www.mixedmuseum.org.uk/brown-babies. The exhibition won the 2021 Museums Association's best 'Digital Engagement Award'.

Selected publications

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  • Britain's 'Brown Babies': the Stories of Children born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2019
  • Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2013.
  • "Hunnish Scenes' and a 'Virgin Birth': a 1920s Divorce Case of Sexual and Bodily Ignorance", History Workshop Journal, 2012.
  • "The Trials and Tribulations of Edith Thompson: The Capital Crime of Sexual Incitement in 1920s England", Journal of British Studies, 43(3), 2008.
  • "British Eugenics and 'Race Crossing': a Study of an Interwar Investigation", New Formations, 60 (2007).
  • "White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War", Gender & History, 17(1), 2005.
  • Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires. Polity Press, Cambridge; University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998. (With L. Doan)
  • Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science. Polity Press, Cambridge; University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998. (With L. Doan)
  • Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Morality, 1885–1914. Penguin, London.

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Lucy Bland - Anglia Ruskin University". aru.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 September 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Dr Lucy Bland". blackbritishhistory.co.uk. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Professor Lucy Bland - Anglia Ruskin University". aru.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
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www.mixedmusuem.org.uk/brown-babies