Diane Urquhart is Professor of Gender History in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics (HAPP) of Queen's University Belfast and President of the women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI). Her publications include Irish divorce: a history (Cambridge, 2020); The ladies of Londonderry: women and political patronage, 1800-1959 (London & New York, 2007); Women in Ulster politics, 1890-1940: a history not yet told (Dublin, 2000); and, with Lindsey Earner-Byrne, she co-authored Irish abortion journey, 1920-2018 (London, 2019).