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Research themes
- Twentieth-century British history
- Public and popular history
- Education
- The history of girls and women
- Race and immigration
- Popular culture and everyday life
Current Project
- ‘Secondary education and social change in the UK since 1945’ (research project with colleagues at the University of Cambridge, Peter Mandler and Chris Jeppesen. See: https://sesc.hist.cam.ac.uk/
- ‘The politics of race and gender in British education, c.1960s-80s’
Education and Academic Positions:
- 2013-2016: PhD, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Title of thesis : « The « history of everyday life » and democratic culture in Britain, 1918-1969 »
- 2016-2017: Lecturer in Modern British History, Department of History, King’s College London
- 2017-2020: Research Associate (postdoctoral), Faculty of History, University of Cambridge and Research Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
- 2020- : Lecturer in British history, University of Paris
Administrative Responsibilities:
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Workshop co-organiser: ‘Anti-racist education: history, theory practice’, University of Cambridge, November 2019
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Workshop co-organiser: ‘Social media as an historical source: methods, challenges, ethics’, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge, June 2019
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Advisory editor on women historians, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017-2018
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Workshop co-organiser and exhibition curator: ‘London’s women historians: a celebration and a conversation’, Institute of Historical Research, London, Mars 2017
Research Supervision:
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Twentieth-century British history
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Social history, gender and race
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Education and social mobility in the UK
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Public and popular history in the UK
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The history of museums and the heritage industry
- Laura Carter, Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (Oxford University Press Past & Present book series, forthcoming 2021)
- Laura Carter, ‘Rhoda Power, BBC radio, and mass education, 1922-1957’, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique (forthcoming, 2020)
- Laura Carter, ‘Accessing Equal Education’, in Polly Russell and Margaretta Jolly (eds.), Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights (British Library, 2020)
- Laura Carter, ‘Rethinking Folk Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain’, Twentieth Century British History 28 (2017), pp. 543-69. Available here
- Laura Carter, ‘The Quennells and the ‘History of Everyday Life’ in England, c. 1918-69’, History Workshop Journal 81 (2016), pp. 106-34. Available here
