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First Name
Nastasha
Last Name
Sartore
Country
Canada
State
Affiliation
University of Saskatchewan
Website URL
https://nastashasartore.com/
Keywords
Britain, gender, sexuality, labour, emotions, intimacy, class, senses, culture, London, digital humanities, urban history
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

I am a social and cultural historian of modern Britain and the British Empire with particular interests in histories of gender, labour, intimacy, and everyday life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Currently, I am the Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.

I recently earned my PhD in History from the University of Toronto, where I have taught undergraduate courses in British and European history and the history of gender and sexuality. I also hold an MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from McGill University.

I am currently working on my first book, which is based on my doctoral research and tentatively titled Precarious Desire: Women and Poverty in London. ​Using a wide range of archival materials and creative methodologies, my research reconstructs the intimate and emotional lives of women who lived in the margin of British society, from industrial factory workers and laundresses to dressmakers, suffragist activists, and sex workers. 

I am also working on a second project that examines histories of women and suicide in modern Britain. This research draws from scholarship on disability and the history of sexuality to interrogate how gender, class, race, and disability were entangled in contemporary understandings of suicidality.

My digital and public history work has explored themes of space, intimacy, connection, sex, and the body, too. A History of Commercial Sex is an open-access mapping exhibit on sex work in Victorian and Edwardian London. Built using ArcGIS StoryMaps, this project includes an interactive map with ten locations, historic and archival images, narrative text, and a full bibliography. You can view my StoryMap here.​​​​

My second public history project reimagines untold stories of lower-class women’s tattoos in early 20th century Britain. A piece of this ongoing project has been published on History Workshop (online) in collaboration with students in the illustration program at Nottingham Trent University. You can view the article and accompanying artwork here.

Recent Publications

“‘A Fine Spirit of Comradeship’: Class, Sisterhood, Hope, and Solidarity in the Woman Worker, 1907-1910.” Labor History, November 2024, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2024.2423763.

“Victorian Women’s Tattoos.” History Workshop, 26 November 2024. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/gender/victorian-womens-tattoos/.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Britain
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, British Isles, England, United Kingdom, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Gender, Labor, Law, Pedagogy, Politics, Public History, Science, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Urban History, Women