Did you know that women were involved in the peace process at Versailles? Or that you can co-author a book with someone who you've never met, long after their death? Or that one of England's first woman barristers wrote a feminist legal history book? All this and much more in this collection.

This book is really exciting and I'm so glad to also have received my hard copies today from Hart Publishing. There will be a launch event on 4 March 2026, 5pm, at Queens' College Cambridge. I'll be sharing details soon!

This is now out as Lorren Eldridge, 'Section 53(1)(b) and the Rest is History' [2025] Conv 363 - full text on Westlaw.

This is now out as Lorren Eldridge, 'Section 53(1)(b) and the Rest is History' [2025] Conv 363 - full text on Westlaw.

📚 It's that regular call for persons interested in writing for the Conveyancer Book Reviews section 📚 This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts. Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).

📚 It's that regular call for persons interested in writing for the Conveyancer Book Reviews section 📚 This time, particularly reviewers interested in construction; and trusts. Reviews for Conv are short, and we publish 4 times a with fairly flexible deadlines (within reason).

Proofs proofs proofs proofs! Produced at high speed to get in there between the Court of Appeal judgment and the UKSC hearing in NIOC v Crescent Gas, my article on the drafting history of s53(1)(b) of the LPA 1925 will be out in the Conveyancer shortly.

Pleased to have the hard copy of 'Epidemics and the Law from Plague to Present' - I'm "plague"! My first publication on contract law, and involves some old school doctrinal #legalhistory, statutory interpretation (what can I say: I like what I like), and a little modern law twist in the middle.

Deadline extended to 1 Nov. Please share with UGs interested in #legalhistory or #womeninlaw. Don't have to be studying legal history, topic is open. Chance to connect with Selden's Sister, who also run PG mentoring scheme. £100 in Hart Publishing vouches up for grabs!

Final preparations for the 1925 conference underway, and getting excited to welcome fantastic speakers and attendees to Cambridge on Monday. I also intend to spend the weekend sleeping: what idiot* decided to move house, host conference, and get married in the same month? *It's me, I'm the idiot.

Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history. £100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory

We still have funding available for travel and accom for PG students attending this conference. Includes those just finished (2024/5) or are about to start (2025/6) a course of study, and Bar course as well as uni. Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.

We still have funding available for travel and accom for PG students attending this conference. Includes those just finished (2024/5) or are about to start (2025/6) a course of study, and Bar course as well as uni. Get in touch ASAP via email if you would like to apply.

Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history. £100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory

Have you registered, yet? A reminder to register for the 1925 centenary conference in Cambridge in September before you go on your summer holidays!

Registration is now open to attend the conference Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 8-9 September 2025. The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-co...

Wrapping up UG teaching for my 1st Cambridge year today, and what an insanely busy one. Teaching across 3 UG papers, LLM students, and PhD projects. Queens' has felt like home fast, and next year looks great: September kicks off with the 1925 Property Conference (and our wedding at Queens'!).

Tomorrow 7pm UK time, Matthew Dyson, Ashley Hannay and I are speaking about teaching legal history in England and Wales. The chapter we've written for an upcoming comparative volume involved empirical research across English/Welsh law schools, and reflects on future directions for the discipline.

First one of these is tomorrow evening. There will be some juicy content in letters from the 1920s. There will be profound insults. There will be political backstabbing. All good fun.

Enjoy land law? Want to hear me wax lyrical about how great Benjamin Cherry was, and how he drafted the LPA 1925 and its sibling statutes? There will be archives, intense political bargaining, and hot takes from Edwardian lawyers. Cambridge 20 May (hybrid) Oxford 27 May (in person)

Another week, another proof. My piece on The Statute of Labourers and Contract Law, in 'Epidemics and the Law from Plague to Present' is a bit of old-school doctrinal medieval legal history. But, of course, it's me, so it has a cheeky twist... Out Sept 2025. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/epidemics...

Truly, 'tis publication season, and I'm excited to see that you can now pre-order Caroline Derry and Carol Howells' edited volume on 'Legal History in the Curriculum' - out this July. www.routledge.com/Legal-Histor...

We're almost finished putting together the first Selden's Sister book - and Celebrating Women in Legal History (Hart) is looking gorgeous. We can't wait to share the range of creative, fascinating, and unexpected chapters in the volume with the #legalhistory community.

🎉 100 years ago today, the 1925 property legislation completed its Parliamentary journey (in force 1 January 1926). CFP for our Cambridge centenary event open until 1 May. Proposals welcome from all career stages, including PhD/ECRs, and practitioners. www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...

I've got a pile of books awaiting review for the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, on Equity; private law theory; and public/private law intersection. If you'd be interested, drop me a DM/email whether PhD/ECR, practitioner, or experienced academic. Usually comes with a free hardback copy!

#Landlaw nerds may enjoy my guest Editorial in the latest Conveyancer and Property Lawyer (now available online), where I - of course - talk about the centenary of the 1925 legislation.

More "feudal-era system" nonsense. People just need to stop writing this as if it is informative analysis. Leasehold is probably one of the less "feudal" parts of English land law. The real, live & kicking, feudalism is in freehold. You don't own your fee simple absolute—you hold it from the King.

Want to do a fully funded PhD on medieval English historiography? Well do I have an opportunity for you! See the attached ad and get in touch ASAP if you're interested (and please share widely).

The Call for Papers for this event is now on the website, and open until 1 May 2025.

The honorary King's Counsel appointments announced this morning include one Professor Martin Dixon, who I have the privilege of working closely with at both Queens' and on all things exciting to land law nerds. A very well-deserved recognition. www.gov.uk/government/n...

As promised, I am happy to share some details on the 1925 centenary event being held in Cambridge later this year. Full programme and registration will be available later in the year. Save the date! www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...

Reminder: call for papers remains open for Inner Temple symposium "After 1925: Reflecting on 100 years of Property Legislation" on 10 April. Deadline 17 Feb. Here's my own paper abstract: "Equity, Ancient and Modern" www.innertemple.org.uk/events/?id=E...

Two weeks to go (deadline Feb 12th)

On Feb 13 Tanya Serisier and Jinal Dadiya will be joining us at @uoelawschool.bsky.social to launch my book It’s a hybrid event and you can register here www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Just 2 days left to apply for our Summer Academy for Legal History 2025 - whether you are a Master student, PhD student or postdoc. All you have to do is send your CV, motivation letter and project description. We look forward to hearing from you! www.lhlt.mpg.de/3577611/

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

The first of these posts, which discusses the drafting process, is a nice and useful reminder of all the work Stuart Anderson did for his 1998 book on the 1925 legislation. www.falcon-chambers.com/publications...

It's 2025, you know what that means? That's right, it means the most interesting statute in #landlaw is 100 years old! This year will have a veritable feast of 1925 events, talks, seminars, including ours in Cambridge in Sept, celebrating 100 years of property law reform.

Just before xmas, the UKPC decided that a 7 month long lease for worker accommodation was capable of termination for repudiatory breach: jcpc.uk/uploads/jcpc... They emphasised the short term nature of the lease, and the seriousness of the breach.

A very broad range of statistics appear to be worsening for reasons that are, or are likely, attributable to COVID infection / PCC: Life expectancy, chronic disease, motor vehicle accidents, etc. Please reply with more, with links to evidence where possible. Ok to list "maybes", we can filter later.

Grateful to HM Govt for providing more material for my 'misuses of the word "feudal"' project. In all seriousness, move to compulsory commonhold a good proposition. It's just not the same as abolishing all 'leasehold'. Which means all leases. www.gov.uk/government/n...

PhD students: you are ALWAYS welcome at IHR seminars. You don't need to sign up in advance, you don't need to have an introduction, you don't need to be based at a London institution and you don't need to be able to 'prove' that you're working on something 'relevant'. No gate-keeping at the IHR!

The Selden's Sister Mentoring Scheme is now ready to start matching mentors and mentees in #legalhistory. You can express your interest (and read the Data Protection Policy) here: www.seldenssister.com/mentoring

We had an excellent #legalhistory event for Selden's Sister's first annual lecture yesterday, and really enjoyed seeing such a wide range of people asking Lady Hale such a varied set of questions in the Q&A. Find out more about us at www.seldenssister.com

Just created a starter pack for people interested in early modern women! Somewhat random and definitely incomplete, so please suggest more people to add (including yourself) go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt

I've put together a legal history starter pack for anyone interested in the history of crime & punishment, law, policing, social control, and violence. Please let me know if you want to (or know someone who should) be added to the list. go.bsky.app/Vg4M4V5

Our inaugural Selden’s Sister lecture will be in Liverpool this week, delivered by Baroness Hale on a timely theme. The lecture is free to attend, and will be streamed. The 200-year struggle for mothers’ rights Thursday, 3pm www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-la...

It's January, which means the roundtable on my book at Edinburgh Centre for Legal History is soon: on 26 Jan join me, Prof Michael Lobban, and Prof Gwen Seabourne to talk about the English medieval village community (hybrid, regsitration links on event page). www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join us at the IHR for 'In her wake'. This event brings together an exceptional cohort who were the first to achieve full professorships in their fields. We will reflect on over three decades of pathbreaking achievements. Reserve your spot now: buff.ly/3QKZaaS

Today is the Selden's Sister women in legal history networking event, which I am missing out on due to the general collapse of late stage capitalism. It's going to be a great day (even without me...).