Lucy Bland
Professor
Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences
Anglia Ruskin University
United Kingdom
Biography
Before joining Anglia Ruskin, Lucy was Reader in History at London Metropolitan University, where she ran an MA in Women’s History. Lucy's research has concentrated on the history of gender, sexuality and feminism in Britain, 1880s-1980s. Her new projects are an investigation of mixed race offspring of black GIs and British women born in World War 2, and a social and cultural history of transracial adoption in Britain since the Second World War.
Research Interest
Mixed race offspring of black American soldiers and British women born in World War II, Transracial adoption in Britain, History of British feminism
Publications
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Reconsidering Women’s History: Twenty Years of the Women’s History Network Taylor & Francis, 2015 (co-edited with Katharina Rowold)
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Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper, Manchester University Press, 2013
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Labour, British Radicalism and the First World War Manchester University Press, forthcoming: February 2018 (co-edited with Richard Carr)
