Whilst the celebrated early contributors to legal history are men, such as John Selden, Frederic William Maitland, and (more recently) Toby Milsom; women such as Mary Bateson, Beatrice Webb, and Susan Reynolds often go unmentioned. So too, they are notably under-cited by comparison.

We aim to highlight that women’s work in this discipline is nothing new: many women made important legal historical discoveries, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We also think that legal history is an exciting and diverse field of study, and want to celebrate that.

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