Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

Sue specialises in British history from 1870 and also teaches European history in this period. Her particular interests are in the field of gender/women’s history and oral history. This is reflected in her specialist units on Gender, War and Social Change in Britain From 1922 and The First World War, A Social and Gender History.  Sue also teaches oral history to undergraduates as an elective Research Project unit. Sue’s research activity has mainly focused on working class women in twentieth century Britain. She published Women in Britain Since 1900 (Macmillan/Palgrave) in 1999 and an edited war diary, Working For Victory, Life in a Second World War Factory (Sutton/Imperial War Museum) in 2001 and has also published numerous articles in this field. She also published an article on Masculinity in World War One in Contemporary British History in 2005.

Sue is currently completing a social/gender history of the General Strike and Miners’ Lockout in South Wales in 1926 for the University of Wales Press. She published an article on communal eating in South Wales in 1926 in Twentieth Century British History in 2007. Sue was recently elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Historians.

Qualifications

• BSc(Econ) LSE, University of London
• MSC(Econ) LSE, University of  London
• PhD LSE, University of  London
• PGCE Institute of Education, University of  London

Research Clusters

• Social, Historical and Cultural Change in Europe
• Women's and Gender Studies

Discipline Areas

• Cultural Studies
• History
• Media Studies  
• Social Theory

Research CV

Current Research Projects

• Social and Gender History General Strike
• Miners' Lockout 1926

Authored Books

• 2011 The Women and Men of 1926, The General strike and Miner's Lockout in South Wales. University of Wales Press, ISBN 978-0-7083-2450-9 (paperback edition).
• 2010 The Women and Men of 1926, A Social and Gender History of the General Strike and Miners' Lockout of 1926 in South Wales. University of Wales Press, ISBN 978-0-7083-2275-8.

Edited Books

• 2010 'Working for Victory, a Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory', History Press Paperback edition
• 2001 'Working for Victory, a Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory', Imperial War Museum/Sutton  Hardback ISBN 0-7509-2516-7

Book Chapters

• 2004 'Women', in A.Campbell, K. Gildart, J. McIlroy, eds. Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lockout, The Struggle for Dignity, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, ISBN 0-7083-1820-7, pp229-248, ISBN 0-7083-1820-7

Journal Articles

• 2011 'Little Mothers: Girls Growing Up in South Wales Between the Wars.' Llafur Welsh People's History Society
• 2007 'The Politics of Food; Gender, Family, Community and Communal Eating in the General Strike and Miners' Lock in South Wales in 1926' in Twentieth Century British History, Vol 18, no.1, Jan, pp54-77, ISSN 0955-2359 
• 2005 'The Love of an Unknown Soldier; A Story of Myth, Mystery and Masculinity in World War One'. In Contemporary British History, Vol. 19, no.4, December, pp459-479, ISSN 1361-9462 
• 2003 'A New Perspective on Women Workers in the Second World War: The Industrial Diary of Kathleen Church-Bliss and Elsie Whiteman. Labour History Review, Vol. 68, no.2, August, pp217-234, ISSN 0961-5852

Grants Received

• 2002-3 British Academy Small Grant to visit the Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas, £971