It's publication day! You can now buy Celebrating Women in Legal History here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

Celebrating Women in Legal History

This book champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism over nearly two centuries. It consi…

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Dr Lorren Eldridge@loreldridge.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History 4 March 2026 5pm Old Hall Queens’ College Cambridge

Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History 4 March 2026 5pm Old Hall Queens’ College Cambridge

Selden’s Sister presents: the book launch of Celebrating Women in Legal History 4 March 2026 5pm Old Hall Queens’ College Cambridge

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!

Caroline Derry@carolinederry.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

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

Dr Lorren Eldridge@loreldridge.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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.

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

Dr Lorren Eldridge@loreldridge.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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.

📚 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!

Dr Lorren Eldridge@loreldridge.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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.

Dr Lorren Eldridge@loreldridge.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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.

Dr Lorren Eldridge@loreldridge.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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!

Dr Lorren Eldridge@loreldridge.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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...

2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation

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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.

Dr Lorren Eldridge@loreldridge.bsky.social · last yr.

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)

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...

Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions

As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law ...

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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...

2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation

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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.

The Empty City@davidallengreen.bsky.social · last yr.

Every former law student sighs, "too late, too late". "Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales" www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...