Jessica

I am a research historian at the University of Leeds, currently funded by the Wellcome Trust. I am working on a project that examines the experiences and identities of men serving in medical support and paramedic roles with the British armed forces during the First World War. My other interests include the history of gender, particularly masculinity, the history of disability, especially psychological war disability, the history of popular and middlebrow literature, mainly detective and adventure fiction, and the social and cultural history of warfare. As the mother of two young children, I am also becoming increasingly interested in the teaching of the history of the First World War and the representation of the war in popular culture. All these topics will form the subject matter of this blog along with, I imagine, musings on academia and working motherhood in present-day Britain.