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Current Members
This page allows SHS members to provide short pen-portraits, and links to their own webpages.
The Society does not accept any responsibility for the content of external websites. It is the responsibility of members to inform the cyber-secretary of amendments, broken links, etc.
Names appear in alphabetical order.
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Paul Atkinson
Paul Atkinson returned to academic study when he began a PhD in 2006 at the University of Leeds, following a career in the Department of Health and at the European Commission in Luxembourg, working on policy and legislation. His research examines the beginning of the deliberate limitation of marital fertility in the nineteenth century, exploring the diversity of both local fertility behaviour and the local cultures which were its main determinant. His work contrasts the experiences of Bradford, Leeds and Middlesbrough, using oral history, local newspapers, and Census Enumerators’ Books. Paul is an Associate of the Higher Education Academy.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/people/paul_atkinson.htm
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Alyson Brown
Alyson Brown is a Reader in History at Edge Hill University, UK. She has conducted extensive research into the history of crime and punishment, especially on penal history. Her book, English Society and the Prison (Boydell, 2003) was well received and widely reviewed. She has also published articles and chapters on this subject area, including: 'Challenging Discipline and Control: A Comparative Analysis of Prison Riots at Chatham (1861) and Dartmoor (1932)' in H.Johnston (ed.) (Palgrave, 2008) Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective, 'A History of Experience: Exploring Prisoners' Accounts of Incarceration' (with E.Clare) in C.Emsley (ed.) (2005) The Persistent Prison, and an article on the 1932 Dartmoor Prison Riot in the British Journal of Criminology (2007). She has also published a co-authored book with D.Barrett, Knowledge of Evil: Child prostitution and child sexual abuse in twentieth century England (Willan, 2002). Recently her research was used to name Wil Alsop's 'Creative prison', an exhibition of which was held at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham.
www.edgehill.ac.uk/english/History/StaffProfile/AlysonBrown.htm
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Stephen Andrew Caunce
Stephen Caunce has been senior lecturer in early-modern history, School of Education and Social Science, University of Central Lancashire, since 1998. His research interests all form aspects of a long-term investigation of the transformation of the north of England, and especially Lancashire and Yorkshire, between 1600 and 1900, and specifically to examine cultural aspects of its causation, as well as the impact of this process upon ordinary people. It is distinctive in trying to encompass many very diverse aspects, from agriculture to engineering, of a very complex reality, drawing on his experience in museums as well as conventional academic research.
www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/scaunce.php
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Alexander Cowan
Alexander Cowan is Reader in History at Northumbria University and has been a member of the Social History Society since it began. He is currently working on a study of urban gossip in its spatial and visual contexts in early modern Italian cities and has long-standing research interests in urban culture and the history of the family and marriage in the early modern period. His most recent publications are Marriage, Manners and Mobility in Early Modern Venice (2007) and The City and the Senses. European Urban Culture from 1500 (co-edited with Jill Steward) (2006). He has also published books on urban Europe 1500-1700 and a comparative study of the ruling elites in Venice and Lübeck 1580-1700. He is editor of Parliaments, Estates and Representation.
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/polandhist/polhis_staff/cowan/
http://www.europeanurbanculture.co.uk/
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Barry Doyle
Barry Doyle is a historian of twentieth century social and urban history with particular interests in urban elites, hospital provision and post war popular culture. He has worked in a number of institutions in England and Scotland including St Andrews, Edinburgh and Teesside. He is currently Head of History, English, Languages and Media at the University of Huddersfield. Barry has been a member of the Committee of the Social History Society since 2001 and is presently the representative of the Council of the Economic History Society on the SHS Committee. He has a close association with Urban History, acting as Associate Editor, Book Review Editor and more recently as a member of the International Advisory Board. His main research focus at the moment is a Wellcome Trust funded project on the labour movement and hospitals in early twentieth century Britain.
http://www.hud.ac.uk/mh/history/research/barry_doyle.php
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Sarah Easterby-Smith
Sarah Easterby-Smith is a final-year PhD student at the University of Warwick. She plans to submit her thesis, which is provisionally entitled ‘Plant collecting, botany and commerce in London and Paris, c. 1760 – c. 1800’, in Autumn 2009. Her research examines the relationship between the science of botany and the commercial trade in plants in London and Paris in the later eighteenth century. She is particularly interested in the connections between Britain and France during this period, and especially in the circulation of people and material culture between these two countries.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/postgraduate/eportfolios/hyreak/
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Heather Ellis
Heather Ellis is a lecturer and researcher in British History at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. Her doctoral project investigated the importance of generational conflict in the process of university reform in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Oxford. She is the co-editor of Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives (2009) and guest editor of a special issue of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies (Fall, 2008) on the theme 'Boys, Boyhood and the Construction of Masculinity'. She has also published a number of articles and book chapters on the importance of age in the construction of masculine identity, the history of higher education, and the reception of classical scholarship. Her post-doctoral project will focus on the importance of university-networks in the formation of transnational relations in nineteenth-century Europe.
http://www.gbz.hu-berlin.de/staff/staff/profil-ellis
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Mark Freeman
Mark Freeman is the cyber-secretary of the Social History Society. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow He is the author of Social Investigation and Rural England 1870-1914 (2003), The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: A Study in Quaker Philanthropy and Adult Education 1904-1954 (2004), and several articles on modern British social, economic and business history. He is particularly interested in rural history, the history of education and modern British Quakerism, and is also working with Robin Pearson and James Taylor on a study of early British and Irish corporate governance. He has recently published St Albans: A History (2008), and is the co-editor of Vicarious Vagrants: Incognito Social Explorers and the Homeless in England 1860-1910 (2008).
www.markfreeman.org.uk
www.corporategovernancehistory.org.uk
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Harvey J. Graff
Harvey J. Graff is Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and Professor of English and History at The Ohio State University. He joined OSU in 2004, and is developing the LiteracyStudies@OSU campus-wide interdisciplinary initiative. Previously, he was Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In 1999-2000, Graff served as President of the Social Science History Association for its twenty-fifth anniversary year. In 2001, the University of Linköping in Sweden awarded him the Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa for his contributions to scholarship.
A comparative social historian, Graff is known internationally, especially for his books and articles on the history of literacy and the importance of that history to contemporary issues, his contributions to urban history and urban studies, and more recently for his research on the history of children, adolescents, and youth. Among Professor Graff’s major works are The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth-Century City (Academic Press, 1979; new edition, Transaction Publications, 1991); The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society (Indiana University Press, 1987, Italian edition, 1989, Critics’ Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Society); The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present (Falmer Press, 1987; revised and expanded edition, University of Pittsburgh Press, Series on Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 1995; Portuguese and Spanish translations forthcoming); Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America (Harvard University Press, 1995; Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award, 1995); The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of An American City (University of Minneapolis Press, 2008). He is now at work on a social history of interdisciplinarity.
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/graff40/
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Mark Hailwood
Mark Hailwood is a doctoral student at the University of Warwick working under the supervision of Professor Steve Hindle. His thesis is entitled 'Alehouses and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century England' and is an attempt to explore popular culture and plebeian identity through a study of early modern drinking culture. Mark is also an undergraduate tutor at the University of Warwick.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/postgraduate/eportfolios/m_hailwood/
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Jane Hamlett
Jane Hamlett is an member of the Social History Society executive committee. She is Lecturer in Modern British History at Royal Holloway University of London. Her book Material Relations: Middle-Class Families and Domestic Interiors in England 1850-1910 will be published by Manchester University Press in Spring 2010. She has also published articles in on the domestic interior, late nineteenth-century student rooms, and the supermarket in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, in Women's History Review, Cultural and Social History and the Journal of Consumer Culture. Her research interests include modern British social and cultural history, the history of women and gender, the history of intimacy and emotion and material and visual culture.
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/history/people/hamlett_j.html
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Mayumi Hayashi
Mayumi Hayashi is a PhD student in the School of History, University of East Anglia. Her research examines 20th-century residential care for the elderly in England and Japan, focusing upon local authority provision in Norfolk and Gifu Prefecture. Case studies utilise local official documentation and data, reinforced by oral history. Her poster presentation for the Showcase of Postgraduate Research, held in Norwich in 2007, gained the Highly Commended Public’s Favourite Poster Award. She will be presenting a paper at the forthcoming British Society of Gerontology Conference, 2-4 September 2009, and will complete her PhD shortly, expanding her research to current and future policy issues using comparative and international perspectives.
Email: m.hayashi@uea.ac.uk
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Andrew Hobbs
Andrew Hobbs is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Central Lancashire, studying the social and cultural functions of the late Victorian local press (the history of reading the local paper). He is an associate editor of the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism and the theme editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Regional and Local Studies, on the local and regional press. Before returning to full-time study he worked as a journalist on local, regional and national publications for 25 years.
http://uclan.academia.edu/AndrewHobbs
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Paul Jennings
Paul Jennings teaches history within the School of Lifelong Education and Development at the University of Bradford, specialising in 18th- and 19th-century social history and the local and regional history of Yorkshire. His particular research interests are in the history of drink and drinking places about which he has published in particular The Public House in Bradford, 1770-1970 (Keele University Press, 1995) and The Local: A History of the English Pub (Tempus, 2007) in additon to a number of articles. He is currently working on a social history of Drink and the English from the 17th century to the present day.
Email:P.Jennings1@Bradford.ac.uk
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Max Jones
Max Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at theUniversity of Manchester. His early career research examined theheroic reputation of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, published in The Last Great Quest: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice (Oxford, 2003) and his new edition of Scott's Journals (Oxford, 2006) for the Oxford World's Classics Series. His latest project analyses changing attitudes to the heroes of the British empire over the lasttwo centuries, with particular reference to General Gordon. His research interests include the history of exploration, of war & memory, and of gender, heroism & celebrity.
http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/StaffDetails.aspx?profileID=5610908&curTab=1&ou=I4050
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Dagmar Kift
Dr Dagmar Kift (born 1954) is a curator in the Westphalian Industrial Museum, Dortmund, Germany. She studied history, German literature, sociology and law at the Free University in Berlin and was a British Council scholar at Oxford University (St. Antony's College). Her doctoral thesis on the British Music Hall was published by Cambridge University Press as The Victorian Music Hall - Culture, Class and Conflict (1996). She is currently working on the social and cultural history of coal-mining.http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/wim/portal/
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Anne Laurence
Anne Laurence is professor of History at the Open University. She’s a former treasirer of the Social History Society and is currently a member of the Economic History Society Council. She works on gender in the British Isles in the early modern period. Her two current projects are a comparative study of women in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales 1550-1720 and a study of women’s investment portfolios in the era of the financial revolution.
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history/laurence.htm
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Edward Marshall
Edward Marshall is a history PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London (supervised by Prof. David Cesarani), carrying out research into Jewish involvement and representation in the British entertainment industry from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. This is part of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) with the Jewish Museum, London, which will lead to a major exhibition on the subject in 2010. His current research interests include the formation of modern Jewish identity, cultural representations of ‘race’, religion and ethnicity, antisemitism in Britain, the development of mass media, and audience reception. In addition, undertaking a CDA project has furthered his engagement with the theoretical and practical role of public history.
Email: e.marshall@rhul.ac.uk
Jewish Museum: www.jewishmuseum.org.uk
London CDA Network: http://cda-network.ning.com
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Clare Mulley
Clare is the author of The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb which won the Daily Mail-sponsored Biographers' Club prize (for a forthcoming book) in 2007. The book is published in April 2009 to coincide with the 90th anniversary of Save the Children. Clare completed her MA in social and cultural history at Birkbeck in 2006, and has given numerous presentations including at the SHS and IHR conferences. She is a member of the Social History Society, the Voluntary Action History Society, the Women's History Network, the Royal Society of Literature, the Biographers' Club, the Society of Authors, English PEN, the Fawcett Society and the National Secular Society. She is also a Trustee of the national NGO Standing Together Against Domestic Violence.
www.claremulley.com
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Alison Oram
Alison Oram is professor in social and cultural history at Leeds Metropolitan University. She is co-convenor of the “Narratives, emotions and the self” strand for the SHS conference. She works on the history of sexuality in twentieth century Britain and her most recent book is Her Husband was a Woman! Women’s Gender-crossing in modern British popular culture (Routledge, 2007). Her current research interests include the representation of sexuality and gender in historic houses.
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/as/cs/ECCCC923CF8D4ECAA307ED8A302F32B0.htm
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Juliette Pattinson
Juliette Pattinson is the honorary secretary of the Social History Society. She is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Strathclyde and an associate lecturer with the Open University. Her particular research interests focus on gender and the Second World War and she has published a monograph with MUP in 2007 entitled Behind Enemy Lines: Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, and is currently co-editing a collection for Palgrave on partisan and anti-partisan warfare with Ben Shepherd entitled War in a Twilight World. Her new research project is on the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and she is also working with Prof Arthur McIvor on a project on men in reserved occupations.
www.strath.ac.uk/history/staff/pattinsonjuliettedr/
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Margaret Pelling
Margaret Pelling retires from her post in Oxford in September 2009. She will remain in Oxford as a Senior Research Associate of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in Banbury Road (see their website), and will have a room there for 2009/10. She is looking forward to increasing her research output in social history, including a book on barbers (broadly interpreted), and a project on medicine and politics. She also hopes to write a polemic against the car, which has been incubating (or festering) for many years.
Email: margaret.pelling@history.ox.ac.uk
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June Purvis
June Purvis was a member of the Executive Committee of the Social History Society from 2003-6. She is Professor of Women’s and Gender History at the University of Portsmouth. She is the author of Emmeline Pankhurst: a biography (2002), Votes for Women (ed with S. Holton 1999) and The Women’s Suffrage Movement: new feminist perspectives (ed with M. Joannou, 2009) and has published extensively on the history of women’s education in England and on the British suffragette movement. She is the Founding and Managing Editor of Women’s History Review, a member of the Steering Committee of Women’s History Network (UK) and the Honorary Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. She is interested in the links between academic history and popular history and has published articles in The Times Higher Education and The Guardian. Her article ‘The power of the hunger strike’ is published in the June 2009 issue of BBC History Magazine.
www.port.ac.uk/research/ceisr/members/title,2254,en.html
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Vivienne Richmond
Vivienne Richmond is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published articles on the dress of the poor in nineteeth-century England and the Girls’ Friendly Society in Textile History and the Journal of Historical Sociology. Her online exhibitionabout the Girls’ Friendly Society, for the Women’s Library, can be viewedat http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/gfs/gfs_home.cfm. She iscurrently researching the burial practices of the London poor 1832-70 and her other research interests include gender history, public history and the use of fiction, material and visual culture as historical sources, aswell as interdisciplinary approaches to history.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/history/staff/v-richmond/
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Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz
Dr. Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz is currently a Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga (Spain) and a member of the Social History Society. She obtained her Master’s Degree from the University of Southampton in March 1992. In December 2002 she finished her doctorate at the University Granada (Spain). She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Southampton during the academic year 2006/2007. She has published articles and chapters of books on women’s social history and literature, focusing on fallen women, child abuse and prostitution in Victorian England. In December 2008 she co-organized the International Conference on Identity, Migration and Women’s Bodies at the University of Málaga. She is currently preparing two volumes as co-editor on women’s history and literature and on women’s identities and bodies in colonial and postcolonial times. One is entitled Identity, Migrations and Women’s Bodies as Sites of Knowledge and Transgression, to be published by KRK Editions in 2009, and the other is entitled Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects: Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2010.
Email: mirr@uma.es
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Stefan Schwarzkopf
Stefan Schwarzkopf studied Modern History and the History of Science in Jena (Germany) and finished with a Master's thesis on the place of psychoanalysis and radical conservatism in postwar German intellectual history. After working in a large Frankfurt advertising agency (Leo Burnett) he studied under Prof. Frank Trentmann for a PhD in History at Birkbeck College between 2001 and 2008. His thesis on the emergence of the advertising industry in Britain between 1900 and 1939 provides an in-depth study of the social and political debates waged inside and around the advertising industry which contributed to its establishment as one of Britain’s most significant creative industries. Stefan’s published work has appeared in Contemporary British History, Management & Organizational History, Journal of Cultural Economy, Journal of Macromarketing, and in a number of edited books with Berghahn, Cambridge Scholar Press, Campus, Palgrave and Routledge. Since 2006, he has been a Lecturer in Global Marketing at the School of Business and Management of Queen Mary University of London. During spring 2008, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business History at Copenhagen Business School. In July 2009, Stefan’s PhD thesis won the Coleman Prize which awarded annually by the Association of Business Historians.
http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/staff/staff.php?s.schwarzkopf@qmul.ac.uk
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Penny Summerfield
Penny Summerfield is Chair of the Social History Society. She is Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester where she was Head of School 2002-6. She has written widely on the social and cultural history of the Second World War, with a particular focus on women and gender, and makes extensive use of oral history in her work. In 2007 she published Contesting Home Defence: men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (with C. Peniston-Bird), and in 1998 Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives, both with Manchester University Press. She is currently working on the popular memory of the Second World War in British society 1945-1970.
http://publications.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/SchProfile.aspx?strLocalStaffID=4131&strLocalSource=SSL&strSchoolID=AHC&strUnitID=HIST
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Brodie Waddell
Brodie Waddell is currently completing his PhD at the University of Warwick. His thesis – ‘Poverty, Property and Profit in English Popular Culture, 1660-1720’ – is a study of the way cultural traditions and beliefs shaped attitudes toward economic and social relations, focusing specifically on the lives of the ‘poorer sort’. He has also published an article in Cultural and Social History (2008) entitled ‘Economic Immorality and Social Reformation in English Popular Preaching, 1585-1625’. For his next project, he plans to examine the series of economic crises that struck Britain in the 1690s.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/postgraduate/eportfolios/history5
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Bernd Weisbrod
Bernd Weisbrod, professor for modern European history at Göttingen University, is also acting chair of a group of contemporary historians in Lower Saxony and director of a graduate school on „Generations in History“. In his Ph.D. he investigated the economics and politics of heavy industry in the Weimar Republic (1976), his Habilitation dealt with Victorian social policies, especially with regard to pauper children and juvenile delinqency (1986). His academic career took him from Heidelberg University and the Free University in Berlin to the German Historical Institute in London and the Ruhr-University in Bochum. He held visiting positions at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and the Koebner Centre for German History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he also was the Theodor-Heuss Professor at the New School University in New York in spring 2001, Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College Oxford in Hilary term 2002, and at the European University Institute in summer 2006. In summer 2008 he was part of a research group on “The control of violence” at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Study in Bielefeld. His most recent work deals with post-1945 German academia: Akademische Vergangenheitspolitik. Beiträge zur Wissenschaftskultur der Nachkriegszeit (Göttingen:Wallstein 2002) and the politics of violence: The No Man’s Land of Violence. Extreme Wars in the 20th Century (Göttingen: Wallstein 2005).
bweisbr@gwdg.de
wwwuser.gwdg.de/~bweisbr1/
>www.generationengeschichte.uni-goettingen.de
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