Dr Lorren Eldridge

Started your Christmas shopping yet? The paperback version of Law and the Medieval Village Community is now available to pre order, out at the end of November. The perfect stocking filler at a much lower price point than the hardback. routledge.com/Law-and-the-Me…

Wrapping up UG teaching for my 1st Cambridge year today, and what an insanely busy one. Teaching across 3 UG papers, LLM, and PhD projects. Queens' has felt like home fast, and next year looks great: Sept kicks off with the 1925 Property Conference (and our wedding at Queens'!).

Have you registered, yet? A reminder to register for the 1925 centenary conference in Cambridge in September before you go on your summer holidays!

Please also help share the conference with any interested postgraduates: we have made provision for postgraduate bursaries to help with travel and accommodation. Further information about that, including the application form, can also be found on the webpage.

Registration is now open to attend the conference Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 8-9 September 2025. The draft programme and booking link may be found on the conference webpage: landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-conf…

Out in September. Available to pre-order now from any good online bookstore. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-henry-mai…

When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied Told I “might want kids.” Told I “might meet a man who wants kids” I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵

I enjoyed giving a paper on the LPA 1925 in Oxford last night, with great discussion after, but the Oxford-London train, standing only and THREE ticket inspections - god forbid you endure this without £££ - is an utterly miserable way to start a day.

Tomorrow 7pm UK time, @1mattdyson , @AjHannay and I are speaking about teaching legal history in England and Wales. The chapter we've written for an upcoming comparative book involved empirical research on English/Welsh unis, and reflects on future directions for the discipline.

First one of these is tomorrow evening. There will be some juicy content in letters from the 1920s. There will be profound insults. There will be political backstabbing. All good fun.

Are you a researcher interested in the history of law and labour in Scotland? Would you like to attend a workshop on this topic? See below for details of a workshop to be held at the University of Strathclyde on 19 June 2025

Enjoy land law? Want to hear me wax lyrical about how great Benjamin Cherry was, and how he drafted the LPA 1925 and sibling statutes? There will be archives, intense political bargaining, and hot takes from Edwardian lawyers. Cambridge 20 May (hybrid) Oxford 27 May (in person)

Another week, another proof. My piece on Statute of Labourers and Contract Law, in 'Epidemics and the Law from Plague to Present' is a bit of old-school doctrinal medieval legal history. But, of course, it's me, so it has a cheeky twist... Out Sept 2025. bloomsbury.com/uk/epidemics-a…

We're almost finished putting together the first @SeldensSister book - and Celebrating Women in Legal History (Hart) is looking gorgeous. We can't wait to share the range of creative, fascinating, and unexpected chapters in the volume with the #legalhistory community.

🎉 100 years ago today, the 1925 property legislation completed its Parliamentary journey (in force 1 January 1926). CFP for our Cambridge centenary event open until 1 May. Proposals welcome from all career stages, including PhD/ECRs, and practitioners. landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-cent…