Research Description: I work primarily on black British writing, c.1770-1830. Black people writing during this period are often understood to have been primarily or exclusively interested in questions surrounding slavery and ethnicity. I think this tends to homogenise readings of a hugely diverse body of work. In reality, authors like Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, Boston King, John Jea, Robert Wedderburn and Mary Prince were involved in, and wrote about, almost every aspect of British social, political and cultural life. Through investigating the social, professional and confessional networks in which these authors were key actors, we can recognise the diversity and scope of early black British writing. I am currently writing a monograph on this subject.
Research Keywords: Black history; writing; literature; poetry; autobiography; biography; life writing; radicalism; religion; methodism; calvinism; britain; british; eighteenth century; nineteenth century.
Countries and Regions of Interest: Britain; Caribbean; North America.
Publications:
As Editor:
Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica Moody (eds.), Little Britain’s Memory of Slavery: Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin’ (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press 2016) [Forthcoming].
As Author:
‘“There to sing the song of Moses”: John Jea in Liverpool and Portsmouth’, in Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica Moody (eds.), Britain’s Memory of Slavery: Local Nuances of a ‘National Sin’ (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016) [Forthcoming, 2016].
‘Calvinism, Proslavery and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw’, Slavery & Abolition, 36:2 (2015).
‘The Royal Slave: Nobility, Diplomacy and the “African Prince” in Britain, 1748-1752’, Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction [Forthcoming, 2015].
Research Description: WWI: Empire Untold. The Great War from the perspective of people of colour.
Research Keywords: WWI; Ruhleben Camp; British West Indies Regiment; Norman Manley; the Merchants’ and Planters’ Contingent; SS Mendi; Colonialism, Colour and Class.
Countries and Regions of Interest: Sierra Leone; Jamaica; England; Germany; Trinidad; Africa; the Caribbean; Europe.
Affiliation: Reader in History, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Location: Cambridge
Contact: lucy.bland@anglia.ac.uk
Research Description: I have two current research projects: ‘The Mixed Race Offspring of Black GIs and British Women Born during the Second World War’ and ‘A Social and Cultural history of trans-racial adoption in Britain from the 2nd World War’.
Research Keywords: Children of black GIs in World War II; Transracial adoption.
Countries and Regions of Interest: Britain.
Publications:
Authored Books:
Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper, Manchester University Press, Sept 2013
Co-authored Women Take Issue 2nd edition, Routledge, 2007; 1st edition 1978
Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex andMorality (2nd edition) IB Tauris 2002
Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires Polity Press, Cambridge, 1998; University of Chicago, 1998 (with Laura Doan)
Sexology Uncensored: the Documents of Sexual Science Polity Press, Cambridge, 1998; University of Chicago, 1998 (with Laura Doan)
Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Morality, 1885-1914 Penguin 1995 (also published as Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists The New Press, New York, 1995)
Selected Articles:
(with Lesley Hall) ‘’Eugenics in Britain: the View from the Metropole’, in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics Bashford and P. Levine (eds) Oxford University Press, New York, 2010
‘British Eugenics and “Race Crossing”: a Study of an Interwar Investigation’, in Special Issue on ‘Eugenics Old and New’, New Formations 60, 2007
‘White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War’, in Gender & History vol.17, issue 1, 2005
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