Lucy Bland is a British professor of social and cultural history at

Anglia Ruskin University Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by William John Beamont in 1858. It became a university in 1992, and was renamed after John Ruskin in ...

. Much of her work focuses on the history of British sexuality, feminism, gender relations and race relations between the 1880s to 1980s. 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 The publication of thNorth American Conference on British Studies ''The Journal of British Studies'' is an academic journal aimed at scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages through the present. The journal was co-founded in 1961 by Geor ...

'', 43(3), 2008. * "British Eugenics and 'Race Crossing': a Study of an Interwar Investigation", ''

New Formations ''New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory & Politics'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal which covers the uses of cultural theory for the analysis of political and social issues. It is published by Lawrence and Wishart and the edi ...

'', 60 (2007). * "White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War", ''

Gender & History ''Gender & History'' is an international academic journal. It is an important academic journal for articles relating to the history of femininity, masculinity, and gender relations. The current editors are Rosemary Elliot, Maud Bracke, James Simps ...

'', 17(1), 2005. * ''Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires.'' Polity Press, Cambridge;

University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', ...

, 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.

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* www.mixedmusuem.org.uk/brown-babies Living people Academics of Anglia Ruskin University British women historians Alumni of the University of Birmingham Alumni of the University of Manchester British feminist writers Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Year of birth missing (living people) {{England-historian-stub