Lucy Delap
@lucydelap.bsky.social
Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Great to be at the launch of Desi Queers, new intersectional oral history collection, with legendary founders of queer antiracist organisations Naz & Shakti
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Great to be at the launch of Desi Queers, new intersectional oral history collection, with legendary founders of queer antiracist organisations Naz & Shakti
I'll be asking why photography was so important to disabled people, what it meant to control their own images, and have access to their own spaces.
October 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I'll be asking why photography was so important to disabled people, what it meant to control their own images, and have access to their own spaces.
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
September 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
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
September 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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
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.
August 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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.
In its day, the largest organ in Sweden. Built 1728 in Lövstabruk, it still has its original 1500 pipes.
August 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In its day, the largest organ in Sweden. Built 1728 in Lövstabruk, it still has its original 1500 pipes.
...and pastel phones in the command room used to coordinate South Vietnam's military operations until its defeat 1975.
July 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
...and pastel phones in the command room used to coordinate South Vietnam's military operations until its defeat 1975.
You'd love these bunkers under Vietnam's Independence Palace for office heritage.
July 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
You'd love these bunkers under Vietnam's Independence Palace for office heritage.
Interesting positioning of three waves of decolonisation alongside feminist waves by Minna Salami, and countering the ruthless grandiosity of Whiteness.
May 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Interesting positioning of three waves of decolonisation alongside feminist waves by Minna Salami, and countering the ruthless grandiosity of Whiteness.
UK friends - pleased to see my energy breakdown from Octopus has no coal/gas derived energy at all. 85% renewables. And its got good customer service staffed by humans. Can recommend them as a great ethical choice. octopus.energy
March 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
UK friends - pleased to see my energy breakdown from Octopus has no coal/gas derived energy at all. 85% renewables. And its got good customer service staffed by humans. Can recommend them as a great ethical choice. octopus.energy
Another story of feminist memorial erasure & salvage. The bronze statue of Maria Deraismes, founder of L'Association pour le Droit des Femmes in 1870, was melted down in 1942 on Vichy/German occupier orders, & used for weapons. It was recast in 1983 from the surviving plaster cast & re-erected.
March 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Another story of feminist memorial erasure & salvage. The bronze statue of Maria Deraismes, founder of L'Association pour le Droit des Femmes in 1870, was melted down in 1942 on Vichy/German occupier orders, & used for weapons. It was recast in 1983 from the surviving plaster cast & re-erected.
Data from Anne Summers new report on how #DomesticViolence, incl. stalking & financial coercion, leads to heavy penalties for women in terms of losing jobs, staying out of work & falling out of education
February 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Data from Anne Summers new report on how #DomesticViolence, incl. stalking & financial coercion, leads to heavy penalties for women in terms of losing jobs, staying out of work & falling out of education
I'm realising I've had a decade-long research digression, through trying to bring myself to work away from paper and pen. It seems convenient, but ebooks and laptop notes scatter my attention. With pen in hand, I can just systematically read and reflect. My brain needs this!
February 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I'm realising I've had a decade-long research digression, through trying to bring myself to work away from paper and pen. It seems convenient, but ebooks and laptop notes scatter my attention. With pen in hand, I can just systematically read and reflect. My brain needs this!
The extra cost of her recall on fabricated grounds will be around £20,000 paid by UK taxpayers. But for now, please celebrate with her.
February 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The extra cost of her recall on fabricated grounds will be around £20,000 paid by UK taxpayers. But for now, please celebrate with her.
Australia day 2025
January 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Australia day 2025
Secretarial resistance, 1950s: ‘when our tea breaks were cut by 2 minutes, everybody took a pound note to the tea trolley, so the tea was priced as sixpence, so by the time the poor tea lady had found change for everyone, the 2 minutes had actually been taken up, that was just a little protest.’
January 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Secretarial resistance, 1950s: ‘when our tea breaks were cut by 2 minutes, everybody took a pound note to the tea trolley, so the tea was priced as sixpence, so by the time the poor tea lady had found change for everyone, the 2 minutes had actually been taken up, that was just a little protest.’
She could be out tomorrow if anyone at the Ministry of Justice made that choice. Imprisonment of peaceful protesters is not an abstract process, but a political choice
January 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
She could be out tomorrow if anyone at the Ministry of Justice made that choice. Imprisonment of peaceful protesters is not an abstract process, but a political choice
Fibro is fibrous concrete sheeting, which used to be reinforced with asbestos. Now with cellulose. Lots of 'fibro-belt' public housing in Australia, and beach shacks
greenmagazine.com.au/article/shac...
greenmagazine.com.au/article/shac...
January 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Fibro is fibrous concrete sheeting, which used to be reinforced with asbestos. Now with cellulose. Lots of 'fibro-belt' public housing in Australia, and beach shacks
greenmagazine.com.au/article/shac...
greenmagazine.com.au/article/shac...
These reside in an asbestos Australian fibro-hut. Hazards throughout, but much charm
January 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
These reside in an asbestos Australian fibro-hut. Hazards throughout, but much charm
Plus some that are finding new uses... or just a bit lethal and now only to be admired
January 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Plus some that are finding new uses... or just a bit lethal and now only to be admired
I brought in 2025 with some kitchen gadgets that are three quarters of a century old, and still working fine. Preobsolescence nostalgia might be my project of the year
January 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I brought in 2025 with some kitchen gadgets that are three quarters of a century old, and still working fine. Preobsolescence nostalgia might be my project of the year
Do renamed government departments today still carry on using old letterhead, as they did in the 1970s? I'm enjoying the palimpsest effect here, and wondering whether UK civil servants enjoyed just crossing out 'productivity' when it was ditched in 1970...
December 9, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Do renamed government departments today still carry on using old letterhead, as they did in the 1970s? I'm enjoying the palimpsest effect here, and wondering whether UK civil servants enjoyed just crossing out 'productivity' when it was ditched in 1970...
Happily married for decades, Potter also invented his own car adaptation so that he could drive using chest pressure and his hands. He became #DúnLaoghaire Chamber of Commerce president in 1953; they described him as 'a small man physically, but in many ways a giant.'
December 3, 2024 at 5:51 AM
Happily married for decades, Potter also invented his own car adaptation so that he could drive using chest pressure and his hands. He became #DúnLaoghaire Chamber of Commerce president in 1953; they described him as 'a small man physically, but in many ways a giant.'