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Lesley A Hall, archivist and historian

About me

Location	London, United Kingdom
Introduction	Archivist at the Wellcome Library (1979-2015); Wellcome Library Research Fellow (2015-2024). Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London (to 2025). Fellow, Institute of Historical Research (2025- )Historian who has published several books and numerous articles and chapters on issues to do with sexuality and gender in the UK in the 19th and 20th centuries. Subsidiary interests in the history of women in science and medicine, interwar middlebrow women novelists, and science fiction and fantasy. She considers herself a feminist.@erinacean.bsky.social‬ This blog went, not particularly intentionally, on hiatus in 2017 for various life-related reasons. I am now intermittently posting again, if only to do something about recording various weird research rabbit-holes I've been down that don't feel like part of any larger projects.

Location

London, United Kingdom

Introduction

Archivist at the Wellcome Library (1979-2015); Wellcome Library Research Fellow (2015-2024). Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London (to 2025). Fellow, Institute of Historical Research (2025- )Historian who has published several books and numerous articles and chapters on issues to do with sexuality and gender in the UK in the 19th and 20th centuries. Subsidiary interests in the history of women in science and medicine, interwar middlebrow women novelists, and science fiction and fantasy. She considers herself a feminist.@erinacean.bsky.social‬ This blog went, not particularly intentionally, on hiatus in 2017 for various life-related reasons. I am now intermittently posting again, if only to do something about recording various weird research rabbit-holes I've been down that don't feel like part of any larger projects.