Professor Lucy Delap

Lucy Delap is a Professor in Modern British and Gender history at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Murray Edwards College.  She has published widely on the history of feminism, gender, labour and religion, including the prize-winning The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the early twentieth century in 2007, and Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain in 2011. She recently publishedFeminisms: a global history (Penguin and Chicago University Press, 2020), and has collaborated with a team on a Leverhulme-funded project, The Business of Women’s Words, on feminist publishing and enterprise in late twentieth century Britain. She is a senior associate of History & Policy, and with Prof Louise Jackson and Prof Adrian Bingham, won the Royal Historical Society Public History (Public Debate and Policy) Prize in 2018 for their work on the history of child sexual abuse. She is currently writing a book on the working lives of disabled people in modern Britain.