Laura Carter
Lecturer in British history
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Research
Research themes
- Twentieth-century British history
- Education, social mobility, and inequalities
- The history of girls and women
- Race and immigration
- Public and popular history
- Popular culture and everyday life
Research Supervision:
- Twentieth-century British history
- Social history, gender and race
- Education and social mobility in the UK
- Public and popular history in the UK
- The history of museums and the heritage industry
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/
- ‘Big data, ordinary lives: social-historical approaches to British birth cohort data’, research project linked to POP (Paris-Oxford Partnership) Visiting Fellowship 2023
- ‘Valuing Nature: Histories of Everyday Engagement with the Environment in France, Britain and their Empires, 1600-present’, pedagogical and research project with Ariane Fennetaux, Université Paris Cité, KCL, and Humboldt University of Berlin
Bio
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:
- Coordinator, M1 & M2 in LLCER History and civilization of the English-speaking World
- Coordinator, LARCA histoire du politique Reading Group
Research Supervision:
- Twentieth-century British history
- Social history, gender and race
- Education and social mobility in the UK
- Public and popular history in the UK
- The history of museums and the heritage industry
Media
Publications
Articles
Selected Publications:
- Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (Oxford: Oxford University Press Past & Present book series, 2021)
- ‘Racism and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century European Educational Systems’, Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de L’Europe, Available here
- ‘Rhoda Power, BBC Radio, and Mass Education, 1922-1957’, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, XXVI (2021), pp. 1-16. Available here
- ‘Women historians in the twentieth century’, in Heidi Egginton and Zoë Thomas (eds.), Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities & Social Change in Modern British Culture (London: Royal Historical Society, 2021)
- ‘Accessing Equal Education’, in Polly Russell and Margaretta Jolly (eds.), Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights (London: British Library, 2020)
- ‘Higher Education and the Pedagogies of Communicating Elite Knowledge in 1970s Britain’, in Joaquim Moreno (ed.), The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture (Montreal: CCA, 2018)
- The Connell Short Guide to The General Strike 1926 (London: Connell Guides, 2017)
- ‘Rethinking Folk Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain’, Twentieth Century British History 28 (2017), pp. 543-69. Available here
- ‘The Quennells and the ‘History of Everyday Life’ in England, c. 1918-69’, History Workshop Journal 81 (2016), pp. 106-34. Available here
- ‘‘Experimental’ secondary modern education in Britain, 1948-1958’, Cultural and Social History 13 (2016), pp. 23-41
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