Lia Brazil
@liabrazil.bsky.social
Leverhulme Fellow, Uni of Manchester, on sexual violence and humanitarian actors. Interested in histories of international law, humanitarianism and imperialism.
Mixed couples torn apart by the colonial state? Arrested by colonial police? Letters written to the sultan for help? My new article on marriage visas for Moroccan soldiers and white women after WW2 in a special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘What Can They Criticise Us for, Loving Each Other Too Much?’: Visa Bans for Mixed Marriages Between Moroccan Soldiers and French Women After the Second World War
This article examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule by engaging with how the French colonial state controlled the marriages permitted between French women a...
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One of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women refusing to compromise on her allegiance to the 2nd Dáil, leading deValera to describe her as ‘incorrigible’. This biography seeks out a deeper understanding of a richly complex woman, too often written off as a virago Out Feb 25
This is open access with thanks to the @ndirishstudies.bsky.social and was supported by the Irish Legal History Society who offer research funding for PhDs and postdoc members (applications due at the end of June) www.irishlegalhistorysociety.org?page_id=144
The Irish Legal History Student Bursary – Irish Legal History Society
The Irish Legal History Society administers the Irish Legal History Bursary which was established to subvent the travelling expenses of postgraduate students undertaking research into any aspect to Irish legal history.
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The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · last yr.New article on Open Access! Lia Brazil @liabrazil.bsky.social on 'Women Prisoners and the Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Irish Civil War' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Now in @enghistrev.bsky.social my article on efforts - led largely by women - to obtain intervention from the ICRC during the Irish civil war. On how republicans navigated international law, the complications posed by women prisoners, and Geneva's lukewarm response. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Women Prisoners and the Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Irish Civil War*
Abstract. In 1921 the international conference of the Red Cross movement passed a resolution expanding its remit to encompass humanitarian intervention in
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