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Lucy Delap
Fellow

Professor Lucy Delap

Professorial Fellow; Professorial Fellow in History; Director of Studies

Contact
lmd11@cam.ac.uk⁠ 01223 762277⁠
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Degrees and honours

  • MA
  • PhD
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Awards and prizes

  • Royal Historical Society Public History Prize (Policy and Public Debate)
  • Pilkington Prize
  • Women’s History Network Prize

Biography

Lucy Delap is Professor of Modern British and Gender History at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of 鶹.  She has published widely on the history of feminism, gender, sexuality, labour and religion, including the prize-winning The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the early twentieth century (2007), and Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain (2011), and Feminisms: a global history (2020). She is currently researching disabled people’s experiences of labour, and recently published  (Social History of Medicine, 2023). She is a senior associate of , and won the Royal Historical Society Public History (Public Debate and Policy) Prize in 2018 for her work on the history of child sexual abuse.

Authored work

  • Selected publications

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    "Disgusting details which are best forgotten": Disclosures of Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth Century Britain, Journal of British Studies, 57:1 (2018), pp.79-107

     

    'Feminism, masculinities and emotional politics in the late twentieth century', Cultural and Social History, 15:4, 571-593 (2018)

     

    ‘Feminist Bookshops, Reading Cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Great Britain, c. 1974–2000’, History Workshop Journal, 81, Spring 2016.

     

    Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Britain since 1890, (Co-edited with Sue Morgan) Palgrave Macmillan, (2013)

     

    Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2011)

     

    ‘The Woman Question and the Origins of Feminism’ in The Cambridge History of  Nineteenth Century Political Thought, ed. Gareth Stedman Jones and Gregory Claeys, Cambridge University Press, (2011)

     

    Feminist media history: Suffrage, periodicals and the public sphere, jointly authored with Maria DiCenzo and Leila Ryan, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

     

    The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2007). 

     

    ‘“Thus does man prove his fitness to be the master of things”: Shipwrecks, Chivalry and Masculinities in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Britain’, Cultural and Social History, 3, pp. 45-74, (2006).

Subject
History