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Lucy Delap
@lucydelap.bsky.social
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Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 2d
PhD student Kirstie Stage spent five months at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History thanks to a @ukri.org Fellowship.

Researching histories of Deaf & disabled people between the UK & US, she conducted archival work, presented at conferences & learnt American Sign Language (ASL). ⬇️⬇️
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 5d
This is Trevor Fisher, speaking to @channel4news.bsky.social from Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridgeshire this week.

As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me.

His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧵
photo of a man, Trevor fisher, in his hospice bed this week, filmed by channel 4 news
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 12d
Two days of tributes to @petermandler.bsky.social as he moves on from @camhistory.bsky.social to new vistas. We could scarcely cover all his interests, mentorship and provocations if we had two years
Two panelists view a PowerPoint slide in a lecture theatre
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 13d
A dream team of colleagues with which to spend yesterday discussing labour history, disability and the shape of the twentieth century. My book draft will be SO much better for their input. A huge thanks to all
a group of people sitting on stone steps in autumn sunshine
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 20d
Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Sep 9
Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Aug 27
The best news! Congratulations Sadiah
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Aug 27
The sign up link for our roundtable 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View', ft. @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social, @norenashopland.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, and Prof Lisa Weston, is now LIVE. Please visit our website to register: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Aug 26
If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities
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The Women’s History Network Annual Conference
Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections Reg…
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Aug 20
Recording a podcast today with Angela de Souza (Women's Business Club) & @somsproject.bsky.social on disabled women's working lives. I'll be talking about how 'work' spanned paid and unpaid, informal and formal, & included radical commitments to rest & recovery we could learn a lot from today.
A portrait of Martha Lane-Fox a white middle aged woman with swept back hair, wearing a glamorous, off the shoulder dark red wrap dress. Lane-Fox was a wheelchair user whose working life was described in her autobiography and featured both success and harassment
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Aug 4
Makes me wonder what treasures might have survived if the rest of Europe had escaped the damage of twentieth century wars...

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Aug 4
In its day, the largest organ in Sweden. Built 1728 in Lövstabruk, it still has its original 1500 pipes.
Large north German organ, 1500 pipes, in white painted sunny church
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · Mar 19
The Suffrage Oak on Kelvin Way in Glasgow. This tree was planted in 1918 by Louisa Lumsden on behalf of a number of organisations which campaigned for the right for women to be able to vote.
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Jul 20
Can we have a chat about what causes the disruption in Canada & Australia, not ruled by Trump?

That volatility of hypermarketised & underfunded HE is also happening here, and the government may want to think about the need to stabilise in order to remain attractive. www.ft.com/content/c074...
“Despite global uncertainty, the UK is increasingly viewed as the most reliable option compared to the disruption seen in the US, Canada and Australia,” he added.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 12
"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

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Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Jul 4
Domestic servant, au pair, char, cleaner, treasure.... Historical change, but similar dynamics of outsourcing dirty work. Good to discuss this with Ros Taylor
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Servants
“No matter how hard you work or how capable you are, you can't do it all yourself. You have to seek reliable help.” Those were Margaret Thatcher’s words in...
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Jul 2
...and pastel phones in the command room used to coordinate South Vietnam's military operations until its defeat 1975.
Seven rotary dial phones in colours from black to light pink, close to a world map.
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Jul 2
You'd love these bunkers under Vietnam's Independence Palace for office heritage.
A bank of grey telex machines in an underground room, with grey office chairs and brown walls.
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Jul 2
Does your toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, dish washer products have dangerous PFA levels? Check here. If governments won't ban them, we can at least stop buying these toxic items.
www.ewg.org/skindeep/
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Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social · Jun 21
Would more people get to enjoying active travel and time outdoors if they had better route information?

Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths?

We've got a plan. Please look and share!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌
Calling everybody who walks, runs or rides!
Now’s the time - back our project to develop the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Jun 18
Congratulations Holly!! Fantastic achievement and super innovative work
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camaderrygirl.bsky.social @camaderrygirl.bsky.social · Jun 1
Moyne Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 Ireland - Madeline Ffrench-Mullen
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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · May 31
Please join us this Tuesday, 3 June, 5-7pm, for the book launch of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY, with Sir Richard J. Evans, Maxine Berg, Richard Drayton, Abigail Green, Jan Rüger, and me, at MAR.2.04, Marshall Building, LSE: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · May 28
“While States debate terminology – is it or is it not genocide? – Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · May 24
Teresa Segura-Garcia uncovers Downing College's refusal, as a key UK educator of Indian nationalist lawyers
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · May 24
Trump's assault on Harvard has a more polite forebear, in the quiet pressure brought on elite UK institutions to limit Indian student numbers during early twentieth century anti-colonial agitation. Most Cambridge colleges agreed to Lord Morley's request to restrict Indian applicants in 1909
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · May 21
Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World)
King's College London - History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...
Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) at King's College London
Apply for the Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now...
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · May 12
Beautiful, thoughtful, urgent writing that centres philosophy and cultural critique as key modes for African feminism
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · May 12
Interesting positioning of three waves of decolonisation alongside feminist waves by Minna Salami, and countering the ruthless grandiosity of Whiteness.
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · May 12
Our next @ihr.bsky.social @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social is on Weds 28 May, 5.30pm (in person only) with brilliant @racheljcollett.bsky.social on grassroots feminisms, resistance & transnational solidarities. Don't miss it, sign up today 👇. #womensgrassrootsactivism @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp (1982-3) and After: Local nuclear resistance, grassroots feminisms, and transnational solidarities
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