Total War: An Emotional History

About

Claire Langhamer is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sussex. She works on feelings ordinariness and everyday life and makes particular use of the Mass Observation Archive of which she is a Trustee. Her publications include articles on home happiness adultery children's writing and women's work and the books Women's Leisure in England 1920-1960 (Manchester Manchester University Press 2000) and The English in Love: the intimate story of an emotional revolution (Oxford Oxford University Press 2013). She is currently writing a history of Feelings at Work in Modern Britain. Lucy Noakes is a social and cultural historian working at the University of Essex where she holds the Rab Butler Chair in Modern History. Her work focuses on the two total wars of the twentieth century and explores issues of gender memory selfhood and memory. Publications include War and the British (1998) War and the Gentle Sex (2006) and British Cultural Memory and the Second World War edited with Juliette Pattinson. She is currently writing a history of death grief and bereavement in Second World War Britain for Manchester University Press. Dr Claudia Siebrecht is Senior Lecturer in modern history at the University of Sussex and her research interests include the cultural history of war the history of emotions and visual history. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and has taught at the National University of Ireland Galway. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women's Art of the First World War (Oxford University Press 2013) has recently co-edited Parenting and the State in Britain and Europe 1870-1950: Raising the Nation (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) and her current book project is a cultural history of concentration camps.