Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian

Just a note to let anyone who still has my contact details down as the Wellcome email, that this will shortly be ceasing to operate, as my t...

I have long considered the intricacies of English divorce law one of my topics of niche pedantry, and will happily, though perhaps not for m...

There have been various mentions that this year is the centenary of the first - if short-lived - Labour Government in the UK. Its coming to ...

I.e. those Victorian values embodied in Alfred Swaine Taylor's 1879 Manual of Medical Jurisprudence in his discussion of the question o...

 Like (I think) every archivist, historian, and genealogist who encountered this proposition, I was horrified by the weaselly-entitled press...

I was delighted to see that Mexico recently decriminalised abortion, but I also went, wait, haven't I read novels, and maybe memoirs, fr...

Today I saw the Guardian obituary for Colin Spencer , treating him primarily as a food writer, which he became in the later part of his care...

I was recently brought up short during a re-read of Dorothy Sayers' The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club , when Wimsey scans Ann Dorla...

Have been reminded by the currently notorious case of the chemical weapons expert who was disinvited from speaking on his sphere of expertis...

I have lately been seeing a lot of understandable pushback concerning the BBC Panorama documentary involving a journalist going undercover t...

  My chapter, ' The Afterlives of Victorian Scandals: The Memorable, the Neglected, the Factitious', appeared in Brenda Ayres, Sarah...

The Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 I am not sure whether this is generally considered a major leap forward in the advancement of women in Engla...