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Claire Louise Langhamer ,
FRHistS (born 1969), is a social and cultural
historian of modern Britain. Since 2021, she has been director of the
Institute of Historical Research .
Career
After growing up in
North Humberside , she attended the
University of Manchester , graduating with a history degree in 1991. She subsequently completed her
doctorate under the supervision of Dave Russell at the
University of Central Lancashire ; she was awarded her
PhD in 1996 for her thesis
Women and leisure in Manchester, 1920–c.1960 . In 1998, Langhamer started working as an academic at the
University of Sussex as a lecturer; she was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2004 and was appointed Professor of Modern British History in 2014.
[1] She left Sussex in 2021 to be director of the
Institute of Historical Research .
[1] In 2017 she was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).
[2]
Langhamer's work has focused on the history of emotion, love, leisure and work in twentieth-century Britain, often in relation to the experiences of women. Alongside more than a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals, Langhamer has published two single authored books, Women's Leisure in England, 1920–1960 (Manchester University Press, 2000) and The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2013).
[3]
On 1 October 2021, Langhamer became director of the
Institute of Historical Research of the
University of London .
[4]
Bibliography
Books
Langhamer, Claire (2000). Women's Leisure in England, 1920–1960 . Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester:
Manchester University Press .
ISBN
9780719057373 .
Langhamer, Claire (2013). The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution . Oxford:
Oxford University Press .
ISBN
9780199594436 .
Tinkler, Penny ;
Spencer, Stephanie ; Langhamer, Claire, eds. (2017). Women in Fifties Britain: A New Look . Abingdon: Routledge.
ISBN
978-0367234317 .
Noakes, Lucy ; Langhamer, Claire; Siebrecht, Claudia, eds. (2020).
Total War: An Emotional History .
Proceedings of the British Academy . Vol. 227. Oxford:
Oxford University Press .
doi :
10.5871/bacad/9780197266663.001.0001 .
ISBN
9780197266663 .
Barron, Hester ; Langhamer, Claire (2021). Class of '37: Voices from Working-Class Girlhood . London: Metro Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-78946-405-4 .
Thesis
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters
Langhamer, Claire (1995). "Women's Leisure in the Life Cycle: An Oral History Study of Manchester Women, 1920–1960". Women's History Notebooks . 2 (2): 3–14.
Langhamer, Claire (1999). "Manchester Women and Their Leisure: Changing Experiences from Youth to Married Adulthood, 1920–1960". Manchester Region History Review . 12 : 32–42.
Langhamer, Claire (2001).
"Towards a Feminist Framework for the History of Women's Leisure, c. 1920–1960" . In Gallagher, Anne-Marie; Labelska, Cathy; Ryan, Louise (eds.). Re-Presenting the Past: Women and History . Harlow:
Longman . pp. 198–215.
doi :
10.4324/9781315838670-19 .
ISBN
9780582382190 .
Langhamer, Claire (2003).
" 'A Public House is for All Classes, Men and Women Alike': Women, Leisure and Drink in Second World War England" .
Women's History Review . 12 (3): 423–443.
doi :
10.1080/09612020300200367 .
S2CID
145001240 .
Langhamer, Claire (2004). "Leisure, Pleasure and Courtship: Young Women in England, c. 1920–1960". In Maynes, Mary Jo; Søland, Birgitte; Benninghaus, Christina (eds.). Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750–1960 . Indianapolis, Ind.:
Indiana University Press . pp. 269–284.
ISBN
9780253217103 .
Langhamer, Claire (2005).
"The Meanings of Home in Postwar Britain" .
Journal of Contemporary History . 40 (2): 341–362.
doi :
10.1177/0022009405051556 .
JSTOR
30036327 .
S2CID
145429727 .
Langhamer, Claire (2006).
"Adultery in Post-War England" .
History Workshop Journal . 62 (1): 86–115.
doi :
10.1093/hwj/dbl004 .
Langhamer, Claire (2007).
"Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England" .
The Historical Journal . 50 (1): 173–196.
doi :
10.1017/S0018246X06005966 .
JSTOR
4140170 .
S2CID
2004106 .
Langhamer, Claire (2008).
"Leisure: Comparative History and Practices" . In
Smith, Bonnie (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History . Vol. 3. Oxford:
Oxford University Press . pp. 90–96.
ISBN
9780195148909 .
Brooke, Stephen ; Langhamer, Claire (2011).
"Introduction: Voluntary Organizations, NGOs, and Twentieth-Century Political Culture" .
Twentieth Century British History . 22 (2): 216.
doi :
10.1093/tcbh/hwr004 .
Langhamer, Claire (2012).
" 'The Live Dynamic Whole of Feeling and Behaviour': Capital Punishment and the Politics of Emotion, 1945–1957" .
Journal of British Studies . 51 (2): 416–441.
doi :
10.1086/663841 .
JSTOR
23265482 .
S2CID
146131599 .
Langhamer, Claire (2012).
"Love, Selfhood and Authenticity in Post-War Britain" .
Cultural and Social History . 9 (2): 277–297.
doi :
10.2752/147800412X13270753068966 .
S2CID
144322174 .
Gazeley, Ian ; Langhamer, Claire (2013).
"The Meanings of Happiness in Mass Observation's Bolton" .
History Workshop Journal . 75 (1): 159–189.
doi :
10.1093/hwj/dbs015 .
Langhamer, Claire (2013).
"Everyday Advice on Everyday Love: Romantic Expertise in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain" (PDF) . L'Homme: Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaf . 24 (1): 35–52.
doi :
10.25595/1125 .
Langhamer, Claire (2016),
"An Archive of Feeling?: Mass Observation and the Mid-Century Moment" (PDF) , Insights , 9 : 1–15
Langhamer, Claire (2016). "Amours, Seductions et Désir". In Corbin, Alain (ed.). Histoire des Emotions . Vol. 3 : De la Fin du XIXe Siècle à Nos Jours . Paris: Éditions du Seuill. pp. 382–400.
ISBN
9782021177374 .
Barron, Hester ; Langhamer, Claire (2017).
"Feeling through Practice: Subjectivity and Emotion in Children's Writing" .
Journal of Social History . 51 (1): 101–123.
doi :
10.1093/jsh/shw070 .
Tinkler, Penny ;
Spencer, Stephanie ; Langhamer, Claire (2017).
"Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s" .
Women's History Review . 26 (1): 1–8.
doi :
10.1080/09612025.2015.1123020 .
S2CID
146837578 .
Langhamer, Claire (2017).
"Feelings, Women and Work in the Long 1950s" .
Women's History Review . 26 (1): 77–92.
doi :
10.1080/09612025.2015.1123025 .
S2CID
147331361 .
Barron, Hester ; Langhamer, Claire (2017).
"Children, Class and the Search for Security: Writing the Future in 1930s Britain" .
Twentieth Century British History . 28 (3): 367–389.
doi :
10.1093/tcbh/hwx018 .
PMID
28922817 .
Langhamer, Claire (2018).
" 'Who the Hell Are Ordinary People'?: Ordinariness as a Category of Historical Analysis" .
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society . 28 : 175–195.
doi :
10.1017/S0080440118000099 .
S2CID
149600424 .
Langhamer, Claire (2019).
"Alun and Sussex" .
History Workshop Journal . 88 : 325–326.
doi :
10.1093/hwj/dbz040 .
Langhamer, Claire (2019).
"Trust, Authenticity and Bigamy in Twentieth-Century England" . In Barclay, Katie; Meek, Jeffrey; Thomson, Andrea (eds.). Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion . New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 160–174.
doi :
10.4324/9780367824228-11 .
ISBN
9780367824228 .
S2CID
226902149 .
Langhamer, Claire (2019).
"Mass Observing the Atom Bomb: The Emotional Politics of August 1945" .
Contemporary British History . 33 (2): 208–225.
doi :
10.1080/13619462.2018.1519422 .
S2CID
149201560 .
Vinen, Richard ; Langhamer, Claire;
Siena, Kevin (2020).
"Writing Histories of 2020: First Responses and Early Perspectives" .
Historical Research . 93 (262): 786–806.
doi :
10.1093/hisres/htaa029 .
PMC
7717259 .
Noakes, Lucy; Langhamer, Claire; Siebrecht, Claudia (2020).
"Introduction" . In Noakes, Lucy; Langhamer, Claire; Siebrecht, Claudia (eds.). Total War: An Emotional History .
Proceedings of the British Academy . Vol. 227. Oxford:
Oxford University Press . pp. 1–20.
doi :
10.5871/bacad/9780197266663.003.0001 .
ISBN
9780197266663 .
Langhamer, Claire (2020).
" 'Astray in a Dark Forest?': The Emotional Politics of Reconstruction Britain" . In Noakes, Lucy; Langhamer, Claire; Siebrecht, Claudia (eds.). Total War: An Emotional History .
Proceedings of the British Academy . Vol. 227. Oxford:
Oxford University Press . pp. 227–288.
doi :
10.5871/bacad/9780197266663.003.0008 .
ISBN
9780197266663 .
S2CID
226120002 .
Reviews of published works
The English in Love (2013)
Sally Holloway for
Reviews in History (Institute of Historical Research, January 2014).
Alexander Harris for
The Guardian , 9 August 2013.
The Economist , 17 August 2013 (vol. 408, no. 8849, p. 70).
Karen Shook and Hilary Hinds for The Times Higher Education Supplement , 8 August 2015 (no. 2113, p. 44).
Richard Davenport-Hines for New Statesman , 16 August 2013 (vol. 142, no. 5171, p. 38).
Adrian Bingham for
Contemporary British History , vol. 29, no. 2 (2015), pp. 284– 285.
Susan J. Matt for
Journal of Interdisciplinary History , vol. 45, no. 2 (2014), pp. 227– 229.
Susan Quilliam for
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care , vol. 40 (2014), p. 149.
Women's Leisure in England, 1920– 1960 (2000)
Grace Lees-Maffei for Journal of Design History , vol. 14, no. 2 (2001), pp. 162– 164.
Sean O'Connell for Journal of Contemporary History , vol. 37, no. 4 (2002), pp. 675– 683.
References
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