Lucy Bland Explained

Lucy Bland 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

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.

External links

Web site: Dr Lucy Bland & the children of Black Americans – 8th East podcast 8th in the East. 8theast.org. 28 May 2014 . 2017-09-07.

www.mixedmusuem.org.uk/brown-babies

Notes and References

Web site: Professor Lucy Bland - Anglia Ruskin University . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170908020814/http://www.anglia.ac.uk/arts-law-and-social-sciences/department-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/staff/lucy-bland . 8 September 2017 . 2017-09-07 . aru.ac.uk.
Web site: Dr Lucy Bland. blackbritishhistory.co.uk. 23 June 2015 . 2017-09-07.
Web site: Professor Lucy Bland - Anglia Ruskin University. aru.ac.uk. 2022-05-30.