August 2024 – New collection OUT NOW!
New collection – Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for Want of Trying – out now!
October 2023 – The Slave, Grace
- Rosemary Auchmuty writes in the Law Society Gazette on The Slave, Grace test case of 1827.
October 2023 – Obituary: Elizabeth Cruickshank
- Rosemary Auchmuty writes a moving tribute to Elizabeth Cruickshank, a pioneer in the field of women in law and a constant source of inspiration and insight for our project.
December 2022 – Carrie Morrison
- Elizabeth Criuckshank writes on Carrie Morrison – an unlikely solicitor – for the Law Society Gazette.
July 2022 – The other 1919 Act
- Erika Rackley writes in the Law Society Gazette on the Industrial Courts Act 1919.
June 2021 – The centenary of the formation of the Six-Point Group
- Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty write on the centenary of the formation of the Six-Point Group in the Law Society Gazette.
October 2019 – WLL in the Law Society Gazette
- The Women’s Legal Landmarks Project is featured in the Law Society Gazette. Read Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty’s article: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.
September 2019 – Forgotten Activists for Law Reform
- Sharon Thompson writes on the Married Women’s Association for the Law Society Gazette.
August 2019 – Paperback out NOW!
- Women’s Legal Landmarks: Celebrating the History of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland is now available in paperback.
July 2019 – Bodichon: founder of the women’s movement?
- Joanne Conaghan writes on the vital role played by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon in laying the groundwork for the reform of the married women’s property laws and other vital law reform.
June 2019 – Greenham Common
- Elizabeth Woodcraft writes on the women at Greenham Common in the Law Society Gazette: Greenham Common plan to ‘crowd the prisons’.
March 2019 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919
- Mari Takayanagi writes about marking 100 years of women in the law for the Law Society Gazette.
March 2019 – Law in Action
- Erika Rackley spoke to Joshua Rozenberg on Radio 4’s Law in Action. Listen again here
February 2019 – cited in The Guardian
- The collection was cited in Catherine Baksi’s Landmarks in Law series. Read more here