Participant Info
- First Name
- Lynn
- Last Name
- Abrams
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- Lynn.abrams@glasgow.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of glasgow
- Website URL
- Keywords
- women, gender, 19th century, 20th century, child abuse, knitted textiles
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Professor of Modern History and Head of School of Humanities, University of Glasgow. Areas of expertise are postwar womanhood in Britain; child welfare and child abuse in Scotland; Scottish knitted textiles. I also specialise in oral history.
- Recent Publications
- Oral History Theory (Routledge: London, 2010) pp.214. (2nd edition 2016 with accompanying website)
- Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s World: Shetland 1800-2000xii+252 (Manchester University Press, 2005)
- The Making of Modern Woman: Europe 1789-1918, x + 382, (London, Longman, 2002). Translated into Czech as Lynn Abramsová, Zrození Moderni Ženy: Europa 1789-1918 (Centrum pro Studium Democracie a Kultury, 2005) and into Russian (2010)
- The Orphan Country: Children of Scotland’s Broken Homes, 1845 to the Present Day, x + 270 (Edinburgh, John Donald, 1998).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- UK
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Material Culture, Women
