Research Description: My research over the years has encompassed the entire span of Black British history up until the 20th century.Recently my focus has been on European attitudes to the people of Africa and Asia during the Middle Ages.
Research Keywords: Black experience; Medieval Travellers.
Countries and Regions of Interest: Great Britain; Africa; Asia.
Publications:
Black People in Britain 1650-1850 (Macmillan Education, 1984)
‘Medieval Travellers: Perceptions and Prejudices’ in BASA Newsletter (July 2012).
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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