Lorraine Grimes
Historian and author of Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain (Bloomsbury, 2025), specializing in migration, institutionalisation, and oral histories of unmarried mothers between 1926–1973.
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Mar 4, 2026 • 47min
Lorraine Grimes, "Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Lorraine Grimes, historian and author of Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain, studies migration and institutionalisation of unmarried mothers. She discusses why women fled to Britain, the variety of institutions they encountered, differences in care and legal practices, and the lasting legacies of stigma, repatriation and attempts at redress.
