History, University of Birmingham
Thesis title:
I am a social and cultural historian of twentieth-century Britain, with particular interests in pregnancy, motherhood, and the use of narrative and micro-historical methods. My thesis uses women’s writing—letters, diaries, novels, and autobiography—to understand how pregnancy felt, what it meant, and how these experiences were expressed in women’s own words. Drawing upon archives including the Marie Stopes Married Love correspondence and the Mass Observation collections, I aim to write pregnancy (back) into a historiography where it has too often been overlooked.