TITLE: Lady Cecil Craig and the reclamation of history
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Professor Diane Urquhart is a gender historian with a special interest in modern Ireland and Britain.
She specialises in political and legal history particularly women’s first entry into politics from the late nineteenth century onwards, Anglo-Irish political patronage and Ireland’s history of abortion and divorce. Irish divorce: a history, the first full-length history of Irish divorce which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020, won the international ACIS J.S. Donnelly, Sr Prize for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in 2021. The Irish abortion journey, 1920-2018, co-authored with Lindsey Earner-Byrne, was published in the Pivot Series by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.
Much of Professor Urquhart’s work engages with and impacts contemporary debates regarding women’s legal and reproductive rights.
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