Sarah Ansari is a historian of South Asia (aka the Indian subcontinent), whose research focuses on the province of Sindh (today in Pakistan), and more broadly explores issues of religion, migration, identity, citizenship and gender.
James Baldwin researches the legal, social and political history of the Ottoman Empire, with a particular focus on Egypt.
Paris Chronakis is a social and cultural historian of Modern Greece, Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean working on Christian, Jewish and Muslim relations.
Kaja Cook is a social and cultural historian of the Iberian Atlantic, whose work analyses the interconnections between the Mediterranean and the Americas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Cat Cooper is a digital humanities specialist whose work explores the potential for 3d printing and tactile engagement in museums and at heritage sites and analyses how communities can use immersive technologies to advocate for their own heritages in urban regeneration schemes.
Kate Cooper is a social and cultural historian of late antiquity, who studies religious and social change, and the distinctive (and sometimes disturbing!) institutions of daily life such as marriage, asceticism, slavery, domestic exploitation, and violence. You can follow Kate on Twitter @kateantiquity.
Patrick Doyle is a historian of nineteenth-century America with specific research interests in the American Civil War and the society and culture of the U.S. South, whose work explores the interconnected issues of family, community and loyalty in Confederate South Carolina.
Simone Gigliotti is a historian who studies refugees and displaced persons from Nazi-era to post-war Europe, with special attention to the mechanics of migration and networks of humanitarian relief provision.
Jane Hamlett is a historian of modern Britain and expert on women and gender, families, private life, the home, residential institutions, and the material world. She is currently working on a history of family photography and the history of pets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. You can follow Jane on Twitter @JaneHamlett.
Victoria Leonard is a historian of the late antique and early medieval western Mediterranean, whose research focuses on ancient religion, particularly early Christianity, and gender, sexuality, violence, and theories of the body in antiquity. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, where she co-directs the Women in Wikipedia Project.
Emily Manktelow is a historian of imperial intimacy and family, gender and social histories in the context of colonialism, and most recently the role of Empire-nostalgia in the present.
Stella Moss is a historian of modern Britain, specialising in popular culture and gender. Her research centres on the history of popular culture and consumption in modern Britain, and in particular, on the history of drinking cultures in the twentieth century.
Nicola Phillips is a historian of women and gender in Britain c.1660-1820. Her research has covered women in business; family and father-son conflict; female legal agency; male lawyers, and gender, advocacy and emotion in Britain and America. You can follow her on twitter @NicolaHistorian.
Hannah Platts is an ancient historian and archaeologist with a focus on the material culture and social history of ancient Rome. Her research explores the factors which impact upon status display and social hierarchies in the Roman domestic space and how dwellings, and the activities that occurred within them, fostered or undermined ideas of community integration and belonging.
Amy Tooth Murphy is a queer historian with a special expertise in oral history. Her research interests include lesbian history (with a particular focus on post-war Britain), butch/femme culture and identity, lesbian literature, queer narratives, oral history theory and methodology, and queer heritage. Her current project is an examination of butch lesbian identity and lived experience via oral history.
Weipin Tsai is a historian of modern China, focusing on the late Qing to the Republican period (broadly 1800-1949). Her principal interests are in Chinese modernisation and its engagement in globalisation from the 19th century onwards, in particular the role of the foreign-run Chinese Maritime Customs Service, as well as the creation of the Chinese Postal Service, and the resulting rise of a ‘consumer culture’ via mail order in nineteenth-century China.
Alex Windscheffel is a historian of modern Britain with interests in politics and culture from the Victorians through to the 1990s. His current research explores how the nineteenth-century legal process of bankruptcy was driven by ideas of manliness, morality, risk and failure.
Barbara Zipser is a historian of medicine, science and technology. Her main field of research is Greek medicine from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages, with an emphasis on textual criticism, manuscript transmission, and the formation of Greek vernacular terminology.
Student contributors to recent Bedford Centre Events
Dina Gestoso-Mattar is an MA public history student interested in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women’s history, particularly the role of women in the British Empire and India.
Emily Chapman is a third-year history student interested in modern women’s history and oral history.
Jacqueline Fletcher is an MA history student researching gender and the labour movement in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Britain. Her research interests primarily focus on socialist political thought, the Labour Left, and the experiences of first female members of the Parliamentary Labour Party. She tweets mainly about Ellen Wilkinson.
Jessica Weeds is an undergraduate interested in the role of women and politics in the Tudor period, as well as the history of former Royal Holloway and Bedford College students.
Katie Regardsoe is a history undergraduate interested in modern women’s political and social history.
Markus Mindrebø is a medievalist whose work focuses on women, gender and sociopolitical power structures in the European Middle Ages, ranging from the Byzantine Empire to Scandinavia. He is currently a PhD student working on women and masculine power in the Viking Age
Tasha O’Connor is an MA history student interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century gender history. She has previously researched women’s movements in Victorian London and the impact of popular culture on gender.
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