Participant Info

First Name
Laura
Last Name
Carter
Affiliation
University of Cambridge
Website URL
https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/fellows/dr-laura-carter
Keywords
social history, cultural history, twentieth-century Britain, education, women's history, gender history, popular culture, social change, post-1945 Britain
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About Me

I am a social and cultural historian of twentieth-century Britain, specialising in education, popular culture, social change, and gender. I am currently writing a book about the history of public history in Britain in the twentieth century as well as working on a project about the history of secondary education in the UK since 1945.

Recent Publications

Journal articles

‘Rethinking Folk Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain’, Twentieth Century British History, advance online access published 17 August 2017. 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

A-Level guides

The Connell Short Guide to The General Strike 1926 (London: Connell Guides, 2016)

Media Coverage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41427649
Country Focus
United Kingdom
Expertise by Geography
British Isles, England, United Kingdom
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Book History, Children & Youth, Family, Gender, Higher Ed, Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Museums, Pedagogy, Politics, Public History, Women, World War I, World War II