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Dr Emily Ireland

@dremilyireland.bsky.social
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Making legal history relevant since ‘92 (and by that I mean 1692) Senior Lecturer in Law @ University of Liverpool | Co-director of Selden’s Sister | Runner | Singer |

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Greg Davies @gjdavies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Rob Jones and I have an article forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Society: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We ask whether it’s possible to speak meaningfully of a ‘right’ to use the Welsh language in prison. Our answer: not really.
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Is there a ‘right’ to use Welsh in prison?
The use of the Welsh language is generally understood as a ‘right’ in contemporary Wales. While this right is often lauded as one of Welsh devolution's defining achievements, the efficacy of current ....
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Faculty of Law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📖 @hartpublishing.bsky.social has published 'Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline' edited by @loreldridge.bsky.social, @dremilyireland.bsky.social and @carolinederry.bsky.social, championing the work of women in legal history: Read more: 🔗 bit.ly/4tTmo0a
Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline
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David Foster @david-foster.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Essays on the History of Equity – published today with Hart 🎉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/essays-on...
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Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
Copies of Celebrating Women in Legal History, edited by Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland and Caroline Derry. The blue and purple cover shows a door opening onto bookshelves. Table of contents, showing chapters by Jennifer Aston, Christine Anne George, Anne Logan, Lisa Cowan, Nina Krsljanin, and Valentina Cvetkovic-Dordevic.Table of contents, showing chapters by Maria Fletcher, Charlie Peevers, Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, and Deborah Siddoway.
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Greg Davies @gjdavies.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
HMP Berwyn, the UK's largest prison, was once presented as an advance for the Welsh language. @robdjones.bsky.social and I argue that it’s been a categorical failure by that measure, posing troubling questions for Welsh language rights more widely: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Rights, Pains and Illusions: The Experiences of Welsh‐Speakers at Wales’ ‘Flagship’ Prison
This article challenges claims of ‘inherent’ bilingualism in Wales’ largest prison, HMP Berwyn. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and extensive documentary research, we find that Welsh-speaking p...
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Dr Stephanie Dropuljic @stephaniedropuljic.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Essay competition below for UG students with an interest in women & legal history! Please feel free to share with interested persons and contacts.
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Dr Emily Ireland @dremilyireland.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"Bowie was particularly fascinated by [18th Century] crime and punishment" - BREAKING NEWS: Bowie was a legal historian. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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David Bowie's final project was a musical set in London
Shortly before his death, the star wrote dozens of notes for a musical set in 18th Century London.
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.
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Greg Davies @gjdavies.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
@robdjones.bsky.social and I are guest editing a special issue of @howardjournalcj.bsky.social which explores the rights of prisoners in the UK and elsewhere. It follows an @slsauk.bsky.social seminar held in Liverpool in 2023, and features a brilliant set of legal academics and criminologists.
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Dr Emily Ireland @dremilyireland.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
On my way to a workshop on Gender, History, and Law, hypothesising that the discourse on Euro ‘22 has the real answer to Baker’s ‘Why The History of English Law Has Not Been Finished’:
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