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
Research Description: Atlantic Slavery and its Legacy; Black British History’; Slavery and Memory; Black and Jewish Relations, Political representation and Atlantic slavery today.
Research Keywords: Black Presence; Slavery; Ethnic Relations
Countries and Regions of Interest: UK (mainly England), Caribbean, USA (esp Virginia), West Africa (the Gambia, Nigeria, Ghana)
Publications:
Slavery and the British Country House, co-edited with Andrew Hann (London: English Heritage 2013)
Ethnic Minorities and the City c. 1000-2001, with Peter Fleming (London: Phillimore Press with Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2007 [reprinted 2009]).
Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port c. 1698-c.1833 (London: Continuum Books, 2001). [Reprinted as The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port c. 1698-c.1833 (Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 2007).]
Black and White on the Buses: the campaign against the colour bar in Bristol (Bristol: Bristol Broadsides, 2007). [New edition by London: Bookmarks, 2013.]
Entries on ‘Black History in British Museums’, ‘Bristol’, and ‘Edward Colston’ in D Dabydeen and J Gilmore (eds.), Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford: OUP, 2007).
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