Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Was this ground for divorce ever invoked, 1923-1970?
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I have long considered the intricacies of English divorce law one of my topics of niche pedantry, and will happily, though perhaps not for m...
Friday 8 March 2024
IWD: A Centenary to Celebrate in 2024, and an anniversary
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There have been various mentions that this year is the centenary of the first - if short-lived - Labour Government in the UK. Its coming to ...
Monday 22 January 2024
A welcome return to Victorian values
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I.e. those Victorian values embodied in Alfred Swaine Taylor's 1879 Manual of Medical Jurisprudence in his discussion of the question o...
Wednesday 27 December 2023
Archivists are voices in the wilderness?
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Like (I think) every archivist, historian, and genealogist who encountered this proposition, I was horrified by the weaselly-entitled press...
Monday 18 September 2023
Transnational abortion in times of illegality
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I was delighted to see that Mexico recently decriminalised abortion, but I also went, wait, haven't I read novels, and maybe memoirs, fr...
Friday 1 September 2023
Colin Spencer (1933-2023): bisexual novelist of the 60s
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Today I saw the Guardian obituary for Colin Spencer , treating him primarily as a food writer, which he became in the later part of his care...
Monday 28 August 2023
Forgotten vs somewhat neglected novelists
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I was recently brought up short during a re-read of Dorothy Sayers' The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club , when Wimsey scans Ann Dorla...
Thursday 1 June 2023
I suppose these days one would call this being cancelled
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Have been reminded by the currently notorious case of the chemical weapons expert who was disinvited from speaking on his sphere of expertis...
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Pretending medical conditions for journalistic clout
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I have lately been seeing a lot of understandable pushback concerning the BBC Panorama documentary involving a journalist going undercover t...
Saturday 29 April 2023
Some minor updating as to what I've been up to
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My chapter, ' The Afterlives of Victorian Scandals: The Memorable, the Neglected, the Factitious', appeared in Brenda Ayres, Sarah...
Wednesday 8 March 2023
International Women's Day 1923: will this centenary be celebrated?
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The Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 I am not sure whether this is generally considered a major leap forward in the advancement of women in Engla...
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